Programme Oversight Support Officer

Volunteering

Overview

Assist in governance facilitation and coordination support.

You have:

• At least 3–5 years of relevant professional experience supporting programme oversight, governance, monitoring, reporting, or accountability functions in development, humanitarian, or international cooperation contexts.
• Technical experience in gender-based violence (GBV) and eliminating violence against women and girls is desirable.
• Experience coordinating and liaising with donors is an asset.
• Experience working in knowledge management is an asset.
• Ability to use analytical tools and logical reasoning to assess development situations, identify problems, and draw data-driven conclusions.
• Ability to support informed decision-making through timely preparation of summaries, briefs, and analytical inputs.
• Strong organizational skills, with the ability to manage information flows, documentation, and deadlines in complex institutional environments.
• Proven ability to work effectively in multi-stakeholder and multicultural team settings.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience working within the United Nations system or other international organizations is desirable.

Contract

This is a UNV contract. More about UNV contracts.

United Nations Development Coordination Office (UNDCO) serves as Co-Chair, alongside the AUC, of the SIARP 2.0 Regional Steering Committee (RSC), in line with its development coordination mandate. UNDCO does not implement programme activities. Its role is to support governance integrity, oversight, accountability, system-wide coherence, and alignment with UN system priorities and donor commitments.

UNDCO seeks to recruit an Oversight and Coordination Support Officer to provide analytical, coordination, and follow-up support enabling UNDCO leadership to effectively discharge its oversight and governance responsibilities under SIARP 2.0.

This role focuses exclusively on governance facilitation, coordination support, and accountability strengthening. It does not include programme implementation or operational management responsibilities.

The Oversight Support Officer will:

1.Support UNDCO’s Oversight and Governance Role: • Assist UNDCO leadership in reviewing programme documentation submitted by the Programme Coordination Unit (PCU ) to ensure alignment with approved governance frameworks, result structures, and reporting commitments. • Facilitate structured review of progress reports, financial summaries, and monitoring updates to support clearance by UNDCO leadership. • Track adherence to agreed governance level arrangements, including timelines, reporting schedules, and decision points. This includes stocktaking engagements with all partners, leadership, and processes. • Prepare concise analytical summaries and briefing notes to support UNDCO leadership’s oversight functions.

2.Strengthening Accountability and Information Management: • Support systematic tracking of decisions, action points, and commitments arising from Regional Steering Committee meetings and other governance platforms. • Maintain organized documentation to support transparency, institutional memory, and potential evaluations or audits to support UNDCO’s oversight functions. • Support structured information flow between the PCU and UNDCO leadership for briefing purposes and decision-making.

3.Facilitate Coordination and Institutional Alignment: • Support UNDCO leadership engagement with Resident United Nations Organizations (RUNOs), the African Union Commission (AUC), and the donor by preparing background materials and coordination briefs. • Assist in ensuring clarity of roles, responsibilities, and reporting lines within established governance structures. • Participate in coordination meetings as required, provide documentation, governance tracking, and follow-up to support UNDCO oversight function.

4.Monitor Risk and Compliance from a Governance Perspective: • Track risk issues raised through governance mechanisms and flag matters requiring leadership attention to UNDCO leadership, limiting the scope to issues of the oversight function only. • Follow up on oversight-related recommendations from audits, reviews, or evaluations that fall within UNDCO’s governance remit. • Support UNDCO leadership in ensuring oversight responsibilities related to fiduciary and accountability standards are met, in coordination with the appropriate agency.

5.Other Support Functions: • Provide analytical and coordination support as required to enable UNDCO leadership to effectively perform its oversight and co-chair responsibilities.

• Exemplifying integrity; demonstrating commitment to UNFPA and the UN system;

• Embracing cultural diversity; Embracing change; knowledge sharing and continuous learning.

Core Competencies:

• Achieving results;

• Being accountable; Developing and applying professional expertise/business acumen;

• Thinking analytically and strategically; Working in teams/managing ourselves and our relationships;

• Communicating for impact; conflict and self-management; performance management; Commitment to excellence;

• Appropriate and transparent decision-making.

• At least 3–5 years of relevant professional experience supporting programme oversight, governance, monitoring, reporting, or accountability functions in development, humanitarian, or international cooperation contexts. • Technical experience in gender-based violence (GBV ) and eliminating violence against women and girls is desirable. • Experience coordinating and liaising with donors is an asset. • Experience working in knowledge management is an asset. • Ability to use analytical tools and logical reasoning to assess development situations, identify problems, and draw data-driven conclusions. • Ability to support informed decision-making through timely preparation of summaries, briefs, and analytical inputs. • Strong organizational skills, with the ability to manage information flows, documentation, and deadlines in complex institutional environments. • Proven ability to work effectively in multi-stakeholder and multicultural team settings. • Strong communication and interpersonal skills. • Experience working within the United Nations system or other international organizations is desirable.

Senegal is a unique country and UNFPA conducts a unique humanitarian operation. It provides for an interesting and enriching environment, but also requires a mature level of cultural awareness, as well as more stamina and commitment than elsewhere to make life comfortable and affordable. Therefore, flexibility and the ability and willingness to live and work in harsh and potentially hazardous conditions, involving physical hardship and little comfort, are essential.

Apply now

Potential interview questions

Added 12 days ago - Updated 19 minutes ago - Source: unv.org