Vacancy Announcement - Programme Officer (Budget, Supply Management and Quality Assurance), NOA, TA, Abuja, Nigeria

Contract

This is a NO-1 contract. This kind of contract is known as National Professional Officers. It is normally only for nationals. It's a staff contract. More about NO-1 contracts.

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UNICEF Nigeria is one of the largest UNICEF Country Offices globally - click the link to learn more about UNICEF in Nigeria: https://www.unicef.org/nigeria/.

For every Child, access

The fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of every child, leaving no one behind. In Nigeria, the nutrition situation of children under five has recorded minimal change, and currently, Nigeria is off track to achieving the World Health Assembly 2025 and the Sustainable Development Goals 2030. Approximately one in three children under five in Nigeria is stunted, while one of every ten children is wasted. Consequently, Nigeria has the second-highest number of malnourished children in the world and the highest in Africa.

Malnutrition, in all its forms, is a violation of a children’s right to adequate nutrition. To change the narrative, UNICEF in partnership with the government and other stakeholders, aims to deliver good quality prevention and treatment services at scale to build resilience and protect the most vulnerable, particularly during the First 1000 Days of Life. The focus, in keeping with UNICEF Nigeria’s new Country Programme Strategy (2023-2027), is to (i) strengthen the enabling environment, including data, to inform policy and programming; (ii) strengthen systems, especially the health, food and social protection system to deliver high-quality services; and (iii) address social and behavioral practices that influence diets and practices.

To deliver on these three critical output level results, UNICEF has planned to operationalize an estimated USD 250 million nutrition programme from 2023 – 2027, about 60 percent of which is spent on supplies and commodities alongside associated contractual services and partnership development. Resources are mobilized from both the government as well as different donors, each of whom has varying requirements and conditionalities

How can you make a difference?

To enable UNICEF to deliver results for children while complying with different conditionalities, the office is seeking a Programme Officer (NOA) TA on Temporary Assignment. The candidate will report to the Nutrition Manager and work closely with the Nutrition Section as well as other internal stakeholders to ensure efficient and effective budget, financial and supply chain management. Specifically, the Programme Officer will be responsible for the following:

• Develop and review proposal budgets and financial projections to ensure alignment with the overarching Nutrition Section strategy and resource mobilization needs
• Track and manage effective and efficient utilization of budgets ensuring compliance with results-based principles and standards, UNICEF guidelines as well as donor conditionalities.
• Develop high-quality financial reports and analysis and input into internal and external financial reports and communication products
• Track and manage an effective and efficient supply chain for life-saving nutrition commodities in partnership with UNICEF’s Supply Team and Supply Division
• Track and manage timely development of partnership agreements and recruitments

Key functions/accountabilities:

1. Support to programme development and planning

• Develop budgets, forecast financial and supply needs to inform proposal development and resource mobilization
• Analyze expenditures and supply chain needs, recommend and execute appropriate adjustments, enable supply chain management and movement of commodities.
• Manage, maintain and communicate user-friendly information (through dashboards), summaries and data on budgets, financial expenditure and supplies on an ongoing basis to inform programme planning and review
• Track resource mobilization opportunities and ensure timely submission of proposals and donor reports
• Identify and track development of partnership agreements and recruitments

2. Programme management, monitoring and quality assurance

• Facilitate regular Nutrition Section Meetings, maintain minutes/records and track follow-up
• Provide analytics and summaries for weekly, monthly Country Management Team and other review meetings on budgets/finance, supplies, partnerships and recruitments
• Ensure allocation of resources and fund release in a timely manner in accordance with the strategy and organizational standards
• Ensure optimal utilization of resources complying with UNICEF standards and donor conditionalities
• Maintain an incident tracker for supplies, update the risk register and ensure all supply incidents are addressed appropriately

3. Capacity development and management of information systems

• Enhance programme and associate staff capacities for financial monitoring and commodity/supply flow

• Provide oversight and mentorship to Program Associates on finance, administration, payment processing, liquidations, etc.

• Enhance use of electronic shared spaces for storage and use of data and knowledge management

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Education: University degree in Business Administration / Finance/ Accounts Management / Supply Chain Management. Training in Nutrition, pharmaceutical or other health-related course will be an added advantage.

Experience:

• A minimum of five years of relevant professional work experience with at least two years of experience in planning and managing high-value budgets, logistics and quality assurance.
• Excellent knowledge of and hands-on experience in Excel, PowerPoint and PowerBI is critical
• Working with the private sector and experience in managing multi-year grants and diverse donors will be an added advantage
• Knowledge of the UN rules, procedures and regulations and/or working experience for the UN or other international development organization would be an asset.

Language Requirements: Fluency in English is essential.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

• UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies: Builds and maintains partnerships (II); Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (II); Drive to achieve results for impact (II); Innovates and embraces change (II); Manages ambiguity and complexity (II); Thinks and acts strategically (II) Works collaboratively with others (II) Nurtures, leads and manages people (II

The functional competencies required for this post are:

• Leading and supervising (I)
• Formulating strategies and concepts (II)
• Analyzing (III)
• Applying technical expertise ((III)

View our competency framework at

https://unicef.sharepoint.com/:b:/r/sites/DHR-UCF/SiteAssets/SitePages/DHR-UCF/Competency%20Framework%20Brochure.pdf?csf=1&web=1&e=IPpgba

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.

"UNICEF only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Educational, Scientific and

Remarks:

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.