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Job Title:Programme Manager, P-4
Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Job no: 594964
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:
Summary of key functions/accountabilities:
Project coordination
- Support senior management in review of funding proposals from the resilience perspective and facilitate overall programme design when required through ensuring work plans and activities are formulated, implemented, and monitored. Support in designing and coordinating specific resilience building interventions based on LGA’s specific risk profiles, conflict analysis, partnerships, government capacity and programme priorities.
- Overall coordination (for UNICEF) of all aspects of the Maiduguri level programme toward and the agreed results; including timely and effective grant and financial management.
- Provide support and coordinate with Sections in Maiduguri for programme convergence and
resilience integration across the programme cycle (planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation) and work closely with the UNICEF Sections to increase planning and realization of complementary programming. - Co-lead with WFP the implementation of the joint Resilience and Social Cohesion (Peace) and
to ensure an inclusive, localized, participatory approach in line with the project’s resilience
analysis and an results matrix (baseline and targets) and update the donors on the timelineand budget where necessary.
- Provide overall technical direction and support for UNICEF’s Northeast Nigeria approach to the Durable Solutions Strategy (returns, relocation, and local integration) ensuring this is in line with UNICEF’s Hmanitarian-Development-Peace NEXUS approach, policies and principles.
- Support the overall design and steering of area-level (Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa states) Solutions-oriented programming, by working closely with UN agencies through existing technical working groups, as required, for the development of Durable Solutions programming in line with locationalization agenda and resilience and risk-informed programming approaches.
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting
- Oversee and support Maiduguri-level baseline/end-line development, knowledge
management, M&E, and lessons learned arising from implementation through
drafting/finalizing key documents, reports, updates briefing notes, and
knowledge/information exchange both internally and externally to ensure continued
generation of evidence to inform quality programming in Northeast Nigeria. - Contribute to strengthening capacity and learning for UNICEF in programming for social
cohesion, resilience, and the triple nexus. - Coordinate the provision of cross-sectoral timely and quality inputs to donor reports and
provide inputs to other documentation and presentations of the programme. - Promote and participate in joint UN and Government-led humanitarian, early recovery and development assessments, analysis, and evidence-building on challenges, with national and international partners to promote harmonized Durable Solutions strategies and programmes.
- Coordinate Programme Sections to contribute towards promoting robust data and evidence on Durable Solutions to inform decision-making for displaced affected communities,
stakeholders, and government.
Coordination
- Lead overall coordination with WFP Maiduguri, and with UNICEF Maiduguri Programme Managers at the Maiduguri Field Office level.
- Build and strengthen partnerships with other UN agencies, development partners, and Government counterparts to create avenues and ensure alignment and complementarity of resilience interventions in Northeast Nigeria.
Representation
- Represent UNICEF Maiduguri in joint resilience programme coordination, with states and Local Government Areas, and other governance systems and networks as agreed with CFO.
- Serve as the organizational lead for Reslience and HDP NEXUS at the Maiduguri level and provide advisory services on integrated/multisectoral resilience programmes
- Represent UNICEF in efforts to strengthen national and local government-led capacities and systems for sustainable solutions to displacement per the IASC Framework, in close coordination with human rights, humanitarian, development, and peace-building actors.
Partnership and Communication
- Manage partnerships development, amendments and support overall knowledge mananegement products, including project documents.
- Lead Maiduguri-level coordination of visibility, communication as well as donor visits for the JRP in partnership with WFP.
- Provide support to the UNICEF Abuja Team Lead to maintain and develop broader
partnerships on resilience and ensure strategic linkages and coordination of UNICEF’s work in
resilience with relevant partners including key donors. - Provide updates and technical guidance to the UNICEF Maiduguri Chief of Field Office, and
Emergency Unit for efforts of Durable Solutions through briefings, advocacy documents, and presentations for donors and other senior stakeholders.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Education:
Education: An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required:
international development/international relations, peacebuilding, political science, socialsciences.
Experience:
A minimum of eight years of professional work experience at international levels in
programme/project development, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and
administration. Specialized training/experience in resilience/nexus/Durable Solutions
programme management, particularly in joint UN initiatives, is highly desirable.
Language Requirements:
•Fluency in English verbal and written is required. Knowledge of another official UN language or local language of the duty station is considered an asset.
Desirable skills
•Experience working in emergency/humanitarian settings is essential.
•Results-based-management
•Knowledge of development and humanitarian issues, strategies, as well as programming
policies and procedures in international development cooperation.
•Prior experience in a similar role is highly desirable.
•Excellent interpersonal, internal, and external communication, coordination capabilities. and
excellent team building and leading, and programme management skills.
•Ability to manage large budgeted multi-sector programmes and ability to lead diverse and
multi-displinary teams.
•Demonstrated ability in donor reporting.
•Excellent communications skills, verbal and written.
•Ability to multi-task and deliver against workplan and tight deadlines.
Application Deadline: 13, August 2026
METHOD OF APPLICATION
Interested and Qualified candidates should use link below to Apply.
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