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Senior Programme Coordinator at FAO, Yemen

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Deadline: 29 March 2016

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is currently seeking applications from the eligible applicants for the post of Senior Programme Coordinator in Hudeidah, Yemen. The duration of this post is 1 year.

FAO promotes good practice in addressing governance challenges across its Strategic Objectives by strengthening its contribution to global governance, identifying mission-critical governance issues at national, regional and multilateral levels.

Key Jobs Responsibilities

The Senior Programme Coordinator will perform the following functions-

  • Plan and coordinate the full implementation of the FAO components of the three-year EU-funded ERRY joint programme.
  • which gathers UNDP (Convening Agency), FAO, WFP and ILO with a major focus on agriculture and livestock value chains targeting four Governorates in the northern and southern parts of the country.
  • Lead the development and devise appropriate strategies and approaches to ensure optimum use of available resources thereby enhancing the impact of programme activities.
  • Coordinate the development and timely preparation of detailed work plans and budgets for all programme activities and ensure effective implementation of the project.
  • Supervise and manage multidisciplinary teams of professional and administrative staff at central and sub national levels (FAO will be in charge of coordinating the work of all agencies for the northern governorates.
  • Facilitate the achievement of joint programme results by timely monitoring of the progress of programme implementation and ensure on-going monitoring and annual reviews of work plans in coordination with the Convening Agency.
  • Coordinate the production, submission and dissemination of annual and other required periodical reports and consolidated results of the Programme in accordance with the joint programme document, PAGODA Agreement and Memorandum of Understanding between the Administrative Agent and the Convening Agency and Participating UN agencies.
  • Develop and periodically review the programmer’s M&E plan and report or update on risks management related matters.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants must have-

  • Advanced university degree in agriculture, rural economy or related fields.
  • Ten years of relevant experience in the identification, formulation, implementation and monitoring of programmes/projects in the fields of rural livelihoods, resilience, sustainable value chains, and farmers field schools and water management.
  • Work experience in more than one location or area of work, particularly in field positions is essential.
  • Extent and relevance of experience in programme management in the fields of rural livelihoods, resilience, sustainable value chains, farmer field schools and water management.
  • Knowledge of and/or extent and relevance of experience with the UN system is considered a strong asset.
  • Extent and relevance of experience in supporting, advising and leading institutional capacity building processes.
  • Demonstrated ability to liaise with multiple UN, NGOs and, government institutions and agencies.
  • Extent and relevance of experience in crisis or post conflict settings.
  • Working knowledge of English and limited knowledge of one of the other FAO official languages (Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish or Russian).

How to Apply

Applicants must submit their applications through online process.

For more information, please visit FAO.

Latest Jobs in Environment & Conservation, Operations & Logistics, Monitoring & Evaluation, Program Management and Marketing

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Latest Jobs in Environment & Conservation: Senior Specialist, Environment and Decent Work, Coordinator – Saker Falcon Global Action Plan, Associate Environmental Governance Officer, Economic and Environmental Officer…[more]

Latest Jobs in Operations & Logistics: Operations Officer, Operations Analyst, Senior Operations Officer, Operations Manager, Human Resources and Operations Director…[more]

Latest Jobs in Monitoring & Evaluation: Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist, Senior Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist, Chief, Monitoring & Evaluation, Monitoring and Reporting Specialist, Monitoring and Evaluation Director…[more]

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Senior Specialist, Environment and Decent Work at ILO, Thailand

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Deadline: 31 March 2016

International Labour Organization (ILO) is currently seeking applications from the eligible applicants for the post of Senior Specialist, Environment and Decent Work in Bangkok, Thailand.

ILO is devoted to promoting social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights, pursuing its founding mission that labour peace is essential to prosperity.

Key Jobs Responsibilities

The Senior Specialist, Environment and Decent Work will perform the following functions-

  • Monitor, analyze and assess trends in the impact on enterprises and labour markets of international and national climate change and environmental policies in order to assist in the development of coherent policy responses that promote sustainable development and the creation of productive decent jobs.
  • Develop policies, programmes and tools on Green Jobs for application at the national level and sub-regional level as well as for input into Green Jobs global products and in keeping with relevant Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
  • Develop and organize tripartite fora on Environment and Decent Work at regional and country level with the participation of multiple stakeholders.
  • Work in close cooperation and coordination with other technical specialists of relevance in all sectors and field specialists and promote a coherent approach on policies and programmes in the area of competence.
  • Facilitate the development of cooperation programmes with the social partners including the development of Public Private Partnerships and other forms of collaboration programmes with the international business community.
  • Work closely with other UN agencies of relevance with a view to enhancing collaboration and the development of strategic partnerships in the area of competence.
  • Work closely with regional technical and financial institutions in the area of the environment and decent work with a view to enhancing collaboration, accessing resources and developing joint approaches and programs.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants must have-

  • Advanced university degree with demonstrated expertise in economics, business management, natural resource or environmental management or related discipline with specialization in issues pertaining to sustainable development and decent work.
  • Ten to fifteen years’ experience of which at least seven years at the international level, in matters related to the field of Decent Work and Environment (Green Jobs) and sustainable development.
  • Experience with international organizations will be an advantage.
  • Excellent command on English.
  • Proficiency in either of the other working languages of the ILO (French, Spanish) would be an advantage.

How to Apply

Applicants must submit their applications through online process.

For more information, please visit ILO.

Latest Jobs in Coordination, Economics, Administration, Accounts & Finance and Legal Issues

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Latest Jobs in Coordination: Senior Document Services Coordinator, Coordinator, Green Jobs Programme, Marketing and Communications Coordinator, Head of Award Management…[more]

Latest Jobs in Economics: Chief of Section, Governance and Public Administration, Senior Specialist, Employment, Senior Specialist, Employers’ Activities, Research Officer…[more]

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Skills Development Specialist at ILO, Bangladesh

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Deadline: 14 January 2016

International Labour Organization (ILO) is currently seeking applications from the eligible applicants for the post of Skills Development Specialist in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The duration for the post is of 1 year.

The Skills Development Specialist will manage the activities of result areas 1 and 2 and will work under the direct supervision of CTA, Skills 21 Project, under the overall guidance and supervision of the Director, ILO Dhaka.

ILO is devoted to promoting social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights, pursuing its founding mission that labour peace is essential to prosperity.

Key Jobs Responsibilities

The Skills Development Specialist will perform the following functions-

  • Provide supervision to national staff, local consultants, and international consultants on short term collaboration contracts, of Components 1 and 2 of the Project, and ensure well-coordinated delivery of both Components’ activities through effective and efficient planning and coordination.
  • In collaboration with the CTA, lead the development of the National Qualification Framework (NQF) for Bangladesh that will support the development and maintenance of pathways and equivalencies which provide access to qualifications and assist people to move easily between academic and skills streams and from education and training to the labour market.
  • Ensure the establishment of the system for comparability and mutual recognition of qualifications with other countries.
  • Facilitate the consolidation of the resources of existing institutions and upgrading of their facilities in view of establishment of a National Centre of Excellence in Skills Education (NCESE).
  • Provide technical assistance in the development and eventual approval of Competency Standards, Qualification Accreditation Documents, Competency-based curricula, Learning materials and assessment tools for occupations identified in demand in the local market.
  • Ensure the development of a system to sustain the training, assessment and certification of Trainers, Assessors and Training Managers in the identified industry sectors.
  • Manage the establishment of mutual recognition agreements (MRA) with EU Member States on comparability of trainers and assessors competencies.
  • Responsible for the establishment of the Instructional Materials Development Centre (IMDC) within the NCESE including capacity for accessing materials on-line and distance learning programmes operating.
  • Develop a system of expanding strategic partnerships with key international networks in TVET like BIBB (Germany), other European TVET organizations such as EFT, CEDEFOP, EfVET, and related networks in other countries.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants must have-

  • At least advanced degree in the field of education and training, or development management.
  • At least seven years of work experience, of which at least three years at the international level, in senior management positions at major national education and skills development agencies or ministries.
  • International working experience on reforming TVET, in particular on the development of qualification frameworks, enhancement of skills quality assurance systems, and on establishment of comparability / mutual recognition arrangements.
  • Experience in developing teaching, learning materials for TVET institutions.
  • Experiences in training teachers and instructors of TVET institutions.
  • Experience in managing teacher training institutions.
  • Previous work experience in developing countries in TVET sector.
  • Fluency in English.
  • Working knowledge of a second ILO language is desired.
  • Knowledge of the local language – Bengali would be an advantage.

How to Apply

Applicants must submit their applications through online process.

For more information, please visit ILO.

Senior Risk Officer at International Labour Organization, Switzerland

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Deadline: 17 January 2016

International Labour Organization (ILO) is currently seeking applications from the eligible applicants for the post of Senior Risk Officer in Geneva, Switzerland.

ILO is devoted to promoting social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights, pursuing its founding mission that labour peace is essential to prosperity.

Key Jobs Responsibilities

The Senior Risk Officer performs the following functions-

  • Coordinates the development and maintenance of ERM policies, procedures and activities.
  • Establishes and promotes common ERM-related vocabulary.
  • Monitors the effectiveness and efficiency of ERM implementation across the ILO and its alignment with the ERM strategy.
  • Co-ordinates the development of the Office’s strategic risk registers.
  • Monitors development and implementation of subsidiary risk registers across the ILO.
  • Where necessary, provides technical support in respect of risk management and loss mitigation.
  • Reviews and recommends action on significant risk-related issues, trends, practices and loss events that have organization-wide implications.
  • Develops and coordinates ERM communication strategies and messages.
  • Receives, analyzes and consolidates ERM implementation and outcome data.
  • Regularly reports to the Risk Management Committee (RMC). As appropriate, recommends escalation of findings to the Senior Management Team.
  • Develops and recommends policy in relation to all insurance lines (health, staff compensation, property, casualty, liability and special risk).
  • Provides responsible business units with support in negotiating terms and conditions of insurance.
  • Reviews contractual wordings related to insurance and liability.
  • Under the auspices of the RMC, coordinates the placement within the insurance market of high value, non-standard or grouped risks.
  • Develops and recommends policies and procedures for business continuity management.
  • Provides guidance to organizational units on the development and maintenance of business continuity plans.
  • Maintains a register of all business continuity plans.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants must have-

  • Advanced university degree in business administration, finance or law or a first level degree supplemented by an appropriate equivalent professional qualification and at least two years of professional experience in addition to the minimum years required under the Experience section.
  • Professional level business administration experience of 15 years of which five years must have been at the international level including extensive exposure to risk management and/or insurance.
  • Excellent command of English or French.
  • Good working knowledge of the other language.
  • Knowledge of Spanish would be an advantage.

How to Apply

Applicants must submit their applications through online process.

For more information, please visit ILO.

Senior Specialist, Employment at International Labour Organization, India

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Deadline: 17 January 2016

International Labour Organization (ILO) is currently seeking applications from the eligible applicants for the post of Senior Specialist, Employment in New Delhi, India.

The Senior Specialist will be responsible for providing technical advisory services in the field of employment policy and labour market analysis, including technical inputs to national development plans, poverty reduction strategy papers and other policy and operational plans, and coordinating technical inputs required for integrated and coherent employment policies.

ILO is devoted to promoting social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights, pursuing its founding mission that labour peace is essential to prosperity.

Key Jobs Responsibilities

The Senior Specialist will perform the following functions-

  • Provide high-level contributions to the work of the office, lead research projects, technical missions and contribute to regional management meetings that concern the development of regional and sub-regional programme initiatives and major reporting assignments.
  • Conduct policy advisory missions and capacity building initiatives with the tripartite constituents, along with relevant ministries such as planning and finance and other stakeholders, for bringing employment at the centre of economic and social policies and supporting the design and implementation of comprehensive employment policy frameworks, in line with the ILC 2014 Resolution concerning the second recurrent discussion on employment.
  • Coordinate and contribute to sub-regional work and research related to employment matters.
  • Analyze and review national development frameworks, poverty reduction strategies, comprehensive employment frameworks and institutional settings from the perspective of promoting inclusive job-rich growth and provide high level advice for the formulation, revision and implementation of comprehensive employment frameworks.
  • Gather and analyze labour market information to inform policies on the effectiveness of employment related interventions.
  • Provide technical assistance to countries in the sub-region to collect, process, analyze and make available gender and age disaggregated statistical data to measure decent work; and guide the preparation of reports based on the statistical data of the key labour and social trends in South Asia; Contribute towards the Employment related global reports, including the biannual Key Indicators of Labour Markets.
  • In close coordination and cooperation with key counterparts, design and conduct research and technical and policy analysis of strategic labour and social issues in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and regional integration in the South Asian region.
  • Provide high-value-added technical support at the analytical, policy and statistical levels for decent work country programming.
  • Provide high-level substantive inputs for, and participate in, regional policy debates that will raise the visibility of the ILO in the region.
  • Provide technical supervision to Chief Technical Advisors and senior consultants and oversee the execution of a wide range of employment related technical cooperation projects.
  • Provide technical inputs to a regional knowledge and information base on outcomes, lessons learned and good practices from technical cooperation activities related to employment and promote knowledge sharing among countries and sub-regions, as well as through UN system knowledge sharing platforms.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants must have-

  • Advanced university degree in economics and/or development economics, with demonstrated expertise in employment policy and/or labour market analysis. Some quantitative specialization is an advantage.
  • Ten to fifteen years’ experience, of which at least seven years at the international level, in labour market analysis and social and employment policy development.
  • Previous experience in middle income and developing countries is an advantage.
  • Excellent command of English.
  • Knowledge of another working language of the Office (French, Spanish) would be an advantage.

How to Apply

Applicants must submit their applications through online process.

For more information, please visit ILO.

Senior Specialist, Employers’ Activities at ILO, Costa Rica

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Deadline: 31 January 2016

International Labour Organization (ILO) is currently seeking applications from the eligible applicants for the post of Senior Specialist, Employers’ Activities in San Jose, Costa Rica.

The Senior Specialist is to act as an interface between the ILO, EOs and the employer community in the sub-region concerned and to develop and maintain good working relations with them.

ILO is devoted to promoting social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights, pursuing its founding mission that labour peace is essential to prosperity.

Key Jobs Responsibilities

The Senior Specialist, Employers’ Activities will perform the following functions-

  • Business representative organizations meet the needs of enterprises more effectively.
  • Articulate the views of employers within the ILO so that their priorities and concerns are taken on board in the formulation and implementation of ILO policies and programmes and also to be able to communicate ILO policies and programmes to the employer community.
  • Office-wide source of reference for information on key developments and challenges facing business representative organizations in the region and more generally.
  • Designing and implementing the ILO’s entire programme of work with each business organization within his or her jurisdiction, whatever the source of funds or other units involved.
  • Attention needs to be paid to the operating environment of each EO concerned and strategic thinking is essential.
  • Plan states the problem to be solved, or objective to be achieved, the activity which should lead to the result envisaged and the indicators which would prove the extent to which the result has been achieved.
  • Technical expertise can be resourced from both within the ILO and externally, depending on the task to be achieved, resources available and the availability of specific knowledge.
  • Responsible for the implementation of the agreed work plan and progress is reported and reviewed in a monitoring exercise every quarter.
  • Wider reporting is also needed on assessing the impact of the programme including information on cases where there have been difficulties encountered and lessons learned from both successful as well as problematic cases.
  • Performance is assessed against the agreed work plan and result targets set as indicated above.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants must have-

  • Advanced university degree in economics, business administration, law, social science or related subject.
  • At least ten years professional experience, with at least five years experience in senior management positions in employer organizations or other business organizations and/or comparable experience in HR/IR or technical cooperation management functions with practical experience of working with employer organizations.
  • Excellent knowledge of Spanish and a good working knowledge of English.
  • Knowledge of a third official language will be an asset.

How to Apply

Applicants must submit their applications through online process.

For more information, please visit ILO.

Research Officer at International Labour Organization, Switzerland

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Deadline: 17 January 2016

International Labour Organization (ILO) is currently seeking applications from the eligible applicants for the post of Research Officer in Geneva, Switzerland.

The Research Officer will contribute to the analysis of globalization’s impact on social and labour market outcomes at the micro and macro level.

ILO is devoted to promoting social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights, pursuing its founding mission that labour peace is essential to prosperity.

Key Jobs Responsibilities

The Research Officer will perform the following functions-

  • Undertake quantitative and qualitative research on social and labour market outcomes of globalization, with a particular focus on impacts of trade and investment arrangements and global supply chains.
  • Carry out policy assessments and country level analysis of globalization (including trade and investment) on social and labour market outcomes and dynamics. This includes identifying institutional factors, best practices and proposing solutions to the problems identified.
  • Prepare high quality drafted and statistical inputs (based on both quantitative and qualitative analysis) for reports and ensure that the work yields evidence-based policy conclusions.
  • Contribute to the development and drafting of international comparative research projects on trade and investment related issues, this includes inputs used to formulate proposals and submit to donors.
  • Provide technical backstopping for projects related to globalization, trade and labour, including identification of key research experts and priorities in defined area and organizing events.
  • Undertake fact finding missions for the purpose of gathering information and data for research and briefing country counterparts with respect to issues related to globalization and labour.
  • Perform other job-related duties as required.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants must have-

  • Advanced university degree in economics or political science.
  • Three years’ experience at the national level and two years at the international level.
  • Experience in developing qualitative and /or quantitative research methodologies.
  • Excellent command of one ILO working language.
  • Working knowledge of another working language of the Organization.
  • Proven ability to draft high-quality reports in English.

How to Apply

Applicants must submit their applications through online process.

For more information, please visit ILO.

Senior Document Services Coordinator at ILO, Switzerland

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Deadline: 17 January 2016

International Labour Organization (ILO) is currently seeking applications from the eligible applicants for the post of Senior Document Services Coordinator in Geneva, Switzerland.

ILO is devoted to promoting social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights, pursuing its founding mission that labour peace is essential to prosperity.

Key Jobs Responsibilities

The Senior Document Services Coordinator   will perform the following functions-

  • Plan organize and supervise the work of the DCU, which is responsible for coordinating all aspects of workflow management, reference and terminology activities, including workflow and Computer-Assisted Translation and Terminology (CATT) tool development, usage and maintenance.
  • Provide strategic advice to the Branch Chief concerning relevant aspects of the business process and propose new policies and guidelines as required.
  • Coordinate document forecasting with author units upstream, on the basis of the ILO’s programme of meetings and in consultation with the Branch Chief and Heads of language units, establish timelines for submission of documents by author units.
  • In close collaboration with the Heads of the language units, prepare workload forecasts and work schedules for the Branch in order to facilitate optimum use of resources and recruitment and assignment planning by language Unit Heads.
  • Provide advice and guidance to staff in the DCU in relation to briefing author units on document service requirements and procedures.
  • Propose revisions to the Document Services Policy whenever necessary.
  • In collaboration with the secretariats concerned, coordinate the provision of document service support and the preparation of in-session and outcome documents at official ILO meetings.
  • Oversee the preparation of trilingual guides for the workflow management system. Organize and conduct training programmes in English, French and Spanish.
  • Perform other duties as required.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants must have-

  • Advanced university degree in languages, administration, or some other relevant field.
  • At least seven years of professional experience in multilingual document workflow management.
  • Excellent command of English, French or Spanish and an in-depth knowledge of the other two official languages.
  • A good knowledge of other working languages of the Organization (Russian, German, Chinese, and Arabic) would be an asset.

How to Apply

Applicants must submit their applications through online process.

For more information, please visit ILO.

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