Quality Assurance Officer NGO Job United Nations Environment Programme 

Quality Assurance Officer NGO Job. UN Jobs In Kenya

Result Of Service

Provide reliable technical and programmatic guidance to the project review processes and evidence of progressive improvement and compliance with UNEP’s corporate standards including RBM (Project Quality Design Matrix and the risk-based tiered approach) and UNEP’s Environmental and Social Sustainability Framework (ESSF) through relevant performance indicators.

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Duties and Responsibilities

Under the overall supervision of the Head of Project Review and Oversight Unit or his/her designated mandated representative(s), the Quality Assurance Officer will be carrying out the following tasks:

• Undertake reviews of assigned project documents to improve quality of project design to strengthen the results-based approach to achieve concrete programmatic impacts;
• Identifies potential safeguards risks, provides advice to project managers on appropriate actions;
• Review projects submitted to the UNEP Project Review Committee for compliance using the Safeguard Risk Identification Form (SRIF);
• Support in strengthening capacity across the Organization in results-based management, including project quality standards and results-based budgeting to ensure alignment to UNEP’s programmatic priorities;
• Analyse project development and implementation, review relevant documents and reports, identify problems and issues to be addressed and proposes corrective actions;
• Identify lessons learned from the project review process and project performance;
• Analyse and present information gathered from diverse sources on quality assurance with innovative and actionable recommendations. The consultant will report to the designated day-to-day focal point appointed by the Head Project Review and Oversight Unit (Policy and Programme Division, UNEP); the latter will set the direction and provide the oversight controls of the assignment.

Qualifications/special skills

• Advanced university degrees (master’s or above) in Environmental Science, Social Science, Business or Public Administration, Project Management, Results-based Management or a related field is required. A first level university degree in combination with two additional years of relevant experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• A minimum of seven (7) years of progressively responsible experience with programme and project design; project implementation and management; and good knowledge of the UN/UNEP quality assurance, risk and safeguards system(s) and good understanding of UNEP’s project cycle are required.
• At least 5 years of relevant international experience in environmental, social safeguard systems is required. Demonstrated experience in data analytics (performance trends and patterns) in a development context is desirable

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