Applications are currently being accepted from people who are capable for the job at UNOPS that was advertised in the daily Classified Source newspaper on 14 February, 2024.
UNOPS
Date Posted:
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14 February, 2024
Department:
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UNOPS
Category | Sector
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UNOPS
Newspaper:
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Classified Source Newspaper
Education:
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Bachelor
Total Vacancies:
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Details in attached ads
Vacancy Location:
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Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
Job Type:
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Full Time
Expected Last Date:
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26 February, 2024
Vacant Positions: Project Manager
PROJECT MANAGER
Currently, the UNOPS Islamabad is seeking for Project Manager to fill their vacant position
JOB Description: Project Manager
Project Information:The Project started in September 2021 and over a period of five years it aims to improve access to clean and safe water, hygiene and sanitation and increase the resilience of targeted communities affected by the 2010 floods in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh provinces in Pakistan. The project has been designed as a programme and includes three components which are integrated in a holistic, complementary and coordinated manner to maximise the project impact. The three objectives are:
Improved quality and reach of water supply services and increased access to community and household sanitation (WASH related infrastructure)
More effective, gender-responsive and transparent WATSAN services through enhanced capacity of government entities and communities (capacity enhancement)
Reduced waterborne diseases and improved resilience of communities through improved community and household hygiene practices (community awareness and behavioural change)
Position Context:
The Project Manager will ensure that the project outputs are delivered within the specified project tolerances of time, cost, quality, scope, risk and benefits. He/she is expected to meet the organization’s performance and delivery goals.
The Project Manager will manage the Implementation Plan, using the Project Initiation Document (PID) and the Legal Agreement, and keeping in mind the terms, conditions, and respective roles and responsibilities of the partners/stakeholders, in order to ensure the project outputs are capable of meeting the business cases for both UNOPS and the partners. Success of the project and hence of the Project Manager will be based on the defined Success Criteria.
This position will lead the project transitioning from a Senior Project Manager with a period of accompaniment.
The Project Manager role could be based either in Islamabad, DI Khan, KP province, or Umerkot in Sindh province, with frequent visits (75% of time) to all field locations in KP and Sindh provinces.
Functional Responsibilities
Functions / Key Results Expected
Project Delivery and Performance
Procedures
Monitoring and reporting
Stakeholder engagement
Quality assurance
Knowledge management and innovation
Personnel management
Project Delivery and Performance
Develop, complete and update implementation plans.
Implement the approved plan (including the establishment of milestones) within tolerances set by the Project Board.
Embed sustainability dimensions including social and gender inclusion/mainstreaming, environmental and economic aspects into project life span.
Manage the production of the required outputs, taking responsibility for overall progress and use of resources and initiating corrective action where necessary.
Ensure that quality of work packages and deliverables complies with the quality requirements defined in the Implementation Plan.
Liaise with any external suppliers or account managers
Manage acceptance and delivery of work packages
Monitor project progress ensuring that work packages are being executed properly
Control project and work packages changes
Accept goods, services or works delivered by suppliers.
Lead contract management duties including supplier performance evaluation.
Act as the Employer’s Representative within the FIDIC works contracts.
Identify, and anticipate in a timely manner, potential risks and issues and advises mitigating measures to senior management/ Project Board so that maximum benefit to partner(s) and other stakeholders is achieved
Identify and report to the supervisor potential business opportunities for UNOPS
Procedures
Comply with all organizational policy and specifically the Project Management Manual
Prepare/adapt all relevant plans for approval by the Project Board.
Manage the reporting obligations defined in the Legal Agreement(s) and in the Implementation Plan
Implement HSSE standards on sites & offices and ensure adherence of HSSE reporting requirements
Draft the requirements definitions for procurement processes. Approving requisitions and requests for non-purchase order payments; Evaluating submissions received, if appointed to the evaluation team.
Ensure maintenance of the project files and lessons learned are recorded
Manage budgets, cash flow and obligations to ensure that deliverables are met and payments to contractors and personnel are received on time.
Understand and manage UNOPS overheads, allocable charges, and related corporate charges as they apply to the project
Understand the unique structures of the UN and budget appropriately for personnel
Manage expenditures against the budget (based on accurate financial reports)
Where the Project Manager has no delegation as a committing officer, s/he retains these responsibilities and will monitor and instruct/request others to carry out the relevant commitments and disbursements.
For project closure purposes, provide a formal handover of the project to the closure manager
Support project audit activities, including planning, preparation and coordination during the audits and follow up on audit observations/recommendations
Monitoring and reporting
Prepare and issue regular project and/or financial reports in accordance with Partner and UNOPS requirements for reporting.
Maintain diaries and progress reports as required by the organization’s standard procedures.
Provide routine oversight and analysis of delivery data within the dashboard system.
Ensure all project team members track and regularly update milestones and targets for the duration of projects\ life span
Stakeholder engagement
Develop stakeholder profiles and facilitate the formulation of stakeholder engagement strategies
Establish solid working relationships with the Project Board (Executive, Senior Users and Senior Suppliers), client and key stakeholders
Enable the formulation of project communications plans. Coordinate internal project communications. Monitor the effectiveness of project communications
Coordinate stakeholder engagement and communication, ensuring effective timing and interdependency management of communications. Ensure stakeholders are aware of project activities, progress, exceptions and are in a position to accept handover outputs
Quality assurance
Work with internal stakeholders to ensure projects comply with audit requirements
Work with procurement/purchasing staff to ensure effective interface with suppliers\ quality systems
Coordinate quality reviews of project documents and deliverables
Provide quality control for management outputs (project documents, reports, etc.)
Interested applicants can send their CVs (compulsory documents as per attached in ads) before Closing date: 26 February, 2024. Candidate required to visibly mention the job title in the Subject applied for the situation. UNOPS offers the Equal Opportunity for all equally competent candidates.
