Programme Management Specialist, IPSA-, Homebased

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.

Background:
The same background statement again. The Strategy, Planning, Results and Effectiveness Division (SPRED) of UN Women integrates corporate strategy and performance measurement to improve decision-making to drive the implementation of UN Women’s Strategic Plan and manage for results while increasing transparency and accountability to its Governing Bodies and Stakeholders. Specifically, the Division formulates corporate strategies aligned to the corporate objectives and ensures internal controls and risk management are fully in place.

Additionally, the Division monitors and reports on the implementation of the Strategic Plan and provides strategic guidance and oversight on programme, project management and implementation, including programme partner management. SPRED helps strengthen UN Women, improving services to the field by defining a clear set of priorities with aligned resources, ownership, accountability and oversight. It also provides an arm’s length analysis of the performance of the organization.

The UN Women Programme Support Management Unit (PSMU) provides corporate advisory services and direct support for project and programme development, implementation, monitoring and oversight under the Strategy, Planning, Results and Effectiveness Division (SPRED). The PSMU guides the organization – HQ, Regional and Country offices – in implementation of their respective Strategic Notes by following best practices to ensure that all projects and programmes maintain a level of standardization, planning, knowledge sharing, and work collectively towards UN Women’s strategic goals.

PSMU offers Regional Offices (ROs) and Country Offices (COs) a range of services, trainings and toolkits that increase their implementation capacity to deliver programmes on time, within scope, and on budget. It also supports the implementation of global projects managed by HQs.

Under the supervision of the Manager, Programme Support Unit with PSMU, and overall guidance of the Chief of PSMU in HQ, the Programme Management Specialist will play a proactive role in the Programme Partner Management oversight, enhancement of Partner and Grants Agreement Management System (PGAMS), Risk-based Capacity Assessment (RBCA) and Assurance Module, and business requirement documentation of other Programme Partner Management modules, working in close collaboration with other units in HQ and/or Regions/Countries.

• Sign-off on the detailed scope/requirements/wireframes with the PGAMS Offshore Development Team, providing clarifications, user acceptance testing of developed solution and validations post release of solutions.
• Consult with Regional PGAMS Focal Points on the new requirements and enhancement/new development of PGAMS, online Risk-based Capacity assessment and Assurance Modules.
• Review with other business process owners/stakeholders and technical service providers (IST) on data/linkages, etc. for the enhancement/new development, technical architecture, etc.
• Update the documentation on User Guides, frequently asked questions, chatbots, and other related support documentation including creation of new content in multimedia.
• Provide user support on issues with PGAMS, RBCA Module and Assurance…