Senior Economic Development Associate

UNOPS is an operational arm of the United Nations, supporting the successful implementation of its partners’ peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the world. Our mission is to help people build better lives and countries achieve sustainable development.

UNOPS areas of expertise cover infrastructure, procurement, project management, financial management and human resources.

Working with us

UNOPS offers short- and long-term work opportunities in diverse and challenging environments across the globe. We are looking for creative, results-focused professionals with skills in a range of disciplines.

Diversity

With over 4,000 UNOPS personnel and approximately 7,000 personnel recruited on behalf of UNOPS partners spread across 80 countries, our workforce represents a wide range of nationalities and cultures. We promote a balanced, diverse workforce — a strength that helps us better understand and address our partners’ needs, and continually strive to improve our gender balance through initiatives and policies that encourage recruitment of qualified female candidates.

Work life harmonization

UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands.

Specifically, the Senior Economic Development Associate will contribute to the following areas: 

1. Project Management and Delivery;

2. Project Communication and Outreach;

3. Research, Analysis, Writing and Editing; 

4. Presentation and Communication Support;

The work is of a highly confidential nature and the contractor must maintain the highest standards of integrity.

The Senior EDA will deliver his/her contributions to the following areas (under the overall leadership and in full coordination with the Water and Telecom Director):

Project Management and Delivery

1. Lead or closely support the delivery of one or more work streams of an OQ priority project including contributing to the work stream strategy development.

2. Adapt project strategy and direction appropriately in response to changing information.

3. Propose and agree on workstream outputs with lead Advisor and deliver workstream outputs on time and within tolerances according to the agreed strategy.

4. Prepare Gantt charts and other planning and strategy documents for the priority project and/or workstreams as necessary.

Project Communication and Outreach

1. Meet with internal and external project stakeholders regularly, to discuss project progress and agree and coordinate outputs or areas of cooperation, in line with the agreed project strategy.

2. Prepare a range of written communication documents (such as analytical products, maps, reports, letters, emails and presentations) for internal and external project stakeholders as needed.

3. Assist with the organisation of meetings, workshops and conferences relating to the project.

Research, Analysis, and Writing:  

1. Collect water-related data and other information relevant to the water team projects from public reports and stakeholders

2. Analyse different types of data (numerical, geospatial, etc.) and produce analytical products using tools such as (Excel, R, GIS dashboards, etc.)

3. Create visualizations (maps, charts, etc.) for reports, presentations, and meetings as required for the projects to share with internal and external project stakeholders

4. Conduct original research and analysis related to priority projects, or other OQ strategic objectives, in response to tasking from Advisors and management. Support Advisors in conducting original and synthesised research, project or survey design, where necessary.

5. Review analytical and technical products by consultants related to priority projects and provide feedback 

6. Prepare literature reviews and other written inputs; assist in background research and drafting of new research projects; assist in the identification of field-wide best practices and translate those into case studies.

7. Prepare the Water Team quarterly reporting in close coordination with the West Bank and Gaza coordinators

8. Provide detailed comments and feedback; assist in editing papers, reports, briefs and memos

Presentation and Communication Support: 

1. Assist OQ Advisors and Management in developing a variety of presentations both in response to project needs and other OQ priorities; work closely with Advisors to generate document structure, text and graphics, conduct research and analysis, and pull together a compelling set of materials. 

2. Draft and assemble materials for internal and external meetings, as required.

3. Support preparation of other outreach activities, as required.

4. Maintain and update Water strategic documents for communication with external stakeholders and donors

5. Support Director and OQ management in the preparations of key communication points for external meetings  

6. Support the water team in IT-related tasks in close coordination with the IT officer

• Excellent command of written and spoken English. 

• Knowledge of Arabic and/or Hebrew is an asset.

The contract for this position will be issued by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) on behalf of its Client the Office of Quartet pursuant to an agreement between both parties whereby the successful candidate's contractual rights and responsibilities will be managed by the Office of Quartet (OQ) office and not by UNOPS.
Contract type: Individual Contract agreement

• Please note that the closing date is midnight Copenhagen time
• Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
• Only those candidates that are short-listed for interviews will be notified.
• Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• UNOPS seeks to reasonably accommodate candidates with special needs, upon request.
• Work life harmonization - UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands. We have a progressive policy on work-life harmonization and offer several flexible working options. This policy applies to UNOPS personnel on all contract types
• For staff positions only, UNOPS reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level than the advertised level of the post
• For retainer contracts, you must complete a few Mandatory Courses (around 4 hours) in your own time, before providing services to UNOPS.
• The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNOPS.  

It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential recruits/interns. Recruitment/internship in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.