Quality Assurance Officer at United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

• 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