Programme Management Officer

at Department of Peace Operations
Location Kampala, Uganda
Date Posted October 29, 2023
Category Management
Job Type FULL_TIME
Currency UGX

Description

The Programme Officer will be part of the Peacekeeping-Intelligence Academy in Entebbe, Uganda, which is established to develop and deliver peacekeeping-intelligence related training courses to civilian and uniformed United Nations staff, as well as to organize seminars and conferences and support research on PKI-related topics. The Programme Officer reports to the Chief of the Peacekeeping-Intelligence Coordination Team.

Responsibilities

The most recent Department of Peace Operations Policy on Peacekeeping-Intelligence was promulgated in 2019 and aims at professionalizing the way the United Nations deals with peacekeeping-intelligence, primarily to better ensure the security of peacekeepers and to better protect civilians. Within delegated authority, the Programme Officer will be responsible for the following duties:

Develops, coordinates and delivers PKI-related training courses, both in-person and online.
Develops and, where requested, delivers PKI modules and/or lessons to be included in other United Nations courses.
Maintains thorough understanding of key policy developments related to peacekeeping-intelligence and associated themes.
Identified training gaps and conducts Training Needs Assessments in the field of PKI.
Maintains awareness of best practices in the field of learning, training and technology-enhanced learning including online learning.
Ensures quality assurance of training material and delivery.
Coordinates and liaises with other UN training entities on the topic of PKI-related training courses.
Initiates and coordinates outreach activities with national and regional training institutions with regards to intelligence-related training courses.
Serves as counterpart to academic institutions with regards to thematic research related to PKI.
Organizes and prepares written outputs, e.g. draft background papers, analysis, sections of reports and studies, inputs to publications.
Develops, implements and evaluates assigned programmes/projects.; monitors and analyzes programme/project development and implementation; reviews relevant documents and reports; identifies problems and issues to be addressed and initiates corrective actions; liaises with relevant parties; ensures follow-up actions.
Generates survey initiatives; designs data collection tools; reviews, analyzes and interprets responses, identifies problems/issues and prepares conclusions related to PKI training evaluation.
Organises consultative and other meetings, conferences, seminars and workshops to include proposing agenda topics, identifying participants, preparation of documents and presentations. Integrates gender perspectives and other key thematic issues across all training courses.
Coordinates activities related to budget funding (programme/project preparation and submissions, progress reports, financial statements.) and prepares related documents/reports (pledging, work programme, programme budget.)
Be prepared to conduct in-mission training course up to 30 days.