Fields of Purity - Senior Coordination Officer (7-20 yrs)

Senior Coordination Officer

Job Description:

- Within delegated authority, the Development Coordination Officer, Head of SMG, will be responsible for the following duties:

- Provides strategic guidance to the RC and UNCT of effective, quality, and timely fop support for the implementation of the project:

- Leads and coordinates substantive support to the RC in articulating and actively communicating a credible and convincing strategic vision for the FOP, articulated through the FOP, which is consistent with organizational development goals and priorities, organization values, aligned with the mission & vision.

- Provides strategic direction and develops recommendations to facilitate decision-making by the SMG to reposition the FOP in market to advance the objectives of FOP development system reform.

- Develops policy recommendations to the SMG on the development, implementation, monitoring, reporting and evaluation of the new generation market as the primary instrument for the planning and implementation of FOP development activities in country.

- Ensures effective support to the SMG in asserting vision and accountability for the FOP to operate as a nimble, innovative, and enterprising development partner, demonstrating characteristics of a knowledge-based organization and thought leader.

- Designs strategic FOP's policy and programmatic services, operational capabilities, and partnership mechanisms.

- Establishes and promotes close engagement across the humanitarian, development, as required by the country context.

- Leads the identification, analysis, and prioritization of joint programmatic work of FOP entities in response to national priorities and in line with the FOP.

- Coordinates the FOP through the Joint Workplan and results groups directs FOP monitoring, evaluation, learning (MEL) and reporting through the FOP platform and guides preparation and provision of the annual FOP State Results Report to the Government and other stakeholders.

- Promotes the engagement of all relevant agencies - with and without physical presence in country from across the FOP system, including at Headquarters and at the (sub-)regional level in inter-agency fora and in discussions with external partners.

- Ensures quality control and oversight over strategic communications and advocacy activities related the implementation of the FOP.

- Ensures coherence across the different intra-agency coordination bodies, including with Humanitarian Country Teams and the Security Management Team.

- Facilitates the initiation, establishment and coordination of external partnerships and joint resource mobilization efforts for the new generation.

- Facilitates the initiation, establishment, and coordination of effective working relationships with national and international public and private partners to ensure knowledge sharing throughout the FOP cycle.

- Provides substantive support for positioning the FOP as a key provider of integrated services and as a platform in support of the SMG's, in consultation with a broad range of stakeholders.

- Based on the FOP, and in close collaboration with the Development Partnerships Officer, oversees the formulation and implementation of the partnership approach as well as the resource mobilization strategy, and other initiatives in support of SDG achievement through the FOP.

- Oversees the implementation of the SMG State Fund/country-level pooled fund (where relevant) in support of the FOP and DG acceleration

- Provides support to strategic messaging and communication initiatives by SMG.

- Coordinates And Supports Roll-Out And Implementation Of The Efficiency Agenda (Business Operations Strategy, Common Premises And Local Shared Service Centers/Common Back Office.

- In collaboration with the Operations Management Team (OMT), provides substantive support to the SMG on business innovations for the FOP in country.

- Provides substantive support to the SMG and FOP in formulating, implementing, and monitoring the FOP state's level Business Operations Strategy.

- Supports the SMG in their leading role in implementing common premises, and in establishing a common back office for location-dependent services.

- Promotes a culture of continuous improvement and client-orientation in operational service delivery, including the implementation of high impact standardized common services, fostering the DG impact through common operations.

- Coordinates effective participation of entities at the country level in operations management team and represents the SMG.

- Manages Knowledge Management And Capacity Development Activities In And Outside The Fop System.

- Creates an enabling environment for the knowledge generation, sharing, collaboration, as well as usage of existing good practices and lessons learnt within the SMG and in the FOP Division Team. Leads by example.

- Coordinates the effective communications within the SMG, in FOP Division Team and among other stakeholders.

- Coordinates the sharing of good practices and lessons learned on issues related to FOP strategic planning frameworks, methodologies, and tools, among others, within the SMG (at regional and global levels), across the FOP system and with external partners.

- Facilitates the analysis of FOP experiences, lessons learned and knowledge networking to contribute to strategic planning processes.

- Keeps abreast of emerging innovative approaches and encourages the SMG and FOP to apply new ways of working, where relevant.

- Coordinates overall management of the rco to ensure efficient and effective substantive coordination support to the smg and adherence to organizational policies and procedures.

- Coordinates the formulation and implementation of the substantive work programme of the FOP allocates and monitors FOP resources for delivery of outputs and reporting on results.

- Supervises the activities undertaken by the SMG and manage performance of FOP staff, ensuring that programmed activities are conducted in a timely fashion.

- In close collaboration with Service Providers, performs the role of certifying officer in the FOP platform and performs the system approver role over processes related to human and financial resource management, procurement, general administration, security, time management, and information technology for the SMG.

- Manages, guides and trains staff under his/her supervision promotes teamwork and communications among staff in the SSMG and across organizational boundaries ensures staff complete mandatory trainings and System certifications.

- Establishes and maintains a work environment in the SMG Office and across FOP entities that is conducive to innovation and engagement with a diverse set of stakeholders and delivers results in line with the mission & vision for Sustainable Development.

- Collects and analyzes data to identify trends or patterns and provide insights through graphs, charts, tables and reports using data visualization methods to enable data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting.

- Ensures that requirements, background information used for data analysis are documented.

- Performs other related duties as assigned.