United Nations Job in Geneva

Position title: Program Management Officer for the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe 

Key duties

The position holder will be liable for the following duties under the supervision of the Chief, Sustainable Energy Division

• Assists the Section chief in the coordination of planning and preparation, analysis and establishment of the proposed budget of the section’s program and project activities.
• Assists in monitoring the implementation of the Section ‘s program and project activities.
• Makes practical arrangements for meetings held in and outside Geneva, including security, meeting room arrangements; prepares documents, reports, and tables for meetings and coordinates with the Division of Conference Management for translation and reproduction services.
• Ensures conformity of documents with UN Practice as well as prepares camera-ready copies for publication. Similarly, the position holder coordinates the publishing process with the relevant UN publishing focal points and services.
• Researches, compiles, summarises and presents information and prepares powerpoint presentations on project and work program implementation for use by the of the Energy Industry Section staff at meetings, seminars, workshops, and internal briefings.
• Drafts a variety of correspondence and communications related to work program and project activities through the use of multiple letters for signature, databases and other relevant software such as MS Word.
• Furthermore, perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

The ideal candidate will have the following specifications

• Completion of secondary school education or high school diploma. In addition to that, the minimum seven of experience in a program support role is necessary. However, some years of progressive experience in the administrative section within UN preferred.
• Previously hands with United Nations intergovernmental program support body is desirable. Moreover, previous experience in the maintenance and creation of new web pages using Typo 3 is also desirable.
• Fluent knowledge of English is necessary for the post and the additional knowledge of French or any other UN official language is desirable.