National Post: Programme Associate

**Job title: Programme Associate (1 position)**

**Level: GS-7**

**Position Number: 167281**

**Location: New Delhi, India**

**Full/Part time: Full-Time**

**Fixed term/Temporary: Fixed Term**

**Rotational/Non Rotational: Non-Rotational**

**Duration: One year (renewable)**

**The Position**:
The Programme Associate supports the design, planning and management of UNFPA’s country programme by managing data inputs, providing logístical support, monitoring project implementation and following up on recommendations.

The Programme Associate will be under the supervision of either the Programme and Technical Support Coordinator or the Policy, Advocacy and Partnership Coordinator. In collaboration with other programme and technical team members, the Programme Associate position provides strategic support to evidence-based planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting of the interventions undertaken by the Programme Coordination and Technical Support (PCTS) Unit and the Policy Advocacy and Partnership Unit (PAPU). The Programme Associate will also work in close collaboration with the Operations Unit and UNFPA State Offices.

**How you can make a difference**:
UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled. UNFPA’s strategic plan, focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices.

In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical staff, who embody these international norms and standards, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.

**Job Purpose**:
You will play an instrumental role in facilitating UNFPA’s country programme and project implementation, supporting design, planning and management, in one or more of the following areas - population and development, reproductive health, gender and youth empowerment.

**You will be responsible for**:
**A. Evidence-based design and planning;**
- Assist in the evidence-based planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting of interventions supported by the PCTS and PAPU units towards achieving measurable results.
- Participating in the formulation of the country programme and component projects, by compiling and analysing information relevant to the UNFPA’s role in the country, drafting project documents and work plans and preparing tables and statistical data
- Compile basic data to support preparation of periodic progress reports of the aforementioned processes.

**B. Programme Management and Oversight**
- Guiding routine implementation of assigned projects, in coordination with national counterparts and project personnel, coordinating delivery of project inputs
- Support the transparent selection of implementing partners.
- Supporting the evaluation of project and programme activities, establishing ways to assess achievement and recommending corrective action as required; conducting field visits; participating in review meetings and evaluation missions and preparing regular inputs to status and progress reports.
- Participate in assurance activities, including assessments and spot checks of implementing partners.
- Contribute to the analysis of programme portfolio reviews guided by corporate tools and dashboard across management oversight related topics/themes.
- Prepare relevant reports, on country programme implementation, as well as support consolidated reporting on complementary operational issues for management attention (e.g. audits, human resources, donor reporting).
- Support annual and quarterly work-planning and programme and financial monitoring processes.
- Assist with revisions of UNFPA programmes with key parties and business units as may be required.
- Ensure adherence of any other programme management related functions to established corporate procedures pertaining to the functions of the two teams.
- Supporting advocacy and resource mobilisation efforts of the CO
- Contribute to oversight functions of the Country Office by maintaining schedules of programme and management audits.

**C. Knowledge Management Support**
- Regularly update the PCTS and PAPU knowledge platforms with relevant products; including country programme profiles, country programme documents, mission documentation and reports, among others.
- Collaborate with the PCTS and PAPU teams in preparing knowledge products reflecting emerging issues, best practices, lessons learned, etc from UNFPA-supported interventions.
- Assist with information gathering on the emerging issues and contribute to the preparation of strategic documents, including environmental scans.
- Facilitate south-south cooperation related actions undertaken by both teams.

**D. Financial, administrative and other operational support**
- Review FACE form submissions to ensure that expenditures are in line with approved work pl