Programme Support Officer

Organizational Context

UN Women is the UN entity dedicated to gender equality and women's empowerment, working globally to accelerate progress and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. In Malawi, UN Women's work is guided by its Strategic Note 2024-2028, aligning with national visions and the UN Sustainable Cooperation Framework. The focus is on women's leadership, humanitarian action, UN coordination on gender equality, economic empowerment, and ending violence against women.

Job Purpose

The Programme Support Officer will provide crucial support to the UN Women Malawi programme team, ensuring activities align with strategic priorities and operational procedures. This role involves assisting the Gender Theme Group coordination team in fostering collaboration with donors and UN agencies. A key contribution will be supporting donor reporting by compiling and analyzing programme results, financial updates, and impact narratives. The position also plays a vital role in monitoring and evaluation processes, ensuring accountability, transparency, and evidence-based reporting that highlights progress in gender equality and women's empowerment.

Responsibilities

The Programme Support Officer will provide technical and administrative support to strengthen programme delivery and stakeholder engagement under the supervision of the Coordination Specialist. Key duties include assisting the Gender Theme Group and UN Gender Theme Group coordination teams by facilitating communication and collaboration among donors, UN agencies, and group members. The role involves contributing to donor reporting through compiling, analyzing, and presenting programme results, financial updates, and impact narratives according to UN Women standards. Additionally, the officer will support monitoring and evaluation processes for accountability and evidence-based reporting, maintain accurate programme documentation, assist in organizing meetings and workshops with follow-up actions, and support the development of communication materials to enhance programme visibility.

Work Experience

A minimum of three years of professional experience in programme coordination, project management, or development cooperation is required, preferably within the UN system or international organizations. Experience in donor reporting, stakeholder engagement, and gender equality/women's empowerment is essential. Familiarity with monitoring and evaluation, data collection, and reporting is also necessary.

Skills

Key competencies include accountability, adaptability, flexibility, building trust, commitment, continuous learning, communication, creativity, ethics, integrity, knowledge sharing, planning, organization, professionalism, respect for diversity, technological awareness, vision, and teamwork. Expertise in administration, communication, advocacy, public information, project management, programme development, and strategy is highly valued.

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