Senior Programme Officer at International Labour Organization (ILO), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Deadline: 07 June 2022

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is currently seeking applications from the eligible applicants for the post of Senior Programme Officer in Dhaka , Bangladesh.

The mission of the ILO is to promote rights at work, encourage decent employment opportunities, enhance social protection and strengthen dialogue on work-related issues.

Key Job Responsibilities

The Senior Programme Officer will perform the following functions-

• Provide substantial professional programming inputs for the formulation and implementation of the Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP) framework, ensuring alignment with regional and global strategic priorities.
• Undertake strategic programming function including strategic management, implementing planning and reporting. Output based work planning and review.
• Monitor and verify accuracy of programming data.
  
  
  Monitor and assess country development plans and priorities and make proposals to support the design and setting of objectives within the Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP) framework and Program and Budget priorities and outcomes.
• Stay abreast of the political and socio-economic situation and propose actions in response to new and emerging operational challenges.
• In cooperation with technical specialists, draft substantive inputs for programme framework documents, project proposals, reports and other documents for monitoring and reporting purposes.
• Initiate, plan and undertake missions to monitor, assess and report on programme implementation and propose corrective action.
• Assist with the planning and organization of capacity building activities.
• Provide professional inputs to establish a monitoring, evaluation and learning framework for DWCP, which will support generation of lessons learned from ILO interventions, including DC in the country.
• Update results narratives as required in the MEL plan.
• Participate in negotiations with key stakeholders to discuss project definition, scope and funding requirements.
• Prepare and/or review drafts of Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) in cooperation with implementing partners and technical specialists, ensuring consistency with requirements and timelines for project implementation.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants must have:

• University degree (Masters or equivalent) in a social science, Law, management, Economics and any other relevant subject
• Minimum 3 years of professional work experience in programme and/or project planning, monitoring, implementation and evaluation activities.
• Experience in working with an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, in particular strategic management/programming modules would be an asset.
• Excellent command of an official language (English, French, Spanish) of the Organization.
• Working knowledge of another official language of the Organization or an official national language of the duty station.

How to Apply

Applicants must submit applications through online process.

For more information, visit ILO.