Country: South Sudan
Closing date: 31 Jul 2018
Summary of the role
Who is The Department for International Development?
The Department for International Development (DFID) leads the UK’s fight against global poverty, delivering aid to those in need all over the world. Since 1997, our passionate team has helped more than 250 million people lift themselves from poverty and 40 million more children to attend primary school. But there is still much to do.
We work with national and international partners from two UK headquarters in London and Glasgow (East Kilbride) and a network of offices around the world. Wherever they’re based, all DFID staff is united by a single goal: to tackle poverty and improve the lives of people in developing countries.
We offer a diverse range of challenging roles, and each provides an exciting career path and the chance to work at the heart of international development both in the UK and overseas.
Do you want to change people’s lives? To know, when you go to work each day that you are making a difference? Then read on to see how….
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced individual to work across DFID South Sudan teams to support our programme and operational delivery. DFID South Sudan has an allocated budget of £156m in 2018/19, making it one of the largest programmes in East and Central Africa, but in a high risk environment and with some of the greatest delivery challenges of any DFID programme You will be a member of the Business Support Unit and working closely with colleagues in the Operational Excellence and Policy teams as well as the programme teams (Essential Services team and Humanitarian and Livelihoods team). This is a cross-cutting role and you will be expected to support teams on inducting new staff, organising programme field visits, supporting the programme leads on the programme forum and capacity building work, as well as supporting teams on fraud case management.
We are looking for an experienced individual with a wide range of experience including operational and programme management support, and an excellent knowledge of DFID's systems and processes.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
The Operational and Programme Support Officer will:
(i) Support to programme teams on fraud cases management and help track trends;
(ii) Support to programme teams on travel risk assessment production, co-ordinating DFID’s field visit planning and maintaining the field visit tracker;
(iii) Support to teams on the induction of new staff and provide admin and logistics support to DFID South Sudan visitors;
(iv) Support on DFID pipeline issues and liaise with FCO corporate services team on estate and corporate issues;
(v) Support in maintaining the status of our programme management trackers on business cases, annual reviews, project completion reviews and contracts;
(vi) Support on DFID South Sudan Communications;
(vii) Provide Head of Office secretariat support for the Heads of Cooperations (HoCs) and manage the mailing list
Successful candidates will have:
Essential criteria:
The Operational and Programme Support Officer will be self-motivated with the ability to take a proactive approach to work, exercising sound decision making. Strong experience of operational and programme management support, ideally in a fragile and conflict-affected environment. The ability to work well with others and build good working relationships with staff of all levels of the organisation. They will be adaptable and capable of dealing with a varied workload, managing prioritisation and working to tight deadlines. They should also have excellent written and communications skills.
Core UK civil service competences
Candidates should be able to clearly demonstrate in their application examples of the following competencies:
Collaborating and partnering
Managing a quality survive
Delivering at Pace
Details of the above UK Civil service competencies are available at http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Civil-Service-Competency-Framework-July-2012.pdf
How to apply:
Important – HOW TO APPLY
The candidate must complete the application form onhttps://www.gov.uk/world/organisations/dfid-south-sudan/about/recruitmentand send it to theAfricaHRHubRecruit@DFID.GOV.UKwith a copy of their most recent CV and Covering letter**. Please quote the following reference number when applying “SS0118”. Failure to do so may result in your application not being viewed.**
Closing date of applications is midnight on 31 July 2018. Applications shown as being received after this time will not be accepted.