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Vacancy: Programme Officer UNW-DPC

Deadline for Application: 31 July, 2009
Background: The UN-Water Decade Programme Office has been founded to strengthen the activities of the more than two dozen UN organizations and programmes already co-operating within the interagency mechanism known as UN-Water, and to add value and facilitate the activities of the UNWater members and support them in their efforts to achieve the millennium goals related to water. This is not just a matter of capacity development related to water, but also of education, training and institutional development.

In keeping with this aim, UNW-DPC’s Mission Statement ‘is to enhance the coherence, credibility and integrated effectiveness of UN-Water by strengthening its capacity development programmes, particularly in developing countries and economies in transition. In so doing, UN-Water will demonstrate a vanguard role and leadership in bringing together stakeholders in the capacity development field and creating added value for their programmes.’



Qualifications, Experience and Competencies:
  • PhD in hydrology; water resources engineering; systems engineering; irrigation engineering; ecology; aquatic ecology and/or limnology; geophysics; geography; information technology; statistics and statistical evaluation; or other related studies a prerequisite;
  • Minimum of seven years of relevant experience
  • Excellent command of English a prerequisite; good oral and written fluency in other UN languages
  • Availability to undertake worldwide travel on a frequent basis;



Work Assignment:
  • Improving the strategic and operational coherence of capacity development worldwide by creating a so called ‘Capacity Development Observatory’
  • Strengthen technical and policy guidance for capacity development, and contribute to the ‘professionalization’ of water governance and management, especially with regard to providing procedural and implementation guidelines on IWRM (Integrated Water Resources Management) to improve the water governance
  • Collaborate with other common UN Water Programmes and UN Water members on issues related to capacity development
  • Promote capacity development as well as resource mobilization, including the organization of pertinent events and public relations.
General Conditions:
The successful candidate will be based at UNW-DPC in Bonn on a full-time basis.
Please apply by post or email indicating the vacancy’s reference number to Mrs. Carlota Schneider, Recruitment Officer, UN Campus, Hermann-Ehlers-Str. 10, D-53113 Bonn, Germany, or to , indicating your availability and current remuneration. Please attach copies of your references and diplomas.

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