Project Management Support – Senior Assistant

About the role

The Senior Assistant will support the full project cycle for UN‑Habitat Morocco, acting as the focal point for gender, youth and monitoring & evaluation (M&E). The role combines project planning, budgeting, implementation, and reporting to ensure effective delivery of programme activities.

Key responsibilities

• Support all phases of the project cycle, including planning, proposal development, budgeting, implementation and reporting.
• Develop work plans, activity cost estimates, project proposals and track expenditure against budgets.
• Coordinate M&E activities, analyse data and prepare reports for internal and external stakeholders.
• Prepare briefing documents, proposals, communications and advocacy materials.
• Draft Terms of Reference, provide technical support during internal reviews and ensure compliance with quality standards.
• Organise project meetings, implementation missions and follow‑up on action points with partners.
• Facilitate resource mobilisation and identify strategic collaboration opportunities.
• Serve as the Gender, Youth and M&E focal point, ensuring alignment with cross‑cutting priorities.
• Support capacity‑building activities, training sessions and knowledge‑sharing initiatives.
• Contribute to communication and visibility efforts by disseminating project achievements.

Required profile

• Secondary school diploma or equivalent.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in project support, monitoring & evaluation or related fields.
• Familiarity with gender and youth issues and ability to integrate them into project reporting.
• Strong organisational skills and experience preparing reports, proposals and briefing documents.

Required skills

• No specific technical skills mentioned in the posting.