Operations Officer - Abu Dhabi - ref. d14495615

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Organization

Arab Monetary Fund

Opening date

Thursday, September 5, 2024 - 12:00 to Tuesday, December 31, 2024 - 12:00

The Arab Monetary Fund is seeking to recruit an Operations Officer for its Technical Assistance & Resourcesu2019 Mobilization Division.

About the Arab Monetary Fund (AMF)

The Arab Monetary Fund is a regional Arab financial institution founded in 1976 and aims to strengthen its member countries' economic, financial, and monetary stability (22 countries). It also aims at laying the monetary foundations for Arab economic integration and promoting economic development in Arab countries.

To achieve the previous objectives, the AMF provides, inter alia, short-term and medium-term credit facilities to member states to assist in supporting external sector stability and financing their overall balance of payments deficits. The AMF also contributes toward building capacity through training programs, technical assistance, and several technical working groups covering monetary, fiscal, financial, and statistical issues, among other topics.

About the Technical Assistance & Resourcesu2019 Mobilization Division

The division provides demand-driven and tailor-made technical assistance to help member countries formulate and implement appropriate economic policy, build effective economic institutions and functional capacities, and shape national thematic initiatives and strategies for wider economic stability and sustainable growth objectives, with the ultimate goal of creating an enabling environment that facilitates change over extended time horizons.

Job purpose

The job involves frequent interaction with other AMF departments and units, government officials, consultants, and external organizations.

Accountability and key responsibilities

The Operations Officeru2019s duties and accountabilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Conducts day-to-day activities in line with stipulated policies and procedures.
• Develops and maintains, in close collaboration with the IT team, the AMFu2019s consultants database and ensures easy access to it by the technical assistance team.
• Leads the development and monitoring of the division's annual work plan and budget, including providing administrative and operational accounting services.
• Ensures that operational activities are executed within the allotted budget and timelines, identifies issues, collects data, establishes facts, and draws valid conclusions as required.
• Manages, maintains, and improves the division's administrative record management system in line with AMF policies and procedures.
• Follows activities and deliverables and ensures the timely collection and analysis of the data required to track performance against the division logical framework indicators and checks that the appropriateness of the indicators is reviewed periodically.
• Works closely with the division chief and an external consultant to develop a robust monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system.
• Coordinates inputs to periodic reports for senior management and board meetings and delivers presentations to internal performance review meetings, as required.
• Builds and maintains strong relationships with both existing and new sub-contractors and suppliers and liaises with the other AMFu2019s internal departments and units (legal, finance, support service, procurement, etc.) for a smooth and quick turnaround of operations.
• Organizes and coordinates the division's events, internally and externally, including regular division team meetings to follow up on operational updates, issues, and ideas.
• Engages closely with AMFu2019s IT team and provides updates on technical assistance and partnership activities for the AMF website.
• Engages closely with the internal communication team and assures the quality and consistency of all divisionu2019s products and services, including documents, publications, and promotional material.
• Acts as the divisionu2019s focal point for risk management, ensures that administrative issues and identified risks are handled and resolved accurately and quickly, and the divisionu2019s policies, procedures, and risk register are up to date.
• Contributes to identifying improvements to the divisionu2019s policies and implements procedures and controls covering all areas of activity to fulfill all relevant procedural requirements while delivering high-quality and cost-effective results.
• Contributes to the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement of systems, processes, and practices, taking into account leading practices, improvement of business processes, cost reduction, and productivity improvement.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the division chief from time to time.

Qualifications & experience required

A master's degree from a reputable university with a distinguished academic record in business administration or related fields is required.

A minimum of 7 years of relevant experience is expected.

Company Industry: Finance, Investment & Asset Management

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