As Project Officer, you will contribute to portfolio management, project administration, budget preparation and monitoring, and project processing activities related to loans and TA projects, and knowledge management. You will be assigned to projects, knowledge work, budget management, or other activities to cover assigned geographies within the sector or different practice areas, subject to the skills, experience, career preference, and goal of the staff and business needs of the team.
Responsibilities:
Contribute to portfolio management activities by (i) (i) (i) (i) developing and maintaining a database of key performance indicators and project administration issues and actions; (ii) preparing or clearing consolidated and analytical portfolio management reports; (iii) ensuring that necessary actions are being taken by the concerned technical, international, and local staff without delay; and (iv) providing any stopgap support as necessary.
Analyze the sector portfolio performance and project administration workload, and provide guidance to other members of the team. Coordinate with the project administration teams across the sector office.
Contribute to the analysis and review of mission reports and aide memoires, progress reports, and other available project performance indexes on a regular basis and ensure quality, conduct special loan/TA review missions, and prepare country portfolio review missions and tripartite portfolio review meetings. Contribute to addressing project administration red flags for corrective actions.
Monitor and review the accuracy and consistency of data to ensure the quality of individual Project Performance Reports; monitor and analyze the team's projection and performance on contract awards/disbursement and project completion report/technical assistance completion report programs; and make recommendations to achieve targets, when necessary.
Prepare portfolio analysis reports for all partners.
Review and ensure the quality of the loan, grant, and/or TA processing and administration documents in the team/division, in accordance with the latest requirements, templates, and guidelines in ADB, for approval.
Coordinate and provide inputs and feedback to sector office initiatives in project administration, reflecting the operational issues and experience from the team and executing agencies (EAs)/implementing agencies to ensure system improvement leads to more efficient portfolio outcomes.
Ensure compliance with the checklist on the use of the no-objection procedure for loans, grants, guarantees, multitranche financing facilities, policy-based lending, results-based lending, or any other newly introduced instrument's quality.
Contribute to project administration tasks for assigned loans and TAs, especially in procurement and other project administration actions, and provide guidance to EAs on ADB's procurement guidelines and policies.
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in economics, development studies, business administration, or other related fields, preferably with advanced training.
At least 8 years' relevant professional experience in project process or administration.
Proficiency in expressing ideas in both spoken and written formats in English.
Skills with computer-based applications, including spreadsheets (can perform complex functions) and other software.
Comprehensive knowledge of ADB's operational processes and administration guidelines.
Work with good analytical thinking and problem-solving.
Work with individuals from different cultural/national backgrounds.
Please refer to the link for the ADB Competency Framework for TL5.
