Senior Programme Management Consultant – Archives & Digitisation

About the role

The Senior Programme Management Consultant will support the Relief and Social Service Department (RSSD) in advancing UNRWA's digital archive initiative. Reporting to the Director of RSSD, the consultant will provide advisory, coordination, planning, monitoring, and reporting to ensure effective programme delivery.

Key responsibilities

• Review the current status of the archive initiative, including workplans, deliverables, timelines, risks, contracts, stakeholder roles, and staffing arrangements.
• Develop and maintain integrated delivery plans, schedules, risk registers, issue logs, dependency trackers, and reporting tools.
• Provide day‑to‑day coordination across RSSD stakeholders, project teams, consultants, vendors, and service providers.
• Track progress regularly, following up on priority tasks, blockers, dependencies, and pending decisions.
• Identify delays, underperformance, resource gaps, and bottlenecks, recommending corrective actions.
• Support coordination of archive digitisation, reading, validation, verification, metadata creation, investigative documentation, human verification, research support, and knowledge‑management activities.
• Track and support completion of reading and verification of master‑card‑related archive records.
• Assist in developing a model and completion plan for investigative factsheets.
• Facilitate coordination between archive and research stakeholders and technical or service‑provider teams.

Required profile

• Proven experience in programme oversight, coordination, delivery tracking, risk management, and reporting.
• Familiarity with archive digitisation processes, metadata management, and research support activities.
• Ability to work with multiple stakeholders, including consultants, vendors, and internal teams.

Required skills