Maria Petrosyan

• Contributing to development of the UNHCR Armenia operations annual and multi-year strategy by conducting situation analysis, developing country-level objectives, outcomes and outputs, narratives, budget, designing activities, and developing Monitoring and Evaluation plans.
• Contributing to selection of UNHCR implementing partners by drafting Calls for Expression of Interest, and coordinating, leading and drafting development of partnership agreements (including project description, budget, work plan, and other relevant annexes.).
• Contributing to thedevelopment of the UNHCR contingency plan.
• Fully managing the UNHCR budget.
• Coordinating work with multi-functional teams, by organizing meetings, discussions and field visits.
• Supporting partners throughout project implementation to provide further information and capacitation to meet the project objectives and targets.
• Analyzing and reporting on programme and project progress in terms of achieving results, using monitoring and evaluation tools and introducing new mechanisms and systems; identifying constraints and resource deficiencies and recommending corrective action.
• Monitoring project expenditures (through financial monitoring) and disbursements to ensure delivery is in line with approved project budgets and to realize targeted delivery levels in compliance with relevant rules and regulations.
• Analyzing factors affecting the achievement of results recommending corrective actions and following up on recommendations.
• Evaluating project and programme activities by establishing and implementing mechanisms to systematically assess the achievement of results, conducting field visits, participating in review meetings and evaluation missions and preparing regular inputs to status and progress reports.
• Writing donors' proposals, and preparing donor reports both financial and narrative.
• Accelerating and coordinating project implementation through establishing collaborative relationships with implementing partners, donors, government counterparts and other UN agencies.
• Analyzing policy papers, strategy documents, national plans and development frameworks.
• Conducting research, post-distribution monitoring, impact assessment and writing reports that contribute to strategy writing and programming/reprogramming.
• Conducting financial analysis of the budget including forecasting, calculating exchange-rate fluctuation, andexpenditure monitoring of direct implementation.
• Analysing the direct Implementation budget expenses by identifying the issues and problems in the expenses (over/underspending, budget deficit) and presenting to the units on a Quarterly basis.
• Maintaining UNHCR corporate systems (COMPASS, Cloud ERP, PROMS, MSPR) for UNHCR Armenia annual project planning, budgeting, implementation, reporting and financing.

• Contributing to development of Armenia's operation annual strategy including the development of country-level objectives, outcomes and outputs, and indicators for measuring results.
• Contributing to selection of UNHCR implementing partners by drafting Calls for Expression of Interest, and coordinating, leading and drafting the development of Partnership Agreements (including project description, budget, work plan, and other relevant annexes.).
• Fully managing the UNHCR budget.
• Carry out monitoring visits to UNHCR Armenia’s implementing partners to oversee programme implementation and provide inputs for further planning;
• Conducting financial verification of UNHCR Armenia's implementing partners during verification visits.
• Conducting partnership agreement amendments and budget revisions.
• Supporting implementing partners during implementation year to provide further information and capacitation to meet the project objectives and targets.
• Reviewing direct implementation budget and conducting financial analysis.
• Writing donor proposals, and developing donor narrative and financial reports.
• Accelerating and coordinating project implementation through establishing collaborative relationships with implementing partners, donors, government counterparts and other UN agencies.
• Analyzing policy papers, strategy documents, national plans and development frameworks.
• Conducting Post-Distribution Monitoring, research, and writing reports for further planning.
• Maintaining UNHCR corporate systems (COMPASS, MSPR, FOCUS) for UNHCR Armenia annual project planning, budgeting, implementation, reporting and financing.
• Developing Grant Agreements, and sub-agreements.
  Organizing implementing and operation partners meetings.

• Provide assistance in all legal matters.
• Contributing to the revision of the draft Law on Child Rights, and other pieces of draft legislation.
• Provide advice in legal documentation and negotiations.
• Writing reports, and policy briefs.
• Conducting research and evaluations.
• Helping with the project implementation processes.
• Providing logistic support for the organization of the two international conferences "Keeping Families Together" and "End Violence Against Children".
• Other duties as assigned.

• Involved as an expert in the development of the manual on Child Protection from Violence, published in 2019.

• Activity and resource planning.
• Organizing events and motivating a project team.
• Communication with the stakeholders.
• Controlling time management.
• Cost estimating and developing the budget.
• Analyzing and managing project risks.
• Monitoring progress.

• Research and analysis of data.
• Review of the legislative reforms.
• Drafting documents (concept paper, Terms of Reference, comments on draft legal
documents).
• Participation in working meetings, discussions, and events.
• Logistical support in preparation of events (conferences, workshops).
• Other duties as assigned.

Writing a research on a topic "Embracing Meritocracy in Civil Service: A Case Study of
the Republic of Armenia" with a Professor from the American University of Armenia.
Main Responsibilities
• Literature review
• Qualitative analysis
• Analysis of the relevant documents
• Conducting interviews and content-analysis

• Drafting and examining the documents
• Participation in the working meetings

• Analyzing credit data and financial information of clients applying for loans.
• Preparing relevant documents for the presentation to the Board member's decision-making.