Individual Consultancy, Office Support, UNICEF Global Shared Services Centre, Budapest, Hungary

UNICEF Global Shared Services Centre’s Human Resources Administration Section is seeking individual consultants to provide short-term support to the data verification and cleansing project.

UNICEF works in 190 countries and territories to protect the rights of every child. UNICEF has spent 70 years working to improve the lives of children and their families. Defending children's rights throughout their lives requires a global presence, aiming to produce results and understand their effects. UNICEF believes all children have a right to survive, thrive and fulfill their potential – to the benefit of a better world.

UNICEF's Global Shared Services Centre (GSSC) in Budapest, Hungary supports UNICEF operations globally in the areas of Finance, Human Resources, Payroll and Information Technology.

How can you make a difference?

UNICEF Global Shared Services Centre’s Human Resources Administration Section is seeking individual consultants to provide short-term support to the data verification and cleansing project.

This will involve:

• Document management including tagging, refiling and archiving of electronic HR documents
• Review existing electronic filing conventions and structures of UNICEF staff
• Assign electronic documents related to HR requests into appropriate electronic filing categories
• Apply provisions of correct naming and/or filing methods to archive pending HR documents
• Monitor the number of processed documents and report any irregularities to the appropriate management

As an advocate for every child, you will have…

• Completed secondary degree (i.e. high school diploma)
• Previous experience in human resources, office, and administrative support or in related fields
• Intermediate knowledge in the Microsoft Suite of Products (including MS Word, MS Excel)
• Fluency in English (verbal and written) is required.
• Knowledge of an additional UN Language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish) is desirable.

Location and Duration

• This individual consultancy will be performed on UNICEF Premises in Budapest, Hungary.
• The duration of this assignment is 6 months. 
• Interested candidates must be available to take up the assignment by December 2017 or January 2018.

Terms and conditions of the assignment

Successful candidates will be engaged with UNICEF as individual consultants. Individual consultants are not staff members of UNICEF and are considered external candidates when applying for UNICEF vacancies during, or after engagement in this short-term assignment. Individual consultants will receive remuneration for the verified output (i.e. days worked) and will not be eligible to participate in UNICEF’s social security benefits such as insurance, pension, paid sick leave or annual leave.  

Anticipated monthly remuneration for this assignment will be HUF 323,000 as will be determined by GSSC UNICEF.

UNICEF undertakes no liability for taxes, duty or other contribution payable by the consultant on payments made under this contract.
All applications to UNICEF are required to be submitted through UNICEF's online recruiting system.  All applications should be in English.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified candidates from all backgrounds to apply.