Project Management Assistant

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Mission and objectives

UNDP is the UN's global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in some 170 countries and territories, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges as they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and our wide range of partners. Based in the middle of Europe, the UNDP Office in Geneva contributes to UNDP’s mission through serving as the UNDP Platform for Geneva and the Geneva-based organizations and as the primary point of contact with the governments of France and Switzerland.

Context

Within the context of SDG Financing, UNDP has launched the Sustainable Finance Hub, which is a finance and innovation platform that draws on a critical mass of UNDP expertise, initiatives, and partnerships to support the mobilization and leveraging of resources for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and lead the implementation of the new UNDP private sector strategy. As part of UNDP’s Sustainable Finance Hub, development finance has a central role to play in delivering support to the UN member-countries, in leveraging new sources of capital, offsetting high debt burdens, and in innovating for long term solutions to challenges around climate change, disaster resilience, and fragile ecosystems. The Connecting Business initiative (CBi) project was created by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 2016. CBi is dedicated to helping businesses around the world prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters by effectively engaging with the United Nations and the broader international humanitarian and development systems. CBi is a network of independent chambers of commerce, trade federations, business associations and private foundations that are ready, willing, and able to lead private sector disaster management in their countries. CBi empowers local businesses to work hand-in-hand with governments, civil society, humanitarian organizations and affected people to alleviate human suffering while building more resilient societies. CBi is jointly managed by OCHA and UNDP. For more information on CBi activities, please visit https://www.connectingbusiness.org/

Task description

The Project Management Assistant will work closely with the CBi Programme Coordinator to ensure successful management of the CBi programme, including by supporting strategic initiatives, work-planning, and evaluation and monitoring of progress. The Project Management Assistant will be responsible for assisting in the design and preparation of studies on humanitarian, disaster, emergency relief, and other related issues; researching, analyzing, and presenting information gathered from diverse sources on assigned topics/ issues; assisting with the preparation of various written documents; assisting in the maintenance of reference/resource information on specific topics or policy-related issues; providing support with the organization of meetings, seminars, conferences, work-shops, etc., and serving as note-taker to such events; maintaining awareness of current humanitarian affairs and related issues, to include relevant political, policy, gender considerations or other developments in specific subject area and/or country or region concerned and; performing other tasks requested by supervisor, as appropriate. The Project Management Assistant will also support coordination and implementation of project procurement, travel and HR tasks; compilation and maintenance of project records; supporting partnership development; and leading project reporting exercises and other related duties as may be required by the supervisor.