Deadline: 18 March, 2021
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is seeking to fill the position of Programme Assistant, Knowledge Hub.
UNDP works in nearly 170 countries and territories, helping to achieve the eradication of poverty, and the reduction of inequalities and exclusion.
Responsibilities
- Provide daily support on timely execution of approved project workplans
- Ensure efficiency in travel arrangements for the team, as required, ensuring proper use of UNDP resources and client satisfaction
- Undertake and support project implementation and procurement activities according to UNDP workflows, including contracting consultants, institutional contracts and organisation of workshops and travel, processing of F10s, DSAs, etc
- Support the development, management and financial processes of various current and future agreements under different modalities, including, but not limited to, following necessary processes for the development of ToRs, recruitment stages, payments and disbursements, etc
- Maintain the internal expenditure control system including timely corrective actions on budget check errors, match exceptions, reversals, as well as cost-sharing deficit and PDR errors
- Create requisitions in Atlas for development projects, registration of goods receipt
- Undertake and keep track of budget checks for requisitions, POs and vouchers
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Public Administration, Economics, Political Science and/or Social Sciences, or a related field
- Two years, minimum, of relevant experience
- Knowledge and experience working in UNDP programme/project implementation processes as well as within UNDP operational structures
- Experience in the use of Atlas
- Proven knowledge and experience working with UNDP procurement and financial rules and regulation
- Excellent organisational skill and experience in handling of web-based management systems
- Experience in computer and MS Office packages, particularly Excel
- Work experience in overseeing administrative work and/or logistics support
- Fluency in written and spoken English
To apply and for more information, click here.
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