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Project Assistant NPSA-5 in Damascus

Syria

Opportunity Deadline

27/01/2024

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Job Description

Fresh
  • Country: Damascus, Syria
  • No of vacancies: N/A
  • Salary: N/A 
  • Organization: UNDP
  • Gender: Both
  • Deadline: 2024-01-27

Duties and Responsibilities

Support the project team to ensure effective project planning and implementation. 

  • Assist in compiling and summarizing information and data for the formulation of project work plans. In consultation with project team, draft annual/quarterly budgets, proposals on implementation arrangements, and on other specific project related topics or issues.
  • Support project implementation in accordance with the project documents, annual work plans and other agreements between UNDP and responsible partners. Review project documents for completeness and compliance with relevant rules and procedures and identify inconsistencies for referral to supervisor. Compile, summarize and present basic information/data on a specific project and related topics or issues;
  • Follow up on performance indicators/success criteria, targets and milestones, preperation of field reports
  • Provide administrative and logistical support to ensure successful project delivery that includes organization/coordination of project events, procurement and finance-related activities, contract management, recruitment, and coordination of field visits and project-related missions.
  • Provide support in the archiving, management and maintenance of project files (soft and hard copies) and ensure easy reference. As well as procide support in maintaing information and updating databases.
  • Provide administrative and logistical support for different projects including HLP ensuring all reports and activities comply with donor requirements.

Support partnerships and resource mobilization. 

  • Establish and maintain contacts and cooperation with the relevant UN Agencies, government institutions, and other partners and relevant stakeholders.
  • Support regular communication with partners, project counterparts, stakeholders, and beneficiaries.
  • Support dissemination of high-quality information and visibility of the project activities among the stakeholders. Design and provide visibility products such as reports and presentations.
  • Assist project team in identifying and gathering information on opportunities for resource mobilization.

Provide support to the effective monitoring, evaluation, and reporting on progress of project implementation.

  • Support implementation of the project monitoring system in alignment with its Monitoring and Evaluation framework to facilitate effective information sharing on project status and achievement of targets.
  • Collect, analyze and present information for monitoring and evaluation of project implementation against project targets as well as for audit purposes. Assist team in the design and conduct of internal evaluations and surveys. Identify gaps in implementation and provide support in bridging those gaps in consultation with supervisor and partners.
  • Support the organization of progress meetings, field, and study visits to monitor project implementation and support organization of workshops, roundtables, and conferences within the project.
  • Support the preparation of weekly, quarterly, annual, and other requested project reports in line with monitoring and reporting guidelines and donor requirements.

 

Support knowledge building and knowledge sharing relevant to the assigned project. 

  • Participate in training on internal procedures for the project staff and provide support to the organization of training and other capacity building activities as needed.
  • Make sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice.
  • Maintain organized records of project data, field activities, case studies, human-interest stories, photographs, and other relevant documents that can be drawn upon in support of knowledge sharing and advocacy.

 

The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.

 

Competencies

Core Competencies

  • Achieve Results: LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline.
  • Think Innovatively: LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements.
  • Learn Continuously: LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback.
  • Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible.
  • Act With Determination: LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident.
  • Engage and Partner: LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships.
  • Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination.

Cross-Functional & Technical Competencies

  • Knowledge Generation: Ability to research and turn information into useful knowledge, relevant for context, or responsive to a stated need.
  • Customer Satisfaction/Client Management: Ability to respond timely and appropriately with a sense of urgency, provide consistent solutions, and deliver timely and quality results and/or solutions to fulfil and understand the real customers’ needs. Provide inputs to the development of customer service strategy. Look for ways to add value beyond clients’ immediate requests. Ability to anticipate client’s upcoming needs and concerns.
  • Project Management: Ability to plan, organize, prioritize and control resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals
  • Risk Management: Ability to identify and organize action around mitigating and proactively managing risks.
  • Result Based Management: Ability to manage programmes and projects with a focus on improved performance and demonstrable results.
  • Budget Management: Ability to support budgetary aspects of work planning process, drawing and management of team budgets.
  • Contract Management: Knowledge of contract management concepts, principles and methods, and ability to apply this to strategic and/or practical situations.
Required Skills and Experience

Education:

  • Secondary education is required, or
  • University Degree will be given due consideration, but it is not a requirement.

Experience:

  • Minimum of 5 years (with high school diploma) or 2 years (with bachelor’s degree) of progressively responsible administrative or project experience is required.
  • Experience in the use of computers, office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and web-based management systems, and advanced knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages is required.
  • Previous experience in innovative designs, developing communications material is desirable.
  • Knowledge of procurement procedures of national / international organizations is highly desirable.
  • Good administrative experience and Event Management is desired
  • Previous experience in arranging meetings and preparing the minutes is desirable
  • Previous experience preparing reports is desirable
  • Previous working experience in the humanitarian field (UN, NGO, INGO) is an asset

Languages Requirements:

  • Fluency in English and Arabic is required.

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