Administrative Associate

The Administrative Associate works in close collaboration with the Operations, Programme and Projects staff in the CO and other UN agencies staff to exchange information and ensure consistent service delivery. 

UNDP adopts a portfolio approach to accommodate changing business needs and leverage linkages across interventions to achieve its strategic goals. Therefore, UNDP personnel are expected to work across units, functions, teams, and projects in multidisciplinary teams in order to enhance and enable horizontal collaboration.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure Implementation of Operational Strategies in alignment with governing rules and regulations and with a focus on consistency and quality:
• Ensure full compliance of administrative activities with UN/UNDP rules, regulations, policies and strategies.
• Develop CO administrative business processes mapping and elaboration of the internal standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• Prepare administrative team results-oriented workplans.
• Elaborate proposals and implement cost saving and reduction strategies in consultations with office management.

Coordinate Asset Management in the Country Office:

• Prepare and submit periodic inventory and asset management reports, coordinate physical verification of inventory items.
• Ensure proper inventory control and supervise proper issuance of inventory items and supplies.

Provide support for effective administrative and financial control in the country office:

• Present thoroughly researched information for planning of financial resources for administrative services. Assist in the preparation of budget, audit and other reports; and provide researched information and reports for audit exercises.
• Implement the control mechanism for administrative services, maintain administrative control records such as commitments and expenditures, and ensure compliance with business continuity requirements.
• Review, research, verify and reconcile a variety of data and reports ensuring accuracy and conformance with administrative rules and regulations.
• Review of data integrity in the database, control programme; analyze results and initiate corrective actions when necessary.
• Review travel authorizations, documentation, payments
• Ensure proper planning and tracking of common services budget and of Agencies’ contributions to the common services account. information on administrative services provided for cost-recovery bills.

Ensure appropriate and required administrative and logistical support is provided to the Country Office:

• Coordinate the provision of reliable and quality office supplies.
• Coordinate and supervise shipments and customs clearance, travel, events management, administrative surveys, transportation services and insurance, space management, and procurement of supplies.
• Provide support for protocol matters, registration of staff, space, coordination with local authorities, and other administrative matters.
• Ensure maintenance of common services to ensure integrated of common services activities and implementation of the UN reform.

Facilitate knowledge building and sharing in the Country Office:

• Organize training for the operations/projects staff on administration.
• Provide sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice.

Supervisory/Managerial Responsibilities:

• Supervise Administrative Unit (support staff engaged in the fields of registry, general services, telephone operator/receptionist).

Education:

• Secondary education is required.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in business administration, public administration, or other relevant field will be given due consideration, but it is not a requirement.
• Certifications in Administration and Procurement is desirable.

Experience:

• Minimum 7 years (with Secondary education) or 4 years (with Bachelor’s degree) of relevant experience in administration or programme support service.

Required Skills:

• Experience in the use of computers, office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.), data packages, and web-based management systems such as ERP.

Languages:

• Fluency in English and Uzbek (written and spoken) is required.
• Good command in Russian is desirable.

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