Operations Assistant

tendersglobal.net

Job Description

The Global Environment Facility (GEF8) approved the Expression of Interest (EOI) of the project entitled “Transforming Agricultural Landscapes in Island Ecosystems and Key Biodiversity Areas towards Sustainable Food Systems and Climate Resilient Communities” under the Food Systems Integrated Program (FS-IP). The project aims to improve the ecosystem health and transform food systems to deliver multiple environmental and social benefits through the following components: (i) enhancing the enabling environment for climate-resilient and sustainable food and landscape management systems, including the dynamic conservation of biodiversity for food and agriculture; (ii) enabling integrated landscape management to sustain food systems and deliver GEBs; (iii) strengthening capacities promoting investment in sustainable and climate resilient food production practices, and improved value chains ; and (iv) promoting learning, knowledge management and monitoring and evaluation for sustainable landscapes management and biodiversity conservation.
Tasks and responsibilities:

Provide organizational, operational, and logistical support to the PPG team.
Assist the PPG team in the organization of project activities, meetings and events, as well as travel arrangements.
Assist the team in the timely delivery of PPG operations in line with project work plan.
Participate in the implementation of PPG activities in consultation with the PPG team, government counterparts, and project stakeholders.
Assist in preparing meeting minutes, presentation materials and project reports.
Provide assistance to the National Project Document Coordinator in coordinating PPG activities with the government partners and project stakeholders.
Liaise with the Administrative and Programme Unit of FAO Office in the Philippines on relevant concerns related to PPG implementation (i.e., budget preparation, financial control and management, travel/logistics operations, missions, operational backstopping in the field)
Supervise all admin and finance related matters of PPG activities, in consultation with the National Project Document Coordinator
Carry out any other relevant duties within his/her technical competence as may be requested by FAO.

Candidates Will Be Assessed Against The Following:
Minimum Requirements:

University degree in environmental science, natural resource management or related field.
At least four (4) years of professional experience in coordinating and providing assistance in the development and/ or implementation of multifocal environmental project design and management, such as GEF.
Working knowledge of English
National of Philippines

Technical/Functional Skills:

Excellent written and oral communication skills in English

Source: https://jobs.fao.org/careersection/fao_external/jobdetail.ftl?job=2303875

To help us track our recruitment effort, please indicate in your cover/motivation letter where (tendersglobal.net) you saw this job posting.

Next View Vacancy - Deputy Programme Manager - Regional Stability Programme, Grade HEO, Islamabad »

Previous « Associate Country Economist

Operations Assistant

Job Description

Platform engineer (H/F)

Procurement of Fast Payment System (FPS)

View Vacancy – JPN (Tokyo) – Head of Marketing, SEO

Assistant.e Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL)

People and Culture Assistant (Data Analytics), GS5 (Post # 113055), People & Learning Section, UNICEF Global Shared Services Centre, Budapest, Hungary