Programme Management – Senior Assistant

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Description

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Responsibilities

• Contribute to day-to-day support to programme/project implementation and ensuring conformity to expected results, outputs, objectives and work-plans.
• Assist the National Coordinator (NC) in prescreening project concepts and project proposals, and evaluate the financial part of the project proposals.
• Assist the NC in development and revision of grant application forms and other management tools, requirements of the programme and other SGP documents.
• Advise potential grantees on project preparation processes and guidelines, and report to NC and NSC on project development activities, as required.
• Provide day-to-day support and guidance to new and ongoing projects and its grantees, as required.
• Assist the NC in project implementation,monitoring and evaluation, including participation in field visits.
• Support on organization and preparation of minutes of NSC meetings and other SGP events.
• Maintain contacts and professional working relationship with NGOs, governmental institutions, donors, other SGP stakeholders.
• Assist NC in reporting regularly to the Central Programme Management Team (CPMT), UNOPS and  United Nations Development Programme Country Office (UNDP CO), and assist NC in timely preparation of annual monitoring survey, and other CPMT / UNOPS surveys and reports as required.
• Draft memos and other operational documents on behalf of NC, and respond to queries on SGP programme matter.
• Regularly update and maintain SGP project database as well as stakeholders’ database.

Requirements:

• Advanced university degree (master’s or equivalent), preferably in Business Administration or an environmental science field with no relevant experience is desirable; OR 
• First-level university degree (undergraduate, bachelor, or equivalent), preferably in Business Administration or an environmental science field with one (1) year of relevant experience, will be considered an asset; OR
• Secondary school diploma (or high school equivalent) and five (5) years of relevant experience are required.
• Required Work Experience
• Relevant experience is defined as experience in office management, inlcuding financial reporting. 
• Fluency (read, write, speak) in the national official language, Malay, is required. 
• Fluency in English (read, write, speak) is required. 
• Knowledge of other UN Official languages will be considered as an asset.

Source: https://jobs.unops.org/Pages/ViewVacancy/VADetails.aspx?id=30365#2

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