Project Assistant

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Mission and objectives

As the United Nations lead agency on international development, UNDP works in 170 countries and territories to eradicate poverty and reduce inequality. We help countries to develop policies, leadership skills, partnering abilities, institutional capabilities, and to build resilience to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Our work is concentrated in three focus areas; sustainable development, democratic governance and peacebuilding, and climate and disaster resilience.
UNDP’s mandate is to end poverty, build democratic governance, rule of law, and inclusive institutions. We advocate for change and connect countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life.

Context

UNDP has been long supporting the Government of Timor-Leste in fostering youth-led MSMEs. The initiative was sharpened in 2021 under the Supporting Employment and Entrepreneurship for Women and Youth (SEEWAY) Project and later was scaled up and sustained under the Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship Skills (YEES) Project from 2022-2027. To this date, UNDP has been supporting over 300 youth-led enterprises across the country in different sectors and value chains aligning with the government’s priority, such as in agriculture, tourism, and small industry. The youth entrepreneurs were supported through a series of business training and financial access, such as soft loans and grants through the Business Innovation Challenge.
The YEES project is focusing on producing two medium-term sub-outcomes: 1) youth become employed and 2) youth become entrepreneurs, which will contribute to UNSDCF/CPD outcome 2: By 2025, institutions and people throughout Timor-Leste in all their diversity, especially women and youth, benefit from sustainable economic opportunities and decent work to reduce poverty, with three interrelated outputs:
Output 1: Youth obtain skills, competencies, and knowledge to be employed.
Output 2: Service providers are available to deliver holistic support to enhance employability.
Output 3: Youth, including migrants/returnees, obtain skills, knowledge, and services to start or expand their business.
In order to achieve outputs 1 & 2, the YEES Project will deliver numerous activities to enhance the employability of youth and to foster an enabling environment to facilitate the match-making between job seekers and job providers. Against this backdrop, the YEES Project will hire a Youth Employment Associate to oversee and facilitate project activities related to increasing the capacity of Timorese youth to be employed and encouraging service providers to deliver holistic support to raise employability.

Task description

Under the guidance and direct supervision of the Project Manager, the Youth Employment Assistant will perform assignments as below but not limited to:
• Support in implementing the activities to enhance employment access to Timorese youth, such as internships, soft skills training, career counseling, job fairs, etc.
• Provide logistical support in organizing events, workshops, training courses/ field visits when it is required.
• Providing on-site support in training related to the area of work.
• Collecting and managing results data of the project.
• Support in developing communication materials for the project.
• Sharing lessons learned and knowledge with relevant project and country office staff.
• Support project/program by taking meetings and interview minutes when required.
• Support payment requests for facilitating events including training.
• Contributing to a diverse, inclusive, respectful, and positive working environment.
• Other administrative related task