Administrative Associate, (GS-6), #566275, Quito, Ecuador [Fixed Term]

  • Contract
  • Ecuador
  • Posted 7 months ago

UNICEF works in a few of the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived youngsters. To avoid wasting their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.

Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each youngster, in all places, daily, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means hand over.

For each youngster, training

UNICEF Ecuador Nation Programme (2023-2026) is aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Improvement Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) 2023-2026. The imaginative and prescient of the Ecuador Nation Programme of Cooperation is that youngsters and adolescents, each ladies and boys, particularly probably the most deprived, disadvantaged and hard-to-reach and people affected by crises, reside and take part in resilient communities, having fun with a protecting, nurturing and supportive atmosphere that permits them to unlock their full potential all through their lives. 

UNICEF Ecuador Nation Workplace helps the achievements of the nationwide growth plan in addition to the Sustainable Improvement Targets (SDGs) by our nation programme in Ecuador with interventions in Well being, Vitamin, Baby Safety, Schooling, Social Coverage, WASH and CEED. UNICEF Ecuador additionally leads on humanitarian response to the migrants and refugee disaster, pure disasters and violence. On account of these a number of shocks, vulnerabilities and exclusion, the CO prioritized subject presence in three provinces and three municipalities affected by the extended disaster of human mobility (humanitarian outposts) as a part of the CPD 2023-2026.

How will you make a distinction?

Below the supervision and steerage of the supervisor, the Administrative Affiliate is answerable for executing a broad number of procedural and specialised administrative duties for the respective part requiring in-depth data of UNICEF administrative procedures, processes and insurance policies.

Procurement

  • Guides managers within the means of PCA/SSAs according to the insurance policies and steerage issued by FRG, provide division and DHR.
  • Facilitates the processing of contracts for consultants and exterior companions that present a service to the part. This consists of getting ready and submitting paperwork, finishing vital varieties and templates, importing TOR’s in VISION, and making vital logistical preparations.
  • Maintains up-to-date vendor lists, companions, and advisor rosters.

Communications & Workflow

  • Facilitates the communications and workflow of the organizational unit to reinforce the effectivity and timeliness of operations and outputs.
  • Manages incoming and outgoing correspondence, e-mails and phone calls.
  • Communicates routine and a few non-routine data pertaining to the work of the staff.
  • Establishes and maintains the workplace submitting and reference programs, each conventional and digital; and ensures the inter/intra-net web sites are updated and correct.

Calendar/Conferences/Correspondence Administration

  • Maintains workplace calendar and arranges conferences
  • Takes minutes of conferences, guaranteeing accuracy, consideration to element and coherence.

 Occasions/Logistics

  • Helps capability growth actions and conferences by making the logistical preparations, by partaking with facilitators, caterers and hosts.
  • Arranges occasions by liaising with members over availability.
  • Liaises with price range focal factors and part over prices and desires.
  • Prepares background supplies for members and uploads cleared supplies on the intranet.
  • Prepares and maintains agendas on conferences and occasions associated to the work group commitments.

Journey

  • Gives journey help to workers members in part for journey preparations and entitlements primarily based on the group’s guidelines and insurance policies. Liaises with related journey focal factors to make sure that the group obtains the most effective service and worth for all journey.
  • Briefs/de-briefs workers members on points referring to associated administrative issues akin to visas, safety clearance, and documentation procedures. 
  • Extracts, inputs, maintains, and verifies correctness of journey information within the group’s journey system to make sure correct transactions associated to journey prices and workers journey.
  • Assists within the preparation of budgets on journey prices and keep journey plan and budgetary management information.
  • Displays journey certification and report again to the staff.

Bill Processing

  • Accountable for accumulating invoices and submitting paperwork for approval and thereafter processing in VISION.
  • Uploads digital information and verifies outcomes to vacation spot system.
  • Responds to consumer transaction standing and different inquiries.

Provides/Tools

  • Helps administration of administrative provides, workplace tools, and updating stock of things.
  • Displays and supervises ample and acceptable use of provides. Ensures that companies and upkeep of premises are in accordance with organizational requirements.
  • Arranges for the acquisition and well timed distribution of workplace provides.

To qualify as an advocate for each youngster you should have…

  • Completion of secondary training is required, ideally supplemented by technical or college programs associated to the sector of labor.
  • A minimal of six years of related skilled expertise in administrative or clerical work.
  • Growing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency is taken into account an asset.
  • Fluency in each Spanish and English are required. Information of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian) or an area language is an asset.

For each Baby, you show…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin all the pieces we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Constitution: UNICEF Values

 

UNICEF competencies required for this submit are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness (3) Drive to attain outcomes for impression (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others.

Through the recruitment course of, we take a look at candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its completely different ranges: competency framework here.

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our world workforce should replicate the variety of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or every other private attribute.
We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental depart, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and aims of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all youngsters. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and shall be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to supply further data to conduct a background test.

Remarks:

UNICEF’s energetic dedication in the direction of range and inclusion is important to ship the most effective outcomes for kids. For this place, eligible and appropriate female and male are inspired to use.

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the responsibility station, which shall be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are additionally topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Authorities workers which might be thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking over an task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the correct to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance isn’t obtained, or vital inoculation necessities will not be met, inside an affordable interval for any purpose.

Solely shortlisted candidates shall be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of.

Marketed: 29 Sep 2023 SA Pacific Commonplace Time
Deadline: 13 Oct 2023 SA Pacific Commonplace Time

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