Executive Board Associate

UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled.  UNFPA’s strategic plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices. These results capture our strategic commitments on accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recover lost gains and realize our goals.

In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical staff, who embody these international norms and standards, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.

UNFPA is seeking candidates that transform, inspire and deliver high impact and sustained results; we need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them and who commit to deliver excellence in programme results.

The Executive Board Associate (Admin and Conference Services) supports EBB with all administrative and finance activities, and provides support in coordination with the Executive Board Secretariat and Member States as needed. 

You would be responsible for:

• As Executive Board Associate (Admin and Conference Services) you would be responsible for the following:

 Provide administrative and financial support to EBB:

• Draft Branch annual and other work plans. Assist in the monitoring and reporting processes.
• Develop and maintain the Branch Results and Resources Plan.
• Liaise with DHR on the recruitment of consultants and interns to support the work of the Branch.
• Manage travel arrangements for the team.
• Review procurement requests and initiate procedures for office supplies and services transparently and cost-effectively.
• Create payments in AOdocs for Branch expenses; utilize QUANTUM to produce monthly reports on the financial status of the Branch.
• Ensure compliance with UNFPA administrative policies and procedures.

Provide support to Executive Board formal and informal sessions and other meetings:

• Undertake all logistical, administrative, and financial arrangements required for the organization and coordination of Executive Board formal and informal meetings, orientation workshops, inter-agency meetings, and other meetings organized by the Branch.
• Liaise with the UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS Executive Board Secretariat to schedule informal Board sessions and other meetings, and follow-up on different matters as needed. 
• Develop supporting documentation for formal and informal Executive Board sessions (i.e. develop, in consultation with the relevant business units, the Run-of-Show and the Chair Procedural Notes for the informal sessions, develop draft Procedural Notes for formal sessions, etc.).
• Draft messages and communications as needed.

Provide administrative support to the Chief, EBB:

• Support the Chief, EBB in their role as Secretariat of the Oversight Advisory Committee (i.e. scheduling meeting, collecting documents, etc.).
• Perform other activities as requested by the Chief, EBB.
• Backstop the Editorial Associate (Documentation and communications). To this end, the Editorial Associate will be trained as needed.

Qualifications and Experience: 

Education:  

• Completion of Secondary School Education with additional training in Finance, Procurement, Administration and Management.

Knowledge and Experience: 

• Six years of relevant administrative experience in the public or private sector;
• Ability to interpret rules, regulations and procedures and explain them clearly and concisely;
• Proficiency in use of spreadsheets, word processing and computerized accounting systems;
• Good writing and communications skills;
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Experience working with UN-related finance and HR regulations, rules, policies and procedures would be an asset.
• Experience working with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems such as Oracle Cloud ERP is desirable.

Languages: 

• Fluency in English; knowledge of other official UN languages, preferably French and/or Spanish, is desirable.

Source: https://www.unfpa.org/jobs/re-advertisement-executive-board-associate-admin-and-conference-services-executive-board