Senior Project Assistant UPD: vacancy is closed

Огляд

The OSCE Support Programme for Ukraine (SPU) has been established in order to continue to support the Ukrainian Government’s reform efforts and to mitigate the increased risks to civilians caused by the war against the country. The objective of the SPU - and therefore of all its projects - is to support Ukraine across all three OSCE dimensions on the government’s reform efforts and on the evolving risks to civilians caused by the war, thus ensuring that the OSCE’s work conducted over the past three decades and in the future, continues to impact positively the institutions and people of Ukraine and that Ukraine’s comprehensive security is enhanced in line with the OSCE commitments.

The incumbent works within the extra-budgetary (ExB) SPU project under the OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre (CPC) at the Secretariat (SEC), Human Security (HS) Component, and provides programmatic and administrative support in the implementation of the “Building Capacity of National Stakeholders to Provide Social and Psychological Support to Conflict-Affected People in Time of War and During Post-Conflict Recovery” project.

 

Обов'язки

Assisting in the implementation of projects:

• providing input on the prioritization of the projects’ portfolio in the respective area and drafting conceptual outlines of potential projects
• planning, organizing, coordinating, attending, and participating in specific activities such as seminars, roundtables, workshops, conferences, study trips, and training events in the framework of existing projects in the area of elections and local self-government
• communicating with government, international entities, and NGO counterparts on a regular basis to ensure the smooth implementation of projects activities
• planning and conducting meetings with NGOs, local authorities, and other international organizations if requested

Undertaking analysis of the project implementation and reporting on the project implementation status:

• monitoring the implementation of projects’ activities and providing the supervisor with project implementation progress reports and recommendations/conclusions
• drafting project-related reports, including narrative and financial reports
• assisting project implementation partners to achieve the planned results by providing general guidance and advice
• maintaining project documentation electronically and on physical file

Liaising with representatives of international entities in Ukraine, Ukrainian governmental institutions, NGOs, international and local experts, as well as OSCE institutions:

• participating in coordination meetings with other stakeholders
• participating in working group meetings of Ukrainian governmental partners and civil society organizations to generate project ideas
• updating the project contacts database

• raising Procurement Requests in IRMA, monitoring the projects’ implementation rates and spending patterns, and providing recommendations to improve financial planning and monitoring
• supervising other lower-level project staff, if required, and performing other related duties as assigned

Вимоги

• secondary education supplemented by formal training or studies in a field relevant to the Project
• minimum of 6 years of relevant working experience in the field of human security sector, political affairs, or democratization
• experience in project planning, implementation, and reporting
• knowledge of the latest political and social developments as well as priority issues on the reform agenda in Ukraine
• ability to conduct research and collect information from a variety of sources
• computer literacy with practical experience in Microsoft packages
• excellent written and oral communication skills in English and Ukrainian languages
• demonstrated gender awareness and sensitivity, with an ability to integrate a gender perspective into tasks and activities
• ability and willingness to work as a member of a team, with people of different cultural and religious backgrounds, different gender, and diverse political views, while maintaining impartiality and objectivity

Умови

• full-time position
• hybrid mode
• work in Kyiv, Ukraine
• monthly remuneration, subject to social security deduction, is USD 1,953 as per the relevant OSCE salary scale; the salary payment is effected in EUR
• social benefits will include participation in the Cigna medical insurance scheme and the OSCE Provident Fund
• alternative working arrangements are provisionally in place