Senior Inter-Agency Coordination Assistant - GS5 - UNOPS - BEY011 - JR2315335

Senior Inter-Agency Coordination Assistant Organizational Setting and Work Relationships The Senior Inter-Agency Coordination Assistant normally reports to a higher grade local or international Inter-Agency position. The incumbent will provide administrative and organisational support to the Inter-Agency Unit and will liaise with other UN Agencies, NGOs and other partners of UNHCR as well as other units in the operation as necessary. S/he may be tasked to draft meeting minutes and reports. All UNHCR staff members are accountable to perform their duties as reflected in their job description. They do so within their delegated authorities, in line with the regulatory framework of UNHCR which includes the UN Charter, UN Staff Regulations and Rules, UNHCR Policies and Administrative Instructions as well as relevant accountability frameworks. In addition, staff members are required to discharge their responsibilities in a manner consistent with the core, functional, cross-functional and managerial competencies and UNHCR's core values of professionalism, integrity and respect for diversity.

Duties

• Provide secretarial support to the Inter-Agency unit and sector working groups, including drafting and reviewing meeting minutes, keeping recipients' list updated, drafting support materials for meetings, organize and provide logistic support including transportation and translation support, disseminate relevant information to an external audience, etc.
• Support the sector coordinators in drafting guidelines, strategies and other documents. - Participate in relevant meetings or events at national level as requested and provide relevant verbal and written feedback on issues of relevance for inter-agency and inter-sector processes.
• Liaise with partners as requested.
• Participate in field level meetings as required and update the sector coordinator on discussions and relevant developments.
• Support the Inter-Agency Coordinators in ensuring good communication between the working groups in the field and the national working groups through regular contacts with the field.
• Support the coordinators in mapping and other exercises, in cooperation with the information management colleagues.
• Liaise with the information management colleagues for sector updates, checking consistency, providing documents to be posted etc.
• Support the sector coordinators in the review and extraction of the reporting of sector partners on activity info.
• Translate relevant documents, articles, legal texts as required.
• Support other Inter-Agency functions, including: collecting and disseminating weekly schedules and work plans, organize and maintain IA calendar and other coordination tools, support outreach to partners on issues such as financial tracking, follow up with field offices on weekly distribution schedules and attend IA meetings and/or specific working groups where relevant (including minute taking), etc.
• Draft reports for clearance by the supervisor.
• Organise coordination meetings.
• Gather and analyse information from UNHCR, partners and media.
• Perform other related duties as required.