Economic Commission for Africa ACS/Program Assistant Jobs in Ethiopia

Economic Commission for Africa ACS/Program Assistant Jobs in Ethiopia; The program assistant should be able to support the project coordination officer, the project technical staff and program manager with all aspects of administration of the project ensuring that the engagement of nonkey experts, logistics and financial requirements of the projects among other things are in order.

The successful candidate will support the staff of the African Centre for Statistics of ECA and the non-key experts to ensure the successful completion of verification studies, finalizing the reports within the 28-day cycle set forth by the project; including organizing meetings and related activities as may be assigned.

Duties and Responsibilities Working with the programme management officer and the project coordinating officer under the oversight of the Chief of the Statistics Data Development, Innovation and Outreach Section (SDDIOS)-Africa Centre for Statistics,

The program assistant will:

1. Support the day-to-day management, operation and monitoring of the project.

2. Support the drafting of the work plan for each verification period including updating and finalizing them prior to the verification of results.

3. Support in following up the draft verification reports based on set of protocols as advised by ACS Staff, PCO, and PMO.

4. Support the engagement of non-key experts including drafting and finalizing the TOR for uploading in the system following UN protocols including seeking the necessary internal and external approvals

5. Support the travel arrangement of staff and non-key experts including accommodations and flight itineraries including the settlements (expense reports, outputs/reports relative to consultant’s claim/s)

6. Draft email and communications, as may be required

for the project.

7. Support in organizing meetings and activities under the project and/or the ACS including but not limited to calling for meetings, writing meeting notes/highlights, following-up deliverables, providing materials to RPCU (upon discussion with PCO/PMO);

8. Create data visualizations for the ECA Statistical Information System;

9. Develop data validation, cleaning, and modelling scripts using data science techniques.

10. Participate in the development of data pipelines.

11. Assist in the technical documentation of innovative data systems; and

12. Perform other duties as may be required by the division, PCO, PMO, staff and experts/consultants, from time to time.

Qualifications/special skills

High school Diploma is required A minimum of five (7) years of progressive work experience in program management/assistance or related fields is required Past work experience with the intergovernmental organization is desirable.

Languages

English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this opening advertised, fluency in written and spoken English is required. Knowledge of the other language is an advantage.

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; Economic Commission for Africa ACS/Program Assistant Jobs in Ethiopia

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