Overview
Provides substantive support to the Resident Coordinator and Head of Office on planning, coordination, and management of the UN Country Team. Assists with planning missions, preparing summaries, and ensuring follow-up activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide substantive support to the Resident Coordinator (RC) and Head of Office (Head of Resident Coordinator’s Office) on planning, coordination and management of UN Country Team.
- Assists with planning the Resident Coordinator’s missions, participates in relevant meetings, preparing notes for file, prepare written summaries and ensure follow-up activities, as appropriate.
- Analytically review information received by the Resident Coordinator and the management and identify priority matters that need to be urgently addressed, advising options.
- Draft and review substantive correspondence for the Resident Coordinator.
- Draft and clear briefing notes, speeches and talking points, including communication to inform UN Country Team meetings.
- Support Resident Coordinator's communication (both internal and external) efforts, in close collaboration with Resident Coordinator's Office Communications Officer and UN Communications Group.
- In close collaboration with the Resident Coordinator and Head of Resident Coordinator’s Office, facilitate communication and information flow between Resident Coordinator/Resident Coordinator's Office and UN Country Team; facilitate substantive preparation for UN Country Team and Country Management Team meetings, draft minutes, follow up on decisions.
- Support the Resident Coordinator's Office in data collection, reporting to Development Coordination Office and information sharing.
- Maintain the Resident Coordinator's Office shared drive, the shared calendar and Teams database.
- Collect, prepare and systematically update information material (fact sheets, backgrounders, data tables), briefings, and presentations, in coordination with the Head of Resident Coordinator’s Office.
- In close coordination with Resident Coordinator's Office Team Leader, contribute to UN Country Team reporting requirements within the UN System, following United Nations Sustainable Development Group’s guidelines and annual requirements.
- Contribute to the annual reporting cycle for the UN Coordination Framework/Country Implementation Plan in close cooperation with the UN Coordination Framework coordination structure.
- Support the coordination of the Resident Coordinator and Resident Coordinator's Office Work Plan, based on assessments and other identified priorities and strategies, under the guidance of the RC.
- Facilitate knowledge building, knowledge exchange and knowledge management for the UN Country Team and Resident Coordinator's Office.
- Support policy research and analyses and prepare analytical briefs in support of UUN Country Team’s strategic priorities and work plans.
- Support country programming processes and products, including the development and updating of the country level Common Country Analysis, joint programming and programmes communications, resource mobilization and reporting, in close coordination with Head of Resident Coordinator’s Office, Economist and Resident Coordinator's Office Partnership Specialist.
- Identify, analyze and monitor developments and emerging trends with respect to the implementation of the UN Country Team Micronesia’s mandate in the region and the UN Coordination Framework/ Country Implementation Plans.
- Participate in the development, implementation and evaluation of assigned programmes /projects, etc.; monitors and analyzes programme/project development and implementation and resource mobilization; reviews relevant documents and reports; identifies problems and issues to be addressed and proposes corrective actions; liaises with relevant parties; identifies and tracks follow-up actions.
Required Experience
- Minimum 3 years of relevant professional experience in coordination, programme support, or development cooperation.
- Experience with the United Nations or other international organizations is required.
- Experience in multi-country or regional coordination contexts is highly desirable (including UN Resident Coordinator Offices or similar mechanisms).
- Familiarity with the Pacific region is an asset.
Qualifications
Master's degree in social sciences, international relations, development studies, business or related field.
