E T Temporary - Program Assistant

World Bank Group - WBG

Consultant Closes 10 Jul 2026 2 days left

Overview

Provide administrative, operational, and logistical support to the HRDRE unit, ensuring smooth day-to-day coordination and effective delivery of team priorities.


Key Responsibilities
  • Provide direct administrative support to the HRDRE Manager, including calendar management, meeting coordination and prioritization, travel arrangements, logistics support, preparation of agendas, and follow-up on action items.
  • Coordinate and support regular unit meetings, including scheduling, preparing materials, tracking follow-up actions, and ensuring timely communication with relevant stakeholders.
  • Participate in weekly unit meetings and maintain regular coordination with the Manager to stay informed of team priorities, ongoing activities, and emerging support needs.
  • Provide logistical and administrative support for HRDRE initiatives, meetings, learning sessions, focus groups, retreats, and other events, including arranging virtual meeting platforms, room bookings, catering, materials, and related logistics.
  • Support onboarding activities for new hires and team members, including scheduling orientation meetings, coordinating logistics, preparing onboarding materials, and facilitating smooth integration into the unit.
  • Prepare, compile, and organize briefing materials, background notes, presentations, and other documents required for meetings, events, or management discussions.
  • Generate, track, and maintain purchase orders and other administrative transactions for unit-related expenditures, ensuring compliance with applicable WBG procurement, budget, and administrative procedures.
  • Support knowledge management across the unit by organizing, maintaining, and facilitating access to key documents, templates, guidance materials, presentations, and other shared resources.
  • Assist with editing, formatting, and quality-checking reports, presentations, correspondence, and other documents to ensure accuracy, consistency, and alignment with WBG/IFC standards.
  • Help monitor and follow up on pending administrative actions, deadlines, and deliverables to support timely completion of unit priorities.
  • Liaise with internal stakeholders, service providers, and other HR teams as needed to coordinate administrative, logistical, procurement, and operational matters.
  • Provide backup support to other HRDTM assistants and contribute to ad hoc assignments, special projects, and team-wide initiatives as requested.
Required Experience

Minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree is required.

Other Details
Languages Required
Fluency in written and spoken English, including ability to produce a variety of reports, presentations and correspondence and edit materials using proper formatting, grammar, punctuation, and style.
Languages Preferred
Command of other official languages is an advantage.
Contract Duration
1 year 0 months
Work Modality
Not specified
Remuneration
Not specified
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