United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Human Resources Assistant - Jobs in Ethiopia
Org. Setting and Reporting
ECA’s mission is to deliver ideas and actions for an empowered and transformed Africa; informed by the 2030 Agenda and Agenda 2063.
ECA’s mission is to deliver ideas and actions for an empowered and transformed Africa; informed by the 2030 Agenda and Agenda 2063. The mission will be guided by ECA’s five strategic directions which are advancing ECA’s position as a premier knowledge institution that builds on its unique position and privilege to bring global solutions to the continent’s problems and take local solutions to the continent; developing macroeconomic and structural policy options to accelerate economic diversification and job creation; designing and implementing innovative financing models for infrastructure, and for human, physical and social assets for a transforming Africa; contributing solutions to regional and transboundary challenges, with a focus on peace security and social inclusion as an important development nexus; advocating Africa’s position at the global level and developing regional responses as a contribution to global governance issues.
This position is in the Organisation Development Unit (ODU), Human Resources Management Section (HRMS), Division of Administration (DOA), United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). The Human Resources Assistant works under the direct supervision of a Human Resources Officer and the overall guidance of the Chief of the Organisation Development Unit.
Responsibilities
Within delegated authority, the Human Resources Assistant will be responsible for the following duties:
Learning and Development
•Provide administrative and coordination support in the delivery and evaluation of Training Programmes;
•Provide all required logistical support to training programmes, as well as to the facilitator and training participants;
•Following up and co-ordinate the overall administration of the training programmes, ensure timely submissions, compile courses, prepare announcements and guidelines, provide desk support to applicants;
•Compile and make available to staff, training manuals, multimedia visual aids, and other educational materials as appropriate;
•Prepare contracts, process payments and keep track of the financial budget/expenditure;
•Providing all forms of administrative and logistical support to clients, partners and stakeholders, undertake all related responsibilities such as collect post and pre-training assessment feedbacks, preparing and issuing certificates; keep database and provide disaggregated monthly data;
•Responding to inquiries from clients, staff members, stakeholders, partners on ODU matters and other related administrative details; and
•Receiving, assembling and transmitting requests from clients and stakeholders, evaluating and ensuring placement, maintaining applicants information and informing candidates accordingly.
Career Support, Staff Well Being and Change Management
•Provide support in the planning, development and implementation of training, meetings, conferences, and workshops;
•Assists in planning, organizing, developing and administering the staff well being programmes;
•Support the coordination, organisation and implementation of TOT programmes for Trainers/Staff members;
•Undertake effective communication and outreach to staff members and other clients; and
•Work with internal and external clients - responding to inquiries from clients, staff members, stakeholders, partners and other related administrative details.
Administrative and Logistical Activities
•Providing administrative and logistical support to the facilitators and assisting in the creation, maintenance and updating of a database of applicants, facilitators, students and other users; preparing routine correspondence concerning requests for ODU services pertaining to areas of responsibility;
•Performing administrative functions, preparing routine letters, and supporting recruitments/travel/payments of consultants, individual contractors, interns and others for ODU;
•Establishing and maintaining chronological files recruitment case files and policy/reference files;
•Assist
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