Programme Assistant

Job Title: Programme Assistant

Organization: United Nations Volunteers (UNV)

Host entity: UNDP

Assignment country: China

Expected start date: 23/10/2023

Sustainable Development Goal: 1. No poverty

Volunteer category: National UN Community Volunteer

Type: Onsite

Duration: 12 months (with possibility of extension)

Number of assignments: 1

Duty stations: Kunming

Details

Mission and objectives

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the United Nations' global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. It is on the ground in 177 countries, working on solutions to global and national development challenges. UNDP China assists China in developing its own solutions to the country’s development challenges and works to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by reducing poverty, strengthening the rule of law and democratic governance, and by promoting environmental sustainability and South-South Cooperation.

Context

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with its 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) and 169 targets outlines a grand blueprint for global development to 2030. The UN system fully adopted the SDGs as its compass, advocating and working towards an inclusive, just and green development. In September 2016, Chinese government issued The China’s National Plan on Implementation of the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development Goals. It sets up the principles of innovation-driven, coordinated-development, green-development, openness and inclusive-development to guide the implementation of the SDGs. To demonstrate how SDGs can be implemented locally in China, UNDP, China International Center for Economic and Technical Exchanges (CICETE), Women’s Federation of Yunnan Province and Yongren County Government jointly launched the project SDG Pilot Village: Women-focused Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development in July 2017. During 2017 to 2021, the Phase I of the project has made remarkable achievements on poverty reduction and women empowerment in Waipula Village, Yongren County, Yunnan Province. Based on the poverty alleviation progress of the Phase I, the project aims to further support Waipula Village to better achieve rural revitalization and women empowerment with integration of SDGs and Rural Revitalization Strategy in the new phase of three years. The Phase II of this project plans to integrate China’s national rural revitalization strategy with SDGs in order to achieve the following objectives: 1) accelerate entrepreneurship: enhance the capacity of villagers especially women in ecotourism development and raise their income; 2) pro-mote diversity and inclusion: inherit ethnic culture and empower women's development; 3) advance green development: protect natural environment and strengthen environmental awareness.

Task description

Under the primary supervision of the PMO director, the UN Volunteers will undertake the following tasks: • Daily coordination of the project implementation following the annual work plans, and ensure the activities are conformed to the project's expected results and outputs. • Provide technical support to event organization and capacity building activities in the Waipula Village. • Preparing and maintaining technical documents including event brief, project progress re-port, meeting minutes, etc. • Contributing to knowledge products development and communication outreaching • Assisting project monitoring and evaluation, internal and external assessment, sharing experience and lessons learned from project implementation. • Ensuring full compliance of project activities with NIM (National Implementation) policies, rules and regulations. • Responsible for regular communications with UNDP, CICETE and other partners. Furthermore, UNVs are encouraged to: • Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and taking an active part in UNV activities (for in-stance, IVD celebration events); • Get acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country; • Reflect on the type and quality of voluntary action that they are undertaking; • Contribute news and articles on field experiences and submit them to UNV publications/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc.; • Assist with the UNV Buddy Programme for newly arrived UNV volunteers; • Promote online volunteering and encourage individuals and organizations to use the UNV Online Volunteering Service whenever technically feasible. Results/Expected Output: The following outputs are expected: • Strengthened project management • Increased engagement in advocacy and awareness-raising activities • Appropriate data/file and knowledge product management maintained; • Strengthened partnerships with stakeholders

Eligibility criteria

Age

18 - 80

Nationality

Candidate must be a national or legal resident of the country of assignment.

Requirements

Required experience

No experience required

Area(s) of expertise

Development programmes

Driving license

-

Languages

Chinese, Level: Working knowledge, Required English, Level: Working knowledge, Required

Required education level

Bachelor degree or equivalent in Social Science, Tourism, Rural Development, Business Administration and related fields is highly preferred.

Competencies and values

☒ Accountability ☒ Adaptability and Flexibility ☒ Client Orientation ☒ Commitment and Motivation ☒ Communication ☒ Creativity ☒ Empowering Others ☒ Ethics and Values ☒ Knowledge Sharing ☒ Professionalism ☒ Self-Management ☒ Working in Teams

Other information

Living conditions and remarks

The duty station of the national UN Volunteer is located in Yongren County, Yunnan Province of China, where modest public infrastructure and basic health services are available. Conditions of Service for national UN Volunteers The National UN Volunteer receives a standard volunteer living allowance (VLA), which is intended to cover their accommodation and basic living expenses. In China the VLA is about RMB 4080.74 per month. The National UN Volunteer is entitled to an excellent health, life and disability insurance package. A modest Settling-in Grant and end of assignment allowance will also be provided, along with travel to and from the duty station. International travel to duty station will not be covered by UNV. The National UN Volunteer is entitled to 2.5 days personal leave per month and government official holidays.

Inclusivity statement

United Nations Volunteers is an equal opportunity programme that welcomes applications from qualified professionals. We are committed to achieving diversity in terms of gender, care protected characteristics. As part of their adherence to the values of UNV, all UN Volunteers commit themselves to combat any form of discrimination, and to promoting respect for human rights and individual dignity, without distinction of a person’s race, sex, gender identity, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, age, language, social origin or other status.

Note on Covid-19 vaccination requirements

Selected candidates for certain occupational groups may be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) in line with the applicable host entity policy

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