Programme Assistant

Job Posting: 12/Nov/2024

Closure Date: 03/Dec/2024, 4:59:00 PM

Organizational Unit: OER

Job Type: Staff position

Type of Requisition: General Service

Grade Level: G-4

Primary Location: Italy-Rome

Duration: Fixed-term: one year with possibility of extension

Post Number: 0418471

CCOG Code: 2102b

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**Organizational Setting**

The Office of Emergencies and Resilience (OER) is responsible for ensuring FAO's efforts to support countries and partners in preparing for and effectively responding to food and agricultural threats and crises by i) increasing the numbers of people reached in Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) 3 and above; and ii) increasing the numbers of people supported to move out of IPC 3 and above from a humanitarian caseload onto pathways of resilience and development.

FAO has mainstreamed a humanitarian, development, peace nexus approach and a localization agenda throughout its strategic positioning and programmatic design and implementation at country and regional levels. In this organizational setting, OER is responsible for coordinating the development and maintenance of corporate tools and standards to enable Decentralized Offices (DOs) to assist Members to prepare for and respond to emergencies as well as strengthen capacities of national and subnational institutions and partners for resilience and risk-informed development. OER ensures humanitarian policy coordination and knowledge, liaison with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee as well as with humanitarian resource partners, co-leadership with World Food Programme of the global Food Security Cluster, organizational preparedness, surge capacity and response to large-scale emergencies. OER supports food and nutrition security and sectoral/systems assessments, early warning activities related to emergency and humanitarian analysis and responses. OER plays a major role in the development and leadership of the Organization's programme to increase the resilience of livelihoods to food and agriculture threats and crises of the Organization's programme in areas such as risk governance and coordination, anticipatory actions, disaster risk reduction, early warning and response in agriculture and food chain crises.

The post is located in the Office of Emergencies and Resilience (OER) at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy.

**Main Purpose**
The Programme Assistant performs a wide range of routine administrative and financial functions in support of the delivery of the organizational unit's programme and projects.

**Supervision Received/Exercised**

The Programme Assistant reports to the Senior Emergency and Rehabilitation Officer/Management Support and Compliance Team Leader and receives guidance from the Programme Associates in the Management Support Team.

He/she acts independently in routine matters. Supervision received is focused on the quality of the work performed and provides for on-the-job learning.

**Working Relationships**

The Programme Assistant interacts with a wide variety of colleagues within the work unit and with immediate clients within the Organization, providing routine administrative and financial services.

**Key Functions/Results**
- Collect and compile data on programme and or project activities to support reporting and delivery.
- Initiate and follow up on administrative and financial actions related to staff management, affiliate workforce support, travel, payments, etc.
- Review and prepare routine documentation and correspondence related to assigned procurement actions.
- Provide information on programme and/or