Office Assistant

Job Posting: 16/Apr/2025

Closure Date: 30/Apr/2025, 4:59:00 PM

Organizational Unit: OCB - Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment

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: 2009184

CCOG Code: 2101

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- Staff in the General Service category are recruited locally from the Primary Location area, which is where the office is located._
- **FAO is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality, background and culture**:

- **Qualified female applicants, qualified nationals of non-and under-represented Members and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply**:

- **Everyone who works for FAO is required to adhere to the highest standards of integrity and professional conduct, and to uphold FAO's values**:

- **FAO, as a Specialized Agency of the United Nations, has a zero-tolerance policy for conduct that is incompatible with its status, objectives and mandate, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination**:

- FAO’s commitment to environmental sustainability is integral to our strategic objectives and operations._

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) contributes to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda through the FAO Strategic Framework by supporting the transformation to MORE efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems, for _better production_, _better nutrition_, _a _better environment,_ and _a better life_, leaving no one behind.

**Organizational Setting**

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) contributes to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda through the FAO Strategic Framework by supporting the transformation to MORE efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems, for better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and a better life, leaving no one behind.
FAO's commitment to environmental sustainability is integral to our strategic objectives and operations.
The Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment (OCB) works to ensure that countries and stakeholders respond to the challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation. OCB provides a cross organizational coordination role on issues related to climate change, biodiversity and the environment and is the focal point to major multilateral environmental agreements including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conferences (UNFCCC), and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The Office also assists FAO Members in their responses towards the interlinked challenges of food security, climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental degradation including through facilitating access to climate and environmental financing (such as the GEF (Global Environment Facility) and the GCF (Green Climate Fund)). In addition, OCB hosts the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) Programme, the Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture as well as FAO's work on environmental safeguards.
FAO is one of the 18 Global Environment Facility (GEF) Agencies. GEF is a financing mechanism for five international environmental conventions: Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Minamata Convention on Mercury, the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. The GEF is one of the oldest “vertical funds”. FAO's GEF Coordination Unit (GCU), based within OCB, assists Members in developing and implementing projects for financing through the GEF Trust Fund, the Least Developed Countries Fund (LCDF), the Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) and the Global Biodiversity Framework Fund (GBFF). In recent years, the FAO-GEF portfolio has grown rapidly to more than 270 projects valued at USD 1.7 billion in grant financing.

The successful mobilization of GEF project resources requires further strengthening of the management of these resources. This applies to both GEF project resources, to ensure that FAO can also deliver the GEF portfolio and GEF agency fee resources, needed for FAO as key resources to carry out its portfolio oversight role. According to the agreements signed with GEF, FAO, as a GEF Agency, is responsible for ensuring consistency with GEF operational policies and procedures and administering and managing the resources. The GCU's liaison role between the GEF Trustee and the countries and technical units involves robust management (fees) and oversight (project grants) of the available GEF resource