Programme Support Assistant

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This is a UNV National Specialist contract. This kind of contract is known as National UN Volunteer. It is normally only for nationals. More about UNV National Specialist contracts.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN’s global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life, as envisaged by 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. We are on the ground in more than 170 countries and territories, working with governments and people on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and our wide range of partners that can bring about results.

UNDP is a founding cosponsor of the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), a partner of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, and a co-sponsor of several other international health partnerships. UNDP’s work on HIV, health and development, as described in the HIV, Health and Development Strategy 2016-2021: Connecting the Dots, leverages UNDP’s core strengths and mandates in human development, governance and capacity development to complement the efforts of specialist health-focused UN agencies. UNDP delivers three types of support to countries in HIV, health and development.

First, UNDP helps countries to mainstream attention to HIV and health into action on gender, poverty and the broader effort to achieve and sustain the Sustainable Development Goals. Second, UNDP works with partners to address the interactions between governance, human rights and health responses. Third, as a trusted, long-term partner with extensive operational experience, UNDP supports countries in effective implementation of complex, multilateral and multisectoral health projects, while simultaneously investing in capacity development so that national and local partners can assume these responsibilities over time, completed in partnership with the Global Fund.

The UNDP/Global Fund partnership is an important part of this work, facilitating access to resources for action on SDG 3 by countries that face constraints in directly receiving and managing such funding. UNDP partners with countries in crisis/post-crisis situations, those with weak institutional capacity or governance challenges, and countries under sanctions. When requested, UNDP acts as temporary Principal Recipient in these settings, working with national partners and the Global Fund to improve management, implementation and oversight of Global Fund grants, while simultaneously developing national capacity to be able to assume the Principal Recipient role over time.

In Egypt, the UNDP Country Office serves as the Principal Recipient for the Global Fund HIV/TB grant, which provides a comprehensive package of prevention services to key populations and seeks to increase testing and linkages to care for people living with HIV and TB, including multi-drug resistant TB. The programme also includes funds for COVID-19 response and recovery. UNDP implements the programme in close collaboration and coordination with the National AIDS Program, the National TB Program, Civil Society Organizations and UN partners.

The incumbent will work in close collaboration with the Global Fund Programme Management Analyst, UNDP CO, and operations staff of the Sub Recipients, to successfully deliver programme and administrative services.

Under the direct supervision of PMU – Programme Management Analyst, and general Supervision of the PMU- Programme Manager the Programme Support Assistant will:

• Provide logistical support with trainings organization and throughout the trainings conducted in coordination with MOHP. • Collecting needed documents from the training participants including (Supplier form, ID copies and bank letters.... etc.) • Distributing transportation fees in some events as may be needed and prepare the required settlements documents. • Collecting needed training materials from counterparts and ensure the completion of the training file according to the checklist. • Review the received direct payment requests and ensure that all supporting documents are adequate and complete.
• Process manual day-to-day invoices and follow up on the payment release. • Follow-up on with the Global fund sub-recipients working with advances modality on the timely submission of the required financial reports along with their supporting documents. • Conduct an initial review for the financial supporting documents received from the NGOs and ensure its completion and consistency as well as the present of the required bank statements. • Manage project’s financial filling. • Any other related tasks as may be required or assigned by the supervisor.

• Results/Expected Outputs:

• Enabling the Global fund implementation team PMU to better support the MOHP in the implementation. • Achieving a good delivery rate for 2024/25 implementation period. • Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD) perspective is systematically applied, integrated and documented in all activities throughout the assignment. • A final statement of achievements towards volunteerism for peace and development during the assignment, such as reporting on the number of volunteers mobilized, activities participated in and capacities developed.

Accountability, Adaptability and Flexibility, Client Orientation, Communication, Managing Performance, Planning and Organizing, Professionalism, Technological Awareness, Working in Teams

• Active, committed and have high organization skill; • Ability to plan and organize work with minimal supervision; • Motivated to contribute towards peace and development and to serve others; • Good interpersonal, networking and communication skills; • Willingness to contribute and work as part of a team; • Flexible and open to learning and new experiences; • Respect for diversity and adaptability to other cultures, environments and living conditions; • Previous experience as a volunteer and/or experience of another culture, (i.e. studies, volunteer work, internship) would be highly regarded; • Computer skills (i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, social media, and others).

Cairo, Egypt is a family duty station with a wide range of services (health, education and leisure) and good living conditions. Cairo (and Egypt) has long been a center of the region’s political and cultural life, with high levels of tourism. Like other similar cities, Cairo offers good quality of life in terms of access to shopping centres, banks, medical services, educational facilities, cultural events, etc.

The Arab Republic of Egypt has a unique geographical position in Northeast Africa, at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, on the Mediterranean and Red Sea, and its connection to Sub Saharan Africa through the Nile Valley. The country is defined by desert and the Nile, the longest river on Earth.

Youth UN Volunteer gets the following package: • Volunteer Living Allowance (around EGP 51,000Month) • Entry Lump-Sum = USD 400 (one-time payment paid in EGP) • Exit Lump-Sum upon completion of contract. • Medical and life Insurance premium/Cigna (100%) and dependents policy. • Access to UNV E-Campus for training and learning including access to LinkedIn learning.

Further entitlements and information available at: https://www.unv.org/volunteer-your-country-conditions-service

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