United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Country Office in Ukraine is seeking qualified professionals to fill in 2 vacant posts of Administrative Assistant/interpreter for its project “European Union Border Assistance Mission to Moldova and Ukraine”

TERMS OF REFERENCE

Project Title: EU Border Assistance Mission to Moldova and Ukraine

Post Title: Administrative Assistant/Interpreter

Contract type: Service Contract

Duty Station: Kuchurgan

Expected EOD: 1 December 2008

Work schedule: fulltime working week (40 hours), including night shifts

Duties and responsibilities:

Under direct supervision of the Head of Field Office the incumbent will discharge the following functions:

· Provides oral and written translations from English into Ukrainian or Russian and vice versa as required by the project;

· Assures smooth operational running of the project by means of following UNDP and EC established operational rules and procedures;

· Participates in project activities preparation, implementation and follow up;

· Provides logistical support (travel arrangements, including visas, tickets, etc.) to the project team;

· Facilitates the process of procurement and delivery of goods and services;

· Facilitates project audit, monitoring, evaluation, field visits, missions of the experts;

· Maintains updated networks of project counterparts, contractors, consultants and suppliers;

· Participates in data collection, analysis and maintenance of projects related files;

· Assures that the progress reporting is done in timely and quality manner based on the requirements of the UNDP and project donors;

· Maintains contacts with UNDP CO on a variety of the operational issues;

· Contributes to the preparation of the project bulletins, promotion materials and project web-site update;

· Facilitates project outreach/communication efforts;

· Prepares project related correspondence;

· Proofreads and/or edit the project’s correspondence and other official documents;

· Performs other functions/tasks when required.

Basic requirements for the incumbent:

• University degree, preferably in Linguistics with English being major specialisation;
• At least 3 years of progressive experience in project management, preferably in international environment;
• Excellent fluency (both oral and written) in the English, Ukrainian and Russian languages;
• Experience with technical assistance projects is an asset;
• Ability to work in team;
• Ability to work under continuous pressure and meet deadlines;
• Energetic optimistic approach to all possible problems;
• Strong computer skills.

Interested applicants shall submit their CVs and cover letters in English language to e-mail address: vacancies@eubam.org. Please indicate Admin. Assistant/Interpreter for Kuchurgan FO in the Subject line of your message. Please also mention the minimal salary level expected in your cover letter.

The closing date for applications is 30 October 2008. No telephone inquiries will be entertained. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

UNDP will use a transparent and competitive screening process, though will only contact those applicants in whom there is further interest. Qualified women are strongly encouraged to apply.