Administrative Associate G6 (Temporary Appointment)

Joining UNHCR means serving refugees and other displaced populations, ensuring their protection, and seeking adequate solutions for their situation. It also means living, sharing, and promoting the organization’s core values relating to inclusion, diversity, and gender equality. 

We offer careers, not just jobs, and take pride in going the extra mile to serve people in need. Every day, our teams use their skills to find innovative, long-lasting solutions that better support the people we serve. UNHCR offers a variety of local short-term and fixed-term contracts through which you can make a positive difference in refugees’ lives. 

Dreaming of a career within the UN system? 

UNHCR is seeking to hire motivated candidates for the Administrative Associate G6 role at the in Galati, Romania to support the section. These opportunities are excellent steppingstones for UNHCR and the UN system. 

Administrative Associate G6 (Temporary Appointment) 

Salary 

A competitive tax-exempted salary. For more information, you may wish to visit the UNDP Public Website.  

Benefits                                                  

Family allowances 

Depending on your contract type, you may be entitled to family allowances, including dependency allowances if you have an eligible dependent spouse and/or child(ren) and, under certain conditions. 

Holidays and leave 

Depending on your contract type, you will be entitled to 18 to 30 days of vacation per year. In addition, staff members have the option to take periods of Uncertified Sick Leave for up to 7 working days during an annual leave cycle for non-certified medical issues and/or family-related reasons. 

Maternity, paternity, adoption 

Staff members of any gender or sex can benefit from parental leave entitlements, regardless of how they become parents. This includes mothers, fathers, parents via surrogacy or adoption, and primary and secondary caregivers 

Tax exemption 

Salaries, grants, and allowances paid by the United Nations to staff are normally exempt from income tax. 

Health insurance 

Staff is eligible to participate in one of the United Nations-sponsored medical insurance plans, which include dental insurance. The monthly premiums are co-shared by yourself and the Organization. 

Retirement pension 

If you have a staff appointment of six months or more or complete six months of service without interruption, you become a participant in the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund. A compulsory contribution will be deducted from your monthly salary. 

Career Support 

Our career management, learning, performance management, and mobility programs ensure that staff is well equipped to advance in their careers. 

Join UNHCR and be part of our strong team, comprised of committed and engaged individuals from diverse nationalities, cultures, languages, and backgrounds. We seek to sustain and strengthen this diversity by upholding an inclusive working environment without distinction on the grounds of race, colour, sex, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and gender identity. 

 

• Assist the supervisor in the provision of resources (human, material, and services) necessary to support the day-to-day activities of the staff in the office. 

• Assist the supervisor in ensuring the UNHCR Office premises provide a healthy, safe, and respectful working environment. 

• Provide administrative support in the areas of finance, administrative and human resources as well as up to date and accurate data and records in MSRP and other systems. 

• Provide interpretation of administrative rules, regulations, and procedures. Perform personnel work including processing of entitlement, issuance of contracts maintenance of various personnel records and files. 

• Assist in the recruitment of General Service staff for non-specialized work including evaluating candidate applications, administering recruitment exams if applicable, conducting preliminary interviews of candidates; assign General Service staff to meet work requirements. 

• Collect information and assist in conduct of surveys on local cost of living, daily subsistence allowance criteria, local salaries for office and servicing staff, house rentals. 

• Brief international personnel on general administrative matters relating to visas, licenses, security; provide advice and ensure administrative support as required. 

• Arrange for and/or attend meetings on day-to-day administrative matters, participate in discussions of new or revised procedures and practices, interpret, and assess the impact of changes and make recommendations for follow-up action. 

• Prepare, on own initiative, correspondence, reports, evaluations and justifications, as required, on general administrative or specialized tasks which may be of a confidential nature within the assigned area of responsibility. 

• Assist in the preparation of office budgets applicable to staff and servicing costs and maintain necessary budgetary control records. 

• In addition to general administration responsibilities, may also supervise directly or indirectly, activities concerned with office and grounds maintenance, security, transport, and similar services. 

• Arrange for requisition of office supplies and equipment and arrange for control of distribution and maintenance of appropriate inventory records.