Senior Programme Assistant G5 (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 Senior Programme Assistant G5 role at the in Bucharest, Romania to support the section. These opportunities are excellent steppingstones for UNHCR and the UN system. 

 

Senior Programme Assistant G5 (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. 

• Provide administrative assistance and support in routine services and activities within Programme thus better able to meet the needs of persons of concern. 

• Assist in organizing and documenting the selection of partners in accordance with the policy on selection and retention of partners, ensuring due diligence to meet the requirements of projects. 

• Provide support to ensure partnership agreements are established in a timely manner, regularly monitored and reported on, and in compliance with established guidelines and procedures included in the framework for implementing with partners. 

• Guided by the MFT approach, support the development and implementation of monitoring plans for activities implemented through partnerships and those under direct implementation in line with Programme Manual and programming instructions. 

• Contribute to the review and analysis of operations plans, and mid-year and year-end reports, ensuring quality assurance and compliance with established policies, guidelines, procedures and standards. 

• Generate and maintain records of implementation rate (performance progress and expenditures) on a regular basis. 

• Assist in ensuring compliance with the issuance of audit certificates for partners in line with the Policy on Risk-Based Project Audits. 

• Actively contribute to UNHCRs programming of the community of practice and continuously contribute to improvements of programming tools and processes