Job Posting: 07/Mar/2025 Closure Date: 21/Mar/2025, 5:59:00 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: 2010637 CCOG Code: 2102b **IMPORTANT NOTICE: Please note that Closure Date and Time displayed above are based on date and time settings of your personal device**
- 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 Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF)). 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.
This position is located in the FAO-GEF Coordination Unit (GCU) of OCB at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy. **Main Purpose**
The Programme Assistant performs a wide range of routine administrative and financial functions in support of the delivery of the organizational unit's programme and projects. **Supervision Received/Exercised**
The Programme Assistant reports the Deputy Director, OCB.
He/she acts independently in routine matters. Supervision received is focused on the quality of the work performed and provides for on-the-job learning. **Working Relationships**
The Programme Assistant interacts with a wide variety of colleagues within the work unit and with immediate clients within the Organization, providing routine administrative and financial services. **Key Functions/Results**
- Collect and compile data on programme and or project activities to support reporting and delivery.
- Initiate and follow up on administrative and financial actions related to staff management, affiliate workforce support, travel, payments, etc.
- Review and prepare routine documentation and correspondence related to assigned procurement actions.
- Provide information on programme and/or project expenditures and status of programme and /or project budget.
- Process, format and proof-read reports, documents, publications and correspondence related to the work of the unit from draft texts.
- Review and direct correspondence, calls and queries to appropriate contacts; provide background information; respond to routine enquiries.
- Make arrangements for meetings, se

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