Office Assistant Lazio

Office Assistant
Roma
Lazio, Lazio

Job Posting: 16/Sep/2024

Closure Date: 07/Oct/2024, 4:59:00 PM

Organizational Unit: ESN

Job Type: Staff position

Type of Requisition: General Service

Grade Level: G-4

Primary Location: Italy-Rome

Duration: Fixed-term: 2 years with possibility of extension

Post Number: 0725862

CCOG Code: 2101

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- 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**:

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

FAO's Food and Nutrition Division (ESN) assists Members to improve diets and raise levels of nutrition, as well as provides support with appropriate policies, strategies and methodologies for improving the efficiency and inclusiveness of their agriculture and food systems.

As a knowledge leader, areas addressed include dietary assessment, support on nutrition-sensitive food and agriculture policies and programmes, effective nutrition promotion programmes, food value chains, market linkages, post-harvest handling, food loss and waste reduction and nutrition-sensitive agro-processing.

FAO is committed to support Members in their efforts to improve nutritional outcomes as stated in the Rome Declaration on Nutrition (November 2014) and to mainstream nutrition across all of the work of the Organization.

The position is located in ESN at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy.

**Main Purpose

The Office Assistant performs a large variety of routine administrative transactions and office support functions contributing to the smooth and efficient running of the work unit.

**Supervision Received/Exercised

The Office Assistant reports to one or more professional staff, and receives guidance from a Senior Officer, ESN.

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 Office Assistant usually interacts with a wide variety of colleagues within the work unit and with immediate clients within the Organization, providing routine administrative and office support services.

**Key Functions/Results

- Provide office, protocol, administrative and logistics support to meetings, committees, conferences, etc.

- Review, record, distribute and process incoming mail and correspondence; follow-up on pending actions.

- Respond or draft responses to standard/routine correspondence and other communications; use word processing package to produce a wide variety of large, complex documents and reports.

- Proofread documents and format texts for accuracy, grammar, punctuation and style, as well as for adherence to established standards.

- Initiate general administrative tasks in the computerized general administration/procurement/financial/travel/human resources system.

- Prepare purchase orders, purchase requisitions and support the preparation of Letters of Agreement (LoA), obtain clarification and follow up, when necessary.

- Make travel and hotel arrangements and prepare travel authorizations/claims for staff and affiliate workforce as required.

- Provide assistance in the administrative processing of vacancy announcements and consultants' contracts.

- Research, compile and organize information and reference materials from various sources for reports; create spreadsheets and presentations; manage and update databases for mailing lists and other information; and maintain electronic and paper files.

- Perform other duties as required.

**Impact of Work

The incumbent's work impacts on the timely and efficient delivery of office support services and on the overall output of the work unit.

**CANDIDATES WILL BE ASSESSED AGAINST THE FOLLOWING

**Minimum Requirements

Education: Secondary School Education.

Experience: Three years of relevant experience in office support work.

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