UNOPS Operational Hub (NPOH) provides technical, operational and
administr...
UNOPS Operational Hub (NPOH) provides technical, operational and
administrative support to 5 countries in the South Asia region: Sri Lanka,
Maldives, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh. UNOPS’ work in this region focuses on
the construction and operation of high quality sustainable infrastructure and
sustainable procurement, project management, timely provision of services, and
the use of most relevant technologies. One of the main focuses on UNOPS work in
Bangladesh is to reduce the vulnerability of population to unsafe infrastructure,
maximise the impact of public investments in infrastructure, and improve the
effectiveness and financial viability of the public services delivered out of
key public infrastructures. Such projects provide social and economic benefits
to vulnerable populations across the region, and contribute to poverty
eradication. Projects target a range of sectors such as education, health,
urban development, environmental services, climate change mitigation, as well
as a range of “soft” support in Capacity Building, operations and maintenance
of public assets, local governance, etc.
Recently, the UNOPS,
UN Development Programme (UNDP) and UN Women developed the joint programme in
Bangladesh which aims to sustain the resilience of human and economic
development in Bangladesh through inclusive, gender responsive resilience
building. The joint programme focuses on
developing national capacities in the areas of: risk-informed and
render-responsive development planning, capacities to address sustainability
and resilience in a gender responsive manner, improved capacities of selected
public institutions to achieve resilient institutions through risk-informed,
gender-responsive infrastructure systems, enhance women’s leadership disaster
response and management; and finally, to strengthen community-level
preparedness, response and recovery capacities.
Under the Joint
Programme, UNOPS is providing technical assistance to Local Government
Engineering Department (LGED) and other public institutions to achieve resilient
infrastructure outcomes through designing and constructing risk-informed,
gender responsive infrastructure systems that lay the foundations for long-term
socially inclusive infrastructure systems. In particular, UNOPS will contribute
to the achievement of the over-all programme by:
- Strengthening LGED asset management system
and decision making capacities for determining priorities associated with new
development, maintenance and/or retrofitting of existing assets;
- Strengthening project evaluation criteria and
capacities within LGED and other divisions, improve coordination and reduce
duplication;
- Creating an applied understanding and
capacity to introduce the concept of failure analysis to enhance
build-back-better in reconstruction;
- Strengthening LGED professional capacities
for Junior and mid-level engineers in the areas of design, construction and
management/maintenance of resilient infrastructures;
UNOPS is establishing a project team that
will ensure the timely and effective implementation of the planned activities
in accordance with the detailed workplans. In this regard, UNOPS is seeking the
services of a Project Support Associate who will be providing operational
support on the finance and administration to the project implementation
throughout the course of the project.
Purpose and Scope of Assignment
The Project Support Associate for finance and
administration will work under the supervision of the Project Support Officer, with the guidance of the UNOPS Project Manager/Team
Leader NRP Project. He/she will on a day-to-day basis will be under the guidance of the UNOPS
Bangladesh Project Support Officer. He/she shall provide support to the delivery
of projects budgets in the areas of finance, procurement and HR. This is an support level position within UNOPS
Bangladesh Country Office and the NRP Project .