THOH
Thailand Operations Hub (THOH) is a UNOPS business unit under the UNOPS
Asia Regional Office and it was established to better support, develop and
oversee the UNOPS portfolio of projects in South East Asia and the Pacific.
The Hub comprises three main portfolios
–THOH Thailand, THOH Indonesia and THOH Pacific and provides a wide range of
services including Project Management, Transactional HR, Financial, and
Procurement to clients that include other UN entities, INGOs and
governments/government agencies donors.
BRG Results
Enabling Facility (BRG REF)
Seasonal peatland fires are now
compromising Indonesia’s economic and social development by creating
considerable threats to health, the environment, and the economy. In 2015 peat
fires and their related haze resulted in the hospitalization of more than half
a million people due to acute respiratory infections. These fires that raged
through 2.6 million hectares of forest and peatland areas in the islands of
Kalimantan and Sumatra released 1.6 Gts of CO2e, surpassing the annual CO2
emissions of advanced industrialized nations such as Germany, France, and
others. Direct and indirect damages cost the Indonesian national economy an
estimated USD 16 billion, about 2% of its annual GDP.
In recognition of the importance of
peatlands for climate change mitigation, the Government of Indonesia through
Presidential Regulation No 1/2016 constituted the Peatland Restoration Agency
(BRG). BRG has an important mandate: prevent forest fires, especially in
peatland areas, as well as restore 2 million hectares of peatlands devastated
by forest and land fires. The Agency identified 7 target provinces for peatland
restoration and fire prevention activities in Riau, Jambi, South Sumatra, West
Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan, South Kalimantan and Papua.
Since its establishment in 2016, Norway
has been supporting BRG, as current support to the BRG by the Norwegian
Government falls within the wider partnership between Norway and Indonesia
established in 2010 through the Letter of Intent (LOI) to reduce emissions from
deforestation and land degradation of forests and peatlands with USD 1 billion
over the next few years. The USD 1 billion support is part of an international
climate mitigation initiative (UNFCCC) supported programme that uses
international aid to counter forest degradation in various parts of the world,
and this is one of the largest ever contribution made to reduce deforestation.
In the framework of this background,
Norway and BRG have asked UNOPS to develop a flexible multiyear administrative
support mechanism for managing Norway’s financial support to BRG through the
establishment of the BRG Results Enabling Facility (BRG REF). The mechanism has
within its scope a back-office management component and a service, procurement,
grants management and a delivery component.
UNOPS THOH is hiring for the position of
IT and Administrative Assistant. Under the guidance and direct supervision of
the Administrative Associate, the IT and Administrative Assistant is responsible
for efficient and effective ICT management and support, and provides support to
office operations performing a variety of standard administrative processes.
The IT and Administrative Assistant may take routine decisions on ICT and administrative
processes based on clearly established guidelines. In performing her/his work,
the IT and Administrative Assistant promotes a client, quality and
results-oriented approach.
The IT and Administrative Assistant
works in close collaboration with the Operations, Programme and projects personnel in the BRG REF and other projects, colleagues in THOH and with Bangkok Helpdesk
as well as HQ ICT unit on ICT matters.