In the context of UN’s support to the Government of Uzbekistan’s on efforts to tackle the negative consequences of the Aral Sea crisis, with the financial support of the Government of Japan, UNDP and UNFPA Joint Programme “Building the Resilience of Local Communities Against Health, Environmental and Economic Insecurities in the Aral Sea region” is launched, which is being implemented in Karakalpakstan throughout 2020-2021. The Joint Programme aims to address the most urgent and immediate health and economic insecurities in the most vulnerable areas of the Aral Sea region through brining innovative solutions to healthcare and poverty reduction initiatives.
The Joint Programme has two major objectives as follows:
- Improving the quality of healthcare services, particularly in remote rural areas through strengthening the technical and institutional capacity of local healthcare system for maternal, child and reproductive health service provision with the focus on prevention of ill health (breast and cervical cancer, sexually transmitted infections, malnutrition, etc.) and promotion of healthy lifestyle and positive health seeking behavior involving also the Community Health Volunteers.
- Enhancing income generation opportunities of the affected population through inclusive business initiatives, promotion of investment for job creation, as well as through improving access to basic services. The programme will select most vulnerable rural communities and help them with participatory decentralized planning and rehabilitation of essential public services such as water supply. It will support the start-up of agricultural cooperatives and small businesses through trainings, funding innovative schemes, establishing pilot “farm field schools”. These will help people, especially women led households to use available resources, mainly land and water in the most efficient way and generate incomes toe sustain their livelihoods.
The UNDP, UNFPA and FAO Joint Programme “Unleashing young people’s and vulnerable citizens’ creativity and innovation by strengthening their adaptive capacity to address the economic and food insecurities in the exposed communities of the Aral Sea region” financed by the Multi-Partner Human Security Trust Fund for Aral Sea region (MPHSTF). The Programme will contribute to addressing multiple human insecurities of people, living in the most vulnerable districts of Karakalpakstan, which are fully aligned with the policies and strategies of the Government of Uzbekistan on addressing the Aral Sea crises.
The Joint Programme has three major objectives as follows:
- Reduce the vulnerabilities of unemployed, unskilled youth and women and returning migrants through the empowerment and promotion of essential entrepreneurial skills, and youth-led innovations in the region;
- Create an enabling environment for income generation for rural communities (with focus to youth and women) through promoting innovative agriculture practices and piloting new agriculture initiatives;
- Enable the development of smart communities through digitalization, better access to social infrastructure and community engagement with focus on youth.
Administrative and Finance Specialist will be in charge of providing administrative, logistical, procurement and operational assistance in developing and deploying innovative tools to implement community mobilization and income generation activities, supporting innovative approaches by youth and women as well as awareness raising activities and disseminating best-practices among the programme partners for replication and scale up.
Under the direct supervision of the Joint Programme Manager and in close collaboration with UNDP Environment and Climate Action Cluster and Operations units, the incumbent will perform the following duties and responsibilities:
- Ensure coordination and implementation of the programme administrative and financial activities, smooth programme operation;
- Provide inputs to the management on the efficient and effective programme implementation and use of the financial and administrative resources;
- Ensure accurate and proper budget planning, monitoring and reporting on all administrative and financial issues related to the programme implementation;
- Take overall responsibility for the disbursement of the programme budget as per the work plan and in accordance with corporate rules and procedures;
- Provide support to Programme Manager ensuring that all inputs required for reporting, monitoring and programme implementation are provided on time and in accordance with procedures;
- Ensure regular monitoring of the programme administrative and financial activities through regular spot check visits to the project sites and provide feedback and support when needed;
- Monitor project human resources (HR) and coordinate the process of human resources management process (recruitment, separation, leave monitoring, etc.)
- Organize and facilitate efficient procurement and logistics, coordinate and monitor all procurement activities in line with UNDP rules and procedures;
- Ensure full compliance with corporate procedures of all administrative/financial documents, cases submitted from the regional office to UNDP CO in Tashkent;
- Ensure affective corporate management of the project’s non-expendable assets;
- Prepare and finalize inventory and discrepancy reports;
- Ensure that asset management information is updated in the corporate information management system;
- Ensure that all financial administrative documents (reports/memos) related to the project implementation are prepared timely and in accordance with the UNDP rules and procedures;
- Develop quarterly and annual budget plans for recruitment of personnel; maintain financial records and monitoring day-to-day transactions and reports;
- Analyze potential problems concerning administrative-financial issues and take respective measures to provide adequate resources in time for implementation of the project activities;
- Define cost-effective measures for optiomal use of the Joint Programme resources;
- Ensure leave monitoring of the personnel and submit respective reports to UNDP CO;
- Provide inputs to the reporting process (financial reporting) including regular reports to donor, national partners, UNDP CO and participating UN Agencies.
- Ensure collection of inputs from UN agencies for compilation of the Joint Programme periodic financial reports, including the information on financial delivery of all participating UN Agencies.
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Contract Duration: 6 months (with possible extension subject to satisfactory performance)