Senior Operations Assistant

Job Vacancy | Friday, January 17, 2025

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  • Reference Number 250031 Position Level TL2 Department Sectors Group Division Water and Urban Development Sector Office Location Asian Development Bank Headquarters Date Posted Friday, January 17, 2025 Closing Date Friday, January 31, 2025 11:59 p.m. (2359 Manila Time, 0800 GMT)

    Join Our Mission to Foster Prosperity in Asia

    Are you ready to make a lasting impact on the future of Asia and be a catalyst for positive change? We are thrilled to offer a unique opportunity to become an important part of the prestigious Asian Development Bank (ADB). At ADB, our mission is simple yet powerful: to alleviate poverty and promote sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region.

    Organizational Setting and Reporting Relationship

    The position of Senior Operations Assistant is assigned to the Water and Urban Development (WUD) Sector Office within the Sectors Group. The WUD Sector Office was established to deliver impactful sector policy dialogues, initiatives, and solutions that advance ADB’s strategic agenda in the region and with ADB’s clients in the water and urban development sector. The WUD Sector Office has three responsibilities: (i) conceptualize, process, and administer loan/grant and technical assistance (TA) operations and deliver knowledge services to clients; (ii) support resident missions in their country engagement, lead technical work on sector diagnostics and country sector road maps, and contribute to business development efforts; and (iii) ensure ADB’s technical leadership externally and internally.

    The WUD Sector Office has five teams: (i) regional sector team for Central, West, and East Asia region; (ii) regional sector team for Pacific countries and Southeast Asia region; (iii) regional sector team for South Asia region; (iv) practice sector team for emerging areas; and (v) practice sector team for strategy and partnerships.

    You will be based at our Headquarters in Manila, Philippines.

    You will report to the designated International Staff (IS) and senior National staff (NS).

    Your Role

    As a Senior Operations Assistant, you will provide operational support to SG-WUD activities in project administration, project processing activities related to loans and TA, database management, and knowledge management.

    You will:

  • Prepare and log correspondence and documents for supervisor following set standards. Independently compose and send out routine letters, carefully check documents submitted for approval of the supervisor. Ensure that all incoming mail is logged, properly distributed, and promptly brought to the attention of concerned staff, that outgoing communication are delivered on time, and an effective filing system is maintained in WUD Sharepoint site.
Ensure the effective coordination of supervisor's schedule by maintaining calendar and arranging appointments, meetings, travel, and accommodation as specified by the supervisor and in accordance with ADB procedures. Ensure accurate updating of event’s database, including knowledge dissemination activities. Support the preparation of necessary loan/grant and technical assistance (TA) documents (concept note, Reports and Recommendation of the President, TA reports, Project and TA Completion Reports) and ensure that these documents are in accordance with the latest ADB template and Handbook of Style and Usage and procedures. Coordinate and monitor the team's TAs under processing and coordinate with other staff to ensure eOps/SovOps updating. Coordinate and monitor milestone processing events of assigned loan/grant/TAs and report any delay in the processing of these documents to supervisors. Support the programming, processing and administration of TAs and/or loan/grant projects such as selection of consultants, processing of claims, contract variations, internal memos and preparation of TA and Project Completion Reports, and Back-to-Office Reports under the guidance of the international staff and/or project officer. Regularly check the eOps/SovOps and Integrated Disbursement System for progress on TA, loan, and grant under implementation. Using available IT tools and ADB apps, collect, compile, and analyze relevant information and data related to the team/office/department to produce routine and/or ad hoc statistics/reports as instructed. Provide support in mission preparation in accordance with ADB procedures. Ensure accurate updating of relevant databases, and support event organization and knowledge management including communication, internally and externally. Support knowledge management activities. Provide back-up support to other operations assistants in the latter's absence or relieve other operations assistant, as necessary. Provide assistance on the application/interpretation of work procedures, guidelines, and formats to other junior operations assistants. Perform other duties that may be assigned by the supervisor.

Qualifications

You will need:

Bachelor's degree in finance, engineering, business administration, urban planning, economics, public administration, or related disciplines. At least 5 years relevant professional experience, preferably in multilateral organizations. Advanced computer skills with sound knowledge of common word-processing and spreadsheets, and preferably with business intelligence, artificial intelligence applications, and familiarity with computer system used generally in ADB and similar multilateral development banks, and proficiency with computer-based applications. Good interpersonal and cross-cultural skills. Preferably with sound understanding of ADB and similar multilateral development banks procedures and practices related to TA and loan/grant project processing and administration, including safeguards compliance. Excellent oral, written and digital communication skills in English. Please refer to the link for the ADB Competency Framework for TL2.

Benefits

ADB offers competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package. The salary will be based on ADB's standards and comparator markets, taking into account your qualifications and experience.

Paid leave (including parental) Medical and health benefits Life and other insurance plans Staff development Retirement plan Housing and education allowance (if applicable) Expatriate benefits (for international staff)

Additional Information

This vacancy is a local staff position. It is open only to nationals and residents of the Philippines.

This is a fixed term appointment with option to renew for an initial period of three (3) years following Section 3.1 (b) of Administrative Order No. 2.01 (\"Recruitment and Appointment'). This appointment is not convertible to a regular appointment. It may be extended on an exceptional basis for a further fixed period at the option of ADB. This appointment is open to internal and external applicants.

Multiple Positions Posting

1) Multiple positions at various levels may be filled from this opening.

2) Actual position title and level will be based on your qualifications, experience and job scope that will be assigned to the selected candidates.

About Us

Asian Development Bank (ADB) is an international development finance institution headquartered in Manila, Philippines and is composed of 69 members, 49 of which are from the Asia and Pacific region. ADB is committed to achieving a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, while sustaining its efforts to eradicate extreme poverty. ADB combines finance, knowledge, and partnerships to fulfill its expanded vision under its Strategy 2030.

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