Project Assistant

**Job Identification**
- 21495

**Locations**
- Salvador, Brazil**Posting Date**
- 10/18/2024, 12:44 PM
- 11/01/2024, 10:59 PM

**Job Schedule**
- Full time

**Agency**
- UNDP

**Grade**
- NPSA-5

**Vacancy Type**
- National Personnel Service Agreement

**Practice Area**
- Management

**Bureau**
- Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean

**Contract Duration**
- 1 Year

**Education & Work Experience**
- Bachelor's Degree - 2 year(s) experience OR High School certificate
- 5 year(s) experience

**Required Languages**
- Portuguese

**Desired Languages**
- English

**Vacancy Timeline**
- 2 Weeks

**Background**

**Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core principles at UNDP: we value diversity as an expression of the multiplicity of nations and cultures where we operate, we foster inclusion as a way of ensuring all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, and we ensure equity and fairness in all our actions. Taking a ‘leave no one behind’ approach to our diversity efforts means increasing representation of underserved populations. People who identify as belonging to marginalized or excluded populations are strongly encouraged to apply. Learn more about working at UNDP including our values and **inspiring stories.**

In light of the above and inspired by the principle of ‘leaving no one behind’, the UNDP 2024-2027 vision is to leverage sustainable development action by collaborating for structural changes in Brazil to make the society more inclusive, productive and resilient. UNDP will focus on reducing multidimensional vulnerabilities by accelerating human development capacities and capabilities. UNDP also acknowledges that strengthening women’s economic empowerment and leadership is pivotal to shifting social norms for gender equality—and it is an intersectional pursuit that involves addressing racial and gender prejudices that Afro-Brazilian women face. CPD defines 4 main results areas: i) economic transformation for sustainable development; ii) social inclusion for sustainable development, iii) environment and climate change for sustainable development; iv) governance and institutional capacities for sustainable development. These results areas generated through an organizational structure that includes 3 thematic clusteunitsrs:

- Socially Inclusive Development (People & Prosperity: poverty reduction, social policies, livelihoods, public-private partnerships, etc).
- Environmentally Sustainable Development (Planet: environment, climate change, DRR, Montreal Protocol).
- Governance and Justice for Development (Peace: prevention of violence, justice, transparency,anti-corruption, human rights, local capacity development).

Given the imperative to support the country in the implementation of the SDGs and improve human development in the most excluded and vulnerable populations, UNDP Brazil has adopted a strategy to enhance CO presence at territorial level through establishment of an organizational unit dedicated to strengthen partnerships with Brazilian states and municipalities through 3 state level offices as well as other sub-national partnerships and initiatives.

Decentralized Cooperation and Territorial Development transversal support area aims at contributing to advance on inclusive governance and human development to achieve sustainable development -social, economic and environmental
- in Brazilian States and Municipalities. The main objective is to leave no one behind at the sub-national level through the implementation of the SDGs at territorial level in line with national policies and plans and the UNDP Integrated Framework to Support Local Governance and Local Development (LGLD) as well as MAPS framework.

The Decentralized Cooperation and Territorial Development area will promote the coordination of integrated development initiatives within a given territory, taking into consideration the local political, social, cultural, geographic, economic, historic, andenvironmental complexities as well as opportunities to implement SDGs and accelerate their achievement. This will allow a more coherent cooperation at subnational level to be framed under a broader and integrated strategy aligned to the national level through a territorial approach for development. A UNDP Brazilstrategy for decentralized cooperation will further guide thisfunction and itspriorities (geographical and thematic).

To enable the implementation of projects under the Decentralized Cooperation and Territorial Development portfolio, the Project Assistant will provide - under the supervision of the Project Coordinator of the Local UNDP Office in Salvador/Bahia, and general guidance of the Territorial Development and Decentralized Cooperation Advisor - logístical and administrative support to DIM and NIM projects in the state of Bahia and other states, as assigned to him/her.

**Duties and Responsibilities**

Under the direct supervision of the Project Coordinator of the Bahia State Project Office, an