Project Associate

**Job Identification**
- 17028

**Locations**
- Pristina, Kosovo (as per UNSCR 1244)**Posting Date**
- 03/19/2024, 08:47 AM
- 04/02/2024, 10:59 PM

**Job Schedule**
- Full time

**Agency**
- UNDP

**Grade**
- NPSA-6

**Vacancy Type**
- National Personnel Service Agreement

**Practice Area**
- Governance

**Bureau**
- Regional Bureau for Europe and the CIS

**Contract Duration**
- 6 months

**Education & Work Experience**
- Bachelor's Degree - 3 year(s) experience OR High School certificate
- 6 year(s) experience

**Required Languages**
- Fluency in English and Albanian or Serbian is required

**Vacancy Timeline**
- 2 Weeks

**Background**

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**Background**:
Governments and public administrations should have sufficient capacities to develop and implement effective policies that promote sustainable human development opportunities for everyone. A capable public administration is critically important in the current conditions of a series of global crisis which has affected economies, prices and costs of living, inequalities, and social cohesion. In such environments policy-making processes and a public administration capable of and willing to develop effective policies, with limited resources, become imperative. Public policies should ensure that governance is strengthened, quality public services are provided, human rights protected, economic opportunities created, and poverty and inequality reduced.

The modernization of the public administration is noted aa key institutional priority, addressing legal and policy gaps with an expectation to develop a credible and transparent system of capacity building and which ensures a merit-based recruitment and promotions, and which offers equal opportunities to all citizens. The civil service continues to face challenges in attracting or retaining quality staff, mainly due to rather low salaries, and the lack of incentives for higher performance.

While capacity developed in based on a premise of longer-term investment, at critical development points rapid interventions, focused on technical inputs to address pressing needs, contribute to progress and achievement of goals, to meet internal and external commitments.

This project will provide support to central institutions building on UNDP’s experience and lessons learned from previous capacity development interventions which contributed to improved service delivery and achievement of strategic goals. The overall objective of the project is to improve institutional capacities in planning, implementation, and administration, for effective, efficient and gender-responsive governance, which responds to government’s short and medium-term needs.

The demand-driven aspect will ensure that critical needs, as identified by institutions, are addressed quickly, contributing to improved institutional performance and implementation capacities, with the primary aim to achieve short to mid-term goals.

**Scope of Work**

Under the direct supervision of the Project Manager, the Project Associate will execute duties and responsibilities outlined below:
**Support project implementation**
- Coordinating the administrative and operational elements of the project staff and office work;
- Support project implementation by administering and executing assigned processes and transactions.
- Review requests /transactions for compliance with plans, rules and processes and allocations; processing requests, researching information; identification and proposal of course of action for decision;
- Ensure efficient exchange of information between the UNDP Kosovo office and project team.
- Preparation for audit of project and implementation of audit recommendation.
- Undertake project visits, monitor activities and ensure compliance with UNDP rules and procedures
- Draft letters and assist with preparation of all types of agreements for the project

**Support to project financial monitoring and management**
- Maintain budgets and resources availability tables, examining monthly financial reports and preparing summaries or analyses related to the reports;
- Preparation and modifications of budgets for project, coordination of the mandatory and budget re-phasing exercises and follow up with UNDP office on all financial transactions related to project
- Implementation of the control mechanism for development projects through monitori