Project Assistant

Job Posting: 12/Jun/2025

Closure Date: 26/Jun/2025, 4:59:00 PM

Organizational Unit: FAIND - FAO Representation in India

Job Type: Non-staff opportunities

Type of Requisition: NPP (National Project Personnel)

Grade Level: N/A

Primary Location: India-New Delhi

Duration: One year (renewable)

Post Number: N/A

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**Organizational Setting**

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) contributes to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda through the FAO Strategic Framework by supporting the transformation to more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems, for better production, better nutrition, a better environment and a better life, leaving no one behind.

FAO is a specialized agency of the UN that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. FAO's goal is to achieve food security for all and ensure that people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives. With 195 Members (194 countries and the European Union), FAO works in over 130 countries worldwide.

The FS-IP will catalyse transformational impacts on the management and impacts of global food systems, that will go far beyond the specific geographies of these child projects. It will achieve this by closely engaging with global policy fora, institutions, finance frameworks and networks of private sector and civil society actors; and by establishing communities of practice (made up of thematic groupings of child projects including those of the GEF-7 FOLUR Impact Program, and spanning the key entry point sectors of rice, wheat, maize, coffee, cocoa, soy, oil palm, livestock and aquaculture), which cumulatively will generate a critical mass of evidence and policy influence capable of transforming global thinking, policies and actions on food systems.

One of the Food Systems IP country child projects is the “Transforming Andhra Pradesh aquaculture to a sustainable, reduced footprint and climate resilient food system”, which will mainly focus on sustainable aquaculture in freshwater and brackish areas in selected areas of the State. This is significant from the point of sustainably utilizing the State’s considerable aquaculture production areas and ensuring that this sub-sector contributes to efficient and rational and equitable use of land and water resources for food production, thus ensuring food security through production of cheap protein for communities. A food systems approach will also ensure entrepreneurship, livelihoods, gainful employment generation.

The position is located in the FAO Country Office in India

**Reporting Lines**

Under the overall supervision of the FAO Representative in India, Assistant FAO Representatives (Program and Administration) and under the guidance of the Project Managers, the Project Assistant will undertake the following tasks

**Technical Focus**

Providing support in project management by assisting in project progress review, reporting, budget/fund management and other logístical support for travel and meetings.

**Tasks and responsibilities**
- Support project team in managing financial aspects of project activities, including assistance in budget preparation/revisions/review, financial reporting, processing invoices, managing petty cash, and supporting procurement processes.
- Provide organizational, operational, and logístical support to the project team, including the organization of project activities, meetings, events, and travel arrangements.
- Assist the project team in preparing different progress, monitoring and financial reports in the prescribed formats in a timely manner.
- Facilitate FAO communication and coordination with government counterparts, project stakeholders, and help the FAO Country Office for smooth implementation of project activities, including stakeholder meetings, workshops, and training sessions.
- Support the Operational Partner Implementation Modality (OPIM) process for the project by assisting in assessments, ensuring compliance with requirements and deadlines.
- Liaise with the Administrative and Programme Unit of the FAO Country Office