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Apply for UNESCO Assistant Vacancy with an Annual Start Salary of $62 854!
Apply for UNESCO Assistant Vacancy with an Annual Start Salary of $62 854!
- Vacancy: Senior Programme Assistant
- Post Number: SHS 901
- Grade: G-7
- Parent Sector: Social and Human Sciences Sector (SHS)
- Duty Station: Paris
- Job Family: Programme Coordination
- Type of contract: Fixed Term
- Duration of contract: 2 years, renewable
- Application Deadline: 11 Aug 2025
UNESCO is hiring a motivated assistant to help drive its global mission in education, science, and culture. Under the overall authority of the Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences and the direct supervision of the Chief of the Inclusion, Rights and Intercultural Dialogue Section, the incumbent ensures the effective implementation of the UNESCO Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture, iniciates and undertakes all the necessary activities to that end. The incumbent delivers and coordinates a wide range of administrative, communication and promotional services for the effective management of the UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture.
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Responsibilities
- Organize and follow-up thoroughly the work concerning the Prize with respect to communications, meetings and workflows.
- Contribute substantively by conducting research and offering recommendations regarding candidates for the International Jury’s consideration.
- Track and respond to requests formulated by various partners of the Prize managing and scheduling with appropriate consultation as required.
- Research, compile and summarize background materials for the use of internal and external partners.
- Monitor and review the preparation of reports by staff as well as correspondence, briefing notes and other documents about the Prize.
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Requirements
- Completed secondary education, technical or vocational education.
- At least ten (10) years of relevant work experience in secretarial and/or administrative tasks.
- Strong interpersonal and excellent coordination skills for the preparation of information and documents, organization of meetings, events and resolution of problems.
- Excellent drafting skills with particular reference to correspondence and internal reports.
- Excellent communication (writing and oral) skills to deal with officials and staff at various levels within and outside UNESCO.
- Discretion and capacity to deal efficiently and tactfully with people of different cultural backgrounds.
- Good computer skills to establish/modify filing reference and information of standard office software (MS Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint).
- Flexible to adjust to work schedules and priorities.
