POLITICAL AFFAIRS ASSISTANT, G5
Overview
The Political Affairs Assistant supports senior officers in the Regional Affairs Unit by processing information, preparing documents, and monitoring political developments. The role involves liaison with various external entities and providing translation services.
Key Responsibilities
- Receives and processes information from various sources, maintaining knowledge of political issues.
- Assists senior officers with drafting briefing notes, background papers, and talking points.
- Prepares summaries of articles and drafts correspondence and section reports.
- Monitors political, socio-economic, and other relevant developments in an assigned area.
- Provides input for political, humanitarian, and economic efforts and programmes.
- Updates databases tracking project progress.
- Keeps abreast of UN policies related to Political Affairs work and participates in trainings.
- Assists senior officers in liaison with officials.
- Provides Arabic-English translation, interpretation, and note-taking.
- Performs other related duties as required.
Required Experience
Five (5) years of related work experience in providing support work in political science, international relations, legal/paralegal, disarmament, security development management, conflict resolution or related work with NGOs, civil society organizations or working as a civil servant is required. A minimum of two years of experience working on political issues in or on the Middle East is required. Experience in preparing analytical reports on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is desirable.
Qualifications
High school diploma or equivalent is required. Training in Political Affairs related is desirable. Training in communication, project monitoring, logistical, budgetary & administrative issues is desirable.