Administrative Assistant (Open to all applicants), New York, United States

## Administrative Assistant (Open to all applicants), New York, United States - Organization:UNDP - United Nations Development Programme - Country:United States - Office:UNDP New York, USA The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN's global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in 170 countries and territories, working with governments and people on their own solutions to global and national development challenges to help empower lives and build resilient nations. Within UNDP, the Office of General Operations (OGO) provides the essential operational services that enable UNDP to function effectively across all locations. Its core responsibilities include the global management of UNDP premises and assets, travel and fleet services, insurance coverage, corporate cards, and a broad range of transactional business services at Headquarters in New York. The office monitors global asset data to ensure accurate financial reporting and oversees the issuance of corporate purchasing cards for colleagues worldwide. Within OGO, the Business Solutions team provides transactional support across project management, micro-purchasing, logistics, finance, contract and asset management, insurance, premises oversight, human resources, and resource planning. Position Purpose: Under the general guidance and supervision of the Asset Management Associate (G-7), the Administrative Clerk ensures the delivery of essential registry and logistics services supporting UNDP Headquarters and Country Offices. The incumbent is responsible for the timely and accurate distribution of pouch and mail to all UNDP units at Headquarters and to Country Offices, thereby ensuring uninterrupted registry support. The Administrative Clerk works closely with the OGO Business Solutions Team, the Travel Team, and counterparts across the UN system to meet critical pouch and mail service requirements, resolve operational issues, and maintain an effective and reliable registry system. In addition, the role provides essential protocol-related services, including ground pass encoding and archiving, and delivers core operational support in the areas of logistics, asset management, and the UNDP Headquarters Consolidation Project. The position requires a full-time presence in the New York HQ office, so there is no opportunity to work from home. UNDP adopts a portfolio approach to accommodate changing business needs and leverage linkages across interventions to achieve its strategic goals. Therefore, UNDP personnel are expected to work across units, functions, teams, and projects in multidisciplinary teams in order to enhance and enable horizontal collaboration. Duties and Responsibilities Being a part of the Business Solutions Team, the Administrative Clerk will support OGO daily operational activities. Ensure the smooth and efficient functioning of the Business Solutions Team and maintaining high-quality, efficient, and compliant service delivery in the following areas: - Pouch and Mail Operations - Support Asset Management at HQ - Follow up on deliverable expected from crew that provide Maintenance, Messenger, Cleaning services - Support administrative tasks requested by Director of OGO Ensures knowledge building and knowledge sharing, focusing on the following results: - Support to clients and expertise services in the areas of responsibility including on standards and processes. Encoding of staff ground passes including: - Reviewing staff documents - Confirming details correspond to ID's - Updating ground pass to allow access The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organisation. Achieve Results: LEVEL 1: - Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline Think Innovatively: LEVEL 1: - Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements Learn Continuously: LEVEL 1: - Open-minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 1: - Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible Act with Determination: LEVEL 1: - Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident Engage and Partner: LEVEL 1: - Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 1: - Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination Cross-Functional & Technical: Administration and Operations - Documents and records Management: - Overall document (hard or electronic) management; registry and retention policy including storing and archiving. Business Development - Knowledge Generation: - Ability to research information and to turn it into useful knowledge, relevant for context, or responsive to a stated need. Ability to apply existing concepts to new situations, and to develop new concepts to generate workable solutions and new approaches. Knowledge of relevant concepts, conceptual models, and theories that can be useful in addressing new situations. - Business Management - Customer Satisfaction/Client Management:Ability to respond timely and appropriately with a sense of urgency, provide consistent solutions, and deliver timely and quality results and/or solutions to fulfill and understand the client's needs. Provide inputs to the development of the client service strategy. Look for ways to add value beyond clients' immediate requests. Ability to anticipate the client's upcoming needs and concerns. Ability to respond timely and appropriately with a sense of urgency, provide consistent solutions, and deliver timely and quality results and/or solutions to fulfill and understand the client's needs. Provide inputs to the development of the client service strategy. Look for ways to add value beyond clients' immediate requests. Ability to anticipate the client's upcoming needs and concerns. Business Direction & Strategy - Business Acumen: - Ability to understand and deal with a business situation in a manner that is likely to lead to a good outcome; ability to make good judgments and quick decisions within such frameworks Knowledge and understanding of the operational frameworks in the organization. Administration and Operations - Registry & correspondence management: - Ability to collect, register, maintain and deliver mail and UNDP pouch; ability to manage archives. Business Management - Communication: - Communicate in a clear, concise and unambiguous manner both through written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and choose communication methods depending on the audience. Ability to manage communications internally and externally, through media, social media and other appropriate channels. Required Skills and Experience - Secondary education is required. - A university degree (bachelor's degree) in Business Administration, Public Administration, Social Sciences, Management, Finance, or equivalent will be given due consideration, but it is not a requirement. - Minimum 3 years (with secondary education) of experience working in an administrative capacity is required. No experience is required with bachelor´s degree. - Experience in the use of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and knowledge of web-based management systems such as ERP is required. - Experience using SharePoint or other web-based /records management systems is desired; - Experience supporting operational or administrative processes is desired. - Fluency in English is required. As an equal opportunity employer, UNDP values diversity as an expression of the multiplicity of nations and cultures where we operate and, as such, we encourage qualified applicants from all backgrounds to apply for roles in the organization. Our employment