Environmental Governance and Finance Coordination Assistant

The Environmental Governance and Finance Coordination Assistant supports the Ministry of Spatial Planning, Construction and Ecology of Republika Srpska and UNDP in coordinating and following up on CBIT 2 project activities. The role includes administrative, operational, and basic analytical support related to environmental governance, institutional coordination, financial tracking, and preparation of project documents and reports.

Responsibilities

• Provide assistance in support of governance, policy and regulatory follow-up including collecting, organizing and reviewing environmental and climate-related documents and preparing summaries and background notes.
• Support inter-institutional coordination and implementation follow-up including maintaining communication between UNDP, the Ministry, consultants and stakeholders, organizing meetings and workshops, and updating coordination tools.
• Support project implementation, financial tracking and knowledge exchange including preparation of workplans, financial tracking tables, progress updates, reports, presentations, and maintaining project records.
• Submit monthly progress updates to the Project Manager and perform other duties as required for successful project implementation.

Requirements

• Secondary education is required
• University degree (Bachelor’s degree) in Economics, Law, Public Administration, Environmental Studies, Education, Social Sciences or similar field will be considered an asset, but is not a requirement.
• Minimum 5 years (with Secondary education) or 2 years (with Bachelor’s degree) of administrative or project support experience at the national or international level
• Experience in the use of computers and office software packages, including MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience in collecting, organizing and maintaining project documentation, records, correspondence, contact lists, meeting notes, reports and implementation tracking tools.
• Experience in supporting organization of meetings, workshops, consultations, trainings or similar project events.
• Experience in communication and coordination with institutions, consultants, project partners or other stakeholders.
• Experience in administrative, coordination, operational or financial support to implementation of donor-funded or development projects is desired.
• Experience in handling data, indicators, simple analysis, implementation trackers, databases or monitoring information will be considered an asset.
• Experience in environment, climate change, environmental governance, climate transparency, MRV/MRVA, GHG inventory, NDC tracking, EIS or related public-sector processes will be considered an asset.
• Previous experience with UNDP, GEF, GCF, World Bank, KfW or other international development projects will be considered an asset.
• Fluency in English and in the official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina is required, with good writing, editing and communication skills

Skills

• Administrative Support
• Project Support
• Document Management
• Meeting Coordination
• Workshop Organization
• Stakeholder Coordination
• Financial Support
• Data Handling
• Indicator Tracking
• Implementation Tracking
• Database Management
• Monitoring Information
• MS Word
• Excel
• Power Point
• Environmental Governance
• Climate Change
• Climate Transparency Frameworks
• GHG Inventory Development
• NDC Tracking

Languages

English, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian