Office Assistant

Job Posting: 03/Sep/2024

Closure Date: 24/Sep/2024, 4:59:00 PM

Organizational Unit: RLC

Job Type: Staff position

Type of Requisition: General Service

Grade Level: G-4

Primary Location: Chile-Santiago

Duration: Fixed-term: 2 years with possibility of extension

Post Number: 0125695

CCOG Code: 2101

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**Organizational Setting**

The Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (RLC) is responsible for leading FAO's response to regional priorities for food security, agriculture and rural development through the identification, planning and implementation of FAO's priority activities in the region. It ensures a multidisciplinary approach to programmes, identifies priority areas of action for the Organization in the region and, in collaboration with Divisions/Offices/Centres at headquarters, develops, promotes and oversees FAO's strategic response to regional priorities. RLC also advises on the incorporation of regional priorities into the Organization's Programme of Work and Budget and implements approved programmes and projects in the region, monitors the level of programme implementation and draws attention to problems and deficiencies. RLC develops and maintains relations with region-wide institutions including the Regional Economic Integration Organizations (REIOs).

The Regional Office supports regional policy dialogue on food security, agriculture and rural development issues, facilitates the emergence of regional partnerships, and supports capacity development and resource mobilization for food security, agriculture and rural development in the region.

This position is located in the Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (RLC) in Santiago, Chile.

**Main Purpose**

The Office Assistant performs a large variety of routine administrative transactions and office support functions contributing to the smooth and efficient running of the work unit.

**Supervision Received/Exercised**

The Office Assistant will work under the overall supervision of the Assistant Director-General/Regional Representative (ADG/RR) and the direct supervision of the Office Associate. He/she acts independently in routine matters. Supervision received is focused on the quality of the work performed and provides for on-the-job learning.

**Working Relationships**

The Office Assistant usually interacts with a wide variety of colleagues within the work unit and with immediate clients within the Organization, providing routine administrative and office support services.

**Key Functions/Results**
- Arrange appointments for the supervisor, receive visitors, place and screen telephone calls and respond to routine requests for information.
- Provide office, protocol, administrative and logistics support to meetings, committees, conferences, etc.
- Review, record, distribute and process incoming mail and correspondence; follow-up on pending actions.
- Respond or draft responses to standard/routine correspondence and other communications; use word processing package to produce a wide variety of large, complex documents and reports.
- Proofread documents and format texts for accuracy, grammar, punctuation and style as well as for adherence to established standards.
- Initiate general administrative tasks in the computerized general administration/procurement/ financial/travel/human resources system.
- Prepare purchase orders, purchase requisitions and support the preparation of Letters of Agreement (LOA), obtain clarification and follow up, 'when necessary.
- Make travel and hotel arrangements and prepare travel authorizations/claims for staff and affiliate workforce'as required.
- Provide assistance in the administrative proces