JOB DESCRIPTION
Terms of Reference (TOR)
for functions under a National Personnel Service Agreement
- Position Information
| Office/Unit/Project | United Nations Development Programme – Türkiye Country Office CO)Inclusive Sustainable Growth (ISG-PPI) Portfolio1.Göksu Taşeli Watershed Development Project (GTWDP) 2.Uplands Rural Development Project (URDP) |
| Title | Project Assistant (Interpreter) |
| Level | NPSA 4 |
| Duty station (City and Country) | Ankara, Turkey |
| Type (Regular or Short term) | Regular |
| Office- or Home-based | Office-based (with in the premises of Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry) |
| Expected starting date | February 2024 |
| Expected Duration | 6 Months initial Contract (up to one year based on the satisfactory performance and the availability of funding) |
| Position Number | 177908 |
- Office/Unit/Project Description
The UNDP Turkey Country Office positions itself as a development partner that brings global knowledge, through a multi-sectoral approach – the key comparative advantage of UNDP – and concentrates its work on 3 programmatic fields: i) Inclusive and Sustainable Growth, ii) Inclusive and Democratic Governance, iii) Climate Change and Environment.
ISG Portfolio benefits from the interplay between UNDP global strategic priorities and national priorities and consolidates complementary CO initiatives with a view to bringing further coherence to programmatic work in this area. The emphasis of the ISG Portfolio is on “inclusive growth”. The ISG is positioned to address structural economic problems, such as productivity, the middle-income trap, multi-dimensional poverty, energy security and regional disparities, as well as challenges with both social and economic repercussions, such as urbanization, resource efficiency, health transformation and community-based development. Gender Equality and Women’s empowerment is addressed from an economic perspective (e.g. women entrepreneurship and gender equality in labour force participation), ensuring complementarity but avoiding duplication. Partnerships with private sector targets to build inclusive markets that can advance sustainable development, foster innovation, provide jobs and livelihoods, ensure gender equality, and create businesses that aim at a triple bottom line (profit, environmental responsibility and social value added).
In principle, the ISG Portfolio focuses on productive employment rather than income redistribution, even though both are critical issues. The work on social policies and services will promote equal access to opportunities and therefore, will contribute to equitable growth. Hence the emphasis will be not only on employment growth but also on productivity growth. The two programme areas that ISG covers are a) Competitiveness, Economic Growth and Innovation (CEG+), and b) Public Policies and Inequalities CEG.
The Project Assistant (Interpreter) will be responsible for various projects that are running within the scope of ISG Portfolio including.
a. Uplands Rural Development Project (URDP)
b. Göksu Taşeli Watershed Development Project (GTWDP)
Background of Göksu Taşeli Watershed Development Project (GTWDP):
The overall objective of Göksu Taşeli Watershed Development Project (GTWDP) is to reduce rural poverty by supporting economic diversification through value chain development and sustainable natural resource management. The Project targets to increase farmers’ income from improved agricultural production and marketing activities in the targeted area with strengthened resilience to climate shocks. The Project would also contribute to improving the standards of living of the nomadic Yörük tribes in the highlands of the Taurus Mountains, through capacity building that would assist them to organize for improved management of the common natural resources. The project outcomes include:
i. sustainably increased farm productivity,
ii. higher product prices received by smallholder producers.
The GTWDP is being implemented in selected villages of 11 districts of Konya and Karaman provinces of Central Anatolia. These districts are in the Göksu sub-catchment, one of the four in the East Mediterranean Watershed. The Project area includes 238 villages that are situated in the mountainous parts of the 11 districts where the elevation varies between 600 m and 1 800 m.
Background of Uplands Rural Development Project (URDP):
The overall objective of the Upland Rural Development Project (URDP), on the other hand, is to enhance the welfare and socio-economic resilience of small farmers in highlands. This objective can be attained by making the use of natural resources sustainable and improving the resilience and economic opportunities of poor people in rural areas based on farms and agribusinesses linked to more profitable economic clusters. The key strategy of the Project includes developing rural production, encouraging sustainable use of soil and water, and enhancing the adaptation capacity of smallholding farmers to climate change. This strategy depends on two basic complementary outcomes (outputs): (i) Development of critical agribusinesses through better natural resource management and high added value for rural.
3. Scope of Work (5 to 7 items only)
Under the supervision of the Rural Development Projects Coordinator and the Head of Department of Surveys and Projects Department (SPD) of General Directorate of Agrarian Reform, the Project Assistant (Interpreter) will provide translation services, necessary assistance and will support the day-to-day implementation of the project making. Specific Duties include the below shared responsibilities:
• Provide general administrative support to ensure the smooth running of the project activities.
• Organize meetings, help drafting the business correspondence with the Project Team and other communication with the project partner
• Support the project outreach and PR activities in general, including keeping of the project website up to date.
• Keep files with project documents.
• Control the usage of non-expendable equipment (record keeping, drawing up regular inventories);
• Draft correspondence and documents; support the finalization of correspondence of administrative nature.
• Act on telephone inquiries, fax, post and e-mail transmissions, and co-ordinate appointments.
• Provide interpretation during project related meetings and events.
• Translate documents into English to Turkish or from Turkish to English as deemed necessary by the Project Manager.
• Perform any other administrative/financial duties as requested by the Project Manager.
• Provide support to preparation administrative documents such as tender documents.
• Follow up UNDP administrative procedures in terms of procurement and/or finance.
• Provide support to PR activities project website, social media accounts and e-mail system of project.
- Institutional Arrangement
The Project Assistant (Interpreter) will report to the Rural Development Projects Coordinator and the Head of Department of Surveys and Projects Department (SPD). The incumbent reports to UNDP and MoAF, specific reporting lines will be communicated to the incumbent upon signature of the contract. He /She will work in coordination with the Regional and Provincial Project Staff, Provincial Project Officers, PPMU and CPMU employees.
- Competencies
| Core | |||||
| 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 competencies (insert up to 7 competencies) Thematic Area Name Definition | |||||
| Business Directiont & Strategy | Strategic Thinking | Ability to leverage learning from a variety of sources to anticipate and respond to future trends; to demonstrate foresight in order to model what future developments and possible ways forward look like for UNDP | |||
| Business Directiont & Strategy | System Thinking | Ability to use objective problem analysis and judgement to understand how interrelated elements coexist within an overall process or system, and to consider how altering one element can impact on other parts of the system | |||
| Business Direction & Strategy | Effective Decision Making | -Ability to take decisions in a timely and efficient manner in line with one’s authority, area of expertise, and resources | |||
- Minimum Qualifications of the Successful NPSA
| Min. Education requirements | Completion of High School Education is required orBachelor’s degree in administration or relates fields in English language will be given due consideration |
| Min. years of relevant work experience | Minimum 4 years of experience with High School Education or1 year with bachelor’s degree of relevant working experience with international institutions/organizations or foreign funded projects is required |
| Required skills | At least 1 (one) year of professional experience in interpretation and translation is required.Good secretarial, organizational and communication skills is required.Good computer skills in common word processing (MS Word), spreadsheet (MS Excel) is required |
| Desired skills in addition to the competencies covered in the Competencies section | Asset: Advanced degree in related disciplineAsset: Minimum 1 (one) year of experience with internationally funded projectAsset: Knowledge in administrative procedures of GovernmentAsset: Prior experience in international organizations (including but not limited to EC, UN Agencies etc.) |
| Required Language(s) | Excellent command of written and spoken English and Turkish is required |
| Professional Certificates | n/a |