This UNV assignment will support UNDP Health Governance Initiative (HEART) and will collaborate with other teams in the HEART Cluster and the Democratic Governance and Poverty Reduction (DGPRU) Unit. S/he will work closely with HEART Cluster project team (FMTA, BGSI, and other projects in HEART), operations units, and programme staff in the office to provide administrative, financial, procurement, and coordination assistance for HEART activities. Under the supervision of the Budget Management Associate, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks: 1. Support the project team to ensure effective project planning and implementation focusing on achievement of the following results: • Compiles, summarizes, and presents basic information/data on specific project and related topics or issues; • Implement project standard operating procedures in line with the government and UNDP’s regulations. 2. Support to the effective on progress of project implementation: • Support Project Management Unit (PMU) and project team for administrative and office coordination in preparing annual and quarterly work plans as well as project board meetings, audit, operational and financial closure of a project; • Support to the preparation of quarterly project reports, in line with the monitoring and reporting guidelines and presents it to the project assurance team on a timely manner; • To provide administrative support and accurate data collection for preparation of results-oriented progress reports. 3. Provides administrative support to the Project Management Unit focusing on achievement of the following results: • Support Project Management Unit (PMU) and project team for Administrative and office coordination of project implementation activities to process and follow-up on administrative actions, e.g. request for payment, recruitment and appointment of personnel, travel arrangements, event arrangements, cash distributions (direct cash or by transfer), training/study tours, authorization of payments, disbursement of funds, procurement of equipment and services, security compliance, VAT exemption, asset management, etc.; • Effective administration of general office matters such as response to simple information requests and inquiries; reviews, logs and routes incoming correspondence; establishment of filling system and maintenance files/records; organization of meetings, workshops; routine administrative tasks, including maintaining attendance records, assessing telephone billing, etc.; • Effective implementation of operations policies for gender sensitive approach at the project level; • Keep records of project expenditures, and ensure all project-related financial documentation are well maintained and readily available when required by the Project Manager, Project Associate or Budget Management Associate; • Ensure that project funds are used in compliance with the Project Document and financial rules and procedures. 4. Support strategic partnerships, communication and support to the implementation of re- source mobilization: • Support Project Management Unit (PMU) and project team in updating database of the relevant public and development partners private sector, civil society and other stakeholders who are counterparts for the project; • In coordination with UNDP’s Communication unit and other relevant counterpart communications department, support documentation of the project activities as a tool to communicate results, deepen stakeholder knowledge and buy-in to the project, and resource mobilization for the project; • Effective contribution and support of with data collection for gender analysis and gender mainstreaming at project level. 5. Supports knowledge building and knowledge sharing focusing on achievement of the following results: • Participation in the trainings for the operations/ projects staff; • Contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice; • Ensure active participation in the knowledge sharing in gender analysis and gender mainstreaming. 6. The incumbent of the position should avoid any kind of discriminatory behaviour including gender discrimination and ensure that: • Human rights and gender equality is prioritized as an ethical principle within all actions; • Activities are designed and implemented in accordance with “Social and Environmental Standards of UNDP”; • Any kind of diversities based on ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, disability, religion, class, gender are respected within all implementations including data production; • Differentiated needs of women and men are considered; • Inclusive approach is reflected within all actions and implementations, in that sense an enabling and accessible setup in various senses such as disability gender language barrier is created; • Necessary arrangements to provide gender parity within all committees, meetings, trainings etc.