Intern Opportunity @ UNDP Nigeria

UNDP Nigeria is recruiting Interns to work with the Service Center Abuja.

Job Position: Intern Working With The Service Center

Location: Abuja, Nigeria

Type Of Contract: Internship
Post Level: Intern
Languages Required: English
Starting Date: (Date When The Selected Candidate Is Expected To Start) 01-Aug-2012
Duration Of Initial Contract: Three (3) Months

Background
Under the guidance and direct supervision of the Service Centre Manager, the Intern will support the implementation of the UNDP Country Office's sourcing strategy to promote easy access to vendor information.

Duties and Responsibilities

Objectuve:
The Intern is expected to support the work of the Service Centre in the overall effort to enhance procurement in support to UNDP’s programme delivery in Nigeria.

Specific Tasks
The Intern will work under the direct supervision of the Service Centre Manager for a period of 3 months and will carry out the following tasks:

• Assist in the regular updating of the vendor information in UNDP approved sites.
• Assist in the inputting selected vendor’s information and other data in the VDMS.
• In coordination with the Service Centre Manager compile the list of selected vendors from the EOI for Contract Committees consideration.
• Assist in the organization of existing files for easy access to information. Provision of the logistics support to the events.
• Assist in establishing an electronic library in the Service Centre’s share point.
• Other relevant tasks as may be assigned by the Service Centre Manager and other appropriate senior management staff of the Country Office.

Deliverables and Timelines

• UNDP Country Office VPMS updated with approved vendor data in different area of procurement; (Aug 2012). 
• Service Centre vendor contact list updated (Sept. 2012).
• Electronic library share point established (Sept. 2012).

Competencies

• Excellent organizing and analysis of information skills;
• Good in the use office machines and equipment;
• Ability to work in a competitive environment and with diverse cultures and with minimum supervision.

Required Skills and Experience
Interns are selected on a competitive basis.

The following minimum qualifications are required:

Education:
Enrolment in a relevant graduate-level degree programme such as business administration, economics or social sciences. Only those students who will return to their studies upon completion of their internship assignments are eligible.

Language Requirements:
Fluency in English.
Working knowledge of another UN language is an asset.

Conditions of Internship:

• Interns are considered gratis personnel.
• They are not staff members.
• Interns are not financially remunerated by UNDP.
• The costs associated must be borne by the nominating institution, related institution or government, which may provide the required financial assistance to its students; or by the student, who will have to obtain financing for subsistence and make his or her own arrangements for travel, accommodation, visa etc.

Application Closing Date
16th July, 2012

How To Apply
Iterested candidates should:
Click here to apply online

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UNDP Nigeria Massive (10 Titles) Job Vacancies Recruitment

UNDP Nigeria Massive (10 Titles) Job Vacancies Recruitment

UNDP is the United Nations' global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in 177 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and our wide range of partners.

World leaders have pledged to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, including the overarching goal of cutting poverty in half by 2015. UNDP's network links and coordinates global and national efforts to reach these Goals. Our focus is helping countries build and share solutions to the challenges
UNDP Nigeria is seeking applications to fill numerous positions in our effort to meet Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), setting clear targets for reducing poverty, disease, hunger, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women by 2015.
Put your ideas, experience and expertise to work.

At the United Nations Millennium Summit, the world's leaders pledged to cut global poverty in half by 2015. The United Nations Development Programme is charged with helping make this happen. We want your help to do it.

As the UN's global development network, UNDP is at the forefront of today's development dialogue in championing the poor and disadvantaged. Our focus is on providing developing countries with knowledge-based consulting services and building national, regional and global coalitions for change. With a strong history of inclusion and consensus-building, UNDP has earned the trust and partnership of leaders across the developing world.

We are now hiring a new generation of expert practitioners who want to contribute to those partnerships by offering strategic approaches to long-standing problems. We seek individuals who can communicate advice and new ideas across cultures and all strata of society.

We have a wide range of international opportunities at various levels; competitive salaries offered commensurate with experience.

For more information please click on the categories on the left.

Vacancies:

1.) International Consultant (Team Leader) - Strengthening the UNDP Nigeria's Country Office Local Governance and Decentralization Programme.

Deadline: 30th November, 2011

2.) Consultant - Strengthening the UNDP Nigeria's Country Office Local Governance and Decentralization Programme

Deadline: 30th November, 2011

3.) Team Leader - Institutional Development and Multi-Stakeholder Trust Fund (International & Local Consultants can Apply)

Deadline: 29th November, 2011

4.) Team Leader - Social Sector Investment Plan (International & Local Consultants can Apply)

Deadline: 29th November, 2011

5.) Consultant for Institutional Development and Multi - Stakeholder Trust Fund (International & Local Consultants can Apply)

Deadline: 29th November, 2011

6.) Consultant for Social Sector Investment Plan (International & Local Consultants can Apply)

Deadline: 29th November, 2011

7.) Consultant for Public Sector Investment Plan (International & Local Consultants can Apply)

Deadline: 29th November, 2011

8.) Team Leader, Public Sector Investment Plan (International & Local Consultants can Apply)

Deadline: 29th November, 2011

9.) International Consultant (Team Leader) - Strengthening the UNDP Nigeria's Country Office Local Governance and Decentralization Programme

Deadline: 30th November, 2011

10.) Consultant - Strengthening the UNDP Nigeria's Country Office Local Governance and Decentralization Programme

Deadline: 30th November, 2011
UNDP helps developing countries attract and use aid effectively. In all our activities, we encourage the protection of human rights, capacity development and the empowerment of women. UNDP Resident Representative normally also serves as the Resident Coordinator of development activities for the United Nations system as a whole. Through such coordination, UNDP seeks to ensure the most effective use of UN and international aid resources. UNDP is currently aware of fictitious vacancy announcements that are being circulated through email messages and different web sites. The purpose of such fraudulent activity is to deceive an individual and convince him/her to send a "registration/visa/booking/other fee" prior to "hiring".

Since logos, emblems, forms, names and addresses are publicly available and can be easily copied or reproduced, applicants are strongly advised to take particular care in applying for vacancies, including undertaking all appropriate measures to protect against such advanced fee frauds. If you believe that you became a victim of such fraud, you may wish to report it to local law enforcement authorities for appropriate action.

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July 2011, UNDP in Nigeria Job Vacancies 2011

July 2011, UNDP in Nigeria Job Vacancies 2011

UNDP Nigeria is recruiting to fill the following positions:

1.) Technical Expert / Civil Society

Application Deadline: 8th July, 2011
Location: Abuja

2.) Technical Expert / Democratic Development

Application Deadline: 8th July, 2011
Location: Abuja

3.) Review Team Leader / Senior Electoral Expert

Application Deadline: 8th July, 2011
Location: Abuja

4.) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist

Application Deadline: 8th July, 2011
Location: Abuja

5.) International Expert Democratic Governance (National Assembly and Political Parties)

Application Deadline: 8th July, 2011
Location: Abuja

6.) Project Director

Application Deadline: 12th July, 2011
Location: Abuja

7.) Human Resources (HR) Associate

Application Deadline: 16th July, 2011
Location: Abuja

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Job Vacancy Nigeria, Driver (Yenegoa, Bayelsa), United Nation Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Recruitment

Job Vacancy Nigeria, Driver (Yenegoa, Bayelsa), United Nation Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Recruitment

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN's global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. In Nigeria, UNDP has been operating since independence in the 1960s, providing the country with relevant technical assistance required for sustainable economic and social development.United Nation Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

UNODC announces the following vacancy

Post Title: Driver

Level of Post: SB1

Type of Contract: Service Contract

Location: Yenegoa, Bayelsa State

Duration: 1 Year

Closing Date: 3^rd June 2011

For further details on the job description and application process visit UNDP’s jobsite and submit application. For further details on UN benefits and entitlements, click here.

UN is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. Qualified women are highly encouraged to apply.

About UNDP Nigeria

UNDP has been in Nigeria since the country became independent in 1960. In the last programme cycle (2003-2008), UNDP provided capacity building and policy development support to the Federal Government and 21 states drawn from the six geo-political zones in four programme areas: Governance & Human Rights; Poverty Reduction; HIV & AIDS; and Energy & Environment.

In November 2008, the Federal Government of Nigeria and UNDP agreed and signed a new 7th Country Programme that runs from 2009 – 2012 under the UN Development Assistance Framework, UNDAF II. The 7th CP offers a menu of programme options and components from which the federal and participating states government partners could chose. They are: i. the Economic Governance Programme, ii. the Capacity for Governance Programme, iii. the Private Sector Development Programme and, iv. theSustainability and Risk Management Programme. The 7th CP will be implemented through effective partnership with relevant federal government institutions and selected states.

UNDP will work in a total of 14 states of the federation. It will implement programmes alone in the following 7 states: Anambra, Bayelsa, Delta, Niger, Ondo, Rivers and Sokoto. Working with other UN agencies UNDP will carry out joint programmes in another 6 states and the FCT, viz; – Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Benue, Imo, Kaduna, Lagos and the FCT in the spirit of ‘delivery as one.’ In addition to working with federal and states government partners, UNDP will also partner with other stakeholders such as donors, development partners, academia, media and Civil Society Organisations.

The Country Office engages mainly in strategic upstream support and catalytic downstream activities, all aimed at enhancing human development and promoting the MDGs in Nigeria. Under the Economic Governance programme, (EGP) UNDP will provide strategic support to the Government’s fiscal planning to achieve medium to long-term development priorities. It has three sub-components: – Development planning and statistics, Fiscal policy reform, and Aid coordination.

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UNDP Nigeria Jobs Jun 2011: Vacancy- Driver (Abuja)

UNDP Nigeria Jobs Jun 2011: Vacancy- Driver (Abuja)

Driver

Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Application Deadline: 06-May-11
Additional Category: Management
Type Of Contract: FTA Local
Post Level: Gs-2
Languages Required: English
Starting Date: (Date When The Selected Candidate Is Expected To Start) 01-Jun-2011
Duration Of Initial Contract: One Year

Required Skills And Experience

Education: Secondary Education. Valid Driver’s license.

Experience:
2 years’ work experience as a driver; safe driving record; knowledge of driving rules and regulations and skills in minor vehicle repair.

Language Requirements:
Fluency in the language of the duty station, knowledge of the UN language of the duty station (english).
Applications should submit their CV using the UNDP Personal History Form (P11) posted at http://sas.undp.org/Documents/P11_Personal_history_form.doc. Only short-listed applicants will be contacted.

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.

Click Link to Apply
http://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?job_id=22786

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