General Administration
• Drafts routine correspondence to respond to enquiries in respect to relevant administrative, financial audit, personnel matters.
• Act as a travel and shipment approver for all travel undertaken by staff members, meeting participants and others as approved and authorized by the supervisor;
• Calculates and initiates entitlements for all such travel and submits to the Travel Unit for approval, e.g., airfare, excess baggage entitlements, terminal expenses, airfreight entitlements, daily subsistence allowance for staff and dependents on traveling on missions, etc.;
• Computes and determines the revised amounts of per diem where there is deviation from original travel plans;
• Examines and pre-audits the official itineraries, as stated in the travel authorizations, in order to determine air travel cost entitlements of the proposed official travel and ensures conformity with established rules, regulations and relevant directives;
• Reviews travel claims and supporting documentation for completeness, accuracy and validity in Umoja solution, prior to forwarding to the travel processing unit; ensures that entitlements are in conformity with UN Rules and Regulations.
Coordinates extensively with service units and liaises frequently with internal team members both at Headquarters and in the field.
• Performs other related administrative duties, as required (e.g., operational travel programme; monitoring accounts and payment to vendors and individual contractors for services; physical space planning; identification of office technology needs and maintenance of equipment, software and systems; organizing and coordinating seminars, conferences and translations).
• May be responsible for guiding, training, and supervising the work of more junior General Service staff.