Programme Assistant

UNODC’s agenda is achieved by implementing activities organized by programmes operating at the global, regional, and national levels. UNODC offers development assistance and encourages multilateral cooperation to: - Strengthen capacity to confront challenges related to transnational organized crime. - Tackle corruption and its devastating impact on societies. - Strengthen crime prevention and build effective criminal justice systems. - Support member states in implementing a balanced, comprehensive, and evidence-based approach to the world drug problem that addresses both supply and demand; and - Counter terrorism. UNODC’s Regional Office for Southeast Asia and the Pacific (ROSEAP) in Bangkok, Thailand serves as the hub for the organization’s activities in the region, including for programmes addressing transnational organized crime, alternative development, drug demand and harm reduction, criminal justice reform, and counterterrorism. Through these efforts, UNODC works with various government counterparts to advance the UN’s sustainable development agenda. Most projects contribute to targets under SDG 16: Peace Justice, and Strong Institutions, however many programmes work towards the targets of multiple Sustainable Development Goals.

The UNODC Regional Office for Southeast Asia and the Pacific (ROSEAP) is mandated to provide governments of countries in Southeast Asia and the Pacific with technical assistance to enhance governance, law enforcement capacity, justice-delivery services, and health authorities. UNODC mandates identify a number of key outputs with specific activities, which contribute to the overall improvement of government services in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. In addition, ROSEAP monitors and evaluates the impact of activities and cross-office deliverables. One of the key roles of ROSEAP is to provide Secretariat support to the Memorandum of Understanding on Drug Control in the Greater Mekong Subregion, which was signed by the six Mekong countries to address drug use, production, and trafficking problems in the Mekong. The programme assistant will work with the Regional Coordinator of the Mekong MOU Secretariat to enhance the operational effectiveness and efficiency of the Mekong MOU Secretariat on a daily basis.

Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of the Regional Coordinator of the Mekong MOU Secretariat or his/her designated mandated representative(s), the UN Volunteer will : - Assist in organizing international and national conferences, meetings, training and workshops held in Mekong countries and travel to the events' location if needed. - Facilitate travel-related preparations for participants to UNODC events; Prepare document required for consultants’ contract issuance/management and follow up on payment requests of their fees as per their terms of reference. - Provide support to assigned projects and to relevant UNODC personnel in Bangkok on aspects related to the preparation of payment requests in the UNODC administrative systems (Umoja and FOHRM), as well as payment reconciliation and expenditure verification. - Facilitate the procurement of goods and services required for the assigned projects, ensure compliance with, and verify, regulations and procedures to be applied when procuring goods or services. Conduct low value procurement (up to US$ 10,000) and initiate procurement processes for all types of goods and services required under the assigned projects. - Collect and compare offers from vendors and liaise with the UNODC Procurement Team in Bangkok and relevant personnel at UNDP Country Offices to ensure abidance with relevant UN rules and regulations. - Liaise with bidders and vendors, and follow up with suppliers and expediters to ensure timely delivery. - Take other assignments delegated by the Regional Coordinator.