Tiered Approach

In line with the commitment to safeguard capacity and support personnel already in the Organization, a majority of UNDP UNCDF/UNV vacancies are advertised using a tiered application process whereby:

• Tier 0: UNDP/UNCDF/UNV IP staff holding permanent (PA) and fixed-term (FTA) appointments, whose posts will be abolished, or contracts will be terminated or not renewed during 2026.
• Tier 1: Other UNDP/UNCDF/UNV staff holding permanent (PA) and fixed-term (FTA) appointments
• Tier 2: UNDP/UNCDF/UNV staff holding temporary appointments (TA), personnel on regular PSA contracts, and Expert and Specialist UN Volunteers
• Tier 3 or no tier indicated: All other contract types from UNDP/UNCDF/UNV and other agencies, and other external candidates

Please make note of the Tier(s) indicated in the vacancy title, if any, and ensure that you satisfy the eligibility to apply.

Background

With a total gross domestic product (GDP) of over USD 430 billion, Bangladesh is the second-largest economy in South Asia. Between 2000 and 2019, Bangladesh’s economy registered high GDP growth, averaging around 6% per annum. During this period, there were several notable improvements across different socioeconomic indicators, putting the country on track for a formal graduation from the group of least developed countries (LDCs) in 2026. Bangladesh’s score on the human development index (HDI) increased from 0.49 in 2000 to 0.68, placing it among countries categorized as medium human development. The national poverty rate fell from over 48% in 2000 to less than 19% in 2022. 

Despite the progress, Bangladesh faces several development challenges, and with the current trend, the country is unlikely to meet several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Even before the political crisis in 2024, Bangladesh was grappling with double-digit inflation. According to the latest estimate, GDP is expected to grow by 3.7% in 2025, much slower than the GDP growth in the past. Without an uptick in private investment, the economy cannot diversify, a necessary condition for creating decent jobs. With low social spending and weak capacities, the government is constrained from providing quality services to the people. Bangladesh is also one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change and is prone to natural hazards, including climate-induced disasters.   

As the UN’s development agency, UNDP has been in Bangladesh since 1972, promoting inclusive growth and democratic governance, and helping the country to achieve equitable and sustainable development. UNDP has been a close partner of Bangladesh in co-designing policy solutions, building national capacities, and promoting innovations to help meet its developmental aspirations.

UNDP helps the people and government of Bangladesh create a more sustainable, peaceful, innovative, and resilient economy, environment, and society. Its work helps our partners improve the quality of Bangladeshi governance and reduce poverty and inequality in cities and villages across the country. It promotes new and innovative energy and climate solutions and helps make Bangladesh a disaster preparation and management leader. It assists society’s most vulnerable, helping women, youth, and minorities access justice and opportunities to ensure no one is left behind. 

The United Nations continued to support the Government of Bangladesh in addressing one of the world’s largest and most protracted humanitarian crises, with over 1.1 million Rohingya refugees residing in Cox’s Bazar alongside vulnerable host communities. The response context remained highly complex, shaped by protracted displacement, environmental degradation, and growing exposure to climate-related hazards. Cox’s Bazar continues to face recurrent cyclones, intense monsoon rainfall, landslides, and flooding, which compound humanitarian vulnerabilities and place additional pressure on already strained services and ecosystems. 

In this setting, UNDP has been contributing to strengthening the humanitarian-development-peace nexus through integrated interventions that combined disaster risk reduction, environmental service delivery, and evidence-based planning. These efforts aimed not only to respond to immediate needs, but also to build longer-term resilience, reduce systemic risks, and support more sustainable and inclusive response systems.

Duties and Responsibilities

This position will directly report to the Head of Sub Office (Head of Field Office), UNDP Sub-office, Cox’s Bazar.

General Administration Support:

• Provide general administration and operational management support to the UNDP-CXB Sub-office in full compliance with UNDP rules & regulations.
• Effective management of the Sub-office project’s operations team comprising finance, procurement, administration, and logistics issues.
• Full compliance with UN/UNDP rules, regulations, and policies of financial processes, financial recording/reporting system, and follow-up on audit recommendations, implementation of effective internal controls, and proper functioning of a client-oriented financial resources management system.
• Provision support for planning the project's financial resources, such as preparing reports containing an analysis of the financial situation, preparing and monitoring budgets, and regularly analyzing and reporting on budget approvals and the delivery situation.
• Project planning, Management support and Annual Work Plan (AWP). Ensure the administration and implementation of operational and financial strategies and adapt processes and procedures to achieve Sub-office results.
• Preparing invoices for all types of payments and addressing any financial and payment process issues with GSSC.
• Prepare the revision of AWPs, and periodic revisions of procurement/HR plans, ensuring that plans are updated promptly and in close coordination with the UNDP Country Office (Programme, HR and Procurement Teams).
• Provide organizational and administrative support in implementing project activities, including organizing roundtables, workshops, training, meetings, and other events.
• Support the projects in the procurement process and coordinate with UNDP-CXB Operations, including assistance in preparing RFQs, ITBs, or RFP documents, conducting Micro-purchasing canvases, receiving quotations, bids, or proposals, and evaluating them.

Travel and Transport Support:

• Monitoring TR, TP, Ticketing and processing Daily Subsistence Allowance (DSA);
• Monitoring Fleet management functions like vehicle scheduling, reviewing monthly vehicle movement sheets/log sheets and renewal insurance, fitness, registration, etc., before expiry.
• Prepare all administrative documents and maintain files systematically.
• Supervise and monitor duties/ activities of drivers and messengers of the Sub-office.

Asset Management Support:

• Ensure project assets management functions, like receive, assign, physical counts, reporting, and proper documentation.
• Assist asset transfer/disposal as per UNDP asset management guidelines.
• Assist in day-to-day administrative support for smooth operation of project activity in the field.
• Provide support in HR documentation and Maintain leave records of project staff.
• Prepared Invoices for a smooth payment process for consultants and vendors.
• Maintain project cash advance and ensure invoices/bills as per UNDP policy/rules.

Project Management and knowledge sharing:

• Manage Sub-office all types of contract management.
• Drafting of Letters of Agreement, Memorandum of Understanding, Cost-sharing agreements, Fund release letters, Contracts with implementing partners, and other documents per UNDP’s rules, regulations, and formats in close coordination with project administration and finance associate.
• Oversee the management of various contracts with implementing partners—government entities, NGOs, UN agencies, etc.;
• Ensure compliance with all the guidelines regarding personnel management, procurement, sub-contract and financial management.
• Maintain liaison and due coordination support with relevant agencies and Projects stakeholders.
• Organize training for the operations/projects staff on administration. 
• Provide sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice

The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization

Competencies

Core Competencies:

• Achieve Results: LEVEL 2: Scale up solutions and simplifies processes, balances speed and accuracy in doing work
• Think Innovatively: LEVEL 2: Offer new ideas/open to new approaches, demonstrate systemic/integrated thinking
• Learn Continuously: LEVEL 2: Go outside comfort zone, learn from others and support their learning
• Adapt with Agility:  LEVEL 2: Adapt processes/approaches to new situations, involve others in change process
• Act with Determination: LEVEL 2: Able to persevere and deal with multiple sources of pressure simultaneously
• Engage and Partner: LEVEL 2: Is facilitator/integrator, bring people together, build/maintain coalitions/partnerships
• Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 2: Facilitate conversations to bridge differences, considers in decision making

People Management:

UNDP People Management Competencies can be found in the dedicated site.

Cross-functional & Technical competencies:

Business Management    

• Monitoring: Ability to provide managers and key stakeholders with regular feedback on the consistency or discrepancy between planned and actual activities and program performance and results
• Partnerships Management: Ability to build and maintain partnerships with wide networks of stakeholders, Governments, civil society and private sector partners, experts and others in line with UNDP strategy and policies
• Event planning and execution: Ability to plan, manage and execute of public and private events to ensure that they support and amplify individual communications and advocacy initiatives, as well as UNDP's overall brand and mandate.
• Documents and records management: Overall document (hard or electronic) management; registry and retention policy including storing and archiving

Business Development    

• Knowledge Generation: Ability to research and turn information into useful knowledge, relevant for content, or responsive to a stated need.

General (across the functions)    

• Public relations: Ability to build and maintain an overall positive public image for the organization, its mandate and its brand, while ensuring that individual campaigns and other communications and advocacy initiatives are Supported in reaching the public. 

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• Secondary Education is required. or 
• University degree (Bachelor’s degree) in Business Administration, Public Administration; Social Science; Management and Finance or any other related field from any recognized University will be given due consideration, but it is not a requirement.

Experience:

• Minimum of 7(seven) years (with secondary education) or 4 (four) years (with bachelor’s degree) of relevant experience in vehicle and assets management including logistic support preferably with any National or International/ Development organizations is required

Required skills and competencies:

• Strong IT skills and sound knowledge of MS Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook.
• Experience in handling Quantum or web-based enterprise resource management systems.
• Demonstrates behaviours such as teamwork, knowledge sharing, and maintaining relationships.
• Strong communication skills in written and oral.

Desired additional skills and competencies:

• Understanding of general administration and budgeting, particularly international development organization’s administrative, program, and financial procedures.
• Experience in admin and logistics support for organizing seminars, workshops and other events.
• Familiarity with payment processes, financial processes and providing services using enlisted suppliers.
• Experience in handling of Quantum or web-based enterprise resource management systems.
• Experience in working with international organizations, or development organizations.
• Demonstrated strong client orientation and planning skills.

Required Language(s) (at working level):

• Fluency in written and spoken English and Bangla is required. 

Equal opportunity

As an equal opportunity employer, UNDP values diversity as an expression of the multiplicity of nations and cultures where we operate and, as such, we encourage qualified applicants from all backgrounds to apply for roles in the organization. Our employment decisions are based on merit and suitability for the role, without discrimination. 

UNDP is also committed to creating an inclusive workplace where all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, are valued, can thrive, and benefit from career opportunities that are open to all.

Sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse of authority

UNDP does not tolerate harassment, sexual harassment, exploitation, discrimination and abuse of authority. All selected candidates, therefore, undergo relevant checks and are expected to adhere to the respective standards and principles. 

Right to select multiple candidates

UNDP reserves the right to select one or more candidates from this vacancy announcement.  We may also retain applications and consider candidates applying to this post for other similar positions with UNDP at the same grade level and with similar job description, experience and educational requirements.

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