Political Affairs Assistant

The Political Affairs Assistant supports senior political affairs officers by processing information, preparing drafts and reports, monitoring political developments, and providing liaison and translation services in the context of the Middle East Peace Process based in Gaza.

Responsibilities

• Receives and processes information contained in communications and publications from different sources, including the press; maintains up-to-date knowledge of events relating to political issues in a specified area or subject matter.
• Assists senior officers with preparing drafts, briefing notes, background papers and talking points.
• Assists in preparing summaries of articles from a wide variety of sources and drafts a variety of correspondence, and section reports.
• Monitors political, socio-economic, and other politically relevant developments in an assigned area.
• Assists in providing input for political, humanitarian and economic efforts and programmes.
• Updates information in the databases that track project progress and provides other information relevant to the assigned area.
• Keeps abreast of UN policies, including those related to Political Affairs work and takes part in Political Affairs trainings.
• Assists senior officers in liaison with officials.
• Provides Arabic-English translation, interpretation and note-taking.
• Performs other related duties as required.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent is required.
• Training in Political Affairs related is desirable.
• Training in communication, project monitoring, logistical, budgetary & administrative issues is desirable.
• Five (5) years of related work experience in providing support work in political science, international relations, legal/paralegal, disarmament, security development management, conflict resolution or related work with NGOs, civil society organizations or working as a civil servant is required.
• A minimum of two years of experience working on political issues in or on the Middle East is required.
• Experience in preparing analytical reports on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is desirable.
• English language proficiency at UN Level III in reading, writing, listening and speaking is required.
• Arabic language proficiency at UN Level III in reading, writing, listening and speaking is required.

Skills

• Political Affairs Support
• Project Monitoring
• Logistics Coordination
• Budgetary Support
• Administrative Support
• Political Science
• International Relations
• Legal Support
• Paralegal Work
• Disarmament
• Security Development Management
• Conflict Resolution
• Report Preparation
• Analytical Reporting
• Liaison Support
• Translation Services
• Middle East Political Issues
• Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Analysis
• English Language Proficiency
• Language Proficiency in Arabic

Languages

English, Arabic