Meetings Services Assistant

Supports the Security Council Secretariat Branch in New York to deliver Council meetings. The assistant coordinates documents, agendas, participants, meeting facilities and procedural records; maintains databases and website information; and provides logistical, travel and administrative support that keeps the Council’s daily programme of work and subsidiary-body activities running smoothly.

• Ensure documents and services are available for Security Council meetings
• Process Security Council documents and track publication status
• Check documents against UN standards and coordinate reproduction
• Prepare meeting agendas, journal summaries, communiqués and participant lists
• Maintain meeting and document databases and publish daily Journal information
• Create and post daily Security Council website entries
• Support travel-administration tasks for Council field missions
• Coordinate procedural and organisational arrangements with offices and delegations

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Seven years of conference-support experience, reduced to five years with a first-level university degree
• Be fluent in English

• Meeting servicing for an intergovernmental or similar organ is desirable
• Experience using documents and meetings management databases is desirable
• French is desirable

• Meeting servicing
• Document management
• Agenda preparation
• Database management
• Procedural support
• Records management

• gDoc
• ODS
• iSCAD+
• Umoja

• The locally recruited position is for an initial period of one year
• Local recruits are not eligible for allowances or benefits exclusive to international recruitment
• Assessment may include an assessment exercise and competency-based interview