POLITICAL AFFAIRS ASSISTANT
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan · KABUL · G-5 · Apply by October 27, 2026
About this role
Org. Setting and Reporting This position is located in the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) within the Joint Analysis and Reporting Section, in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Political Affairs Assistant reports to a more senior Political Affairs Officer. Responsibilities • Receives and processes information contained in communications and publications from different sources, including from Df governmental and Afghan non-governmental actors inside and outside Afghanistan; maintains up-to-date knowledge of events relating to political and security issues in a specified area or subject matter. • Assist with preparing drafts, routine reporting documents, briefing notes, and talking points. • Assists in preparing summaries of articles from a wide variety of sources and drafts a variety of correspondence and reports, in particular daily situation reports. • Monitors political, security and other relevant developments in an assigned area. • Updates information in the databases that track information relevant to the assigned area. • Undertakes outreach to relevant Afghan interlocutors to develop effective contact networks • Assists with the collection and analysis of…