Join Our Mission to Foster Prosperity in Asia

Are you ready to make a difference in the future of Asia and be a catalyst for positive change? We are thrilled to offer a unique opportunity to become an important part of the prestigious Asian Development Bank (ADB). At ADB, our mission is simple yet powerful: to alleviate poverty and promote sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region.

Organizational Setting and Reporting Relationship

The position Operations Assistant is assigned to the Financial Sector Office (SD3-FIN) within the Sectors Department 3 (SD3). SD3 aims to deliver impactful sector strategy, initiatives, and integrated solutions that advance ADB’s strategic agenda in finance, human and social development, and public sector management and governance in the region and with ADB’s clients. SD3, which is comprised of three sector offices, delivers or supports sovereign, nonsovereign, and advisory operations; delivers knowledge services; supports regional departments (RDs) and resident missions (RMs) in engaging with developing member countries (DMCs); and ensures ADB’s technical leadership externally and internally.   

FIN leads policy development and dialogue, knowledge management, project quality assurance, sector analytic work, and loan and technical assistance (TA) processing and administration in the financial sector.

You will report to the designated Technical International staff and senior Technical Local staff (as applicable). 

Your Role

As an Operations Assistant, you will provide administrative and operational support by coordinating administrative activities for the sector office and provide operational support in project administration, project processing activities related to loans and TA, database management, and knowledge management.

You will:

• Support the preparation of necessary loan/grant and technical assistance TA documents (concept note, Report and Recommendation of the President, TA reports, project and TA completion reports) and ensure that these documents are in accordance with the latest ADB templates and procedures, and Handbook of Style and Usage. Coordinate and monitor the team's TAs under processing and coordinate with other staff to ensure eOps and SovOps updating. 

• Coordinate and monitor milestone processing events of assigned loan/grant/TAs and report any delay in the processing of these documents to supervisors. 

• Support the programming, processing and administration of TAs and/or loan/grant projects such as selection of consultants, processing of claims, contract variations, internal memos and preparation of TA and Project Completion Reports, and Back-to-Office Reports under the guidance of the international staff and/or project o