E T Temporary - Receptionist

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Posted on Jul 22, 2026
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Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending extreme poverty, increasing shared prosperity and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, we work with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges. For more information, please visit www.worldbank.org Country and Position Context The Government of Uzbekistan launched in 2017 an ambitious program of market-oriented reforms that are unprecedented in the country’s modern history. The new Government’s National Development Strategy for 2022-26 aims at transforming the country by further liberalizing the economy, reshaping the role of the state in the economy, modernizing the agriculture sector, strengthening governance, creating markets, including in the financial services, enabling private sector growth, investing in human capital, and improving social protection and service delivery for all citizens. The country’s reform momentum has also created new opportunities for regional cooperation in Central Asia, including in energy, transport, water, and economic connectivity. Country and Position Context The Government of Uzbekistan launched in 2017 an ambitious program of market-oriented reforms that are unprecedented in the country’s modern history. The Government’s National Development Strategy for 2022-26 aims at transforming the country by further liberalizing the economy, reshaping the role of the state in the economy, modernizing the agriculture sector, strengthening governance, creating markets, including in the financial services, enabling private sector growth, investing in human capital, and improving social protection and service delivery for all citizens. The country’s reform momentum has also created new opportunities for regional cooperation in Central Asia, including in energy, transport, water, and economic connectivity. The WBG program responds to the Government’s broadened reform agenda. A Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for FY22-26 was endorsed in May 2022 (and extended through FY27 under the Performance and Learning Review (PLR)) and supports Uzbekistan as it implements the next phase of reforms in its transition toward an inclusive and sustainable market economy and the achievement of the national development strategy twin goals of upper-middle-income status and poverty reduction by 2030. The CPF focuses on 10 CPF objectives that will underpin 3 high-level objectives necessary to achieve Uzbekistan’s 2030 aspirations: increase private sector employment, improve human capital, and improve livelihoods and resilience through greener growth. The Uzbekistan portfolio comprises 24 projects with net commitments totaling $5.4B in Agriculture, Energy, Water, Urban Development, Digital Inclusion, Transport, Education, Health, Social Protection, Social Development, and Macroeconomic Reforms. This makes the World Bank financed program in Uzbekistan one of the largest in the ECA region. The World Bank Office in Uzbekistan is looking for a highly organized, energized and experienced person capable of operating effectively in a very demanding fast-paced environment, to serve as a Receptionist with an expanded function of an administrative assistant, providing administrative support to the Uzbekistan Country Office. https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/uzbekistan Responsibilities: • Answer and properly transfer incoming telephone calls. • Meet office visitors and connect with relevant staff. • Keep staff telephone list (personal, mobile office extension numbers) up-to-date and assist staff to find needed contacts and addresses. • Register, log and distribute incoming correspondence. • Coordinate registration/ scanning of outgoing letters with Program Assistants. • Monitor timely responses by the task teams to the incoming correspondence; for that purpose maintain tracking system of incoming correspondence. • Coordinate distribution of outgoing letters with courier. • Distribute to staff a schedule of upcoming missions weekly. • Prepare letters in required languages on different administrative subjects addressed to the World Bank office administration, to the State Customs offices and other administrative offices or vendors. • File hard copies of all incoming letters and control outgoing filing. • Be of help on ad-hoc requests like calling a taxi for visiting mission members. • Scan documents and send them to relevant staff as requested. • Maintain diplomatic pouch registration and shipment, and prepare charge backs for pouch shipment from the office. • Order stationary supplies for the office based on current needs. • Keep track of conference room usage. • Help other assistants on ad-hoc basis to draft routine correspondence, use word processing skills to produce complex text, reports, figures, graphs, etc., according to standard Bank formats and distribution. • Assist the country management unit by translating ad hoc documents on a selective basis, applying effective proofreading and grammar proofing in English and Russian languages. • Assist staff in preparation and logistical planning (including catering services' ordering) for office events, e.g. conferences, workshops, negotiations, etc. • Perform basic clerical tasks, such as file searching in the reception records, operate standard office equipment as required for the functioning of office reception. • Ensure that a staff member is present at the Reception desk at all times during office hours. • Performs ad hoc other duties as requested by Executive Assistant and Country Management Unit’s operational staff
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