Overview
The Field Implementation Coordinator supports and coordinates the day-to-day implementation of UNDP programme and project activities in a designated geographic area, working closely with field teams, implementing partners, and the Country Office.
Key Responsibilities
- Support timely and effective implementation of UNDP-supported activities.
- Identify and resolve delivery bottlenecks.
- Promote solutions-oriented problem solving.
- Identify and escalate field-level risks, delays, or contextual changes.
- Ensure consistency in implementation standards, community engagement approaches, and partner management practices.
- Support start-up, scale-up, or re-orientation of field activities.
- Lead UNDP’s day-to-day coordination in the assigned location.
- Support coordination among multiple projects operating in the same location.
- Facilitate regular field-level coordination meetings.
- Maintain close coordination with relevant project managers, PMUs, and CO units.
- Liaise with other UN agencies, humanitarian and development partners, and local service delivery actors.
- Support representation of UNDP at local coordination forums, technical meetings, and partner discussions.
- Undertake designated security focal point functions.
- Oversee routine field-level quality assurance.
- Identify implementation risks, quality gaps, or compliance concerns.
- Support the application of agreed safeguards, community engagement standards, and internal control measures.
- Support field monitoring of progress against outputs and targets.
- Contribute to periodic project reporting.
- Ensure field-level information is documented and shared.
- Monitor local developments and operational context.
- Provide periodic updates to senior management and relevant teams.
- Flag emerging risks, access constraints, or operational issues.
- Capture and share key field-level lessons learned and good practices.
- Support the effective day-to-day functioning of the Field/Area Office.
- Assist with organizing field visits, partner meetings, and programme or donor missions.
- Support basic administrative and coordination tasks linked to implementation.
- Facilitate knowledge and capacity building, knowledge sharing, and advocacy.
- Identify capacity building needs and opportunities.
- Ensure appropriate training, project workshops and other relevant activities are organized and implemented.
- Ensure project reports capture results, lessons learned and good practices.
- Participate in and ensure sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice.
- Support establishment of knowledge platforms for the project.
- Promote advocacy for UNDP’s work and opportunities for collaboration.
Required Experience
- Minimum of 5 years (with Master’s degree) or 7 years (with Bachelor´s degree) of progressively responsible experience in development in government, or an international/bilateral development organization is required.
- At least 5 years of proven field coordination and project implementation experience in an organization of similar size and complexity.
- At least 5 years demonstrated experience supporting field-based planning, monitoring, and quality assurance, with UNDP or another UN agency.
- Experience using computer is required demonstrating strong competence with MS Office applications (especially Excel).
- Technical experience in one or more of the following areas: recovery, resilience, livelihoods, community empowerment, gender equality, and social cohesion (desired).
- Experience working effectively in multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams (desired).
- Experience empowering and developing the capacity of national staff (desired).
- Familiar with UN/UNDP web-based system and procedures (desired).
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in Development Studies, Business Administration, Social Sciences, Public Administration, Economics, Law or a related field is required, or
- A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas mentioned above in combination with an additional 2 years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
