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.
- 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 contexts.
- 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.
Required Experience
- Minimum of 7 years (with Master’s degree) or 9 years (with Bachelor´s degree) of progressively responsible experience in development in government, or an international/bilateral development organization is required.
- Minimum of 7 years of proven field coordination and project implementation experience in an organization of similar size and complexity.
- Minimum of 7 years demonstrated experience supporting field-based planning, monitoring, and quality assurance, with UNDP or another UN agency.
- Technical expertise in one or more of the following areas: recovery, resilience, livelihoods, community empowerment, gender equality, and social cohesion.
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- roven ability to work effectively in multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams.
- Sound understanding and capability to empower and develop the capacity of national staff.
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 two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
