Overview
The National Project Coordinator will ensure effective project management of assigned projects, provide advisory support on climate resilience and river basin management, and build strategic partnerships. The role aligns projects with UN values and UNDP priorities, and ensures mainstreaming of gender, disability, and youth considerations.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and coordinate project activities based on the Project Document, including developing work plans and preparing progress reports.
- Monitor Project progress against timetable and secure necessary goods, services, and personnel.
- Monitor financial resources and ensure accuracy of financial reports.
- Manage and monitor project risks and provide quality assurance for financial, procurement, and administrative processes.
- Maintain coordination and quality assurance of expert inputs and products, and among project partners.
- Identify opportunities for deepening cooperation and recommend approaches for dealing with stakeholders.
- Maintain communication with local and international counterparties, consultants, and experts.
- Manage project tracking in QUANTUM and transfer of project deliverables and assets.
- Provide advisory support on climate resilience and river basin management issues.
- Identify, collect, and analyze policy-related information and data.
- Identify and synthesize best practices and lessons learned into project goals.
- Support the development of policies to address challenges and needs.
- Codify and share best practices and lessons learned.
- Cultivate relationships with authorities, academia, NGOs, and other stakeholders.
- Establish effective linkages with regional project teams and other relevant projects.
- Disseminate project reports and respond to queries.
- Ensure mainstreaming of gender, disability, and youth considerations in project activities.
- Support preparation of gender equality background materials and ensure data disaggregation by gender/disability/youth, age, ethnic affiliation.
- Support reporting on gender mainstreaming and identify partnership strategies with providers of specialized expertise.
Required Experience
- Applicants with a Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) are required to have a minimum of two (2) years of relevant professional experience at the national or international level in the design, implementation, monitoring and/or evaluation of development projects.
- Experience in the implementation of larger projects run by international organizations and/or large environmental protection projects is a strong asset.
- Proven experience in handling multi-sectoral coordination among professionals and regional teams is desired.
- Policy, advisory and advocacy experience and track record of engagement with United Nations, other development actors and donors are desirable.
- Experience in Gender mainstreaming is an asset.
- Experience liaising and cooperating with government officials, municipal authorities, academic institutions, CSOs is an asset.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (Master´s degree or equivalent) in Development Studies, Social Policy, Social Sciences, Sustainable Development, Gender Studies, International Development/Relations, Public Policy, Political Law, Sustainable Studies or other related, or a similar field is required, or A first-level university degree (Bachelor´s Degree) in the areas stated above in combination with additional 2 years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
