Project Coordinator

Volunteering

Overview

Lead project coordination, ensure implementation and quality assurance in Gaza Strip.

You have:

• At least 3 years of professional work experience at the national and/or international level in project coordination, or other relevant programmes; experience working in the UN or other international development organization is an asset.
• Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) skills, along with prior experience in economic development projects, and emergency interventions, are valuable assets.
• Excellent oral and written skills; excellent drafting, formulation, reporting skills.
• Accuracy and professionalism in document production and editing; Excellent interpersonal skills; culturally and socially sensitive; ability to work inclusively and collaboratively with a range of partners.
• Self-motivated, ability to work with minimum supervision; ability to work with tight deadlines.
• Solid overall computer literacy, including proficiency in various Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, among others), email, and internet; familiarity with database management; and office technology equipment.
• Have affinity with or interest in the work of UNDP, volunteerism as a mechanism for durable development, and the UN system.

Contract

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UNDP/PAPP places empowerment, resilience, and sustainability at the center of its operation and focuses on three priority areas: the Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem, and Area C of the West Bank, where the needs are the greatest. UNDP/PAPP is active in three thematic areas: DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE & QUALITY SERVICES; INCLUSIVE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES; and SUSTAINABLE NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT.

This UNV assignment is part of UNDP’s Investment Programme for Resilience (IPR). The overarching objective of IPR is to enhance the socio-economic resilience of marginalized Palestinian communities, including greater self-reliance, enhanced ownership and leadership and cohesive identity, with a specific focus on women’s empowerment and gender equality at the community level (impact). To do so, the programme has embedded community engagement throughout the life cycle of the project, thus building leadership and ownership of the community. In its first three phases, IPR addressed community needs through: enabling the health sector to respond to COVID-19 and strengthening local service delivery and enhancing social cohesion in marginalized communities (phase 1); expanding its investments in community infrastructure linked to stronger community resilience (phase 2); and further expanding the community infrastructure component, strengthening access to socio-economic services and enhancing social engagement in marginalized and disadvantaged communities (phase 3). In its fourth phase, IPR is integrating a focus on gender equality as a means to further advance its work and contribution to community resilience. Overall, IPR IV seeks to ensure inclusive and more resilient access to gender-responsive and, whenever possible, gender-transformative socio-economic opportunities, supported by community engagement and addressing environmental sustainability. A key strategic approach of IPR is the engagement of men as allies for women’s socio-economic empowerment and agents of change towards gender equality.

A dedicated project coordinator is essential to ensure coherent planning, implementation, and monitoring across the project’s three integrated components—employment, economic empowerment, and psychosocial support—delivered in partnership with PNGO, MA’AN, and a wide network of CSOs. Given the project’s scale, gender-transformative nature (GEN3), and the need to uphold protection standards such as PSEA, MHPSS, and disability inclusion, the coordinator will play a critical role in ensuring quality assurance, safeguarding, and timely delivery. Furthermore, with multiple stakeholders, UNDP employment modalities, complex beneficiary pathways, and high operational risks in Gaza, the coordinator is necessary to maintain effective communication, manage field operations, mitigate risks, and ensure full compliance with UNDP policies and donor requirements.

The Project Coordinator will be responsible for the overall coordination, daily management, and quality assurance of the project “Inclusive Support to Civil Society Organizations in the Gaza Strip with a Focus on Women”. The position ensures the coherent implementation of the project’s three pillars—Employment, Economic Empowerment, and Psychosocial Support—while maintaining strong collaboration with partner organizations (PNGO and MA’AN), CSOs, UNDP teams, and community-level actors. The coordinator will ensure that the project remains gender-transformative (GEN3), inclusive, compliant with protection standards, and aligned with UNDP operational and safeguarding frameworks.

Key Responsibilities

. Project Planning and Coordination

• Lead and coordinate the overall planning, implementation, and monitoring of all project activities in alignment with the approved workplan and budget. • Ensure effective coordination among PNGO, MA’AN, UNDP units, CSOs, and other stakeholders involved in delivering employment, economic empowerment, and PSS/PSEA activities. • Facilitate regular partner coordination meetings, preparing agendas, minutes, action points, and follow-up mechanisms. • Track and adjust timelines to ensure timely and quality delivery of outputs, anticipating delays and proposing mitigation measures as needed.

. Follow up on different Components

• Oversee the assessment of CSO needs and capacities, ensuring data collection is gender-responsive and inclusive. • Lead and oversee the assessment of CSO needs and capacities, ensuring all data collection and engagement processes are gender-responsive, inclusive, and aligned with GEN3 requirements. • Coordinate the recruitment, placement, and supervision of short-term employees and UNV staff, ensuring safe, dignified, and gender-sensitive working environments across all interventions. • Maintain continuous communication with CSOs to monitor staff performance, attendance, productivity, and adherence to workplace safety and safeguarding standards. • Support the full cycle of entrepreneurship and economic empowerment activities—including training, participatory selection, coaching, business planning, and procurement—ensuring transparency, accountability, and Do No Harm principles. • Monitor the implementation and progress of home-based businesses and women-led MSMEs, ensuring alignment with approved business plans, BoQs, and procurement guidelines. • Coordinate group and individual PSS/MHPSS activities, ensuring safe delivery, functioning referral pathways, and appropriate support mechanisms for beneficiaries requiring specialized care. • Oversee the implementation of PSEA Training of Trainers, ensuring effective knowledge transfer, safeguarding compliance, and systematic integration of safe workplace principles across all partner CSOs. • Ensure that all activities across components uphold key protection principles—including confidentiality, dignity, non-discrimination, disability inclusion (up to 7%), and the meaningful participation of women, youth, and persons with disabilities. E. Monitoring, Reporting, and Data Management • Develop and implement a monitoring plan that captures progress across all outcomes and targets, with sex-, age-, and disability-disaggregated data. • Conduct regular field visits to partner CSOs, youth hubs, MSMEs, and beneficiaries to verify results, document progress, and monitor risks. • Prepare high-quality monthly, quarterly, and annual progress reports for UNDP management and donors. • Maintain updated beneficiary lists, assessment tools, and monitoring records in compliance with UNDP data protection standards.

. Risk Management, Safeguarding, and Compliance

• Monitor political, operational, and social risks, ensuring timely mitigation measures, especially for security, access, gender-based risks, and PSEA. • Ensure the integration of GEN3 principles, disability inclusion, PSEA safeguards, and protection protocols across all project interventions. • Coordinate with UNDP Operations and Procurement teams to ensure all purchases and financial flows comply with UNDP rules, donor requirements, and audit standards.

Community Mobilization and outreach:

• Assist in community outreach and engagement efforts by coordinating consultations, awareness activities, and two-way communication with affected communities to ensure meaningful participation, transparency, safeguarding, inclusion of women, youth, and persons with disabilities, and strong accountability and feedback mechanisms across all project interventions.

Other Duties: • Perform any other duties as assigned by supervisors from UNDP

o Agility o Accountability o Adaptability and flexibility o Planning and organising o Judgement and decision-making o Integrity and professionalism o Self-management o Commitment to continuous learning o Communication and interpersonal skills o Teamwork and collaboration

o At least 3 years of professional work experience at the national and/or international level in project coordination, or other relevant programmes; experience working in the UN or other international development organization is an asset. o Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) skills, along with prior experience in economic development projects, and emergency interventions, are valuable assets. o Excellent oral and written skills; excellent drafting, formulation, reporting skills; o Accuracy and professionalism in document production and editing; o Excellent interpersonal skills; culturally and socially sensitive; ability to work inclusively and collaboratively with a range of partners, including grassroots community members, religious and youth organizations, and authorities at different levels; familiarity with tools and approaches of communications for development; o Ability to work and adapt professionally and effectively in a challenging environment; ability to work effectively in a multicultural team of international and national personnel; o Solid overall computer literacy, including proficiency in various Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, among others), email, and internet; familiarity with database management; and office technology equipment; o Self-motivated, ability to work with minimum supervision; ability to work with tight deadlines; o Sound security awareness; o Have affinity with or interest in the work of UNDP, volunteerism as a mechanism for durable development, and the UN system

As this is a national UN Volunteer assignment, the UN Volunteer will be responsible for arranging his/her own housing and other living essentials from home to the site. An initial 6 -months contract with subsequent contract extensions subject to availability of funding, operational necessity, and satisfactory performance. A Volunteer Living Allowance (VLA) of ILS 8,441 is provided monthly to cover housing, utilities, and normal cost of living expenses. Life, health, and permanent disability insurance are included (health insurance for up to 3 dependents), as well as Exit allowance for satisfactory service.

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