Township Coordinator (19 openings in the following locations: Bago Division, Dry Zone, Kayin State, Kachin State, Mon State, Shan State, Tanintharyi Division)

Working closely with highly vulnerable communities, ENCORE aims to:

• Address the most fundamental and critical needs.
• Restore livelihoods and rehabilitate basic community infrastructure. 
• Build social cohesion and community preparedness to sustain project gains and manage future shocks.

All three project components, (i) Community capacity building, and mobilization, 

(ii) Community-led undertakings to address basic needs and promote recovery and resilience, and (iii) Improved governance and service delivery in contested territories, are underpinned by the inclusive and principled multi-stakeholder engagement process, in which the selection of partners is done in collaboration with the UNDP's Civil Society Unit and informed by the Human rights due diligence (HRDD) and conflict-sensitive considerations. 

ENCORE envisages providing hands-on capacity development to improve dialogue/facilitation, problem-solving, gender and conflict sensitivity, participatory planning, insider mediation, and negotiation skills. The project activities are designed so that they will not in any way contribute to any existing conflict or tension within the community or create new sources of conflict but, instead, should contribute to peacebuilding and promote social cohesion among community members. The capacity development component will include strengthening awareness, skills, and methods to engage in more participatory, transparent, inclusive, human rights-based, gender, conflict-sensitive, and accountable service delivery and governance processes.

The ENCORE Project is designed to deliver interlinked interventions covering the whole crisis to recovery to resilience continuum, and the emphasis on building community resilience and increasing sustainability is therefore central to its overall strategy. The phasing of ENCORE includes (i) household-level basic needs responses (Phase 1), (ii) intermediate-term community-level crisis response interventions (Phase 2), and (iii) medium-term community-led recovery and resilience-building initiatives (Phase 3).  The gradual progression of community support enables the project to carefully adapt to the complex and widely varying operational conditions across project sites while gradually building trust and social cohesion thus promoting community ownership and social cohesion. 

UNDP seeks the services of Township Coordinator to support field level project implementation in Kachin State, Shan State, Mon State, Kayin State, Mandalay Region, Magway Region, Bago Region and Tanintharyi Region.

UNDP seeks the services of Township Coordinator to support field level project implementation in Kachin, Shan, Mon State,  Kayin State, Dry zone, Bago and Tanintharyi Region. H/S will be closely working with Area Office Coordinator/Cluster lead and project technical team based in Field office and Country Office. 

The overall objective of the role is to support the implementation of ENCORE project in Kachin State, Shan State Mon State, Kayin State, Dry Zone, Bago and Tanintharyi Region.

• Ensure the effective implementation of ENCORE operation activities in their assigned township/s, consistent with overall ENCORE strategic plans and annual workplans.
• Supervise the day-to-day activities and performance of the Community Facilitators (CF) of the FO and/or Cluster team. 
• Support the facilitation, implementation ENCORE activities inline with the project guidelines and procedures, particularly around planning, scheduling of project activities at the village level and quality control of community mobilization and facilitation activities. 
• Assists in engagement with communities, develop proposals and submission to PMU.
• Ensure coordination with different actors in the field for smooth implementation. 
• Identify technical assistance (TA) needs, and ensure appropriate TA on technical design, implementation, and sustainability of village infrastructure subprojects and livelihood initiatives is provided to communities in a timely manner. 
• Ensure that correct accurate, and complete data is collected and submitted in the project M&E system in a timely manner. 
• Ensure effective field monitoring, data collection, reporting and documentation of Project Activities including the support capturing, processing and resolving feedback and complaints received.
• Any other task or assignment given by the Project management relating to the ENCORE project.

• Achieve Results: LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline.
• Think Innovatively: LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements. 
• Learn Continuously: LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback.
• Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible. 
• Act with Determination:  LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident.
• Engage and Partner: LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships.
• Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination.

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies: 

Business Direction & Strategy    

• Strategic Thinking: Ability to develop effective strategies and prioritized plans in line with UNDP’s objectives, based on the systemic analysis of challenges, potential risks, and opportunities, linking the vision to reality on the ground, and creating tangible solutions; Ability to leverage learning from a variety of sources to anticipate and respond to future trends: to demonstrate foresight to model what future developments and possible ways forward look like for UNDP. 
• Effective Decision Making: Ability to take decisions in a timely and efficient manner in line with one’s 
• Negotiation and Influence: Ability to reach an understanding, persuade others, resolve points of difference, gain advantage in the outcome of dialogue, negotiates mutually acceptable solutions through compromise and creates ‘win-win’ situations. 

Business Management 

• Partnerships Management: Ability to build and maintain partnerships with wide networks of stakeholders, Local authority, civil society and private sector partners, experts, and others in line with UNDP strategy and policies. 
• Risk Management: Ability to identify and organize action around mitigating and proactively managing risks. 
• Communication: Ability to communicate in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner both through written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and choose communication methods depending on the audience: Ability to manage communications internally and externally, through media, social media, and other appropriate channels. 

Partnership management           

• Relationship Management: Ability to engage with a wide range of public and private partners, build, sustain and/or strengthen working relations, trust and mutual understanding.