Field Coordinator
Samsun
- Organization: UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
- Location: Samsun
- Grade: Level not specified - Level not specified
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Occupational Groups:
- Managerial positions
- Closing Date: 2024-10-17
Office/Unit/Project | TRCO and Inclusive and Sustainable Growth Portfolio |
Title | Field Coordinator |
Level | NPSA 8 |
Duty station (City and Country) | Samsun/Türkiye |
Type (Regular or Short term) | Regular |
Office- or Home-based | Home-based |
Expected starting date | 01 November 2024 |
Expected Duration | 30 September 2025 |
Position Number | 217483 |
2. Office/Unit/Project Description
The UNDP Turkey Country Office positions itself as a development partner that brings global knowledge, through a multi-sectoral approach – the key comparative advantage of UNDP - and concentrates its work on 3 programmatic fields: i) Inclusive and Sustainable Growth, ii) Inclusive and Democratic Governance, iii) Climate Change and Environment. In addition, UNDP also plays a key role in supporting the Government of Turkey with the refugee response through its Syrian Crisis Response and Resilience Programme- relying on its experience in these three major areas (i.e. livelihoods and facilitation of job creation, municipal service delivery, youth empowerment and protection/ social cohesion).
On 6 February 2023, two devastating earthquakes, measuring 7.7 and 7.6 magnitude on the Richter Scale, struck Pazarcık and Elbistan in Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye. The earthquakes and aftershocks have caused catastrophic devastation, with at least 9.1 million people in the 11 hardest-hit provinces likely to have been directly impacted. The severity of crisis is so massive as acknowledged at the UN level through declaration of Crisis Level 3 for Turkiye, which is regarded as a full-blown corporate emergency requiring the attention of the entire organization.
In line with the global mandate of UNDP and its position as a development partner in above mentioned areas, Türkiye Country Office made a flash appeal for its post-earthquake activities to provide timely principled life-saving multisectoral assistance to people affected by the earthquakes, with an emphasis on assisting communities to survive the winter, in support of the Government-led relief effort and support the rapid delivery and resumption of essential services in earthquake-affected areas.
3. Scope of Work
Under the supervision of Resident Representative, the Field Coordinator provides field level coordination for implementation of Today’s Youth Future Jobs Project.
- Field Coordinator will be responsible for the day to day project monitoring, administration and reporting and serves as first focal point for local level government counterparts and other local partners in the respective locations.
- Maintaining collaborative working relationships among key project partners and projects’ donors, through effective communication, consultation, and reporting
- The Field Coordinator will be responsible for coordination of LED related Project activities and Project team members in the region, coordination of project resources and monitoring of Project activities.
- Aligning the projects and field activities with UN values and UNDP priorities
- Contributes to achievement and progress towards achievement of country level and portfolio level development outcomes.
- Assure quality of the assigned activity outputs in accordance with the specific terms of reference of the assignments and the provisions of the project documents.
- Participate in projects consultation meetings and provide the representatives of the concerned institutions with technical inputs regarding the assigned projects activities.
- Provide timely and substantive inputs for the regular project reports.,
- Contribute to synergy-building among different initiatives by UNDP and beyond.
- Perform appropriate duties as assigned by UNDP.
4.Institutional Arrangement
The Field Coordinator reports to LED Projects Coordinator.
5. Competencies
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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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
People Management (Insert below standard sentence if the position has direct reports.)
UNDP People Management Competencies can be found in the dedicated site.
Cross-Functional & Technical competencies (insert up to 7 competencies)
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6. Minimum Qualifications of the Successful NPSA
Min. Education requirements |
Master’s Degree in City and Regional Planning, Sociology, Economics, Political Science, Business Administration, International Relations, Engineering or any other relevant field of social sciences. A Bachelor’s Degree the related with an additional 2 years of relevant working experience will be given due consideration |
Min. years of relevant work experience | - Master’s Degree or 2 years with Bachelor’s Degree of relevant working experience in providing field coordination for at least 1 project in collaboration with international institutions/organizations, preferably on sustainable development. |
Required skills |
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Desired skills in addition to the competencies covered in the Competencies section |
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Required Language(s) | Fluency in written and spoken English and Turkish |
Professional Certificates | n/a |
Applications from non-qualifying applicants will most likely be discarded by the recruiting manager.