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Mission and objectives
UNDP’s Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People (PAPP) derives its mandate from the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 33/147 of 20 December 1978. Called upon by United Nations Member States in that year, UNDP was requested “to improve the economic and social conditions of the Palestinian people by identifying their social and economic needs and by establishing concrete projects to that end”. UNDP/PAPP is a responsive development agency that works together with the Palestinian people to fulfil their aspiration for sustainable human development based on self-determination, equality and freedom.
Context
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.
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.
Task description
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
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
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