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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
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN's global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience, and resources to help people build a better life. UNDP works in over 170 countries and territories, supporting governments and communities in addressing complex development and humanitarian challenges while promoting resilience, recovery, and sustainable development.
The UN Volunteer will be assigned to the Gaza Office of UNDP's Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People (PAPP). Established through a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly in 1978, UNDP/PAPP supports the Palestinian people through integrated programmes that strengthen resilience, restore essential services, promote social cohesion, and advance sustainable development. Working closely with Palestinian institutions, civil society organizations, local communities, humanitarian actors, and development partners, UNDP contributes to addressing immediate humanitarian needs while laying the foundations for longer-term recovery and resilience.
The Area Coordinator will support the implementation, monitoring, and coordination of a portfolio of humanitarian and early recovery projects funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) and implemented through Italian NGOs and local partners across the Gaza Strip. These projects contribute to UNDP's broader Early Recovery and Resilience Programme and support integrated interventions in areas affected by conflict, displacement, and service disruptions.
The portfolio focuses on four complementary outcome areas:
Outcome 1.1: Improved access to safe, dignified, and gender-responsive transitional shelter for internally displaced persons (IDPs).
Outcome 1.2: Restored and improved access to essential basic and social services, including water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), education, health, rehabilitation, and community-based services.
Outcome 1.3: Enhanced food security, livelihoods, and economic resilience through emergency livelihood support, income-generation opportunities, and community recovery initiatives.
Outcome 1.4: Strengthened protection, psychosocial well-being, inclusion, and social cohesion through community-based protection services, psychosocial support, disability inclusion, child protection, and social cohesion interventions.
The Area Coordinator will be responsible for supporting field-level implementation, monitoring project progress, ensuring effective coordination with implementing partners and stakeholders, conducting regular site visits, supporting quality assurance processes, documenting results and challenges, and contributing to accountability, reporting, and knowledge management across the assigned geographical area. The position plays a critical role in ensuring that project interventions are effectively delivered, meet quality standards, and achieve their intended results for conflict-affected communities throughout the Gaza Strip.
The UN Volunteer will be assigned to the Gaza Office of UNDP's Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People (PAPP). Established through a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly in 1978, UNDP/PAPP supports the Palestinian people through integrated programmes that strengthen resilience, restore essential services, promote social cohesion, and advance sustainable development. Working closely with Palestinian institutions, civil society organizations, local communities, humanitarian actors, and development partners, UNDP contributes to addressing immediate humanitarian needs while laying the foundations for longer-term recovery and resilience.
The Area Coordinator will support the implementation, monitoring, and coordination of a portfolio of humanitarian and early recovery projects funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) and implemented through Italian NGOs and local partners across the Gaza Strip. These projects contribute to UNDP's broader Early Recovery and Resilience Programme and support integrated interventions in areas affected by conflict, displacement, and service disruptions.
The portfolio focuses on four complementary outcome areas:
Outcome 1.1: Improved access to safe, dignified, and gender-responsive transitional shelter for internally displaced persons (IDPs).
Outcome 1.2: Restored and improved access to essential basic and social services, including water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), education, health, rehabilitation, and community-based services.
Outcome 1.3: Enhanced food security, livelihoods, and economic resilience through emergency livelihood support, income-generation opportunities, and community recovery initiatives.
Outcome 1.4: Strengthened protection, psychosocial well-being, inclusion, and social cohesion through community-based protection services, psychosocial support, disability inclusion, child protection, and social cohesion interventions.
The Area Coordinator will be responsible for supporting field-level implementation, monitoring project progress, ensuring effective coordination with implementing partners and stakeholders, conducting regular site visits, supporting quality assurance processes, documenting results and challenges, and contributing to accountability, reporting, and knowledge management across the assigned geographical area. The position plays a critical role in ensuring that project interventions are effectively delivered, meet quality standards, and achieve their intended results for conflict-affected communities throughout the Gaza Strip.
Task description
Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of the Project Manager in the Gaza Strip or his/her designated mandated representative(s), the UNV Area Coordinator will:
Programme Implementation and Monitoring
• Monitor and support the implementation of project activities within the assigned geographical area, ensuring progress against approved work plans, targets, and timelines.
• Conduct regular field visits to project locations, service delivery points, beneficiary communities, and partner implementation sites.
• Follow up on the implementation of activities related to education, health, WASH, shelter, protection, MHPSS, social cohesion, disability inclusion, livelihoods, and community resilience.
• Verify that activities are implemented in accordance with approved project documents, workplans, budgets, and donor requirements.
• Identify implementation challenges, bottlenecks, risks, and delays, and propose practical solutions and corrective measures.
• Monitor beneficiary access to services and ensure interventions are reaching intended target groups and vulnerable populations.
• Support the timely delivery of project outputs and ensure effective coordination among implementing partners operating within the assigned area.
Coordination with Implementing Partners
• Serve as the primary field focal point for implementing partners within the assigned area.
• Maintain regular communication with partner organizations to monitor implementation progress and address operational issues.
• Follow up on partner work plans, deliverables, and agreed milestones.
• Participate in coordination meetings with implementing partners and support follow-up on action points.
• Facilitate coordination among partners implementing complementary interventions within the same communities.
• Ensure effective information sharing between UNDP, implementing partners, local authorities, and community stakeholders.
Quality Assurance and Oversight
• Monitor the quality of project implementation and verify compliance with approved standards, sector guidelines, and humanitarian principles.
• Conduct regular site inspections and spot checks to assess the quality and effectiveness of project activities.
• Ensure that education, health, WASH, protection, MHPSS, and livelihood interventions are delivered according to approved technical standards and methodologies.
• Verify that beneficiary selection and targeting processes are transparent, fair, and aligned with approved vulnerability criteria.
• Monitor the quality of services provided by implementing partners, consultants, facilitators, and service providers.
• Ensure that referral mechanisms and case management systems are functioning effectively where applicable.
Protection, Inclusion, and Safeguarding
• Ensure that protection principles, gender equality, disability inclusion, accountability, and safeguarding measures are integrated into all project activities.
• Monitor compliance with Child Protection, Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA), Gender-Based Violence (GBV) risk mitigation, and safeguarding standards.
• Promote equitable access to services for women, children, persons with disabilities, older persons, and other vulnerable groups.
• Report any safeguarding concerns, protection incidents, or risks through established reporting channels.
• Ensure that project activities are implemented in safe, accessible, and inclusive environments.
Community Engagement and Accountability
• Maintain regular communication with beneficiaries, community leaders, committees, local organizations, and community representatives.
• Support community outreach and awareness activities to enhance participation and engagement.
• Monitor the effectiveness of Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) mechanisms, including feedback and complaints systems.
• Ensure community feedback is documented, analyzed, and communicated to project management and implementing partners.
• Promote transparency and community ownership throughout the implementation process.
Monitoring, Reporting, and Documentation
• Collect, verify, and consolidate field-level implementation data and progress updates.
• Prepare field monitoring reports, site visit reports, meeting minutes, and other required documentation.
• Support the preparation of weekly, monthly, quarterly, and ad hoc progress reports.
• Document project achievements, lessons learned, challenges, risks, success stories, and best practices.
• Assist the project team in collecting data and evidence required for donor reporting, monitoring, evaluations, and audits.
• Maintain proper filing and documentation of project records and monitoring reports.
Stakeholder Liaison and Representation
• Liaise with relevant local authorities, municipalities, service providers, community committees, humanitarian actors, and sector coordination mechanisms.
• Support coordination with Education, Protection, Health, WASH, Shelter, Food Security, and other relevant stakeholders.
• Facilitate monitoring missions, donor visits, assessments, and field visits organized by UNDP and partners.
• Assist in organizing workshops, consultations, community meetings, and stakeholder engagement events.
Risk Management and Compliance
• Monitor operational, programmatic, and contextual risks that may affect project implementation.
• Report emerging risks, access constraints, security concerns, and implementation challenges in a timely manner.
• Ensure compliance with UNDP procedures, donor requirements, and humanitarian principles.
• Monitor partner adherence to agreed standards, codes of conduct, safeguarding requirements, and contractual obligations.
• Perform any other related tasks as may be assigned by the supervisor.
Furthermore, UN Volunteers are encouraged to integrate the UN Volunteers programme mandate within their assignment and promote voluntary action through engagement with communities in the course of their work. As such, UN Volunteers should dedicate a part of their working time to some of the following suggested activities:
• Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and taking active part in UNV activities (for instance in events that mark International Volunteer Day).
• Be acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country.
• Provide annual and end-of-assignment self-reports on UN Volunteer actions, results, and opportunities.
• Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publications/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc.;
• Assist with the UNV Buddy Programme for newly-arrived UN Volunteers;
• Promote or advise local groups in the use of online volunteering or encourage relevant local individuals and organizations to use the UNV Online Volunteering service whenever technically possible.
• Support project assessments, baseline studies, evaluations, and verification exercises as required.
• Provide technical and operational support to the Project Manager and project team.
• Perform any other duties as assigned by UNDP management in support of the successful implementation, monitoring, and coordination of project activities.
Programme Implementation and Monitoring
• Monitor and support the implementation of project activities within the assigned geographical area, ensuring progress against approved work plans, targets, and timelines.
• Conduct regular field visits to project locations, service delivery points, beneficiary communities, and partner implementation sites.
• Follow up on the implementation of activities related to education, health, WASH, shelter, protection, MHPSS, social cohesion, disability inclusion, livelihoods, and community resilience.
• Verify that activities are implemented in accordance with approved project documents, workplans, budgets, and donor requirements.
• Identify implementation challenges, bottlenecks, risks, and delays, and propose practical solutions and corrective measures.
• Monitor beneficiary access to services and ensure interventions are reaching intended target groups and vulnerable populations.
• Support the timely delivery of project outputs and ensure effective coordination among implementing partners operating within the assigned area.
Coordination with Implementing Partners
• Serve as the primary field focal point for implementing partners within the assigned area.
• Maintain regular communication with partner organizations to monitor implementation progress and address operational issues.
• Follow up on partner work plans, deliverables, and agreed milestones.
• Participate in coordination meetings with implementing partners and support follow-up on action points.
• Facilitate coordination among partners implementing complementary interventions within the same communities.
• Ensure effective information sharing between UNDP, implementing partners, local authorities, and community stakeholders.
Quality Assurance and Oversight
• Monitor the quality of project implementation and verify compliance with approved standards, sector guidelines, and humanitarian principles.
• Conduct regular site inspections and spot checks to assess the quality and effectiveness of project activities.
• Ensure that education, health, WASH, protection, MHPSS, and livelihood interventions are delivered according to approved technical standards and methodologies.
• Verify that beneficiary selection and targeting processes are transparent, fair, and aligned with approved vulnerability criteria.
• Monitor the quality of services provided by implementing partners, consultants, facilitators, and service providers.
• Ensure that referral mechanisms and case management systems are functioning effectively where applicable.
Protection, Inclusion, and Safeguarding
• Ensure that protection principles, gender equality, disability inclusion, accountability, and safeguarding measures are integrated into all project activities.
• Monitor compliance with Child Protection, Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA), Gender-Based Violence (GBV) risk mitigation, and safeguarding standards.
• Promote equitable access to services for women, children, persons with disabilities, older persons, and other vulnerable groups.
• Report any safeguarding concerns, protection incidents, or risks through established reporting channels.
• Ensure that project activities are implemented in safe, accessible, and inclusive environments.
Community Engagement and Accountability
• Maintain regular communication with beneficiaries, community leaders, committees, local organizations, and community representatives.
• Support community outreach and awareness activities to enhance participation and engagement.
• Monitor the effectiveness of Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) mechanisms, including feedback and complaints systems.
• Ensure community feedback is documented, analyzed, and communicated to project management and implementing partners.
• Promote transparency and community ownership throughout the implementation process.
Monitoring, Reporting, and Documentation
• Collect, verify, and consolidate field-level implementation data and progress updates.
• Prepare field monitoring reports, site visit reports, meeting minutes, and other required documentation.
• Support the preparation of weekly, monthly, quarterly, and ad hoc progress reports.
• Document project achievements, lessons learned, challenges, risks, success stories, and best practices.
• Assist the project team in collecting data and evidence required for donor reporting, monitoring, evaluations, and audits.
• Maintain proper filing and documentation of project records and monitoring reports.
Stakeholder Liaison and Representation
• Liaise with relevant local authorities, municipalities, service providers, community committees, humanitarian actors, and sector coordination mechanisms.
• Support coordination with Education, Protection, Health, WASH, Shelter, Food Security, and other relevant stakeholders.
• Facilitate monitoring missions, donor visits, assessments, and field visits organized by UNDP and partners.
• Assist in organizing workshops, consultations, community meetings, and stakeholder engagement events.
Risk Management and Compliance
• Monitor operational, programmatic, and contextual risks that may affect project implementation.
• Report emerging risks, access constraints, security concerns, and implementation challenges in a timely manner.
• Ensure compliance with UNDP procedures, donor requirements, and humanitarian principles.
• Monitor partner adherence to agreed standards, codes of conduct, safeguarding requirements, and contractual obligations.
• Perform any other related tasks as may be assigned by the supervisor.
Furthermore, UN Volunteers are encouraged to integrate the UN Volunteers programme mandate within their assignment and promote voluntary action through engagement with communities in the course of their work. As such, UN Volunteers should dedicate a part of their working time to some of the following suggested activities:
• Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and taking active part in UNV activities (for instance in events that mark International Volunteer Day).
• Be acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country.
• Provide annual and end-of-assignment self-reports on UN Volunteer actions, results, and opportunities.
• Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publications/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc.;
• Assist with the UNV Buddy Programme for newly-arrived UN Volunteers;
• Promote or advise local groups in the use of online volunteering or encourage relevant local individuals and organizations to use the UNV Online Volunteering service whenever technically possible.
• Support project assessments, baseline studies, evaluations, and verification exercises as required.
• Provide technical and operational support to the Project Manager and project team.
• Perform any other duties as assigned by UNDP management in support of the successful implementation, monitoring, and coordination of project activities.
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