Project Coordinator

Over 30 years, the UNDP Regional Project "Strengthening Management Capacities for Democratic Governance," better known by the acronym SIGOB meaning "systems for governance" (in Spanish), has contributed to strengthen transparency and management effectiveness and to disseminate a results-driven approach through the implementation of public management systems, processes, and methods.

Operating from its headquarters in Asunción, Paraguay, UNDP SIGOB is a regional project that brings together a network of experts across Latin America and works through the modality of cost-sharing with government counterparts in processes of technical assistance and capacity building in public sector institutions of the executive, legislative and judicial branches at the central, sub-regional and local levels. 

The UNDP SIGOB approach is a methodology developed in UNDP based on the principles of governance in democracy structured in methods and management instruments that promote governance under criteria of transparency, effectiveness, intra- and inter-institutional coordination, and citizen participation.

UNDP SIGOB systems, methods, and software are knowledge products from UNDP-RBLAC that are constantly updated and condense thousands of hours of accumulated project experience with dozens of institutions, hundreds of political personalities in the region, and thousands of public officials.

The entire recruitment and selection process is a service provided by UNOPS to UNDP under Agreement between both Agencies  The selection and supervision of personnel is the direct responsibility of UNDP.

1. Strategic Leadership and coordination of the substantive work of the project:

• Responsible for the overall leadership and management of the SIGOB Innovation Regional Project. Contributes to a strategic understanding and advancement of substantive technical issues key to the success of the SIGOB Innovation Regional Project.

• Sets the priorities of the UNDP-SIGOB according to the UNDP guidelines, in coordination with the UNDP Regional Hub in LAC.
  

2.Project Management:

• Ensures smooth running of the project, builds an effective team, promote teamwork and an environment that is conducive to delivering results.  

• Provides strategic guidance and oversees the overall management of the SIGOB project team including the human resources and financial management, to ensure adherence to UNDP policies and procedures and the accountability framework.

3. Expert Approach:

• Gives direct advice to the management of the UNDP COs when requested and, through the COs, to government authorities, on the issues related to the UNDP-SIGOB area of work.

• Does analysis of innovations and new developments in approaches, methods, and instruments, featured in knowledge products on public policies and governance, particularly those of UNDP, in the advances in digital technology and communications, and in the trends in the demand of the institutions that are the users of the UNDP-SIGOB systems.

• Master's degree preferably in Economics, Business, Law, Political Science, Social Sciences or related fields, or

• Bachelor’s degree preferably in the above-mentioned areas

• 12 years of work experience (with a Bachelor’s degree) or 10 years of work experience (with a Master's degree) in implementing government management projects in Latin America and the Caribbean is required.

• Experience working with high-level government management is required.

• Experience in advising government institutions in countries of Latin America and the Caribbean region is required. 

• Experience working with international cooperation and/or public sector organizations and/or institutions at a high level is required.

• Experience in managing professional regional interdisciplinary teams is desired.

• Full domain of Spanish and English is required  

1. Contract type : Fixed Term Appointment
2. Contract level : P5 / ICS12 
3. Regular Monthly Contract: This contract is established in the form of a regular monthly contract, i.e. a continuous presentation of services is required during the contract period, with payments associated with the contract being made at the end of each calendar month.
4. Contract duration:  One year initially, renewable subject to satisfactory performance and funding availability.

• Please note that the closing date is midnight Copenhagen time
• Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
• Only those candidates that are short-listed for interviews will be notified.
• Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• For staff positions only, UNOPS reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level than the advertised level of the post
• The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNDP/UNOPS.
• This is a family Duty Station

It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential recruits.
Recruitment in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.