Type: Field Project Coordination Associate
Duty Station: Colombo, Sri Lanka
Closing Date: 25 August 2024, midnight Sri Lanka time (GMT +5:30)
UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled. UNFPA’s strategic plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices. These results capture our strategic commitments on accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recover lost gains and realize our goals.
In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical staff, who embody these international norms and standards, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.
UNFPA is seeking candidates that transform, inspire and deliver high impact and sustained results; we need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them and who commit to deliver excellence in programme results.
How you can make a difference:
Under the supervision of the Humanitarian Project Office and the guidance of the Programme Manager for Humanitarian Nexus, the Field Coordination Associate will work in close collaboration with a range of staff in the country office, external partners, and agency counterparts in support of programme delivery. S/He provides regular feedback on the status of projects through monitoring milestones and advises on improvements to keep activities on track.
The Field Project Coordination Associate will be responsible for the following tasks:
- Ensure the timely and accurate recording and administratively processing of government and NGO/Implementing partner proposals and requests for direct cash transfers;
- Conducting programme monitoring in the focus districts for cash and supplies and informing team members of the status;
- Help conduct regular spot checks of partners’ projects to assess their financial record keeping, expenditure controls and reporting systems;
- Monitoring and tracking the efficient distribution of supplies that are required for effective program delivery;
- Support the programme section in researching, compiling and analyzing qualitative and quantitative data and information from a variety of sources on subject matters relevant to the work of the section to facilitate programme delivery as well as preparation of reports, working papers and presentations;
- Carry out transactions ensuring programme results, activities and programme coding are as per annual work plan (AWP), and making amendments and alterations as per section revisions when necessary;
- Prepare monitoring and reporting information for supervisor and team on agreed performance indicators to drive more efficient management and accountability for results;
- Regularly monitor budgets and financial expenditures of sections by employing applicable tools, keeping supervisor informed and advised on actions for decision and or follow-up;
- Help prepare periodic or ad hoc financial report relating to country office and donors to support the office in optimizing use of programme funds; and,
- Support capacity development activities related to programme development by preparing training materials and participating in exercises.
Please refer to the Job Description for further details.