Overview
The Project Coordination Associate provides programmatic, coordination, analytical, and administrative support for the "Advanced Capacity for Accelerated Delivery Initiative" (ACADI) project, ensuring effective planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of project activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist in conceptualization, coordination, and implementation of selected activities/components within large strategic investment projects.
- Provide inputs for development of project monitoring and evaluation framework.
- Prepare regular updates and reports to Project Boards.
- Identify and collect policy-related and other relevant information, documents and data, compile and analyze data.
- Provide troubleshooting support to ensure expected results are delivered.
- Provide strategic suggestions on decisions related to project implementation.
- Manage, mentor, and coordinate with project partners and beneficiaries.
- Guide expert teams to ensure close coordination with project partners.
- Coordinate field visits by external visitors.
- Ensure regular liaison with project partners and other government institutions.
- Maintain communication with stakeholders within the Government of Serbia.
- Provide technical and administrative support for organizing and managing project activities.
- Assist in drafting TORs for hiring experts.
- Monitor and manage contracted parties to ensure deliverables are submitted as per contracts and workplans.
- Review and analyze progress reports and related financial reports provided by contracted entities.
- Provide support to expert teams and beneficiaries.
- Partnership management and fund disbursement through certification of contracted activities.
- Participate in training and organize briefings on internal procedures for project staff.
- Provide support to other capacity building activities.
- Provide support in the dissemination and sharing of relevant data and lessons learned.
- Make sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice.
- Support compiling and systematizing project knowledge, products and tools as well as their wide distribution to partners.
- Perform other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary.
Required Experience
Minimum 6 years (with Secondary Education) or 3 years (with Bachelor´s degree) of relevant experience in providing project support, project coordination and implementation with involving international organizations/ national governments. Desired skills: Experience in one or more of the following: procurement, recruitment, legal, finance, logistics, general administration. Experience in providing support in coordinating and implementing large investment development projects. Experience working in the UN system or other international organizations /and or governmental institutions.
Qualifications
Secondary education is required. OR A University degree (Bachelor’s degree) in Social (including Legal), Natural science, Political Science, and related field will be given due consideration but is not a requirement.
