Project Coordinator

Overview

The Project Coordinator will provide overall leadership, coordination, and quality assurance for the implementation of a project across Latin America and the Caribbean, ensuring coherence and alignment with UNDRR, EW4ALL, and EU-LAC MoU priorities.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead overall planning, implementation, and monitoring of project activities, deliverables and financial management
• Ensure coherence across subregional workstreams and alignment with project results and indicators
• Coordinate contributions to risk knowledge products (RAR, country risk profiles, EW4All stock takes)
• Serve as primary liaison with key partners (DG-ECHO, IGOs, UN agencies, ECHO funded partners)
• Lead EU-LAC MoU coordination, technical secretariat – including transition - and high-level dialogues
• Ensure linkages and support to 2027 Regional Platform, subregional events and fora and global DRR processes
• Guide quality assurance of risk assessments and knowledge products, MHEWS assessments, risk knowledge products, inputs to RAR27 and overall technical outputs, and knowledge exchanges and public information
• Provide support to UNETT / UN Country Team and the Resident Coordinator's Office (RCO); as well as to related UN and humanitarian processes
• Gather, systematize and produce progress reports and results tracking
• Ensure compliance with UNDRR results-based monitoring and donor requirements
• Lead weekly internal coordination meetings and overall planning cycles
• Guarantee visibility of the project activities and impact stories, using prevention web (dipecho lac), social media channels, etc.
• Consolidated workplans and progress reports
• Quality-assured RAR, MHEWS forensic stock takes, and country risk profiles
• Coordination outputs: meeting notes, summaries of technical exchanges, strategic briefs
• Midterm and final project report (narrative and financial)

Required Experience

Minimum seven (7) years of experience in project management. Minimum five (5) years of experience in risk disaster risk reduction, humanitarian action, preparedness, or resilience. Proven experience leading multi-country/regional programmes.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Climate, Development, humanitarian action or related.

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