Project Coordinator (Open to Tier 1 & Tier 2 applicants)

Overview

Coordinate the Green Growth and Jobs Accelerator at the country level, ensuring effective delivery, private sector engagement, and alignment with national and regional priorities.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate project planning and implementation, including financial management and monitoring of SME cohorts.
• Coordinate the work of the implementing partner, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery of outputs.
• Support engagement with private sector stakeholders, business associations, accelerators, innovation hubs, and financial actors.
• Maintain dialogue with public institutions, academia, and research networks.
• Ensure day-to-day coordination among partners and stakeholders, harmonizing approaches and securing synergies.
• Ensure structured technical reporting and documentation of activities, including data collection and results monitoring.
• Contribute to the preparation of cases and success stories for communication purposes.
• Ensure implementation of two five-month Accelerators per year in close collaboration with implementing partners.
• Support recruitment of SMEs to accelerators.
• Participate in project and coordination meetings.
• Participate in fortnightly learning sessions.
• Support delivery of joint sessions for SMEs, including Kick-off workshop, Impact Measurement and Management (IMM) workshop, and Showcase.
• Ensure systematic capture of SME results.
• Support coordination with youth involved in Youth4Sustainability and their engagement with SMEs.
• Conduct mapping of sustainable finance and risk finance providers relevant to participating SMEs.
• Support matchmaking SMEs with potential investors or finance providers.
• Document progress of dialogues between SMEs and finance actors.
• Support integration of learning materials into relevant stakeholder channels and platforms.
• Participate in technical design sessions and provide input relevant to the local context.
• Facilitate coordination with business schools, universities, innovation hubs, accelerators, and incubators for outreach and dissemination of learning materials.
• Support onboarding of SME alumni to the Green Growth Community.
• Support use of the Regional Youth Project Platform for knowledge sharing, asset upload, and SME–youth connections.
• Organize training, workshops, and capacity building activities.
• Identify, synthesize, and document best practices and lessons learned.

Required Experience

• Minimum 2 years (with master’s degree) or 4 years (with bachelor’s degree) of relevant professional experience, preferably in the design and/or implementation of projects related to SME business support, acceleration programmes, social entrepreneurship, the green economy, green technologies, SDG impact.
• Demonstrated experience in sustainable finance and investment.
• Demonstrated experience working in the private sector or engaging with the private sector.
• Proven experience in collaborating with a broad range of actors, such as international and national experts, institutions, and stakeholders.
• Proven track record of solid knowledge of results-based management (RBM) and project implementation.
• Strong expertise in multi-stakeholder engagement, coordination, and partnership building.
• Proficiency in the use of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.), with working knowledge of spreadsheets, database applications, and web-based management systems.
• Experience interacting or partnering with financial institutions.
• Experience with the UN and/or multilateral and bi-lateral aid organizations.
• Proven experience in designing or implementing SME acceleration or incubation programmes, particularly those promoting innovation, sustainability, or green technologies.
• Knowledge of sustainable finance instruments, such as green bonds, ESG frameworks, or blended finance mechanisms.
• Experience in developing partnerships between the private sector, government entities, and development organizations to promote sustainable growth.

Qualifications

Advanced university degrees (master's degree or equivalent) in Finance, Economics, Business Development, Investment Management, Business Administration, Systems management or related fields is required. OR A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas stated above, in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.

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