Project Administrator

PROJECT CONTEXT

• Poverty alleviation and inclusive development across rural Sindh (PAIDAR) is a five-year programme funded by the EU to support the Government of Sindh (GoS) in implementation of its Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS). The long-term objective of PAIDAR is to contribute to sustainable poverty reduction and improvement of livelihoods of poor women, men and young people across Sindh province. The PRS has three pillars: 1) Community Driven Local Development 2) Addressing Urban Poverty including Urban Economic Clusters and 3) Rural Growth Centers.
• PAIDAR has been conceived to mainly focus on fostering the economic development dimension of the PRS, and targeting the most vulnerable, in particular through support to enterprise development, focusing on the development of Rural Growth Centers and Urban Economic Clusters under PRS implementation. To this end, the programme will:
• Provide necessary financial and technical support to a significant number of micro and small enterprises;
• Contribute technically and financially to building and upgrading public infrastructure for improvement in basic service delivery; and
• Assist the GoS to strengthen internal coordination and monitoring and to optimize provincial public resources allocation towards meeting PRS objectives.

PAIDAR will deliver on the above objectives through utilization of three key mechanisms:

• Co-financing public investment projects of the GoS aiming to build and/or upgrade centralized and decentralized public infrastructure for delivery of basic services with high impact on livelihood improvement and poverty reduction, as well as for delivery of services with high potential to contribute to economic development of the target Rural Growth Centre and foster enterprise development.
• Provision of grants to support MSMEs investment projects which demonstrate strong potential for enterprise development, income generation, job retention and creation.
• Technical assistance to the GoS and the MSMEs to ensure investment projects (both co-financed public infrastructure development projects and financially supported MSME investment projects) are designed, planned and implemented to deliver results in line with the objectives of the PRS; and to strengthen GoS capacity to plan, implement and monitor results PRS.

FUNCTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Under the supervision of the Project Manager, and working with the project team, administers elements of technical cooperation programme or specific project/s of limited complexity and execution of technical cooperation programmes and activities. The incumbent shall carry out following main duties.
• Select, organize and summarize background information to describe the overall context and background relevant to a project or a sector of technical cooperation activities in a country, assess the local context for the planning and administration of individual technical cooperation projects;
• Analyze and interpret project background history and documentation; identify, reconstruct and document significant project events, decisions and deviations;
• Draft sections of project documents such as project background and justification;
• Inform experts, consultants and other project participants about logistical arrangements and internal procedures for monitoring and reporting in terms of the immediate objectives of specific projects;
• Monitor specific aspects of project execution and identify problems and proposing that actions be taken to expedite delivery of inputs;
• Draft comments on designated aspects of project progress as an input to programme monitoring;
• Draft project revisions, including adjusting individual project budgets, based on changed work plans.
• Perform other duties as requested by the supervisor.

MINIMUM ORGANIZATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Advanced university degree (master’s or equivalent) in engineering, sciences, economics, business administration, international relations or other relevant discipline with specialization in one or more of the following areas such as private sector development, sustainable development, economic development, climate change, poverty reduction and sustainable livelihoods, is required.

Technical and Functional Experience

• At least three (3) years of work experience in area relevant for the recruiting office is required. Ability to research and analyse information is required. Exposure to the needs, conditions and problems in developing countries is desirable.  Experience in evaluating the needs, conditions and problems in developing countries, is desirable.
• Experience in project management is required.
• Familiarity with and experience in private sector development is required.
• Experience in applying sustainable development principles and approaches in the field of enterprise development is required.
• Experience in monitoring and evaluation of technical assistance projects is required.
• Ability and experience in conducting generic research is required.
• Experience in drafting concept notes and proposals for funding of technical assistance projects is required.
• Experience in working in international organizations is desired.
• Familiarity with climate change impact on peoples’ livelihoods and adaptations strategies is desired.

Languages:

• Fluency in written and spoken English is required.

Source: https://careers.unido.org/job/Vienna-Project-Administrator/992779055/