Project Coordinator

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Description

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• Under the guidance of the CTA, work in close collaboration with project partners in India to implement ongoing activities, design, revise and implement new project activities in line with the project document and workplan. In line with this, maintain and update the India country project work plan updated in accordance with project activities and timeframes.
• Planning, implementation. monitoring and reporting of India country project activities and outcomes; and, preparing project monitoring activity reports, periodic and ad hoc status updates, periodic and annual reporting to the office and donors, and support the implementing partners to adhere to the reporting requirements of project.
• Monitoring and evaluation of project activities in India. In consultation and coordination with CTA and based on existing tools and approaches developed at the global level, develop, revise, adapt, and use project data collection tools including surveys. Be responsible for the collection and entry of data on a regular basis to measure achievement against the performance indicators. 
• Review the quality of existing data in the project subject areas. Check data quality with partners. Develop and use tools for results-based project management, including implementation and assessment of the project theory of change and India M&E plans. Provide support as required to the evaluation of project activities in India.
• Oversee implementation of project outcome assessments in India; shape the design of project activities and assess impact, ensuring that methodology are rigorous, user-friendly, gender-responsive, and aligned strongly to the project’s overall objectives; and, contribute to the evaluation and assessment of project policy and research work, and related activities, at global and country level using appropriate evaluation methodologies.
• Identifying and documenting good practices and lessons learned for sharing in publications, social media and at state, national and other forums. Contribute to the development of a strategy for project visibility, notably at national/provincial level.
• Ensure the effective management of the budget assigned to project activities in India. Ensure conformity with ILO policies and project strategies, ILO programming guidelines and country/action programs, and Office procedures and practices.
• Support the selection and hiring of external collaborators for project activities in India, as well as in the review of the products as required.
• Prepare briefs, provide inputs to project technical reports and updates regarding activities implemented in India, as scheduled and upon request. Provide inputs to the project mid-term and final evaluations.
• Plan, organize and conduct seminars, workshops, training and meetings. Undertake missions to project interventions sites/areas in India as needed.
• Ensure effective coordination with relevant national policies and promote new opportunities for collaboration with other ILO projects/ILO office work.  
• Perform other tasks assigned by the project’s Chief Technical Advisor or by the ILO Country Director

• University degree in engineering, health sciences or related disciplines, social sciences, law, public administration, or other relevant fields.  

• At least three years of demonstrated experience in the management of development cooperation projects, preferably with an international agency, with sound knowledge and experience in all aspects of project cycle. The technical areas of work should be on promoting decent work and labour rights, demonstrated experience on working on issues related to occupational safety and health and global supply chains, especially lower tiers of the supply chains and previous working relationships with the ILO’s tripartite constituents and/or project stakeholders from government and different states in India. Work experience in the plantation sector will be advantageous.  

• Excellent command of English and Hindi. Knowledge of local languages is an advantage.

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