On October 21, 1974, the United Nations Development Programme and the Government of Barbados agreed to “support and supplement the national efforts of developing countries at solving the most important problems of their economic development and to promote social progress and better standards of life.”

Subsequently, similar agreements were entered with the Governments of the ten countries and territories that the UNDP Multi-Country Office (MCO) for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean serves: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, the British Virgin Islands (BVI), the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

UNDP Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean Multi-Country Office (MCO) aims to create an enabling environment where our national governments have the capacity for inclusive and sustainable human development; and meet their regional commitments, and internationally agreed objectives including the SDGs. The MCO focuses on policy and knowledge advisory services that facilitate poverty reduction, improved democratic governance, economic recovery, climate resilience, disaster risk reduction, social inclusion, and human rights. UNDP partners with governments and people at all levels of society to help build nations that can withstand crisis, and drive and sustain the kind of growth that improves the quality of life of everyone. We are on the ground in around 170 countries, to help empower lives and build resilient nations.

Under the overall guidance and in coordination with the UNDP Multi-Country Office (MCO) for Barbados and Eastern Carribean, the Project Coordinator will implement the agreed project activities and ensure that objectives are reached as set out in the PIP and that any other programmatic engagement for the regionemerging from the SIDS4 Conference will be supported at the direction of the UNDP MCO Resident Representative. The position assumes full responsibility for developing workplans, managing and implementing effectively and efficiently all project activities and resources (human, financial, physical / material assets, etc) under all components of the project in order to meet expectedresults. Project Coordinator is responsible for the day-to-day management and decision-making for the project

The Project Coordinator will be expectedto deliver resultsin the areas of:

Advisory Support on Policy and Overall Direction of the Project

• Liaise with partners or itsappointed Project Assurance roles toensure the overall direction and integrity of the project;
• Lead the strategic planning, formulation and monitoring of programmatic issue.
• Lead on the development of project workplans
• Ensure the overall relevance, and performance of the project, the effective realization and quality of outputs, and adherence to applicable UNDP’s standards, rules and regulations;
• Implementation of programme results
• Implementation of reporting, monitoring and evaluation policies and strategies

Provide support for effective project planning, maanagement and implementation of the project

• Manage the realization of the project through activities;
• Manage the Projects’finances according to the budgets;
• Compile and summarize information and data for the formulation of project work plans, draft annual/quarterly budgets, proposals on implementation arrangements, and on other specific project-related topics or issues.
• Lead on all aspects of project implementation in accordance with the PIP. Ensure quality of delivery by consultants, beneficiaries, and contracted companies; and communicate findings to the supervisor.
• In collaboration with national counterparts, mobilize goods and services to initiate activities including drafting ToR for required goods and services and facilitating the procurement for needed items for the conference. This should be in alignment with UNDP rules and regulations and will be for:
  • In-country transportation services for non-VIP participants
  • Event management services
  • Audiovisual equipment, electronics, internet and IT services at conference location.
  • Support the preparation of communications materials (e.g. digital banners, social media, other media outreach; backdrops; branding
  • Supervise the maintenance of the Project related documentation (contracts, reports, correspondence, an inventory list of all equipment purchased, etc. under the Project);
  • Prepare Final Project Review Reports being submitted to the Project Board. Identify follow-on actions and submit them for consideration to the Project Board;
  • Manage the transfer of project deliverables, documents, files, equipment and materials to national beneficiaries; where applicable
  • Perform other duties as required.

Knowledge management and learning

• Excellent ability to identify significant capacity-building opportunities, ability to get capacity built, excellent abilityto demonstrate national capacities built (mastery of the tools and their application);
• Actively works towards continuing personal learning and development in one or more Practice Areas, acts on learning plan and applies newly acquired skills;
• Display understanding of the relevantcontemporary ICT tools and continuously act towards personal capacity building;
• Excellent communication skills(written and oral): Sensitivity to and responsiveness to all partners, Respectful and helpful relations with all UN staff.