Project Coordinator

World Vision International (WVI)—a leading international non-governmental organization—is looking for Project Coordinator for Grant.

World Vision’s focus is helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith. Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

World Vision is committed to safeguarding children and adult beneficiaries believe every stakeholder and every member of the communities we work with has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation and expects all employees, interns, volunteers and all WV affiliates share the same commitment. WV takes diligent measures to screen out all people who might seek to use WV to harm children or adult beneficiaries, or whose past actions indicate an unacceptable risk of such harm. Therefore, our recruitment policy and procedures include extensive identification checks prior to employment or engagement with WV in order to ensure safeguarding to the fullest extent.

Join a highly motivated team of world-class international and local humanitarian professionals to establish, build, and grow World Vision’s presence in Ukraine. You will work alongside global professionals, improving your knowledge, skills, and abilities in a multinational organization that will prepare you for work in the world’s best-in-class companies in the future.

Requirements 

• At least Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, General Management, or related field
• Minimum 1 years of work experience in Emergency Response in Food Security and Livelihoods Program Management
• Fluent in English, Ukrainian (speaking and writing)
• Field based position
• Good interpersonal skills and cross-cultural sensitivity.
• Ability to work in a challenging situation (camp settings).
• Ability to cope and work under pressure.
• Well-organized, self-motivated, solution oriented, independent and ability to work in a team.
• Knowledge of commodities & logistics operations, specifically those that relate to distributions, handling, reporting, tracking, monitoring etc.
• Full adherence to World Vision Child Protection, Code of Conduct and Conflict of Interest policies
• Self-disciplined with good time management skills
• The ability to produce clear and well-organized documents

Coordination and Management 

• Ensure the project activities implementation is as per the project planning in co-operation with the Project Manager
• Perform monitoring for all project activities to ensure proper implementation.
• Attend and represent WVI at the coordination meetings (clusters and others) as agreed with the PM
• Ensure liaison with other international and national NGOs, relevant local administration and institutions for coordination and cooperation relevant sector
• Support the PM with the management of budget expenditures for project activities as per WV standards.
• Keep abreast of all (potential) changes in the sector and ensure communication on this to the PM.
• Regularly update PM on project’s progress and to timely inform about issues related to the project and propose solutions to further implementation.
• Preparation of the monthly and quarterly project reviews and follow-up of key actions with the support of the Project Manager 
• Ensure programme compliance to Humanitarian Accountability standards. 
• Ensure that all resources earmarked to target populations are properly handled, stored, transported, distributed, tracked, fully accounted for and reported on according to World Vision standard procedures and Donor policy.
• Visit target communities on regular basis to get their perceptions and experience so as to assist in planning and implementing relevant community-oriented programs.
• Facilitate the identification designing and implementing of appropriate training needs for district staff and target communities.

Staff Management 

• Ensure effective and efficient management of the direct reports
• Develop staff planning 
• Perform staff appraisal, promote staff capacity building by identifying support needs and report the suggestions to the Project Manager
• Keep a positive, flexible and dynamic work environment
• Leads capacity development with field staff to ensure competency levels which allow staff to do their work accordingly
• Work with the Project Manager to supervise and provide training for all other Grant  staff

Coordination and Collaboration 

• Co-ordinate with other Agencies, Local Authorities and Government   stakeholder in the Oblasts and ensure that interventions are targeted to the appropriate target population
• To co-ordinate and foster relations with other World Vision Programs in the oblast so as to ensure proper allocation and sharing of resources
• Participate in regular coordination meetings in WV and outside agencies including the donor

Project Filing

• Ensure project sector documentation is up to date and audit compliant

  Additional Information

• Full-time in office presence
• Official employment according to Ukrainian labor law
• Medical insurance
• WVI Institutional trainings
• Travel up to 50 % is likely
• Only candidates with Ukrainian citizenship or authorization to work in Ukraine will be considered
• Submit resume and cover letter IN ENGLISH
• Resumes will be reviewed on a rolling basis and this position may close sooner than anticipated