Project Coordinator

Project CoordinatorWorld Vision Ukraine 

World Vision International (WVI)—a leading international non-governmental organization—is looking for Project Coordinator, location Kyiv 

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

• Bachelor degree (preferably in Social sciences, project management, health, protection)Working experiences of at least 1-2 years in NGO sector, specific experience in working with People with Disabilities/Protection project management preferred 
• Skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint
• Motivated to work in humanitarian field and grow professionally, eager and quick to learn
• Experience working on projects funded by international donors
• Familiar with core principles of Children’s Rights, Child Protection, Participation, and ‘Do No Harm.’
• Knowledge of and adherence to the Child Protection, Red Cross and NGO Code of Conduct
• Working knowledge of the logical framework approach.
• English language fluency
• Willingness to travel 40% of the time

Responsibilities

Project Implementation and Planning:

• Plan, implement and coordinate to maintain project compliance with standards, country laws, donor requirement and objectives.
• Provide daily coordination with partner to ensure that inputs and technical quality of program activities are efficient and coordinated;
• Review and assess the component of activities and interrelationships with other components; identify possible solutions for problems and make recommendations.
• Coordinate with relevant departments at World Vision.
• Visit project sites to monitor project activities and services are in high quality.   Report to Operations Director or supervisor. 
• Review narrative and financial reports and provide reviews in timely manner for office, donor or for any entity as required.
• Monitor the quality of the implementation and ensure compliance with established norms and sphere minimum standards.

Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting

• Ensure that implementation of all M&E activities within the project are conducted in a coordinated, communicated and timely manner.
• Seek the inclusion of technical guidance (both programmatic and M&E) by World Vision technical staff where necessary based on all relevant standards.
• Carry out regular field visits to monitor the implementation and progress of project activities, according to approved proposal. 

Partnership and Networking

• Attend relevant cluster meeting if necessary and any other ad-hoc external meetings to ensure effective coordination and networking with other governmental authorities and other agencies working in the relevant sector.

Capacity building and training

• Work closely with and provide ongoing support, mentoring and coaching to local NGO partner of the project, in implementation of project activities. 

Additional Information

• Full-time in office presence
• Official employment according to Ukrainian labour law
• Medical insurance
• Foreign language courses
• WVI Institutional trainings
• Travel up to 40% 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