Project
The Marshall Islands: Women and Youth Skills Empowerment and Resilience Project - Project Implementation and Management Services
National Project Coordinator/Deputy Team Leader
Position
National Project Coordinator / Deputy Team Leader
Project description
The Republic of the Marshall Islands requested assistance from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to finance a social protection project with the outcome of increasing skills, empowerment and resilience of vulnerable women and at-risk young people. The Women and Youth, Skills, Empowerment, and Resilience Project will be considered by the ADB Board of Directors in November 2024. The project is estimated to cost $21.84 million. The Government of the Marshall Islands has requested a grant not exceeding $19.70 million from ADB’s Asian Development Fund (ADF) Special Funds resources to help finance the project, including $13.7 million from the ADF 13 thematic pool, under its strategic area on achieving the sustainable
development goal 5 transformative gender agenda. The Ministry of Finance, Banking, and Postal Services (MOFBPS) is the executing agency for the project and the Ministry of Culture and Internal Affairs (MOCIA) is the implementing agency.
The project is aligned with the following impacts: (i) an enabling and sustainable environment built where all youth develop their full capacity and contribute meaningfully to sustainable development (National Youth Policy 2021–2025); and (ii) gender equality and the empowerment of women progressed, with the meaningful involvement and contributions of all development sectors and civil society (National Gender Mainstreaming Policy). The project will have the following outcome: vulnerable women’s and youth’s skills, resilience, and empowerment increased. There will be three outputs:
Job description
The Project Coordinator/Deputy Team Leader will collaborate with the Project Manager, with the key tasks to include but are not limited to the following:
• help to establish concrete work plans, implementation schedules, and deliverables for each specialist, and ensuring their inputs result into expected outputs in a timely manner to support IA;
• oversee and help to supervise the work of all specialists and outsourced organizations for effective and timely delivery of required tasks;
• prepare monthly financial reports of outputs of the PIMS team;
• lead the preparation of quarterly project progress reports with inputs from relevant consultants and stakeholders;
• provide oversight role in ensuring compliance with grant covenants and PAM, including the government and ADB applicable policies and guidelines;
• help to oversee risk management of the project;
• advise the project on national policy relevant to the project;
• help to prepare mid-term review reports;
• help to design and implementation of gender and youth events;
• support MOCIA to deliver requirements for the project;
• take on leadership of the PIMS if the International Project Manager is on leave; and
• Assist in all activities related to the management and governance of the project.
Requirements
• Degree in international development, project management or related field.
• At least 10 years of general experience in project coordination.
• Experience as deputy team leader and/or project coordinator within a development-funded project/program.
• Previous work experience in the gender and youth sector will be highly desired.
• Written and spoken fluency in English language is essential.
Additional information
The assignment is planned for 63 person months.
Marshall Islands
Attachments
Duration of assignment
01/04/2025 - 31/10/2030
Deadline for applications
30/09/2024
Job type
long term
Job status
prequalification
Project reference
24-0199-000-MRS-ADB-women