Project Coordinator

Coordinates UNDP’s SDG Local Action work with Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation, advancing a women-led circular-economy initiative that converts unmanaged cow dung into cooling organic paint. The role steers implementation plans, partners, procurement inputs, monitoring and reporting so production facilities, community engagement and municipal adoption deliver measurable climate, livelihoods and service-delivery results.

• Coordinate day-to-day implementation of the Mayors Challenge initiative against approved workplans, timelines, budgets and UNDP procedures
• Develop implementation plans, activity schedules and coordination mechanisms for paint facilities, women-led groups, procurement and monitoring
• Provide technical inputs integrating circular economy, waste management, women’s economic empowerment and urban-heat mitigation components
• Coordinate municipal departments, UNDP India, the project management unit and implementing partners to resolve delivery bottlenecks
• Support operationalisation and scaling of decentralised paint plants, including supply systems, quality assurance and institutional adoption
• Maintain monitoring systems, analyse project data and assess progress, risks, milestones and output quality
• Conduct monitoring visits and consultations with partners, beneficiaries and service providers to verify implementation results
• Prepare analytical inputs for progress and donor reports, presentations, project briefs and decision-making documents

• Advanced university degree in Public Policy, Social Sciences, Development Studies, Public Management or a related field; a first-level degree in these fields with two additional years of qualifying experience may be considered
• For applicants with a bachelor’s degree, at least two years of relevant professional experience in project coordination, project implementation, urban development, public-service innovation or a related area
• Fluency in English and Hindi

• Experience working with the United Nations system, development organizations or other multilateral agencies
• Experience with circular economy, waste management or climate resilience
• Experience supporting women’s livelihoods creation or gender issues
• Experience working with public-sector institutions at any level
• Experience supporting monitoring, evaluation, learning, data collection and results reporting

• Project Implementation
• Project Coordination
• Work Planning
• Stakeholder Management
• Circular Economy
• Waste Management
• Community Engagement
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Data Analysis
• Risk Management
• Procurement
• Municipal Service Delivery

• Reports to the UNDP Advisor on cities and local governments based in New York