Joint Project Coordinator

Joint Project Coordinator Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Job Info Job Identification 37232 Posting Date 10/20/2026, 03:27 AM Apply Before 11/03/2026, 11:59 PM Job Schedule Full time Locations Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Agency UNDP Grade NPSA-9 Vacancy Type National Personnel Service Agreement Practice Area Conflict Prevention, Peacebuilding and Responsive Institutions Bureau Regional Bureau for Europe and the CIS Contract Duration 1 Year Education & Work Experience Master's Degree - 2 year(s) experience OR Bachelor's Degree - 4 year(s) experience Required Languages English and Bosnian/Croatian or Serbian Vacancy Timeline 2 Weeks Legend

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Job Description

Tiered Approach

In line with the commitment to safeguard capacity and support personnel already in the Organization, a majority of UNDP UNCDF/UNV vacancies are advertised using a tiered application process whereby:

• Tier 0: UNDP/UNCDF/UNV IP staff holding permanent (PA) and fixed-term (FTA) appointments, whose posts will be abolished, or contracts will be terminated or not renewed during 2026.
• Tier 1: Other UNDP/UNCDF/UNV staff holding permanent (PA) and fixed-term (FTA) appointments
• Tier 2: UNDP/UNCDF/UNV staff holding temporary appointments (TA), personnel on regular PSA contracts, and Expert and Specialist UN Volunteers
• Tier 3 or no tier indicated: All other contract types from UNDP/UNCDF/UNV and other agencies, and other external candidates

Please make note of the Tier(s) indicated in the vacancy title, if any, and ensure that you satisfy the eligibility to apply.

Background

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN's global development network, working in 170 countries and territories. In line with its 2026-2030 Country Programme, UNDP in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) focuses on inclusive green growth, human capital development and accountable institutions and social cohesion. UNDP is fully committed to supporting BiH in achieving its Agenda 2030 commitments and advancing its European Union (EU) integration priorities. Across all areas of work, UNDP applies conflict-sensitive, integrated, and innovative approaches tailored to the country's development needs.

The Effective Governance Sector of UNDP in Bosnia and Herzegovina implements projects in the areas of democratic governance, accountable institutions and social cohesion, rule of law, security, access to justice, social protection, and human rights, geared towards reducing inequalities, strengthening accountable and responsive institutions, and ensuring that vulnerable groups have access to essential services and opportunities. All interventions are implemented in close collaboration with government institutions, civil society organizations, academia, development partners, and other UN agencies.

As part of its commitment to advancing truth, justice, recognition, and reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, UNDP as a Leading Agency is implementing the project "Dealing with the Past, Looking to the Future in Bosnia and Herzegovina" a Joint Programme (JP) funded by the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (PBF), in partnership with Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).

The Joint Project Coordinator will be based in the UNDP BIH office in Sarajevo, with frequent field travel to the joint project target area.

Duties and Responsibilities

In line with the Project document, UNDP rules and regulations, as well as the UNDP internal control framework, the Joint Project Coordinator will have the following main functions:

Coordination of the Joint Project

• Coordinates and supports the project activities implemented by UNDP and OHCHR.
• Coordinates and ensures achievement of the overall project objectives as stated in the project document,
• Ensures coherence and cooperation with the institutional partners and other stakeholders.
• Coordinate activities and liaise closely with partner UN Agencies and the Residence Coordinator’s Office (RCO) to identify and obtain any support and advice required for the management, coordination, planning and implementation of the project.
• Applies programming tools and policies in line with the UN Result-Based Management Approach, prepares annual activity work plans, based on expected year-end outputs in collaboration with the project team.
• Builds, motivates, and leads a high-performing team consisting of the project’s personnel, experts, service providers, and provides input to the heads of agencies regarding the project staff performance appraisals, and ensures interagency coordination.
• Based on inputs from the project team, reports to the Steering Committee to assure the overall direction and integrity of the implementation.
• In cooperation with the project team, ensure full accountability, transparency, and the principle of competition in the allocation of resources, procurement of services, works and goods and selection of recipients.
• Ensure that all UNDP project management quality standards are observed and applied in the implementation.
• Complies with security and safety requirements and regulations and ensures the same are respected by the team members.

Provide policy advice and technical guidance

• Provides conceptual guidance, policy and technical advice to the project team and project counterparts,
• Supports promotion and facilitation of cooperation among participating UN agencies through exchange of information, good practices, peer-to-peer learning and joint coordination meetings.
• Identifies sources of information related to policy-driven issues, identifies and synthesizes best practices and lessons learned directly linked to the project’s objectives to inform the project team and ensure coherence with the project activities.
• Guides the design and implementation of the project’s support to institutional partners and other stakeholders.
• Participates in project-level committees, policy and capacity development working groups and events,
• Ensures strategic synergies and coordination with other relevant interventions.
• Provides technical support to the UN Resident Coordinator/RCO, the heads of participating UN Agencies, Steering Committee and the UNDP’s Portfolio and Sector leaders.
• Advise on issues of further programme development, including writing of concepts and proposals, as well as resource mobilization.

Project monitoring, reporting and quality assurance of activities

• In cooperation with the project team, reviews on a regular basis schedules and deliverables as articulated in the Annual Work Plan - AWP (evidence of progress towards expected outputs, according to schedule).
• Ensures close monitoring of activities in line with the monitoring plan, guiding the design and regular use of adequate monitoring tools and systems, enabling evidence-based tracking of progress, achievements, and results, against the results framework indicators.
• Monitors UNDP budget, collects budget-related inputs from other UN agencies, verifies the availability of funds, obtains necessary approvals and updates budget-related information, as well as in coordination with participating UN agencies ensure budget distribution with agreed work plans.
• Ensures that all project-related issues and risks are identified and reported in a timely manner and suggests corrective measures.
• Ensures timely submission of narrative progress and financial reports, and other reports as may be required by Steering Committee, or the donor.
• Collects and consolidates inputs from OHCHR into narrative and financial reports to the PBF donor.
• Conduct field visits and quality checks of project events, sites and activities implemented by UNDP, and OHCHR, in collaboration with the project team.
• Ensure data and information input, as necessary, to the regular Country Office programme monitoring and reporting processes.
• Ensures the existence of successful quality assurance for financial, procurement and administrative processes to attain the Project goals and desired impact in line with prevailing UNDP rules and regulations as well as in line with the project timelines.

Promotes gender equality, mainstreaming and knowledge management

• Ensures gender mainstreaming throughout the project activities, work plans, budgets, reports, research, analyses and, where specifically relevant, analyse it in detail.
• Supports continuous learning by the team and contributes to the UNDP in-house thematic knowledge and practitioners’ networks.
• Prepares analytical reviews and systematically captures lessons learnt from the implementation, identifying follow-up actions, and submits them for consideration to the Steering Committee.
• Establishes connections of exchange and lea