Project Coordinator GCF (N-PSA 10) - Low-Carbon Economy Project

About the role

The UNDP Mauritius Country Office is hiring a Project Coordinator (N-PSA 10) for the project "Accelerating the Transformational Shift to a Low-Carbon Economy in the Republic of Mauritius", implemented under the National Implementation Modality (NIM) and funded by the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The project aims to overcome barriers to low-carbon development and support the deployment of 25MW of PV on the grid, with the implementing partner being the Ministry of Finance together with the Ministry of Energy and Public Utilities, the Central Electricity Board, the Outer Island Development Cooperation and the Mauritius Renewable Energy Agency. The post is filled by local recruitment through an open competitive process.

Key responsibilities

• Overall management of the project, mobilization of inputs and supervision of staff, consultants and sub-contractors
• Reporting to the Head of the Environment Unit and to the Project Steering Committee, and meeting government obligations under the NIM modality
• Liaison with government, UNDP, UN agencies, NGOs, project partners and donors
• Strategic project planning, coordination and implementation, including planning, budgeting, implementation and monitoring
• Identification of joint programming opportunities and development of new programme and project opportunities
• Capacity building of national counterparts and support to decentralized local evaluations
• Compliance with audit requirements and follow-up to audit recommendations
• Project management: resource tracking, approval of contracts and ATLAS transactions under delegated authority, performance monitoring of staff and training programmes
• Preparation of project work and financial plans, and timely submission of inception, annual, technical and quarterly financial reports
• Monitoring of budgets and expenditures, assistance with payment requests and follow-up on disbursements
• Maintenance of project correspondence, logistics for meetings, training and workshops, and promotion of best practices and lessons learned