Service Contract Coordinador/a del Proyecto «Futuros Saludables, Derechos Ahora
Organizational Context
The "Healthy Futures, Rights Now" project is being implemented in five countries to strengthen educational systems. Its goals include institutionalizing quality comprehensive sexuality education, improving the prevention and response to gender-based violence in schools, enhancing teacher training, and fostering coordination between education, health, and protection sectors. In Peru, the project will combine national and territorial actions with teacher training institutions, associated schools, and multisectoral actors. The initial phase focuses on establishing implementation conditions, validating diagnostics, developing competencies, and initiating school-based components.
Job Purpose
The Project Coordinator will lead the strategic, technical, and operational implementation of the "Healthy Futures, Rights Now" project in Peru. This involves translating the project document, results framework, and approved budget into articulated, timely, and results-oriented national execution. The role requires directing project planning, implementation, monitoring, and adaptive adjustments, ensuring coherence with global and regional plans, and UNESCO/donor standards. The Coordinator will convert project outcomes into annual and operational work plans, defining milestones, responsibilities, indicators, budget, procurement, risks, and verification means. They will lead and guide the national technical team, consultants, vendors, and implementing partners, setting priorities, distributing responsibilities, facilitating decision-making, and ensuring product quality and timeliness. A key aspect is maintaining an integrated vision of the project's three results: strengthening governance and institutional capacities, initial and continuous teacher training, and multisectoral coordination and comprehensive school approaches.
Responsibilities
The Project Coordinator will lead the strategic, technical, and operational implementation of the "Healthy Futures, Rights Now" project in Peru, ensuring coherence with the project document, results framework, and UNESCO standards. This includes developing annual and operational work plans with clear milestones, responsibilities, indicators, budget, procurement, risks, and verification means. The role involves leading and guiding the national technical team, consultants, vendors, and implementing partners, setting priorities, distributing responsibilities, facilitating decision-making, and verifying product quality and timeliness. The Coordinator will maintain an integrated vision of the project's outcomes: strengthening governance and institutional capacities, initial and continuous teacher training, and multisectoral coordination and comprehensive school approaches. They will lead technical coordination with the Ministry of Education, regional educational authorities, teacher training institutions, schools, health and protection sectors, UN agencies, academia, civil society, youth organizations, and other strategic actors. Building trust, managing diverse interests, and identifying opportunities for national ownership are crucial. The Coordinator will represent the project technically, ensuring alignment with UNESCO supervision, and coordinate with regional and headquarters teams for technical coherence and cross-country learning. They will also lead the technical sequence, including diagnostics, validation, developing orientations, competencies, modules, and materials, and oversee implementation, accompaniment, learning, and systematization. Ensuring the integration of comprehensive sexuality education, gender equality, prevention of gender-based violence, adolescent well-being, interculturality, inclusion, youth participation, and safeguarding is essential. The role involves providing technical leadership for gender equality integration and guiding the design and implementation of protocols for preventing and responding to gender-based violence. Furthermore, the Coordinator will design and promote strategies for incorporating comprehensive sexuality education into teacher training curricula and processes. They will review and ensure the technical quality of deliverables and ensure the meaningful, safe, and ethical participation of adolescents and youth, adhering to protection policies.
Work Experience
Minimum of ten years of general professional experience. At least eight years of experience in directing, coordinating, or managing international cooperation or social development programs, projects, or consultancies. Five or more years of experience leading multidisciplinary teams and coordinating planning, implementation, results monitoring, budget management, risk management, and reporting. Five or more years of experience in programs or projects related to education, adult learning, teacher training, gender equality, comprehensive sexuality education, adolescent well-being, or gender-based violence prevention and response. Two or more years of experience engaging with national or subnational public entities, international organizations, civil society, or academic institutions. Experience in Amazonian contexts or with indigenous peoples is an asset.
Skills
Proficiency in results-based management, operational planning, indicator monitoring, budget management, risk management, and quality control. Knowledge of the Peruvian education system, teacher training, and continuous professional development. Understanding of human rights-based approaches, gender equality, inclusion, interculturality, youth participation, safeguarding, and violence prevention. Strong leadership, strategic thinking, negotiation, diplomacy, political-institutional analysis, problem-solving, and decision-making skills. Ability to represent initiatives technically, communicate sensitive issues judiciously, and adapt messages while maintaining project integrity. Excellent writing and synthesis skills for reports and technical documents. Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and collaborative platforms. Fluency in Spanish and a working knowledge of English are required. Knowledge of indigenous languages of Peru is an advantage.