Coordinador/a del Proyecto Futuros Saludables Derechos Ahora
Organizational Context
The "Healthy Futures, Rights Now" project operates in five countries, aiming to strengthen educational systems in Peru. It focuses on institutionalizing quality comprehensive sexuality education, preventing gender-based violence in schools, and enhancing teacher professional development. The project also promotes coordination across education, health, and protection sectors. The Coordinator will oversee planning, implementation, and monitoring, ensuring timely execution and adherence to UNESCO standards, while fostering partnerships with national and international stakeholders.
Job Purpose
The purpose of this role is to 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 an articulated, timely, and results-oriented national execution. The Coordinator will drive efforts to strengthen educational systems, institutionalize quality comprehensive sexuality education, and enhance the prevention and response to gender-based violence in schools. A key objective is to improve teacher training and professional development, fostering coordination among education, health, and protection sectors. The role also ensures the design and implementation of protocols against gender-based violence, develops strategies for integrating comprehensive sexuality education into teacher training curricula, and maintains technical quality control over project deliverables. Furthermore, the Coordinator will oversee financial, administrative, and contractual management, systematically monitoring budget execution, managing acquisitions, and ensuring alignment with project timelines and UNESCO procedures. The role is critical for implementing the national results framework, preparing technical and financial reports, managing programmatic risks, and coordinating project communication and visibility in Peru, ensuring ethical and inclusive approaches.
Responsibilities
The Coordinator will lead the strategic, technical, and operational implementation of the project in Peru. This includes directing planning, implementation, monitoring, and adaptive adjustments, ensuring coherence with project documents, results frameworks, and UNESCO standards. Responsibilities involve converting project outcomes into annual work plans with defined milestones, indicators, and budgets. The role requires leading and guiding the national technical team, consultants, and partners, setting priorities, distributing responsibilities, and ensuring product quality. Key duties include leading technical coordination with the Ministry of Education, DRE, UGEL, teacher training institutions, and other strategic actors, building trust, and managing diverse interests. The Coordinator will technically represent the project, aligning messages with UNESCO supervision, and coordinating with regional and international UNESCO offices. Technical leadership involves conducting diagnostic assessments, validating concepts, developing competencies and materials, and implementing them in educational institutions. The role ensures that Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE), gender equality, prevention of gender-based violence, adolescent well-being, interculturality, inclusion, youth participation, and safeguarding are integrated robustly. This includes providing technical assistance for gender equality integration and guiding the design of protocols against gender-based violence. Furthermore, the Coordinator will design strategies to incorporate and strengthen CSE in teacher training curricula, review and quality-control technical deliverables, and ensure the safe and ethical participation of adolescents and youth, particularly from indigenous communities. Financial and administrative management includes systematic monitoring of budget execution, managing acquisitions, and ensuring compliance with contractual milestones and UNESCO procedures.
Work Experience
A minimum of ten years of general professional experience is required, with at least eight years in directing or managing international cooperation or social development programs. Candidates should have five or more years leading multidisciplinary teams, coordinating planning, implementation, monitoring, budget, and risk management. Essential experience includes five or more years in education, teacher training, gender equality, comprehensive sexuality education, or gender-based violence prevention. At least two years of experience collaborating with public entities, international organizations, or civil society, and two years in projects involving indigenous communities or the Amazon region, are also necessary.
Skills
Strong command of results-based management, operational planning, indicator monitoring, budget, risk, and quality control. In-depth knowledge of the Peruvian educational system, teacher training, and continuous professional development. Expertise in human rights, gender equality, inclusion, interculturality, youth participation, safeguarding, and violence prevention approaches. Demonstrated leadership, strategic thinking, negotiation, diplomacy, political-institutional analysis, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities. Excellent written communication and synthesis skills for reports and technical documents. Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and collaborative platforms. Fluency in spoken and written Spanish is essential, with a working knowledge of English. Knowledge of indigenous languages like Awajún is an asset.