SOW: Startup Moldova Foundation 

Job description for Project Coordinator

Background:

Startup Moldova Foundation is an organization accelerating the technological innovation in the Republic of Moldova by training, encouraging, but also by creating a favourable environment for the development of startups and tech innovative companies.

The Foundation aims at:

1. Community: Supporting and empowering the community of startups and innovative companies in the Republic of Moldova through community programs, activities and events. Creating and executing a unified strategy to promote the startup community. 
2. Education: Implementing programs and initiatives to encourage and empower people who want or plan to become a startup founder or active promoter of technological innovations.
3. Resources for startups: Empowering startups and innovative companies with the necessary resources to achieve their goals: mentoring, tracking, operational training, facilitating partnerships, facilitating access to accounting services, legal assistance, thematic training, and others.
4. Funding: Facilitating the access of startups and innovative companies to financing resources, their support and professional training in fundraising activities.

Job Title: Project Coordinator

Basic Functions:

Project Coordinator performs its functions based on the job description and employment contract, and will perform its function on a full-time basis, being allocated in one or more projects, up to full capacity utilization.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Project development, planning and implementation
• Responsible for the achievement of project goals and objectives 
• Coordination of internal and external resources for program execution purposes
• Responsible for the timely delivery of the project, meeting the scope and budget
• Monitoring of track progress and reporting on the interim and final status
• Reporting and escalation to Executive Director
• Creation and maintenance of necessary, comprehensive project documentation
• Responsible for the quality and reliability of project documentation and project data
• Creation and monitoring of the project plan and its execution
• Responsibility for tasks delegation, coordination and tracking within the team
• Coordination of local teams in case of projects run in the regions of Moldova

Reporting Line:

Project Coordinator is reporting to the Executive Director of the Foundation.

Coordination Line:

Project Coordinator might be managing Project Assistant(s), depending on the individual project needs. 

Requirements and qualifications:

• Proven work experience in project management
• Proven work experience in team management and tasks delegation
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
• Great adaptability and stress management skills
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Advanced levels of English, Romanian and Russian languages
• Critical thinking, problem solving and analytical skills, detail-oriented
• Strong sense of fairness and ethical principles 
• Fascinated by the area of technological innovations
• Potential business trips across Moldova, up to 20% of the work time

Place of performance:

Chisinau, Republic of Moldova

Period of performance: 

Full time

Deadline for applications:

April 1, 2022

Expected start date:

April 15, 2022

Application process:

If interested, please send your CV and explain your motivation to take this position to the email: nbejan@startupmoldova.digital.

Please indicate in the email subject line: JOB APPLICATION Project Coordinator.