He/She supports the project management team—comprising the Project Director and the EF Project Coordinator—in implementing, and monitoring the project's intervention strategy. This includes steering the project's operational and budgetary planning in collaboration with the project manager and sectorial technical experts by identifying priorities, phasing activities, monitoring the procurement plan, and managing multi-year budgeting. The Executive Coordinator plays a key role in structuring the intervention to meet the objectives set in the project's logical framework. He/She is responsible for monitoring operational and financial planning through regular planning meetings, developing monitoring tools, and sharing monthly objectives with lead experts and the broader team. The role also involves anticipating and identifying implementation bottlenecks, reporting them to the project management, and proposing solutions to address or mitigate them. In addition, the Executive Coordinator ensures that project activities are effectively monitored and reported by the M&E and supports the project's capitalisation process.

In terms of team management, the Executive Coordinator co-facilitates planning and monitoring meetings with the Project Director, supports the supervision of Lead Experts by promoting information sharing, strategy alignment, and coordination of implementation schedules and workshops. They also contribute to strengthening the project team's capacity by helping them develop skills and effectively use project reporting tools. Furthermore, they assist in organizing the team’s workflow, monitoring progress, coordinating meetings, and supervising expert advisers to ensure coherent and effective project delivery.

 The executive coordinator will support the project management team (project director and EF project manager) in defining, implementing and monitoring the project's intervention strategy:

- Steering the project's operational and budgetary planning in coordination with the project manager and the technical experts responsible for the thematic components: identifying priorities, phasing activities, monitoring the procurement plan, multi-year budgeting, etc;

- Monitoring operational and budgetary planning: setting up planning monitoring meetings with the project manager, developing monitoring tools, sharing monthly operational objectives with lead experts and the project team;

- Anticipating and identifying bottlenecks in implementation, reporting them to the project manager and the head office project manager, and proposing solutions to resolve and/or mitigate them,

 - Ensure that activities are monitored and reported by the SEA project manager and support the project capitalisation project.

- Supporting the management of the project team

- To co-facilitate with the Project director the planning and monitoring meetings of the activities

- Support the Project director in supervising the Lead Experts (information sharing, strategy meetings, workshops, implementation schedules, etc.);

 - Strengthen and support the project team as it develops its skills and learns how to use project reporting tools;

- To support the project director in organising the work of the project team (monitoring team members, organising meetings, supervising expert advisers);

-  Representation of the project in meetings on behalf of the Project director

- operational steering of the project