Field Coordinator

Office/Unit/Project

• UNDP Türkiye
• Climate Change and Environment Portfolio
• Shifting to Zero Waste Against Pollution (SWAP) Initiative

Field Coordinator (FC)

NPSA 9

Ankara, Türkiye

Regular

Office-based

September 2026

6 months initially with possibility of renewal based on the satisfactory performance and availability of funding

UNDP is the UN's global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life.

UNDP positions itself as a development partner that brings global knowledge, through a multi-sectoral approach – the key comparative advantage of UNDP - and concentrates its work on 3 programmatic fields: i) Inclusive and Sustainable Growth, ii) Inclusive and Democratic Governance, iii) Climate Change and Environment.

CCE Portfolio focuses on three programmatic areas that complement each other: 1-Natural Resource Management contributing to sustainable environment management and conservation of natural resources in production landscapes, within the general framework of the ecosystems approach; 2
- Climate Change and Disaster Resilience (including chemicals and waste) strengthening institutional capacities for analysis and risk management for resilience with a specific emphasis on climate change, and 3
- Cooperation with relevant stakeholders to promote energy efficiency and renewable energy.

The Shifting to Zero Waste Against Pollution (SWAP) Initiative aims to reduce chemical pollution in the value chain and improve resource efficiency by supporting pilot cities in emerging economies and Least Developed Countries towards a zero-waste vision in line with green chemistry, circular economy, and waste hierarchy principles for sustainable production and consumption. The comprehensive approach of the Initiative will be implemented in five cities:
Freetown (Sierra Leone), Kocaeli (Türkiye), Montevideo (Uruguay), Tunis (Tunisia), and Tianjin (China). The total GEF-provided activity budget for the project is USD 28,035,000.

• Enable conditions and coherent policies to promote integrated planning and programming at the city level towards a long-term vision of zero waste and zero pollution.
• Explore special and diverse legal, fiscal, and financial steering instruments to promote sustainable investment and cost recovery to address the financial challenges for the transition to a zero-waste city.
• Enhance sustainable production and consumption by encouraging the private sectors to adopt BAT/BEP to eliminate harmful chemicals in products, promoting eco-design, sustainable consumption and services, building an ecosystem from upstream to downstream for the circularity of materials.
• Make information and knowledge accessible for raising awareness to every key stakeholder in the key value chains, including producers, retailers, consumers, citizens, and waste workers, through a whole-of-society approach.
• Build global networks and partnerships on zero waste, provide policy and technical advice through its clearing house, facilitate knowledge sharing, and raise awareness across countries and regions.

The Project Field Coordinator (FC) will allocate %100 of his/her time to the Shifting to Zero Waste Against Pollution (SWAP) Initiative Project for the whole project’s duration. The FC will provide support to the senior-most representative of the Project Management Unit (PMU) who is the Project Manager assigned by the General Directorate of Environmental Management of the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change.

He/she is responsible for providing technical and coordination support for the mobilization of project inputs, as requested by the Project Manager, and facilitating collaboration among the project team, responsible parties, consultants, and subcontractors, without supervisory or decision-making authority. The field coordinator supports the project manager in presenting key deliverables, progress in the field, and documents to the board for their review…