Project Coordinator (Fractional role - Internal Candidates Only)
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Global
fulltime
Posted 11 hours ago
Job Description
Summary
Job Title: Project Coordinator - HOT Transformation (Fractional Role 2026 - 2027)
Location: Remote (Global)
Reports to: Senior Director, Programs
Works closely with: Portfolio Team + Deputy Executive Director + Executive Director
Application Deadline: April 23, 2026 midnight
Contract Type: Not Applicable
Time Commitment: 50% (Fractional Role)
Duration: 12–18 months
Location: Remote (Global)
Reports to: Senior Director, Programs
Works closely with: Portfolio Team + Deputy Executive Director + Executive Director
Application Deadline: April 23, 2026 midnight
Contract Type: Not Applicable
Time Commitment: 50% (Fractional Role)
Duration: 12–18 months
Context:
HOT is entering a new phase of growth, shifting from a primarily volunteer-driven model to a more sustainable, locally led approach to scaling community-generated data. Building on the milestone of mapping areas where over one billion people live, HOT is evolving its model to enable trained local organisations to deliver high-quality mapping and analysis services directly to decision-makers. Central to this shift is the development of an open mapping marketplace, which will connect demand from governments, multilaterals, and NGOs with accredited local providers, established by the Learn & Connect program. This transition is supported by a broader pivot in HOT’s business model towards earned revenue, while maintaining philanthropic support for public-good priorities such as disaster response and innovation.
Role Overview:
This role sits at the heart of HOT’s organisational transformation, supporting the transition to a new model for scaling community-led mapping and data services globally.
The Project Coordinator is a fractional (50%) role supporting HOT’s 2026–2027 transformation and scaling phase. The role will work closely with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to coordinate and drive progress across key strategic workstreams, ensuring alignment, accountability, and delivery against organisational priorities.
This is a highly cross-cutting role requiring strong organisational skills, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to translate strategy into execution.
Key workstreams include:
- HOT’s Methodology
- Learn and Connect Program
- Marketplace Strategy
- Marketing and Sales growth
Key Responsibilities:
Transformation Coordination & Execution
- Coordinate and monitor Transformation activities against agreed outcomes and timelines. Collaborate closely across teams, acting as a connector to ensure clarity and alignment.
- Translate high-level strategy into clear, trackable workplans
- Support cross-team coordination to maintain momentum and accountability:
- Manage and maintain workstream tracking tools and databases (mainly Asana, but also Neon One, Airtable)
- Maintain organized and up-to-date transformation related documentation (updates, reports) on shared drives & systems
- Serve as a point of contact for stakeholders, partners, and internal teams
Tracking, Monitoring & Reporting
- Track workstream plans, milestones, achievements, and deadlines
- Produce clear, regular updates for leadership, board, and to support donor engagement
- Support the preparation of reports and updates for internal use, as well as board, donor, and stakeholder briefings
- Ensure consistent visibility into progress, risks, and blockers
Stakeholder Coordination
- Act as a central coordination point across leadership, program, portfolio and hub teams
- Support communication and alignment across internal and external stakeholders
Risk Management & Problem Solving
- Identify risks and delays early, and support mitigation
- Help teams unblock challenges and maintain delivery pace
Must Have:
- Demonstrated interest in project management, with experience in project coordination or delivery
- Strong organizational, coordination, and time management skills
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders across geographies and functions
- Comfort working in fast-evolving, ambiguous environments; self-driven and able to work independently with limited supervision to manage multiple priorities
- Experience using (or strong willingness to learn) HOT project management tools: Asana, Neon One, Airtable
- Strong attention to detail with solid reporting and documentation skills
- Effective communicator with a collaborative, cross-cultural approach
- Innovative, proactive, and solutions-oriented mindset
Growth Opportunity:
This role is intentionally designed as a learning and growth opportunity, intended for any staff interested in building:
- Hands-on project and program management experience on global, highly strategic topics
- Exposure to organizational strategy and leadership decision-making
- Cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management skills
We expect that strong performance in this role will lead to expanded responsibilities and future career growth opportunities within HOT in 2027-2028. We expect that an interested candidate will be motivated to grow their skills and career, and will dedicate an additional $1000 personal development allowance (on top of current levels) to support this in 2026.
To Apply:
This role is open to full time employees and contractors within HOT only.
Interested persons should submit a statement of interest not more than 2 pages, outlining:
Your motivation for applying for this role;
- relevant skills and experience to function in this role,
- how this role aligns with your professional and career goals.
- Proposed actions to kick-start in this function.
Kindly submit your application by midnight, Thursday, April, 23rd, 2026.
Required Skills
DocumentationReportingTime ManagementCommunicationOrganizational SkillsAttention to Detail
About the Company
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
NGO / Non Profit
51 - 250 Founded 2010
Free, collaboratively generated maps are uniquely valuable to humanitarian work and economic development, especially in places where base map data is often missing, out of date, or rapidly changing. OpenStreetMap is an open data project founded to create a free and open map of the world, built primarily by volunteers surveying with pencil and paper, GPS units or by digitizing aerial imagery and finding and liberating existing public sources of geographic data.
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team [HOT], a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization, was launched in 2010 to promote and support the thousands of volunteers and dozens of local groups around the world that work to build OpenStreetMap, with an emphasis on humanitarian mapping to aid disaster relief, preparedness and economic development.
In its role organizing crisis response mapping, HOT acts as a bridge between the OpenStreetMap community and traditional humanitarian responders like MSF, the Red Cross, UNOCHA as well as local groups and governments.
To further the mission of OpenStreetMap, HOT sponsors and coordinates the development and hosting of several open source software tools specifically for the OpenStreetMap community.
We also fund field training and data collection for existing and new OpenStreetMap groups, produce learning and training materials for people doing OpenStreetMap mapping and train skilled mapping coordinators to organize volunteer mappers' efforts in emergency response to crises and disasters.
HOT sponsored teams work in countries around the world helping collect geographic data and training and learning from local communities to map information in OpenStreetMap that is important to them. Our goal is to help build self sustaining local groups of motivated and skilled mappers.
We are dedicated to applying the principles of open source software and open data sharing towards humanitarian response and economic development and inclusiveness in all of our endeavors.
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team [HOT], a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization, was launched in 2010 to promote and support the thousands of volunteers and dozens of local groups around the world that work to build OpenStreetMap, with an emphasis on humanitarian mapping to aid disaster relief, preparedness and economic development.
In its role organizing crisis response mapping, HOT acts as a bridge between the OpenStreetMap community and traditional humanitarian responders like MSF, the Red Cross, UNOCHA as well as local groups and governments.
To further the mission of OpenStreetMap, HOT sponsors and coordinates the development and hosting of several open source software tools specifically for the OpenStreetMap community.
We also fund field training and data collection for existing and new OpenStreetMap groups, produce learning and training materials for people doing OpenStreetMap mapping and train skilled mapping coordinators to organize volunteer mappers' efforts in emergency response to crises and disasters.
HOT sponsored teams work in countries around the world helping collect geographic data and training and learning from local communities to map information in OpenStreetMap that is important to them. Our goal is to help build self sustaining local groups of motivated and skilled mappers.
We are dedicated to applying the principles of open source software and open data sharing towards humanitarian response and economic development and inclusiveness in all of our endeavors.
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