The University of the South Pacific (USP) is the premier dual sector university serving the Pacific region and only one of three regional universities of its kind in the world. USP endeavours to ‘Shape Pacific Futures’ by shaping Pacific minds to overcome the development challenges that we face, through research, innovation and future-proof thinking. Uniquely governed by its twelve member countries, USP is not only a higher education and research institution, but also a regional integration organisation that provides services within the communally agreed structured regional mechanisms geared towards benefiting the lives of the Pacific People.

In its role as an organisation for regional integration and cooperation, USP serves all 18 Forum Member Countries. This Unit directly supports the Vice-Chancellor and President by providing high-level strategic advice and analysis on donor relations, regionalism/strategic and International Partnerships.

The Unit is responsible for developing, maintaining and implementing the University’s Monitoring and Evaluation Framework with relation to funded projects.  Further to this, the Unit maintains an active register of all partnerships and donors and undertakes regular audits of the same.

The Unit works in close consultation with the focal points (Project Coordinators) across the University to ensure that, where required, the project implementation units are set up as effectively and efficiently to ensure that project implementation is not affected. These include timely recruitment of project staff and set up office and other utility requirements.

It also provides oversight on the progress of the work undertaken by the Project Coordinators across USP and the Contractors to ensure that reporting to relevant authorities and external parties on progress is done in a timely manner and also identifying potential variations and proposing possible mitigations on deviations from agreed tasks to be delivered.