Harold Clavite

About Harold Clavite

With 30 years of professional experience across government, the United Nations system, and development initiatives, my career has taken me through a unique intersection of operations, communications, partnerships, and project management, supporting leadership, coordinating complex programmes, and mobilizing stakeholders across sectors and borders. In my current role at UNDP, I support operations, project coordination, financial tracking, recruitment processes, and knowledge management for global initiatives. My work includes supporting programme teams through budget monitoring, ERP-based reporting (Quantum), digital operations, and stakeholder coordination. In 2013, I served with the UN Development Operations Coordination Office (DOCO) in New York, contributing to inter-agency coordination across the UN Development System. I also worked with WFP where I managed private sector partnerships and fundraising strategies, including strong support in the national participation of the global “End Hunger: Walk the World” campaign, mobilizing more than participants, partners, and volunteers raising over Beyond the UN, I served as Director-General of the Philippine Information Agency, the government’s national public information arm. In this role, I led national communications initiatives and oversaw operations and overall organizational management. I also served on the National Security Council\'s Strategic Communications Committee, focusing on preventing and countering violent extremism (PCVE). During the Marawi conflict in Mindanao in 2017, I chaired the Information Management and Strategic Communications Committee of Task Force Bangon Marawi, coordinating communications for a multi-agency post-conflict recovery effort. From 2018 to 2022, I was a Board Member at the multisector advisory board (MSAB) of the Philippine Army.

Experience

1. Digital Operations Associate

   Undp

   Apr 2022 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Provide operational leadership supporting the delivery of global communications initiatives within the Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy. Ensure alignment between strategic priorities and administrative execution by coordinating recruitment, procurement, financial monitoring, and contract management in accordance with UN regulations and corporate procedures; Serve as focal point for personnel management across multiple contract modalities, overseeing onboarding, extensions, and separations while advising managers on workforce planning. Manage budget tracking and reporting to enhance financial transparency and support evidence-based decision-making; Lead procurement coordination and vendor governance, including development of Terms of Reference and facilitation of competitive selection processes. Translate communications requirements into structured operational plans that enable timely and compliant project delivery.

Education

• Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology

  Bachelor's, Psychology

  1994 — 1999

• Polytechnic University of the Philippines

  Master of Communication

• Asian Institute of Management

  Certificate, Development Management Course

  2006 — 2006

• Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology

  Bachelor of Science

• Polytechnic University of the Philippines

  Master in Communication

  2018 — 2019

• Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

  Graduate Certificate, Public Policy Delivery

  2016 — 2016