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WHY JOIN WFP?
WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.
WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.
A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.
We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).
📌 Type of Contract: International Consultancy Contract
➡️ Unit / Division: Security Unit / WFP Ukraine
📍 Duty Station: Dnipro
➡️ Duration: 11 months
What will you do in this position?
You will support WFP Dnipro Field Office in Ukraine and the Head of Office, with the provision of technical advice, guidance and management of WFP’s security operations to enable the effective delivery of programmes that meet food assistance needs and maintain the security and safety of WFP personnel, activities and facilities, as well as leading a small team of security professionals.
Why work with WFP Ukraine?
The war in Ukraine has had drastic consequences, both for people inside the country and for those around the world who depend on its food supplies. The war has caused immense suffering for civilians, displaced families, and disrupted supply chains and food production. It has caused one of the fastest forced population movements since the Second World War. Close to 6 million Ukrainians are still living as refugees across Europe, and almost 3.6 million are internally displaced. Many have lost their homes and livelihoods. As food production and supply lines are disrupted by fighting, many families in the east and south of Ukraine do not have reliable access to nutritious food.
WFP uses a combination of food and cash assistance to support communities affected by the war. This includes working with local partners to distribute food boxes in areas near the frontline and providing cash transfers in locations where people have access to banks and markets to buy food. Since March 2022, WFP has distributed food and cash assistance equivalent to 3.7 billion meals to people displaced and affected by the war.
At WFP Ukraine, we offer a wide range of benefits and entitlements and favorable working conditions for Consultancy Contract holders. Some of them are:
✅ Competitive salaries per job level
✅ Medical insurance with the possibility to enroll eligible dependents
✅ Applicable danger pay (revised on quarterly basis)
✅ Accessible premises & reasonable accommodation
✅ Learning & development opportunities
✅ Monthly living allowance
✅ Rest and Recuperation Leave entitlements
How can you make a difference?
In this position, you will have to:
1. Keep up to date with and advise upon security developments in Ukraine and in the east and north part of the war frontlines specifically, the relevant tissues and the potential impact upon WFP activity to inform security and operational activities.
2. Provide technical advice, guidance and support e.g. operational security requirements, security assessments and plans to country offices to strengthen the capacity within security management and
3. Provide leadership of the security team, ensuring the effective management of all security activity and resources to support country office programmes and operations.
4. Ensure the development and maintenance of an effective security management communications system to enable rapid and coordinated security activities.
5. Identify and build productive relationships with government agencies and national partners to align activities and optimize the best protection for staff, activities and facilities.
6. Represent WFP at inter-agency meetings e.g. security coordination cells to contribute to technical discussions and exchange of knowledge and experience and advocate for the WFP position.
7. Work in close collaboration with internal counterparts and external partners to align security activities with wider programmes.
8. Support the maintenance of a regional security network among WFP security personnel.
9. Identify potential security training and development opportunities and needs and facilitate training sessions as required to build the security capabilities of WFP and external partners.
10. Oversee and prepare accurate and timely reporting e.g. mandatory ODF reports that enable informed decision making and consistency of information presented to stakeholders.
11. Support the monitoring and evaluation of WFP activities, providing technical analysis, interpretation and information as required to support the assessment of activity impact.
12. Take responsibility for an equitable and inclusive workplace which incorporates all dimensions of the WFP diversity and inclusion framework.
13. Contribute to preparedness actions, providing technical recommendations and guidance and monitor the management of risks.
14. Act in an assigned emergency response capacity as required to meet emergency food assistance needs.
15. Other as required.
To join us in saving lives, changing lives, you will have:
Education: Advanced University degree in Security Management, International Relations or Law Enforcement or other relevant field, or First University degree with additional years of related work experience and/or training/courses. A diploma obtained from Military/Police Academy with qualifying relevant experience may be accepted in lieu of the First University degree.
Experience: A minimum of seven years of relevant postgraduate professional experience in security, military, police, law enforcement, crisis management, risk management, or a related field.
- Previous work experience in post-soviet states and/or cold climate operations.
- Has managed teams of staff with somewhat varied areas of expertise
- Has advised on regional and local security developments that impact upon WFP’s security and operational activities
- Has provided support in the provision of technical security operations advice to strengthen the security management function of WFP and contributes to the development of country strategy, policies and planning
Knowledge & Skills:
- Leadership
- Communication
- Conflict resolution
- Driving for results
- Innovation
Language: Fluency (level C) in English
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All employment decisions are made on the basis of organizational needs, job requirements, merit, and individual qualifications. WFP is committed to providing an inclusive work environment free of sexual exploitation and abuse, all forms of discrimination, any kind of harassment, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. Therefore, all selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
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