📌Title: Programme Policy Officer (Food Security and Livelihood Cluster Coordinator)

📌 Type of Contract: SC-9

➡️ Unit / Division: Programme / WFP Ukraine  

📍 Duty Station: Kyiv

➡️ Duration: 12 months 

🇺🇦 The position is only open to Ukrainian nationals

What will you do in this position?  

The FSLC Co‑Coordinator will lead the Cluster jointly with the FAO Co‑Coordinator, supported by a team of information management officers and data analysts. The overarching objective of this position is to oversee and guide national‑level coordination for partners operating across all Oblasts, ensuring alignment with humanitarian priorities, standards, and accountability requirements.

The FSLC Co‑Coordinator will be accountable to WFP and FAO as the Cluster Lead Agencies and will work under the overall guidance of the WFP Head of Programme.

The position is based in Kyiv, with travels to Dnipro - where the FSLC maintains a sub‑national hub - and other relevant locations as operational needs require.

Under the supervision of Head of Unit, the Programme Policy Officer shall:

• Co‑lead FSLC meetings, ensuring the inclusion of national authorities and key partners at national and sub‑national levels;
• Co‑lead the FSLC contribution to the HNRP by coordinating needs identification and analysis (including severity, geographical scope, and People in Need) and by guiding the design of the response strategy and logframe, in close collaboration with relevant stakeholders;
• Jointly with the FSLC Co‑Coordinator, oversee the work of the FSLC sub‑national coordination/information management hubs in Dnipro, Odesa, and other hubs;
• Lead the Food Assistance Working Group to support partners in key thematic areas related to the provision of food assistance (cash and/or in‑kind), including response design, gaps analysis, deduplication, referrals, protection mainstreaming, and other cross‑cutting issues;
• Participate in and contribute to coordination forums, including Inter‑Cluster Coordination, technical working groups (e.g., Cash Working Group), and other relevant clusters such as WASH, Health, and Protection at national and sub‑national levels;
• Oversee timely, inclusive, and regular information sharing and discussion with cluster partners through various modalities, including cluster meetings and email dissemination of cluster products (dashboards, maps, assessments, etc.);
• Ensure mainstreaming of cross‑cutting and cross‑sectoral issues (e.g., gender, age, human rights, disability, environment, early recovery, protection, nutrition) and the use of appropriate participatory and community‑based approaches in cluster/inter‑cluster needs assessments, analysis, planning, implementation, and monitoring;
• Ensure the use and application of common standards and harmonization of programmatic responses (SOPs on modality of delivery, Minimum Expenditure Basket, minimum assistance package);
• Ensure oversight of the development of regular food security reports (sitreps, bulletins, newsletters, etc.); Undertake advocacy and resource mobilization efforts on behalf of FSLC partners;
• Carry out additional coordination or support tasks as requested.

To join us in saving lives, changing lives, you will have: 

Education: University degree in International Affairs, Economics, Nutrition/Health, Agriculture, Environmental Science, Social Sciences or other field relevant to international development assistance, or First University Degree with additional years of related work experience and/or trainings/courses.

Experience: Minimum of 3 years of relevant professional experience in humanitarian response settings and/or development programmes at mid-senior level including in the food security sector or coordination.

Current knowledge and experience of the national and international humanitarian response in Ukraine is a benefit.

Willingness and ability to work in difficult environments, in often stressful time- critical situations Formal training in Cluster coordination or previous Cluster experience is strongly desirable.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Ability to work and plan at strategic and operational levels.

• Understanding of the international humanitarian response architecture, including humanitarian principles, coordination mechanisms, humanitarian reform and action, and funding mechanisms (e.g. Humanitarian Programme Cycle

  - HPC, Central Emergency Response Fund and Flash Appeals, Pooled funds).

• Ability to express and summarise ideas orally and in writing in a diplomatic and inclusive manner.

• Ability to organise and facilitate workshops, meetings and to present outcomes on behalf of a group of stakeholders.

• Strategic and technical knowledge of conducting food security and vulnerability assessments, monitoring and reporting.

Language: Fluency (level C) in both in English and Ukrainian languages.