Inclusion Analyst, NPSA-8, DS-Kyiv, Nationals only

Background

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) works in about 170 countries and territories, helping to eradicate poverty, reduce inequalities and exclusion, and build resilience so that countries can sustain progress. As the development arm of the United Nations, UNDP supports strategic capacity development initiatives to promote inclusive growth and sustainable human development. Through partnerships with national, regional, and local governments, civil society, and the private sector, UNDP strives to support Ukraine in its efforts to eliminate poverty, develop people’s capacity, achieve equitable results, sustain the environment, and advance democratic governance.

In Ukraine, UNDP operates in five programmatic areas of support: government capacities for crisis response and management; sustaining provision of public services; emergency works facilitating return and reconstruction; incomes, livelihoods and the private sector response; and civil society and maintenance of the social fabric.

After more than three years of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation, the war is entering a new phase, marked by intensified mass attacks with drones and missiles on people and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine. Such massive and indiscriminate strikes on residential houses, health facilities, schools, and the energy sector across Ukraine inflict increasingly severe hardships on civilians, making Ukraine even more dependent on external support and undermining ongoing and future recovery efforts. The country is now facing an entirely new set of challenges requiring urgent and adaptive recovery measures.

Accelerating Recovery for Human Security in Ukraine with Urgent Response to Intensified Attacks through ‘Co-Creation’ Cooperation Project responds to the worsening humanitarian and recovery challenges caused by intensified missile and drone attacks on civilian infrastructure across Ukraine. Building on the longstanding partnership between Japan and UNDP, the project aims to strengthen resilience and promote Human Security through integrated, multi-sectoral interventions focused on: (i) restoring essential basic services and safe living conditions; (ii) strengthening socio-economic resilience; and (iii) ensuring transparent and accountable recovery processes. The project applies an innovative “co-creation” approach, leveraging Japanese expertise, technology, and partnerships to support urgent recovery needs while promoting inclusive recovery solutions and public-private cooperation.

EU-UNDP Technical Assistance to the Final Beneficiaries of the EIB Early Recovery and Ukraine Recovery Programmes provides technical assistance to support the implementation of EIB-financed recovery investments across war-affected communities in Ukraine. The project supports the Ministry for Development of Communities and Territories of Ukraine and local authorities in planning, procurement, implementation, and monitoring of recovery sub-projects in critical sectors including education, healthcare, housing, water and sanitation, and public infrastructure. It ensures that recovery investments are delivered efficiently, transparently, and in compliance with environmental, social, and procurement standards, while applying “build back better” principles and ensuring inclusion of vulnerable and conflict-affected populations.

In this context, the Inclusion Analyst will contribute to mainstreaming inclusion principles, ensuring that recovery interventions address the needs of women, persons with disabilities, internally displaced persons, veterans, and other vulnerable groups, while promoting equitable access, stakeholder participation, and inclusive recovery outcomes.

Duties and Responsibilities

1.Support implementation of inclusive project activities

• Support day-to-day implementation of inclusion-related activities under the respective projects, ensuring timely delivery of planned outputs.
• Contribute to the integration of social inclusion, gender equality, accessibility, and human rights-based approaches into project planning, implementation, and monitoring in line with UNDP policies and programme management procedures.
• Provide technical support on inclusion and accessibility, including participation in accessibility assessments of infrastructure, public spaces, information products, and project deliverables, in line with applicable accessibility standards and universal design principles.
• Support the preparation of project workplans, activity plans, and implementation arrangements to ensure inclusion considerations are effectively reflected in project interventions.
• Facilitate inclusive and participatory approaches to project implementation, ensuring that project activities address the needs of women, persons with disabilities, internally displaced persons, veterans, and other vulnerable groups.

2.Support stakeholders’ engagement and establish partnerships

• Maintain effective working relationships with government counterparts, local authorities, civil society organizations, organizations of persons with disabilities, community representatives, and implementing partners to support inclusive project delivery.
• Support consultations, stakeholder coordination meetings, and participatory dialogue processes to ensure diverse perspectives are reflected in project implementation.
• Assist in stakeholder mapping and analysis to identify barriers to participation and opportunities to strengthen inclusion across project activities.
• Provide technical guidance to project partners on inclusive approaches, accessibility, and equitable participation in recovery interventions.

3.Support monitoring, reporting, and quality assurance

• Collect, consolidate, and analyze data related to inclusion-related indicators and project results, ensuring appropriate disaggregation by gender, age, disability, and other relevant criteria.
• Monitor implementation progress, identify inclusion-related risks or barriers, and propose practical solutions to strengthen equitable access and participation.
• Conduct field visits to monitor implementation and assess inclusion and accessibility aspects of project activities and infrastructure interventions.
• Contribute to the preparation of project reports, briefing materials, and analytical updates for UNDP, donors, and government counterparts, ensuring clear reporting on inclusion results and impact.
• Support documentation of project results, lessons learned, and good practices related to inclusive recovery.

4. Facilitate knowledge sharing and advocacy on inclusive recovery

• Organize trainings, workshops, and capacity-building activities for project partners and stakeholders on social inclusion, accessibility, and inclusive recovery approaches.
• Support development of knowledge products, guidance materials, and communication content showcasing project achievements and lessons learned across projects.
• Identify and document innovative practices and successful approaches to inclusive recovery to inform future programming.
• Promote awareness of inclusive recovery principles and support visibility of project results through coordination with Programme and communications teams.

5. Ensure the mainstreaming of gender equality, social inclusion, disability inclusion, and safeguarding principles in the field of expertise, and promote a safe, inclusive, and enabling environment free of discrimination and abusive behaviour in line with corporate standards

• Assist with ensuring that the project contributes to gender equality and social inclusion by reaching, involving, and benefiting women, men, and vulnerable and underrepresented groups, including persons with disabilities, in line with human rights and protection principles.
• Ensure integration of gender equality, disability inclusion, accessibility, and protection considerations across project activities, and use gender- and inclusion-responsive communication approaches in line with UNDP corporate standards.
• Be aware of and address relevant gender equality, social inclusion, and safeguarding issues and concerns within the field of expertise, including barriers to participation and access for different groups.
• Support the promotion of a team culture that values diversity, inclusion, and equality, and ensures zero tolerance to sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, and other forms of misconduct, through leadership and personal example.
• Demonstrate respect for diversity and inclusion in professional interactions, and proactively identify and address discrimination, including sexism, ableism, and other forms of exclusion.
• Support the implementation and promotion of UNDP safeguarding policies, including Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) and anti-harassment frameworks, and assist with informing and briefing personnel and partners on these policies and standards.
• Ensure accessibility of communication, information, and engagement processes, and promote awareness among staff, partners, and stakeholders on inclusion, gender equality, and safeguarding principles.

The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.

4. Institutional Arrangement

The Inclusion Analyst works under the direct supervision of SIA Project Coordinator-Inclusion and Accessibility and matrix supervision of EIB TA Project Manager.

Competencies

Core Achieve Results: LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline Think Innovatively: LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements Learn Continuously: LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible Act with Determination: LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident Engage and Partner: LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination

Thematic Area Name Definition Business Development Knowledge Facilitation

• Ability to animate individuals and groups, internally and externally, and to design and facilitate activities, to share and exchange knowledge, information and ideas. Knowledge of tools and approaches to stimulate active participation, contribution, and exchange.

Business Management Project Management

• Ability to plan, organize, prioritize and control resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals

Business Management Partnerships Management

• Build and maintain partnerships with wide networks of stakeholders, Governments, civil society and private sector partners, experts and others in line with UNDP strategy and policies

Business Management Communication

• Communicate in a clear, concise and unambiguous manner both through written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and choose communication methods depending on the audience
• Ability to manage communications internally and externally, through media, social media and other appropriate channels

Business Management Monitoring and Evaluation

• Ability to systematically monitor results of strategies, programmes, and activities with a view to make sure that they are being implemented effectively; Ability to provide managers and key stakeholders with regular feedback and reporting on the consistency or discrepancy between planned activities and programme management and results.
• Ability to make independent judgment of the management and results of strategies, programmes and activities based on set criteria and benchmark, keeping in mind the needs and concerns of client, current and upcoming.
• Knowledge and understanding of monitoring and evaluation frameworks, concepts, methodologies, systems, processes, and tools. Ability to make an independent judgement based on set criteria and benchmarks. Ability to anticipate client's upcoming needs and concerns.

2030 Agenda: Peace Governance

• Open and Inlcusive Public Sphere

2030 Agenda: Peace

Conflict Prevention, Peacebuilding and Responsible Institutions

• Faith in Action: Empowering Communities for Inclusive Peacebuilding and Development

Required Skills and Experience

Minimum Education Requirements

• Advanced university degree (master's degree or equivalent) in Business Administration, Public Administration, Economics, Political Sciences, Social Sciences, or related field is required, or
• A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas mentioned above, in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience, will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Minimum Years of Relevant Work Experience

• Applicants with a Master’s degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field of study are not required to have professional work experience.
• Applicants with a Bachelor’s degree are required to have a minimum of two (2) years of relevant professional experience at the national or international level in providing services or advising on inclusion and accessibility for vulnerable and conflict-affected populations, including IDPs, persons with disabilities, veterans, women, and the elderly.

Desirable Criteria

• Experience in the social-inclusion thematic area.
• Experience applying construction norms and regulations on accessibility.
• Experience in organizing and delivering trainings, workshops, and capacity-building activities on inclusion-related topics.
• Experience in stakeholder engagement and coordination with government institutions, civil society organizations, organizations of persons with disabilities (OPDs), UN agencies, and/or development partners.

Required Language(s)

• Fluency in Ukrainian and English is required.

Professional Certificates n/a

Equal opportunity

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UNDP is also committed to creating an inclusive workplace where all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, are valued, can thrive, and benefit from career opportunities that are open to all.

Sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse of authority

UNDP does not tolerate harassment, sexual harassment, exploitation, discrimination and abuse of authority. All selected candidates, therefore, undergo relevant checks and are expected to adhere to the respective standards and principles.

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