Deputy Access Coordinator

UNOPS is an operational arm of the United Nations, supporting the successful implementation of its partners’ peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the world. Our mission is to help people build better lives and countries achieve sustainable development.

UNOPS areas of expertise cover infrastructure, procurement, project management, financial management and human resources.

Working with us

UNOPS offers short- and long-term work opportunities in diverse and challenging environments across the globe. We are looking for creative, results-focused professionals with skills in a range of disciplines.

Diversity

With over 4,000 UNOPS personnel and approximately 7,000 personnel recruited on behalf of UNOPS partners spread across 80 countries, our workforce represents a wide range of nationalities and cultures. We promote a balanced, diverse workforce — a strength that helps us better understand and address our partners’ needs, and continually strive to improve our gender balance through initiatives and policies that encourage recruitment of qualified female candidates.

Work life harmonization

UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands.

To ameliorate the delivery of humanitarian and development assistance and advance the protection of civilians, an Access Coordination Unit (ACU) was created to develop a centralized pro-active and sustainable access solution for the movement of humanitarian and development personnel and goods. The ACU is a project managed by UNOPS in support of the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator (UN RC/HC). The ACU aims to provide operational support to UN, Diplomatic Missions, and NGO staff and goods facing access difficulties. In support of its partner organizations, UNOPS is looking to recruit a  Deputy Access Coordinator to be part of ACU project.

Under the guidance and supervision of the Access Coordination Unit, the Deputy Access Coordinator will monitor and analyze access trends in the oPt, with a particular emphasis on the movement of humanitarian staff and goods and the overall humanitarian impact of lack of access on all beneficiaries in the oPt.

1. Coordination and liaison

2. Analysis and reporting

3. Personnel & resource management

4. Knowledge building and knowledge sharing

• Advanced university degree in Political Science, International Relations, Human Rights Law, Middle Eastern studies or any related field

• A first-level university degree in combination with an additional 2 years of relevant experience in Political Science, International Relations, Human Rights Law, Middle Eastern studies or other relevant discipline, may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

A minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible experience in working in a complex security environment, preferably with relevant authorities such as Defense, Police, Ministry of Interior, diplomatic missions, UN and INGO and other local authorities; 

• Experience in humanitarian access and negotiation is required. 

• Experience in research, analysis and report writing is required.

• Experience in civil military coordination is a distinctive advantage.

• Background and work experience on issues related to Israeli-Palestinian conflict is desirable. 

• Experience in working with international organizations is desirable.

• Working with databases and IT based systems for monitoring information and producing reports. 

• Proven IT competence (Office ICT Equipment, Microsoft Office and Google Suite)

Contract type: International ICA

• Please Submit a cover letter with your application
• Please note that the closing date is midnight Copenhagen time
• Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
• Only those candidates that are short-listed for interviews will be notified.
• Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• UNOPS seeks to reasonably accommodate candidates with special needs, upon request.
• Work life harmonization - UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands. We have a progressive policy on work-life harmonization and offer several flexible working options. This policy applies to UNOPS personnel on all contract types
• For staff positions only, UNOPS reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level than the advertised level of the post
• The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNOPS.  

It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential recruits/interns.
Recruitment/internship in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.