Overview
The Veterans Reintegration Analyst will support the implementation of community-based reintegration of veterans within the Area-Based Recovery approach, focusing on civic engagement, participatory governance, service delivery, and inclusive recovery at the local level.
Key Responsibilities
- Support implementation of programme activities on community-based reintegration of veterans.
- Conduct community-level assessments, stakeholder mapping, and applied research.
- Design and contribute to research, analytical studies, and assessment tools.
- Support the development and strengthening of local veterans’ reintegration policies, programmes, and action plans.
- Facilitate inclusive participatory processes in partner hromadas.
- Provide technical and advisory support to communities, local authorities, veteran CSOs, and civic actors.
- Support capacity development and peer learning for local authorities, service providers, and veteran organizations.
- Prepare and regularly update work plans for veterans’ reintegration activities.
- Contribute to policy dialogue and policy alignment.
- Engage and coordinate with key national, regional, and local stakeholders.
- Facilitate structured coordination and dialogue between national and local levels.
- Support effective collaboration among local authorities, veteran CSOs, service providers, and communities.
- Contribute to organization and facilitation of coordination meetings, consultations, forums, and strategic dialogues.
- Promote multi-disciplinary and cross-sectoral cooperation.
- Ensure systematic documentation of stakeholder inputs, coordination outcomes, and agreed action points.
- Coordinate closely with UNDP programme and Area-Based Recovery (ABR) thematic teams.
- Coordinate closely with UNDP programme, operations, and technical teams.
- Facilitate information exchange, share community-level inputs, and flag operational, social, or policy-related considerations.
- Contribute to monitoring implementation from a community-based reintegration and civic engagement perspective.
- Provide operational support to procurement-related processes.
- Support organization of coordination meetings, consultations, field missions, and learning events.
- Assist in preparation of progress, monitoring, and results-oriented reports.
- Contribute to internal knowledge management and communication.
- Assist with ensuring the programme contributes to the promotion of gender equality.
- Use the principles of gender-responsive communications.
- Be aware of relevant gender issues and concerns.
- Support the promotion of team culture of gender equality and zero tolerance to any sexual misconduct.
- Demonstrate respect for gender equality in professional interactions, identify and address sexism and gender discrimination.
- Assist with informing and briefing personnel and partners about corporate sexual harassment and sexual exploitation and abuse policies.
- Identify, synthesize and document best practices and lessons learned.
Required Experience
- Applicants with Bachelor’s degree are required to have a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in veterans’ reintegration, civic engagement, inclusive recovery.
- Demonstrated professional experience on applying the Community-Based Approach to Reintegration (CBR), Human Rights-Based Approach (HRBA), and the Area-Based Recovery (ABR) approach to recovery and development.
- Personal experience as a veteran and/or demonstrated engagement in veteran communities or veteran-led initiatives is considered.
- Demonstrated experience in providing advisory and technical support to civil society organizations and local authorities, including designing and conducting applied research, assessments, or analytical studies, in the areas of community-based reintegration of veterans, social inclusion, and civic engagement.
- Previous experience working with UN/UNDP, public sector institutions, and/or international organizations.
- Experience in the use of computers, office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and web-based management systems, and advanced knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in Social Sciences, Public Administration, Law, Political Science or related field is required; or
- A first-level degree (Bachelor’s degree) in the areas mentioned above combination with additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of Master’s degree.
