Age Inclusion Advisor, HelpAge Ukraine (National position, open for those with Ukrainian citizenship or residency permit.)

Job Title: Age Inclusion Advisor/Age and Disability Technical Working Group (ADTWG)

Location: Kyiv

Contract: Fixed term labor contract, for 12 months with possibility of extension.

Reports to: Deputy Country Director of Programs

HelpAge – delivering real impact for older people

HelpAge International works with partners and a diverse global network of more than 150 organizations across 85 countries, supporting millions of older people to l safe, dignified and healthy lives. Through our partnership and collaborations, we work to ensure the inclusion of older people across society and strive to deliver a just and fair world for everyone, whatever their age. Our work is driven by our desire to deliver real impact for older people, to be inclusive, to work in partnership and to learn from our shared experience.

HelpAge International (HAI) has been present in Ukraine since 2014 with a total workforce of +250 people including staff and volunteers/contractors. As one of the few INGOs with an operational presence in Ukraine, we were able to respond quickly to the current Ukraine crisis with initial life-saving activities in the Donetsk and Luhansk Regions and are scaling up assistance in the Central and Western Regions of Ukraine. Our response plan includes cash assistance, food distributions, NFI distribution/ health and dignity kits, WASH, Protection and Mental Health and Psychosocial First Aid.

We are seeking passionate, talented candidates for several roles to further strengthen our country team.

Job Purpose

The Age and Disability Technical Working Group is part of the Protection Cluster in Ukraine and will promote age and disability inclusion within the working group to ensure that the needs and concerns of older people are identified and addressed as the concerns related to older people and people with disabilities cuts across all sectors of the humanitarian response as part of a wider commitment to the delivery of impartial, needs based response.

Key areas for impact/influence and responsibilities

These outline the broad areas of responsibility in the role, in collaboration with the ADTWG Coordinator who is bringing together different inclusion actors to strengthen the Ukraine humanitarian response to better address the inclusion of older people and people with disabilities. This role as Age Advisor is in line with the ADTWG’s ToR; the work plan for this post will shape and design specific activities that are relevant to raise the voice of older men and women, with and without disabilities in the Ukraine response. We want you to work creatively to deliver impact and respond to relevant opportunities. You will:

Coordination Role

• Assist the ADTWG Coordinator in coordinating and supporting the inclusion working group members to implement the activities in accordance with the jointly defined strategy.
• Promote the active engagement of interested humanitarian actors to include older people and people with disabilities in the response planning throughout the cluster mechanism.
• As part of the HelpAge Ukraine technical team, ensure the close collaboration and coordination of technical and advocacy (if relevant) with other Ukraine advisors e g Advocacy Advisor, Gender and Inclusion Advisor, Health Advisor, Protection and MHPSS Advisor to benefit from the cross learning and technical field experiences which can be used to influence and strengthen the ADTWG and the Protection Cluster.
• Build strong relationship with other inclusion specialist working in the Protection and other cluster to mainstream age and disability across the humanitarian response e g WHO and Humanity and Inclusion

Technical Role

• Map and assess inclusion of older people in the assessment and planning of humanitarian action.
• Develop suitable age inclusion tools and procedures in line with the Humanitarian Inclusion Standards, the local context and disseminate them to promote an overall inclusive response.
• Design and create relevant trainings and dispense them across the protection and other clusters and to relevant partners at field level.
• Provide technical inputs to documentation, training modules, tools and other resources produced by the Inclusion Technical working group.
• Work with other clusters (WASH, Health, Food Security etc) with the purpose of identifying and responding to the gaps in age and disability inclusive response and support with capacity strengthening on age and disability inclusion.
• Identify focal points on age inclusion within the ADTWG and other cluster to strengthen the influencing of age and disability focused approaches.
• Take proactive responsibility by staying informed about development and good practices in age inclusion and mainstreaming.
• Closely monitor the local context and provide updates on contextual changes to promote informed decision making and create linkages with other clusters like WASH, Health etc.
• Promote the meaningful participation and involvement of older persons with and without disabilities including Older People Associations (OPAs) to make their voices heard.
• Support and monitor the data collection exercises, assessments, and surveys through promoting the use of a minimum of sex, age and disability inclusive tools.
• Share information and good practices on developing age inclusion programming or advocacy work.

Experience and technical competencies

Essential

• Field and programmatic experience in humanitarian work in conflict/peacebuilding environments in a variety of contexts.
• Strong understanding of intersectionality analysis and age and gender transformative actions.
• Strong working knowledge of the humanitarian coordination system and humanitarian architecture and experience working with partners and other international stakeholders (UN, INGOs).
• Understanding of the social protection system in Ukraine.
• Protection and inclusion background including experience in inclusion of at-risk groups ideally in humanitarian context- and older people, and persons with disabilities.
• Good written and spoken English.
• Strong interpersonal and representation skills and previous experience of networking with other humanitarian organizations.
• Proven experience in capacity building.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and stressful environment.
• Fluent spoken and written Ukrainian and English

Desirable

• Previous experience of working in Eastern Europe and/or Ukraine.

What we offer

• Employment contract.
• Salary in accordance with Help Age Ukraine’s Salary scale depending on the experience and qualifications.
• Private medical insurance.
• 24 days of annual paid leave and other benefits according to the Ukrainian Labor code.
• Wellbeing day, the last Friday of each month between April to December is a non-working day.
• Convenient office location near the city center.

Safeguarding

At HelpAge International, we believe in the importance of empowering our people to be change makers and leaders at all levels. We expect our people to embrace and live our values, challenging themselves every day to identify issues that are most important to older people and their communities, and to make an impact that matters.

We value diversity and inclusion as core to our culture, and we strive to engage and inspire everyone to bring their unique qualities to the workplace.

HelpAge International is committed to safeguarding all people who come into contact with our work, including older people, at-risk adults, children, and our staff. Therefore, HelpAge employees are also be responsible for:

• Preventing harm and abuse from our people, operations and programmes to anyone that encounters our work;
• Reporting all safeguarding incidents you see, hear, hear about or suspect, using our internal reporting mechanism;
• Complying with all safeguarding framework policies and practices
• Completing mandatory training courses relating to our safeguarding policy framework and complying with HR vetting procedures.