About the Role
Location: Kyiv, Ukraine
Contract: Fixed term contract (12-months)
Hours: 35 per week
Salary: £39,894 per annum, plus monthly allowances of £1,368.34 per diem and £500 security hardship allowance.
Status: Unaccompanied position
Are you passionate about strengthening the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement coordination and championing principled humanitarian partnerships? Do you thrive in roles that blend strategic influence with hands-on capacity building? If you're looking for a role that combines Movement expertise with meaningful collaboration and institutional development, this could be your next move.
As the Movement Coordination Adviser, you will support the Head of the Strategic Partnerships and Movement Coordination Unit at the Ukrainian Red Cross Society (URCS), with leading responsibility for strengthening Movement coordination and cooperation across the Red Cross Red Crescent components operating in Ukraine. You'll focus on consolidating URCS's internal capacities on Movement affairs, policies and coordination mechanisms, whilst ensuring coherent and principled engagement with Movement partners.
Reporting to the BRC Country Representative for Ukraine and the URCS Head of Strategic Partnerships and International Relations, your key responsibilities include:
- Setting strategic direction and priorities for Movement coordination and partnership workstreams, working jointly with URCS leadership.
- Strengthening internal systems and structures relevant to Movement affairs, ensuring clear roles, processes and lines of communication.
- Building and maintaining constructive relationships with Movement partners in Ukraine and at regional level.
- Facilitating and participating in bilateral and multilateral Movement meetings to ensure URCS priorities are clearly represented.
- Line-managing staff within the Strategic Partnerships & Movement Coordination Unit.
- Supporting professional development of URCS colleagues through coaching, mentoring and technical accompaniment on Movement affairs.
- Producing high-quality written materials: briefs, notes, talking points and summaries, to support URCS's coordination and strategic partnership work.
About the team
The BRC, as part of its wider response to the conflict escalation on 24th February 2022, is supporting URCS provide humanitarian assistance to those in need. BRC prioritises supporting URCS help people directly impacted by the conflict to recover through effective, direct and inclusive local assistance. BRC also funds work to support access to physical and psychosocial rehabilitation whilst ensuring implementing partners are sustainable, accountable and transparent with safeguarding embedded through their organisations.
As a member of the International Directorate you will be part of a directorate responsible for BRC’s international humanitarian response and disaster management, support to resilience programmes and organisational development of our partner Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies around the world. The work of the International Directorate also includes humanitarian policy and advocacy activities and upholding and promoting International Humanitarian Law. British Red Cross' international work is carried out in coordination and partnership with the International Red Cross & Red Crescent Movement.
About the person
You will have strong technical knowledge of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement and international humanitarian experience, ideally in complex contexts. You are skilled at relationship-building and coordination, comfortable advising on complex partnership systems at country level, and passionate about strengthening local organisational capacity.
Essential knowledge and skills:
• Strong understanding of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement, including mandates, roles, coordination mechanisms and partnership modalities.
• Excellent coordination, relationship-building and communication skills, with the ability to work constructively with diverse Movement partners.
• Strong organisational and analytical abilities, with a capacity to develop systems, processes and tools.
• Ability to coach and mentor staff, supporting individual and team development.
• Strong writing skills, including preparation of briefs, summaries and coordination documents.
Essential experience:
• Minimum five years' professional experience in the humanitarian or development sector.
• Significant experience working within the Red Cross / Red Crescent Movement.
• Experience in Movement coordination, strategic partnerships, or organisational development roles.
• Experience supporting or leading planning, reporting or internal coordination processes within a large organisation.
• Demonstrated experience in staff supervision, capacity strengthening or mentoring.
• Experience designing or implementing organisational strengthening or partnership frameworks.
Desirable:
• Knowledge of Ukrainian language.
• Understanding of Movement coordination realities in Ukraine or other complex or large-scale operations.
Please note: Due to legal contracting restraints, we are unfortunately unable to consider applications from Ukrainian nationals.
Closing date for applications is 23:59 (UK time) 8 February 2026.
We guarantee an interview to disabled candidates (as defined in the 2010 Equality Act), who meet the minimum shortlisting criteria in the advertised person specification and apply under the disability confident scheme.
Should you have any questions on this role please email us at [email protected] quoting the job title.
We offer a wide range of staff benefits, these include:
- Accommodation while on deployment
- Subsistence allowances while overseas
- Travel to and from the country of posting, plus long service flights
- Comprehensive insurance, including medical, personal effects and life insurance
- Pre and post assignment medicals and access to excellent health and wellbeing benefits
- Access to a pension, which you can join at any time during your contract
- Generous leave entitlement (36 days incl. public holidays)
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