To apply please send a CV of no more than three pages, and a personal statement of up to two pages highlighting how your experience fits the requirements of the role, to our Director of People and Culture, Tessa Drysdale, tessa@worldjewishrelief.org

We are looking for candidates who have:

• Proven senior leadership experience in humanitarian and/or development settings, including programme strategy, operational management, and external representation.
• Strong track record in donor engagement (bilateral, multilateral, UN), contract compliance, and consortium management.
• Experience working with and strengthening local partners, with a strong understanding of Ukraine’s civil society context.
• Experience in project cycle management, financial oversight, and risk management in high-pressure environments.
• Experience in building networks and relationships with partner organisations.
• A deep familiarity and understanding of the civil society in Ukraine
• Fluency in English and Ukrainian
• Demonstrable leadership and management capabilities with skills to liaise at government levels as well as with all vulnerable client groups.
• A self starter, with the capacity to work with limited supervision and support and with exceptional administrative and organisational skills.
• Strong communication and diplomatic skills including representation, networking and negotiation
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including patience, diplomacy, willingness to listen and respect for colleagues
• Knowledge of the social sector demonstrating an understanding of vulnerability within Ukraine.
• Commitment to humanitarian principles, diversity, and inclusion, with particular empathy for Jewish communities in Ukraine.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

World Jewish Relief promotes equality, diversity and inclusion in our workplace. We invite and welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds. We encourage applications from candidates of different ethnicities, socio-economic backgrounds, race, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation and of faith or none that meet the criteria set out for this role. You don’t need to be Jewish to work for us, but you must be committed to our faith based values of Justice, Kindness, Repairing the World and Welcoming the Stranger. We are inspired by these values to work beyond our community, recognising the dignity and potential of all people.

To apply

Please upload your CV and a cover letter explaining how you meet the criteria in the person specification.

World Jewish Relief promotes equality, diversity and inclusion in our workplace. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds. We encourage applications from candidates of different ethnicities, race, socio-economic backgrounds, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation and of faith or none that meet the criteria set out in our roles.

Additional Information

Our people are our greatest asset – without them we couldn’t do any of our fantastic work.

In return, we offer a range of benefits to support our employees in delivering their crucial role. The benefits package we offer includes:

Holidays

· 23 days holiday plus bank holidays and Jewish holidays

· Holiday entitlement increases up to 25 days with 2 years’ service

· Option to buy/sell up to 5 days additional leave (pro rata)

Pension Scheme

· Workplace pension scheme, with 9% salary contributions – 5% from World Jewish Relief and 4% from employee

Life Insurance

· Free life insurance paying 3 times annual salary to nominated beneficiaries

Health Cash Plan

· Gives cash back to cover the costs of dental care, optical care, specialist consultations, flu jabs and a range of complementary treatments and therapies

Employee Assistance Programme

· Free confidential advice or support with any personal or work related concerns or free counselling if needed

Mental Health Days

· We offer up to 3 paid mental health days a year

Sick pay scheme

· We have a discretionary sick pay scheme with full pay for a period depending on length of service

Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

· To support employees when having a family, we offer enhanced maternity and paternity pay when on leave

Season ticket/travel to work loan

· An interest-free loan to cover the cost of a public transport season ticket

Cycle to Work Scheme

· Hire a bicycle to travel to and from work, through salary sacrifice

Flexible Working

· We encourage flexible working including home-working, reduced hours and compressed hours.

Training and Development

· We provide a range of training and development opportunities and encourage employees’ personal and professional development

Early finish on Fridays

· We finish work at 3pm on Fridays

World Jewish Relief is committed to being a diverse and inclusive organisation as we are guided by the Jewish values of Tzedekah (Justice), Hesed (Kindness), Repairing the World and Welcoming the Stranger. Our Jewish identity reaffirms the importance of being inclusive and respectful of all. We are an anti-racist organisation. It is important that World Jewish Relief is a place where people of all ethnicities feel welcomed to work or volunteer with us.

We are committed to delivering all our services to vulnerable people through locally led partner organisations whose voice, opinion, judgement and expertise is a critical driver in how our resources are allocated. This means that local partners make decisions and our funding gets to where it is needed most. We place significant trust in our local partners to so that they can lead their own work and guide ours.

We are committed to providing equal opportunities for all staff and volunteers regardless of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, ethnicity, marriage or civil partnership, religion or belief which are “protected characteristics” under the Equality Act 2010. In addition, we will go beyond this and avoid discrimination on the basis of refugee/asylum status, in recognition of the work we do to support refugees in the UK.

As we work towards building a society based on equality and fairness, we recognise that we may not get everything right all the time but commit to a process of listening, learning and improving our approach.

Putting inclusion and diversity into practice

Over the last 2 years we have been proactively seeking to ensure we can be a more inclusive and diverse organisation. We’ve established a DE&I working group of staff, have brought in external experts to assist us understand unconscious bias and have had facilitated discussions with the team to assess and analyse our culture with a set of recommendations produced. We have amended our HR practices and our Code of Conduct, conducted a diversity audit, assessed our gender pay gap and are looking to further diversify our Board. Change will not take place over night but we are committed to improving our way of working to be more inclusive and diverse.