Community Volunteers for Women's Peace and Humanitarian Fund

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Overview

Support women-led and young women-led CSOs across Sudan for peace and humanitarian efforts.

You have:

• Proven experience working with local communities, CSOs, and women-led groups in fragile or conflict-affected settings.
• Experience in facilitating community trainings, peer learning, and organizational development (RBM, M&E, financial management, strategic planning).
• Experience in financial reporting, budgeting, and documentation for community organizations.
• Knowledge of donor compliance and project liquidation processes is an asset.
• Experience in gender equality, women’s empowerment, peacebuilding, or humanitarian response.
• Understanding of gender-sensitive programming and safeguarding principles.
• Strong reporting, documentation, and facilitation skills.
• Experience liaising with CSOs, authorities, and partners, and promoting knowledge-sharing among women-led networks.
• Ability to perform under pressure in complex, resource-constrained environments
• Strong drafting, reporting, and documentation skills in English.

Contract

This is a UNV Community Volunteer contract. This kind of contract is known as National UN Volunteer. It is normally only for nationals. More about UNV Community Volunteer contracts.

Sudanese women continue to show remarkable resilience and leadership through grassroots and women-led CSOs, providing humanitarian aid, documenting violations, and advocating for peace. Yet, these organizations face major institutional and technical gaps—weak financial systems, limited M&E capacity, and restricted access to decision-making—compounded by shrinking civic space and security risks.

Through the Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF), UN Women supports women-led CSOs to strengthen their role in humanitarian action and peacebuilding. By investing in their organizational capacity and leadership, WPHF ensures that Sudanese women are not only beneficiaries but key actors shaping peace and recovery efforts.

Reporting to the UN Women National Programme Specialist and under the overall supervision of the Programme Manager for WPHF, the Community Based Volunteeers willl work closely with WPHF women led and women human rights civil society organizations, and contribute to strategic planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of WPHF-supported interventions.

Activities: 1. Regular Accompaniment & Follow-up • Provide ongoing support to women-led and young women-led CSOs across 15 states, ensuring timely and quality implementation. 2. Technical Support • Coach CSOs on financial management, liquidation, and reporting; support timely submission of narrative and financial reports 3. Capacity Development • Facilitate training sessions on organizational leadership, communications, advocacy, WPSHA strategic programming, safeguarding • Build CSO capacity in RBM, M&E, and resource mobilization. 4. Monitoring & Learning • Conduct field spot checks and assess documentation; identify gaps and propose solutions. • Document best practices, lessons learned, and facilitate peer exchanges 5. Coordination & Advocacy • Support coalition-building and joint advocacy on WPSHA. • Prepare evidence-based communications and progress updates for UN Women

Key Performance Indicators • Percentage of CSOs submitting timely and complete financial and narrative reports (Target: 90%+). • Number of trainings, mentorship sessions, or peer exchanges facilitated (Target: at least 2 per CSO per year). • Number of spot checks conducted on CSOs’ programmatic and financial documentation (Target: minimum 3 per year per CSO). • Percentage of CSOs reporting stronger coordination and networking capacities (Target: 70%+). • Evidence of strengthened institutional systems (financial procedures, M&E frameworks, reporting tools) embedded in CSOs.

• Accountability • Adaptability and flexibility • Creativity • Judgement and decision-making • Planning and organizing • Professionalism • Self-management

Experience: • Proven experience working with local communities, CSOs, and women-led groups in fragile or conflict-affected settings. • Experience in facilitating community trainings, peer learning, and organizational development (RBM, M&E, financial management, strategic planning). • Experience in financial reporting, budgeting, and documentation for community organizations. • Knowledge of donor compliance and project liquidation processes is an asset. • Experience in gender equality, women’s empowerment, peacebuilding, or humanitarian response. • Understanding of gender-sensitive programming and safeguarding principles. • Strong reporting, documentation, and facilitation skills. • Experience liaising with CSOs, authorities, and partners, and promoting knowledge-sharing among women-led networks.

Skills & Qualities: • Analytical and problem-solving ability; competence in MEL with gender-sensitive indicators. • Ability to perform under pressure in complex, resource-constrained environments • Strong drafting, reporting, and documentation skills in English (Arabic would be an asset). • High degree of initiative, autonomy, and accountability.

The duty station for this assignment is Sudan, which is currently experiencing one of the gravest humanitarian crises in its history following the outbreak of conflict in April 2023. The volatile security environment has resulted in large-scale displacement, damaged infrastructure, and disruption of essential services. Basic services such as health care, water, electricity, banking, and telecommunications may be limited or unreliable, and access to goods and supplies may fluctuate due to insecurity and market disruptions.

International staff are subject to UN security regulations, which may restrict movement within and beyond duty stations. Living conditions are generally categorized as hardship, requiring flexibility, resilience, and adaptability. Accommodation is likely to be basic, with limited amenities, and recreational and social facilities are minimal. Connectivity for internet and mobile networks is inconsistent, though improving in some urban areas.

Despite these challenges, UN agencies and international NGOs maintain a presence, and support networks for humanitarian and development staff are in place. The resilience of the Sudanese people, combined with the strong engagement of civil society and international actors, provides a meaningful context in which to contribute to humanitarian and peacebuilding efforts. Volunteers must be prepared to live and work in a fluid, high-stress environment, demonstrate cultural sensitivity, and strictly adhere to UN security guidance.

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