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Programme Officer, NO-2, Temporary Position, Somalia, 11 months, Mogadiscio, Somalia, #00137680
- Duty station
- 🇸🇴 Somalia
- Country / area
- Somalia
- Region
- Africa
- UN system
- Fund/Programme
- Title
- Programme Officer, NO-2, Temporary Position, Somalia, 11 months, Mogadiscio, Somalia, #00137680
- Organization
- UNICEF
- Location
- Somalia
- Deadline
- 21 Jul 2026 11:55 PM
- Closed
- 7/21/2026, 8:55:00 PM
About this role
UNICEF is recruiting a Programme Officer (NO-2) for a temporary 11-month position in Mogadishu, Somalia, to support an integrated Nutrition, Health, Education, WASH, and Livelihoods programme implemented jointly with WFP. The role focuses on providing households with sustainable food security and livelihoods to improve access to nutritious food, education, and health services. The successful candidate will manage and coordinate Joint Recovery Programme (JRP) activities across four districts. Key responsibilities include field-level management, coordination with communities, partners, and local authorities, and ensuring the effective delivery of interventions that boost household income and savings. The position requires strong operational management skills and the ability to work in a complex humanitarian setting. The candidate will play a critical role in connecting communities to higher-value markets and ensuring the sustainability of food production and distribution systems. This is a fixed-term contract ending in July 2026.
Key requirements
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This intervention, implemented by WFP and UNICEF, is an integrated Nutrition, Health, Education, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and Livelihoods programme. The objective is to provide households with sustainable food security and livelihoods that enable them to produce, access and afford nutritious food. In addition, these interventions will help communities produce sufficient food to sell their surplus, and to add value and connect with higher value markets to boost household income and savings. This in turn will further improve their access to education, health, and WASH services.The candidate will be responsible for field level management and coordination of JRP activities across the four districts, including interface with communities, partners, and local authorities. Location: Somalia Deadline: 21 Jul 2026 11:55 PM
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