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.
Current Vacancies
Job Title: Humanitarian and Climate Programmes Officer
Closing date: 12th January 2025
Salary: £31,200 pa
Location: Hybrid between our office in NW2 and working from home
Contract: Full time, permanent
World Jewish Relief provides life-saving and life-changing action to people in crisis around the world. We work with our trusted local partners to help people survive the consequences of conflict and disaster, to thrive and rebuild their lives. We deliver programmes using our expertise, with urgency to achieve maximum and sustainable impact for those within and beyond our community.
We now have an exciting opportunity for a Programmes Officer to join our International Programmes and Partnerships team. You will play a critical role in supporting and strengthening our humanitarian programmes and climate portfolio – developing strong local partnerships, excellent programme management and monitoring and evaluation support, and sound administrative and financial input.
As members of the START Network and signatories of Charter4Change and The Climate and Environment Charter for Humanitarian Organizations, and endorsers of the Principles for LLA (Locally Led Adaptation), we are committed to the highest standards of humanitarian intervention. Recent operations include responses to disasters from Ukraine, Colombia, Haiti, Kenya, Ethiopia, Morrocco, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Philippines and Gaza.
You should have:
- Demonstrable experience or knowledge about the humanitarian and/or climate sector.
- Experience and knowledge about relevant technical sectors like Food Security & Livelihoods, Nutrition, WASH, Protection, Health, Climate or Disaster Risk Reduction
- Demonstrable knowledge of humanitarian programming, sustainability, climate resilience, and monitoring and evaluation processes, including using excel to capture and analyse data.
- Cross-cultural sensitivity and ability to work with overseas partners with varying levels of English.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to produce high quality written work under pressure and to deadlines.
- Demonstrable financial and numeracy skills.
- Ability and flexibility to travel overseas when required
- Working knowledge of another language would be an advantage, especially French or Spanish.
Benefits
We offer a range of benefits including:
- 23 days holiday plus bank holidays and Jewish holidays, after 2 years’ service holiday entitlement increases to 25 days.
- Pension scheme – we contribute 5% to the World Jewish Relief pension scheme.
- Life Insurance – up to 3 times salary to nominated beneficiaries.
- Health Cash Plan – cash back to cover the costs of dental treatment, optical care, specialist consultations and a range of complementary therapies.
- Enhanced maternity & paternity pay.
- Employee Assistance Programme – free, confidential advice or support with any personal or work. related concerns or free counselling if needed.
- Season ticket / travel to work loan.
- Cycle to Work Scheme.
- On Friday the office closes at 3pm.
- We encourage flexible working and offer a range of flexible working options.
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. Candidates from the global south or with lived experience would be particularly welcome. You don’t need to be Jewish to work for us, but you must share our desire to assist those who need help based on their vulnerability, not their identity, recognising the dignity and potential of all people.
How to apply
Please upload your CV and a cover letter which demonstrates your suitability for the role by answering the following question:
- Why does this role appeal to you and how do you meet the criteria in the person specification?
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.
