Description of assignment (DoA) details
Community Outreach and Referral Officer
Yemen
6 months
4 assignment(s)
Competitive recruitment
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General
Description of assignment title
Community Outreach and Referral Officer
Assignment country
Yemen
Duty stations
Lahj, Ta'izz, Aden (2)
Work location
Remote
Expected start date
10/24/2026
Duration
6 months
(with possibility of extension)
Sustainable Development Goal
- Gender equality
Host entity
UNFPA
Modality
Onsite
Type
National
Volunteer category
Community UCoS from Apr2026
Work schedule
Full-time
Number of Assignments
4
Details
Mission and objectives
UNFPA has been working in Yemen since early 1970s. UNFPA’s 5th Country Programe for Yemen from 2012-2015 has been extended since 2016. The current country programme has been directed to a humanitarian response upon the activation of a Level 3 emergency response in Yemen on 1 July 2015. UNFPA’s response in Yemen aims at meeting the reproductive health needs of women and girls and ensuring that they are protected from gender-based violence, working in close partnership with local authorities, non-governmental partners and UN agencies across the country.
Context
UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe, and every young person's potential is fulfilled. UNFPA’s global Strategic Plan focuses on achieving three core transformative results: ending preventable maternal deaths, ending the unmet need for family planning, and ending gender-based violence (GBV) and harmful practices. In Yemen, prolonged conflict, large-scale internal displacement, economic collapse, and severe breakdown of basic social services have created one of the world's most complex humanitarian emergencies. These cascading crises have disproportionately affected women and adolescent girls, exacerbating protection risks and escalating rates of gender-based violence. UNFPA GBV Programme Team in Yemen is scaling up its emergency protection response to address heightened vulnerability and displacement across key governorates in the West Coast. To strengthen ground-level outreach, service mapping, and early referral, UNFPA is deploying Community UN Volunteers directly embedded alongside mobile outreach units and local response mechanisms . Community UN Volunteers will play a pivotal operational role in this effort by serving as a direct link between affected communities and life-saving protection services. Embedded directly with UNFPA mobile outreach units and Women and Girls' Safe Spaces (WGSS), the volunteers will operate within internally displaced persons (IDP) sites and host communities to facilitate early identification, safe and confidential referrals, ground-level awareness, and active community engagement. The four National Community UN Volunteer assignments will be carried out remotely, with one volunteer based in each of the following governorates: Aden, Taiz, Lahj, and Abyan, to support UNFPA’s GBV emergency response in these locations.
Task description
- Community Outreach and Awareness: Conduct ground-level awareness sessions across key IDP sites and host communities on gender-based violence (GBV), protection risks, and available support services, while engaging women’s groups and local networks to promote both referral options.
- Safe and Confidential Referrals: Serve as a trusted community entry point to inform community members on securely accessing GBV referral pathways (medical, legal, and psychosocial support) and facilitate safe, voluntary, confidential, and survivor-centered guidance strictly to verified service providers.
- Operational Support to Field Interventions: Provide day-to-day operational support to UNFPA Women and Girls’ Safe Spaces (WGSS) mobile teams, and community networks, assisting partners in maintaining dignity, data protection, and survivor-centered standards during field outreach and workplan implementation.
- Protection Monitoring and Gap Identification: Continuously monitor the safety environment for women and girls, maintain up-to-date local service availability maps, and identify shifting local dynamics, operational bottlenecks, or emerging community protection risks to immediately flag to the supervisor.
- Data Collection and Reporting: Collect non-sensitive, aggregated quantitative and qualitative data (such as awareness session counts, attendee demographics, and activity trends) and submit regular weekly and monthly tracking logs detailing outreach reach and operational progress.
Eligibility criteria
Age
18 - 80
Required experience
No experience required
Nationality
There are no nationality requirements for remote assignments. Successful candidates will need to provide proof of citizenship, residency and/or right to work in their remote work location. In the case of refugees, candidates need to provide proof of their protected status in the country. Proof of address will also be required.
Assignment requirements
Relevant experience
2 years
Languages
Arabic, Level: Native language, Desirable English, Level: Basic, Desirable
Required education level
Secondary education
Competencies and values
- Accountability
- Adaptability and flexibility
- Creativity
- Judgement and decision-making
- Planning and organising
- Professionalism
- Self-management
Skills and experience
Strong local community network and trust; Good knowledge of humanitarian protection principles; Experience in protection and especially
Area(s) of expertise
Emergency preparedness, crisis response
Driving license
Other information
Volunteerism is understood as a wide range of activities undertaken of free will, for the general public good, for which monetary reward is not the principal motivating factor.
Living conditions and remarks
The four Community Outreach and Referral Officers will work remotely from their respective locations in Aden, Taiz , Lahj, and Abyan, Yemen. They will not be required to relocate to the host entity’s duty station. Each volunteer is expected to have reliable internet access, appropriate equipment, and a suitable working environment to ensure effective delivery of tasks. Working arrangements will align with the host entity’s time zone and operational requirements, with flexibility agreed upon with the supervisor. In line with the UN Volunteer Conditions of Service, the duty station for remote assignments is the volunteer’s location. Benefits and allowances are as follows: VLA: 100% category Entry lump sum: 50$ Danger and hardship differential: If eligible as per ICSC duty station classification You can check full entitlements at the duty station at https://app.unv.org/calculator. The complete UN Volunteer Conditions of Service is available at https://explore.unv.org/cos.”You may check the full benefits and allowances applicable to the duty station using the UVP calculator. Please see the Conditions of Service for UN Volunteers for more information and details.”
Inclusivity statement
United Nations Volunteers is an equal opportunity programme that welcomes applications from qualified professionals. We are committed to achieving diversity in terms of gender, care protected characteristics. As part of their adherence to the values of UNV, all UN Volunteers commit themselves to combat any form of discrimination, and to promoting respect for human rights and individual dignity, without distinction of a person’s race, sex, gender identity, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, age, language, social origin or other status.
Note on Covid-19 vaccination requirements
Selected candidates for certain occupational groups may be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) in line with the applicable host entity policy
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