International Development Jobs and Internships: UNOPS Gender, Nutrition and Social Inclusion Officer (Historical Reference)

UNOPS Gender, Nutrition and Social Inclusion Officer: Historical Reference

This page records a completed United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) vacancy. It is not an open application notice. The original UNOPS vacancy was for a Gender, Nutrition, Social Inclusion Officer in Juba, South Sudan, supporting the South Sudan Livelihoods and Resilience Project. The published application deadline was 2026-03-03. That date has passed, the original vacancy link now returns an error page, and no replacement vacancy or next cycle has been announced in the UNOPS careers material checked for this update.

The page is therefore marked as a historical reference. The archived deadline stays in the metadata because it is the real closing date for the vacancy. It should not be read as an invitation to submit a late application. The historicalReference = true field tells the site and readers that the date belongs to a closed record rather than a live opportunity.

Verified status at a glance

The most important correction to the old roundup is the duty station. This was not a Nairobi-based officer role. UNOPS’s Africa Regional Office is based in Nairobi, but the vacancy itself identified Juba as the duty station and situated the work in South Sudan. The regional-office description explains the wider management setting; it does not change the location of the post.

What the role was designed to do

The officer would have worked on the South Sudan Livelihoods and Resilience Project, known as SSLRP. UNOPS described the project as an initiative for rural communities facing food and nutrition insecurity, low incomes, weak access to services, climate shocks, and the effects of conflict. The project is associated with South Sudan’s Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security and is financed by the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the Dutch Government, and the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program. UNOPS was identified as the lead implementing agency for the components assigned to it.

The vacancy was not a generic communications or administrative position. Its central task was to integrate gender equality, social inclusion, and nutrition-sensitive approaches into project design, implementation, monitoring, and reporting. That meant looking at whether project activities would reach and benefit women, youth, persons with disabilities, internally displaced people, and returnees, rather than assuming that a general community intervention would work equally for everyone.

The role also connected inclusion work with nutrition and agricultural livelihoods. A credible applicant would have needed to understand how community decision-making, household resilience, food security, and access to productive opportunities interact. The work was practical: reviewing project activities, identifying risks and entry points, helping develop indicators and action plans, supporting field engagement, and documenting what changed.

The vacancy referred to UNOPS and donor safeguarding policies, the Gender Action Learning System (GALS), and nutrition-mainstreaming frameworks. These references matter because the job required more than advocacy language. The officer would have helped project teams apply standards in real planning and delivery decisions, identify possible adverse effects on vulnerable groups, and recommend mitigation when problems appeared.

Main responsibilities in the closed posting

The responsibilities fell into four connected areas.

First, the officer would provide technical support for mainstreaming. This included reviewing project documents and activities, applying policy frameworks, identifying gender, inclusion, and nutrition risks, and helping develop strategies, action plans, and indicators. The role was at associate level, so the description emphasized analysis, contribution, support, and practical application rather than claiming sole ownership of the entire project strategy.

Second, the officer would support capacity building and community engagement. The published duties included helping design training for project staff, community facilitators, and local partners; contributing to culturally appropriate and gender-responsive communications; facilitating consultations and focus groups; and supporting GALS activities. Stakeholder engagement was specific rather than abstract: women’s groups, youth organisations, disability advocacy groups, local leaders, and community members were all named as relevant participants.

Third, the officer would contribute to monitoring, evaluation, and reporting. The work included gathering, cleaning, and aggregating data on gender equality, social inclusion, and nutrition indicators; performing basic analysis; contributing to progress reports; supporting evaluations; and documenting lessons, good practice, and success stories. An applicant who could only describe awareness campaigns but had no experience with data or reporting would have had a weak match for this role.

Fourth, the officer would support safeguards and quality assurance. The description included site visits, checks on compliance with GESI and nutrition standards, mitigation measures, quality reviews, grievance mechanisms, and ethical conduct. That combination points to a field-connected role: the officer would need to translate policy into questions that can be asked of project teams, partners, and communities, then record the evidence clearly enough for management and donors to use.

Eligibility and fit

The published education route had two alternatives. A candidate could hold a bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Gender Studies, Nutrition, Social Sciences, Development Studies, or a related field and have two years of relevant experience. Alternatively, a candidate with a related master’s degree could qualify without the stated experience requirement. The subject area mattered because the post combined social inclusion with nutrition-sensitive programming and development delivery.

The experience requirements were more specific than the original roundup suggested. Required experience included gender mainstreaming, nutrition-sensitive programming, and social inclusion within development projects. The vacancy also asked for experience in community mobilisation, capacity building, stakeholder engagement, data analysis, report writing, and monitoring and evaluation. These requirements describe someone who can move between technical notes, community conversations, project data, and formal reports.

Experience in South Sudan or another fragile or conflict-affected setting was described as desirable, not as a substitute for the core requirements. The posting also listed experience with IFAD or another international development agency, work in multicultural environments or UN system organisations in a developing country, and development or humanitarian experience as desirable. Applicants should not turn those preferences into invented hard requirements, but they would have been useful evidence of readiness for the operating context.

English fluency was required. Basic Arabic was listed as desirable. The listing presented the role as a national Juba position, so anyone considering the vacancy would also have needed to read the original UNOPS contract and nationality conditions carefully. Because the live vacancy is no longer available, this archive should not be used to infer eligibility for a future UNOPS role with a similar title.

Funding and contract information

No salary, fee, stipend, allowance, or total compensation amount was published in the vacancy material reviewed. The safe description is therefore amount not disclosed, not “paid” with a guessed figure and not “fully funded.” The contract information that was published was a 12-month Individual Contractor Agreement at Local ICA Specialist level, LICA 8.

That distinction is important for applicants comparing international development jobs. A contract level can help identify the type and seniority of an engagement, but it does not establish a take-home amount. Compensation can depend on the applicable UNOPS terms, local conditions, and the contract documentation. A future posting could use a different level, duration, or payment arrangement even if it carries a similar title.

The role also should not be described as a Nairobi employment opportunity merely because the Africa Regional Office provides strategic oversight from Nairobi. The vacancy’s work location was Juba. Its subject matter was tied to South Sudan’s rural livelihoods and resilience work, including community participation, agricultural livelihoods, infrastructure, safeguards, and monitoring.

How applications were handled

When the vacancy was open, applicants had to use the official UNOPS recruitment route linked from the vacancy notice. UNOPS stated that it does not accept unsolicited résumés. The completed application had to be received before midnight Copenhagen time on the stated closing date, and applications received after the closing date were not considered.

The process did not end with uploading a CV. UNOPS stated that only shortlisted candidates would be contacted and that shortlisted candidates could proceed to further assessments. A serious application would therefore have needed to make the eligibility match easy to verify: relevant education, concrete GESI or nutrition-sensitive programming experience, community and partner work, evidence of data and reporting ability, and language information.

UNOPS also stated that it would not request payments at any stage of recruitment. That remains a useful safety check for anyone researching similar vacancies. Do not send money to an intermediary claiming to secure a UNOPS interview, work permit, assessment, or appointment. Do not treat an old vacancy page, a job-board copy, or a social-media post as permission to apply after the official closing date.

Those steps are now historical instructions. The original page returns an HTTP 404 error, so there is no functioning application form to submit through this record. The correct action for someone seeking comparable work is to visit the current UNOPS careers site independently, search for an open vacancy, and follow the new notice’s own requirements. A new posting would need to confirm its own duty station, contract, deadline, eligibility, and application route.

What readers should and should not take from this archive

The original file was created as a roundup of twenty international development jobs and internships. That roundup was a time-bound snapshot. The other entries had separate employers, source pages, eligibility rules, deadlines, and application systems. They are not being re-verified by this UNOPS update, so their old dates should not be carried forward as current opportunities. Anyone interested in one of those unrelated roles should locate that employer’s official page and confirm its present status separately.

The reliable value of this page is narrower and clearer: it preserves the existence and shape of a real UNOPS vacancy, records its South Sudan duty station, explains the role’s relationship to SSLRP, captures the education and experience routes that were published, and records that no compensation amount was stated. It also makes the status explicit. The vacancy closed on 2026-03-03; no new UNOPS cycle or successor announcement was found; and the original application URL is no longer serving the posting.

Readers can still use the role as a preparation guide for future work in gender equality, social inclusion, nutrition-sensitive agriculture, monitoring and evaluation, and community-driven development. A useful preparation file would include a concise CV, examples of mainstreaming or safeguarding work, a short description of community engagement, evidence of data and reporting skills, and language information. Those materials would need to be adapted to the next official vacancy rather than submitted through this archive.

Official source and archive note

The recorded external URL is the original UNOPS vacancy link for the Gender, Nutrition, Social Inclusion Officer. At the time of this update it returned HTTP 404 and resolved to the UNOPS careers error route. UNOPS’s current project information remains useful context: Improving livelihoods and increasing resilience in South Sudan. That project story does not reopen this vacancy and does not announce a new application window.

This page should remain an archive entry until UNOPS publishes a new, directly verifiable vacancy or programme notice. If that happens, the new notice should be evaluated on its own terms. Its deadline, location, contract, compensation, eligibility, and application steps should replace the archived details only after they are confirmed on the official UNOPS source.