Vacancies and Tenders

The role primarily involves providing advice on advocacy and policy matters, as well as supporting strategic decision-making and prioritisation related to the complex areas of the Polaris Programme. Deadline: 2 March 2026

The role is aimed at ensuring that communication activities are aligned with the communication strategy, enhancing Programme visibility and achieving good coverage among the target groups. Deadline: 1 February 2026

The Programme Assistant provides administrative support in Kyiv and works closely with two programme teams. Applications are accepted until January 9, 2026

The Team Leader provides strategic leadership, coordination, and quality assurance for the experts working on LGA capacity development. Applications are accepted until January 15, 2026

The role includes launching the pilot project, liaising between hromadas and national experts, and shaping and supporting delivery of the municipal enterprise support programme for 2026–2028. Applications are accepted until November 12, 2025

The Senior Education Policy Advisor will be focusing on the main long-term challenges to the education sector in Ukraine, arising from the unprovoked Russian aggression against Ukraine. Applications are accepted until November 10, 2025

This is a short term assignment involves engaging a thematic expert in local economic development. The expert will take a leading role in identifying and prioritizing catalytic development for partner hromadas. Applications are accepted until September 29, 2025.

The expert’s work will involve close cooperation and coordination with the Ministry of Digital Transformation. Applications are accepted until July 31, 2025.

 The role ensures the completeness, accuracy and timely processing of Programme-related procurement contracts and secures efficient documentation workflows. Applications are accepted until July 13, 2025

The core responsibility will be to provide expert support to partner hromadas in establishing sustainable educational networks. Applications are accepted until July 16, 2025

SALAR International – the organisation representing the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SALAR) in international development cooperation – has been working in Ukraine since 2014, supporting decentralisation processes and building the capacity of local self-government. Since 20 ...

The Gender Expert is part of the overarching cross-cutting unit to ensure integration of gender equality in all Programme activities. Applications are accepted until June 4, 2025

The MEL expert will support the Progamme in Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning based on the current Framework of the Programme. The Expert will work closely with the Management in Stockholm, the international MEL expert and with the team in Ukraine. Applications are accepted until 1 June 2025. ...

The Senior Expert is part of the thematic Locally-led Recovery team and will work under the guidance of the Local Team Leader for “Locally-led Recovery” and in tandem with experts and management units in Stockholm and Kyiv. Applications are accepted until 18 May 2025.

The expert will be part of Polaris Programme’s Locally‑led Recovery team and will collaborate with SALAR International specialists and other Polaris team members. Applications are accepted until 5 May 2025.

The expert will be part of Polaris Programme’s Locally‑led Recovery team and will collaborate with SALAR International specialists and other Polaris team members. Applications are accepted until 5 May 2025.

SALAR International invites your company to participate in a tender for the development of comprehensive spatial development plans for territorial hromadas within SALAR International programmes in Ukraine.

SALAR International invites your company to participate in the tender for the supply, delivery, and installation of IT equipment in territorial communities of Ukraine.

The procurement coordinator will be part of the support team. The role is mainly to coordinate the Programme’s procurements for material support to hromadas. Applications are accepted until March 15, 2025

This open call is for experts within the fields of recovery and spatial planning, capacity development in the context of recovery, environment, local economic development, data management and analysis and any other field related to local and municipal recovery

The policy coordinator will be part of the programme management team. Deadline for applications: 5 March 2025

The Information Management/GIS Expert will be part of the thematic Locally-led Recovery team and will work under guidance of SALAR International’s local and international Team Leaders. Deadline for applications: 25 February 2025

The European Integration and Local Governance Expert is a position within the thematic team “International Municipal Cooperation”. Deadline for applications: 9 March 2025

Avfall Sverige and SALAR International announce a vacancy for the position of "Communications Specialist". Deadline for applications: 15 January 2025

The policy coordinator will be part of the programme management team. Deadline for applications: 15 January 2025

This assignment is for the Inception and Implementation stages of the Locally-Led Recovery component

The Hromada Capacity Development Officer of the Locally-Led Recovery team, is an extremely important link in the process of recovery of war-affected hromadas

The Policy Support Officer will engage with political leaders and LGA representatives on operational matters to enhance democratic processes, institutional independence, and the sustainability of both the associations and their regional branches

The Thematic Team Leader “Fiscal decentralisation” is a senior role that requires managing, supervising and guiding the work of 3-4 local and possibly international experts

The Expert on integrating veteran perspectives is responsible for developing strategies and implementing initiatives that incorporate the experiences and needs of veterans into the support provided by the Programme to Ukrainian municipalities