Peace Building Officers

Location: Amhara Regional Office, Ethiopia

Deadline: December 24, 2024

Job Description

Number of position: Two

Duty Station: Awi Zone and Metekel Zone

Major Responsibilities

• Implement project planned activities in line with the agreed work plans and budgets; successfully delivers against timeframes, milestones, output and outcome targets/objectives.
• Organize peace building and community peace dialogue trainings for project participants.
• Follow-up and support youth peacebuilders and youth peace champions to organize peacebuilding initiatives in their community.
• Support organizing community peace dialogues in project locations. Facilitate for technical and material support to community peace dialogues.
• Organize trauma healing trainings to faith leaders and community target groups as indicated in the project document and support the trauma healing facilitators organized trauma healing sessions
• Draft and submit project activities and success stories to project Meal officer and project coordinator.
• Other Related Activities when assigned

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification ​

• BA degree in relevant disciplines – such as peace and conflict, Development studies, international development, refugee rights, displacement and migration – appropriate for leading a peace building and social cohesion in refugee and internally displaced people contexts.

Required Professional Experience

• Relevant technical expertise and considerable (at least 3 years) practical experience of applying peace building approaches and more than 3 years in leadership.
• Considerable experience (at least 2 years) of design and implementation of relief and development in relevant fields in Ethiopia

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification

• BA degree in relevant disciplines – such as peace and conflict, Development studies, international development, refugee rights, displacement and migration – appropriate for leading a peace building and social cohesion in refugee and internally displaced people contexts.

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

• Ability to work with local organizations and actors with knowledge about and experience from the relevant context, to utilize and ensure their capacity and continuous capacity development and to otherwise adapt ways of working accordingly.
• Management skills, necessary to meet project requirements in terms of coordination, coherence and consistency of project implementation, financial management, monitoring and reporting.

Travel and/or Work Environment Requirement

• The position requires ability and willingness to travel domestically up to 20 % of the time and on call 20%

Language Requirements

• English proficiency and local languages

 

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Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only.

 

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