Victim and Survivor Engagement Advisor

GIZ- Internal/External Vacancy Announcements– 082/2026

Victim and Survivor Engagement Advisor

Project office- Support to Transitional Justice – S2TJ

Contract duration-30.11.2027

Duty Station: Addis Ababa

Note: Please note that the position title will be changed to Advisor during the recruitment processing

Brief Description of the Project

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is a German public-benefit federal enterprise. GIZ works worldwide in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development and has over 50 years of experience in a wide variety of areas. We work to shape a future worth living in over 120 countries around the world.

The Project “Support to the Transitional Justice Process in Ethiopia” (S2TJ) is accompanying the Ethiopian Transitional Justice (TJ) process as per Ethiopia’s TJ policy from 2024. This process is an essential element in the national peace process and indispensable for ensuring reconciliation, as well long-lasting and sustainable peace. The project is advising and strengthening key government institutions as well as Civil Society Organizations (CSO) in order to promote an inclusive, gender responsive, survivor- and victim centred TJ-process in line with international human rights standards. To this end, S2TJ is cooperating with associations of victims and survivors of grave human rights violations, conflict, displacement, SGBV and other types of atrocities.

This collaborative support focuses on network building within and across regions, capacity building on TJ-related topics, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS), memorialization, peacebuilding initiatives, and organizational development support. As a Victim and Survivor Engagement Advisor, your main tasks are:

Responsibility and tasks

•You manage and provide technical support for grants awarded to human rights organizations, women’s rights organizations, and victim and survivor associations, including monitoring implementation, reviewing reports, ensuring compliance with grant requirements, and serving as the focal point for partner organizations.

•You support partner organizations in the implementation of activities related to transitional justice, documentation of atrocities, MHPSS, peacebuilding, and memorialization, while promoting victim centred and gender-responsive approaches across programme activities.

•You strengthen the institutional and organizational capacities of victim and survivor associations through technical assistance, mentoring, capacity development initiatives, and support for organizational sustainability and networking.

•You coordinate and facilitate partner engagement, stakeholder consultations, workshops, learning events, and networking activities to foster collaboration, knowledge exchange, and meaningful participation of victims and survivor.

•You support project implementation through preparing procurement documents, assisting financial and administrative processes, contribute to monitoring and reporting, and other operational tasks in accordance with GIZ procedures and donor requirements.

Qualifications

• University degree in Human Rights, Psychology, Social Work, Transitional Justice, Law, Political Science, Peace and Security/ Conflict Studies or a related field.

Professional Experience

• 5 years of professional experience in implementing donor-funded projects, managing grants and partnerships with civil society organizations, and capacity development for partners in an NGO or international development context.
• 5 years of professional experience in supporting the organizational development, capacity building and networking of survivors associations/victim associations, or experience of direct cooperation with highly vulnerable target groups such a victims and survivors of conflict, conflict-related sexual violence, torture, displacement and other atrocities.
• Strong knowledge of transitional justice, peacebuilding, MHPSS, gender, and victim-centred approaches, with experience-supporting projects or academic background in two or more of these thematic areas.
• Demonstrated understanding of the perspectives and priorities of victims and survivors across Ethiopia’s conflict-affected regions, gained through professional or lived experience.
• Excellent communication and coordination skills, gender competence, empathy and inter-personal skills, with demonstrated ability to build effective partnerships with diverse stakeholders

Other knowledge, additional competencies

• Excellent command of English and Amharic (written and spoken); combined with strong intercultural competence and the ability to work effectively in international and multidisciplinary teams
• Excellent proficiency in MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Power point, Outlook)