Christian Aid Programme Advisor - Power and Governance

Programme advisor – power and governance Salary: £33,800 - £37,500 per annum, including London Allowance (for UK-based post) Based: London, Waterloo, with flexibility for the post to be based at an international location in Africa, Asia or Latin America (local country employment terms and conditions and salary would apply) Closing date: 9am, Monday 12 August 2013

Half the people in the world own just a hundredth amount of the wealth enjoyed by the other half. Poverty is the great injustice of our time. Christian Aid believes that the unequal distribution of power and the unfair abuse of power are at the root of this injustice. We’re committed to empowering poor and excluded women and men to make their own way out of poverty. Can you help them shape a better world?

You’ll make a key contribution to increasing Christian Aid’s impact on global poverty, embedding active engagement with power structures and dynamics across all aspects of our international programming. Building on our strong track record in governance and accountability, we have increasingly focused on the central role of power and inequality in creating and perpetuating poverty. Last year, our new strategy laid out our ambition to challenge and change this, setting a transformative new goal of Just Power Relations.

Working as part of a global team of Programme Advisors, you’ll provide advice and support to teams on the ground as they seek to transform unjust power structures and relationships. You’ll help Christian Aid staff and partners across Africa, Asia and Latin America deepen their analysis of political and social power dynamics and opportunities to bring about change in their own contexts. You’ll equip them to put this analysis into practice through a portfolio of empowering projects and advocacy work, all within the framework of our power- and gender-sensitive programming approach.

You’ll enable programme teams to learn from their own experience, from other Christian Aid programmes and partners, and from wider good practice. With the rest of the advisory team and other colleagues, you’ll feed programme learning into a deeper organisational understanding and public position on power, articulating and strengthening Christian Aid’s distinctive contribution to a more just and equal world.

You’ll have the technical knowledge and practical experience to provide credible, relevant and useful support to fellow practitioners, including previous experience in an advisory role. You’ll also bring excellent communication and facilitation skills. Your ability to translate theory into practice will help programme colleagues engage with complex political and social challenges, and spark innovative and creative responses. Most important will be your ability to develop strong relationships and bring people from different parts of the organisation together around a common vision of transforming power relations.

We value the contribution each person makes to the success of our organisation. That’s why you can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits, including a generous holiday allowance, a season ticket loan, and flexibility that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance.

If based in UK based, non-EC nationals will require current and valid permission to work in the UK.

If based at an international location (Africa, Asia or Latin America), you will require current and valid permission to work in the country.

Please note CVs will not be accepted.

Job reference: 561/OA Closing date for applications: 9am, Monday 12 August 2013 Interview date: Tuesday 6 September 2013

Christian Aid values diversity and aspires to reflect this in its workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

How to apply:

To apply for this post, please download an application pack from www.christianaid.org.uk