Opportunities for Tanzanians - Jan 2016

Call for Applications – Roster of Peacebuilding Professionals 

Peaceful Change Initiative (PCi) is looking for experienced peaecebuilding professionals to provide occasional and short-term support to our Middle East and North Africa programmes.

 

PCi’s work is currently instrumental in delivering tangible human security and peacebuilding impact across Syria and Libya. We are very keen to maintain this momentum by expanding our network of excellent peacebuilding professionals who are able to help rapidly scale up our work when urgent situations or peacebuilding opportunities arise. Your support in helping us build this network would be greatly appreciated.

 

As an ideal roster candidate, you will: 

• Have at least 7 years’ experience in peacebuilding. In particular, you will have expertise in one or several of the following areas:

1. Participatory conflict analysis
2. Participatory conflict sensitivity analysis
3. Community security
4. Social Cohesion
5. Mediation and negotiation
6. Confidence building
7. Stabilization following periods of conflict
8. Addressing trauma and psychological self-care in situations of violent conflict
9. Monitoring and evaluation of peacebuilding programmes
10. Providing policy advice on peacebuilding issues

• Have proven experience of developing and facilitating training sessions on peacebuilding issues to a broad range of audiences
• Have proven experience of facilitating difficult conversations between people experiencing conflict
• Have proven experience of providing advice at both a strategic and a specific activity level
• Be willing and able to deploy on field missions at relatively short notice for up to three months
• Have the willingness to work as part of a small geographically dispersed team but also to work with minimal supervision, ability to absorb information quickly and provide quality advice with short lead-in times, proven experience of working in complex and difficult environments, a can-do attitude, result-focus, emotional intelligence, self-awareness and the ability to put yourself in others’ shoes.
• Excellent English language skills (required)
• Arabic language skills (this is an advantage rather than a requirement) 

PCi offers a competitive package of financial compensation and benefits for members of the Peacebuilding Professionals Roster who undertake agreed assignments (fees will depend of level of experience and the nature of the assignment).

 

Email us your CV with a short covering email indicating your fields of expertise torecruitment@peacefulchange.org right now! We will be accepting applications for the Roster until 31 January 2016. For more information about PCi, please go to www.peacefulchange.org