Overview
The Peace Building Specialist is responsible for ensuring anticipatory action (AA) planning and implementation are grounded in conflict analysis and adhere to "Do No Harm" principles, integrating conflict sensitivity into the AHEAD forecasting model, trigger validation, and response packages.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the integration of political economy and conflict analysis into the validation of sub-national displacement triggers.
- Apply DRC’s global conflict sensitivity toolkit throughout the AHEAD program cycle.
- Manage the conflict early warning component of the forecasting model.
- Facilitate anticipatory community dialogues and mediation linked to forecasted conflict shocks.
- Support the implementation of the MoU with SoDMA by training national authorities.
- Provide technical guidance to embed peacebuilding and social cohesion principles within anticipatory action.
- Develop and manage the conflict early warning system component within AHEAD’s displacement forecasting model.
- Facilitate participatory workshops with local peacebuilding committees.
- Support community-based preparedness activities.
- Design and implement AA response activities focused on social cohesion, dialogue, and trust-building.
- Support Hard-to-Reach (H2R) analyses and access strategies.
- Coordinate with local authorities, community structures, CSOs, and protection actors.
- Support DRC’s engagement in AA, protection, and peacebuilding coordination platforms.
- Contribute to evidence generation on how anticipatory action can reduce conflict risks and displacement drivers.
- Document lessons learned, good practices, and challenges related to integrating peacebuilding into anticipatory action.
- Ensure adherence to DRC’s Protection, AGD, Conflict Sensitivity, and Do No Harm standards.
Required Experience
- Minimum 5 years of experience in peacebuilding, conflict prevention, social cohesion, or protection programming.
- Demonstrated experience integrating conflict sensitivity into humanitarian or resilience programming.
- Experience working with community-based early warning, dialogue, or mediation mechanisms.
- Familiarity with anticipatory action, early warning, preparedness, or forecast-based approaches is a strong asset.
- Experience working with national and local partners in fragile and conflict-affected settings.
- Experience in Somalia or similar contexts highly desirable.
- Experience with programming related to climate resilience, preparedness, and conflict sensitivity.
- Demonstrated ability to innovate and take a flexible, problem-solving approach in complex humanitarian environments.
- Strong project management skills and experience with donor reporting and proposal writing.
- Familiarity with humanitarian coordination mechanisms and key international standards.
Qualifications
• Minimum bachelor’s degree in Peace and Conflict Studies, International Development, Social Sciences, Political Science, or a related field.
