Overview
The role supports the development and implementation of activities promoting peace and social cohesion, conducts research and conflict analysis, and ensures conflict sensitivity across the mission.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct conflict analysis (including gender analyses) and support operationalization of results.
- Mainstream conflict sensitivity across the DRC Syria mission.
- Support planning, design, and implementation of conflict sensitivity assessments.
- Provide conflict sensitivity recommendations and guidance.
- Support design of trainings and workshops for staff, partners, and external actors.
- Support development of high-quality proposals.
- Conduct mapping of local, regional, and national peacebuilding actors.
- Support identification of new methods for peacebuilding programming.
- Develop assessments, studies, reviews, and evaluations.
- Coordinate implementation of peacebuilding initiatives.
- Collaborate with project teams and partners for timely delivery of outputs.
- Carry out monitoring and reporting of program activities.
- Lead communication with partner organizations, external experts, and consultants.
- Provide monitoring of financial commitments and expenditures of peacebuilding projects.
- Perform monitoring and field visits to locations where partners and DRC staff are based.
- Ensure adherence to DRC’s Age, Gender, and Diversity policy and AGD programmatic minimum standards.
- Ensure compliance with zero-tolerance to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse policy.
- Perform other relevant tasks as requested.
Required Experience
- At least 3 years of direct work experience in peacebuilding, social cohesion, conflict analysis, conflict management programming.
- Experience in capacity building and training of staff in social cohesion and peacebuilding programming, and/or conflict management, mediation, and dialogue facilitation.
- Demonstrated commitment to apply an age, gender and diversity (AGD) and conflict sensitive approach to programming.
- Experience working with national partners in social cohesion initiatives.
- Experience working in the NGO sector.
- Innovative and creative thinking with strong analytical and reporting skills.
- Political and cultural sensitivity, as well as a diplomatic, tactful, and flexible interpersonal style.
- Ability to set priorities and to work independently and as part of a team.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills.
- Excellent skills in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Qualifications
- University degree in political science, international development, peace and conflict studies or other relevant field.
- Practical trainings or courses in peacebuilding, conflict management, mediation and dialogue facilitation.
