Global Peacebuilding Manager

Job title:

Global Peacebuilding Manager

Company

Christian Aid Ireland

Job description

This post is based in Dublin or elsewhere in ROI with hybrid working available. Please note that Christian Aid Ireland is NOT a visa sponsoring organisation and we can only consider applications from those with FULL and CURRENT eligibility to work in Ireland.At Christian Aid, we pursue a transformative peacebuilding and conflict prevention agenda that addresses the root causes of conflict, tackles the systemic and proximate drivers of fragility, and responds effectively to the onset of violence, placing the most vulnerable and marginalised at the centre of efforts to catalyse sustainable peace. We work across social, political, economic, religious, and cultural divides, focusing on sustainable people-centred approaches that meet the needs of the most marginalised, working to transform systems, structures and processes that reinforce conflict.Christian Aid has developed our expertise on establishing pathways to peace, contributing to change in countries such as Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Colombia, DRC, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territory, Kenya, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Syria, South Sudan, and Zimbabwe. We are a growing technical team, our programmes directly reached more than 3.58 million people and indirectly 65.3 million people, since Covid-19.Our deep solidarity with our partners and the communities with whom we work, lies at the heart of our work.This is a new, senior role within Christian Aid Ireland’s International Programmes Team that will be responsible for overseeing and managing Christian Aid’s portfolio of peacebuilding and conflict prevention (PBCP) programmes, which include focus on WPS agenda, YPS agenda, humanitarian – development – peace nexus, supporting peace processes, climate and conflict, catalysing cross-border cooperation, tackling impunity, supporting HRDs, digital space and innovation, religion and peacebuilding, preventing gender based violence, conflict analysis and sensitivity.Applied skills/knowledge and expertiseEssential

• Postgraduate level degree in international relations, peacebuilding, conflict resolution, development studies or related areas.
• Experience of working in international development and peacebuilding programming (minimum 5 years). Significant experience of managing and reporting on large scale institutional donor projects and programmes.
• Extensive experience and proven competence in programme strategy, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
• Extensive programme/project and people management experience and cross organizational working. Strong experience in programme cycle management approaches and tools, including participatory planning, monitoring and evaluation.
• Extensive experience working in programme countries (or significant equivalent, including demonstrated experience of working directly with country programmes).
• Thematic expertise in Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention, preferably in fragile settings, and familiarity with current thinking and trends.
• Experience of programme development, proposal writing and securing funding.
• Excellent facilitation skills and ability to promote critical thinking and reflection. Experience of budgets/financial management, ability to work with financial information.
• Significant experience of working within a large complex organisation and influencing decision making at senior management/board level across complex and diverse functions.
• Significant knowledge and understanding of best practice in capacity development and learning.
• Experience of delivering high impact reports to key stakeholders.
• Track record in contract management, and meeting donor compliance and reporting standards
• Demonstrated knowledge of programme quality principles and approaches, including gender equality and social inclusion and conflict sensitivity.
• Significant knowledge and understanding of best practice in capacity development and learning.
• Knowledge of community led approaches to development work.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to discuss sensitive issues, influence and inspire others to take up new challenges.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and negotiation skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving ability.
• Experience of developing a network of practitioners/community of practice with people working globally in different locations.
• Commitment to Christian Aid’s values, with a deep understanding of power relations, issues of inequality and gender.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Desirable

• Knowledge and experience of programme approaches, including adaptive management and gender transformative approach.
• Research capacity and experience of working with academic institutions.
• Understanding and experience of partnership approach within international development programmes, including identifying and meeting partner capacity development needs.
• Understanding of advocacy, campaigning and lobbying.
• Professional proficiency in Spanish or French.
• Experience of network and alliance building.

Expected salary

Location

Dublin

Job date

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 23:17:51 GMT

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