About the job
Technical Expertise: Joint responsibility with the other Project Manager – Peacebuilding for the technical design of the overall project; coordinate for the technical delivery in the respective country.
Responsible for technical delivery of the project; provide technical expertise on peacebuilding, conflict sensitivity and resilience to ensure the project achieves the aim of enhanced resilience and peaceful coexistence.
Through, national volunteers, local implementation partners and support from the VSO Global technical teams ensure other technical skills required are available and used in a timely way to meet the project objectives.
Ensure, project interventions are participatory and primary actor led methodologies suitable for a community-based project; design and facilitate participatory workshops with partners and volunteers.
People Management and duty of care: Effectively manage a blended team of volunteers and staff to maintain performance and accountability, ensuring they have the capacity and technical tools, competencies, and resources to deliver this project. Lead and motivate the volunteers, ensuring progress reviews and team meetings.
Effectively manage the relationship with the implementing partner(s) and line manage a blended team of staff and volunteers to cocreate and deliver the project activities as a project team.
Programme Development and Delivery: ensuring that project is implemented according to donor specifications (quality, time and budget/plan). Provide a key co-ordination and implementation role, ensuring project management standards are followed and deadlines met.
Internal Reporting: Prepare and support management, reporting and communication products in liaison with the Proect Implementation Lead.
Stakeholder Management and Communications: Build effective working relationships with project stakeholders, engaging them at each project stage, ensuring communications have appropriate content and tone. Manage information flows between the directing and delivering levels of the project. Ensure organisational communications about project benefits, progress and outcomes suit audience and are timely. Anticipate project risks and issues, communicating to Project Implementation Lead and Stakeholders and seeking solutions.
Fulfil other appropriate level responsibilities as defined by the line manager from time to time
Desired Skills and Experience
Ideal candidates should have experience in providing practical technical support to build peace – (tool development, developing interventions and delivering them), in a community-based setting.
Experience of development programming in peacebuilding, climate change, DRR or building resilience in a fragile or conflict affected context.
Experience of facilitating participatory, inclusive activities using a range of methodologies and techniques as well as experience of capacity building and enabling young people and primary actors to be active citizens.
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