Project Officer (JISRA/Peacebuilding) at TearFund – Apply Now

• The Project Officer (JISRA/Peacebuilding) is to provide programmatic and project management support to the JISRA Country Coordinator in the implementation of JISRA/Power of Voices (PoV) project in Nigeria in collaboration with the Nigeria Core Group (Country Strategic Committee) INGOs (Tearfund, SFCG, CAFOD & MM); and the implementing Partners (DIWA, DREP, FOMWAN, RURCON & SUWA), and also support the country peacebuilding plan.
• S/he will ensure that partners, communities, religious bodies and faith groups are mobilised to work towards achieving greater social cohesion outcomes and that communities develop adaptive mechanisms for non-violent conflict resolution leading to resilient communities against the effects of conflict and fragility.
• The job holder will ensure that projects are identified, designed, planned, implemented, monitored, evaluated (in line with the Global Consortium design) and reported in accordance with Tearfund’s Peacebuilding key indicators.
• This is a local national package; the applicants should have permission to work in Nigeria.

The successful candidate will have:

• Degree and/or equivalent qualification in a humanitarian, development or management related discipline.
• Minimum of five (5) years’ relevant experience in the role
• Appropriate training e.g. project management / conflict / education /development, or equivalent experience.
• Understanding and experience of issues related to conflict, development, education, and theology of development.
• Proven successes in working with local organisations in capacity building particularly in facilitating interfaith dialogue.
• Proven experience in designing and facilitating participatory learning processes.
• Sound understanding of peace building good practice and ability to skill-up rapidly in new areas.
• Understanding of conflict analysis planning and procedures.
• Experience in financial management.
• Experience of managing institutional donor funded projects in accordance with donor requirements. Understanding of and ability to influence others to incorporate accountability, DRR, gender, protection mainstreaming and diversity in their peacebuilding work.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills including sensitivity in cross cultural communications.
• Ability to collate, analyse and report data in a clear and coherent manner
• Competence in written and spoken English.
• Working knowledge of local languages (Hausa)
• Computer literate