Project Officer (JISRA / Peace Building) at Tearfund

Tearfund is a Christian international relief and development agency working globally to end poverty and injustice, and to restore dignity and hope in some of the world’s poorest communities.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Project Officer (JISRA / Peace Building)

Location: Nigeria
Contract Type: Fixed Term
Grade: BG - 7 Croner 4

Job Description

• 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.

Responsibilities
The successful candidate will have:

• Bachelor's Degree / HND in a Humanitarian / Development / 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.
• 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.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills
• 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.
• 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
• 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.

Salary
NGN 10,157,784 gross per annum

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Application Deadline  4th June 2024.

Note

• All applicants must be committed to Tearfund's Christian beliefs.
• The recruitment process will include specific checks related to safeguarding issues.
• In addition, personal identification information will be submitted against a Watch list database to check against criminal convictions as a counter-terror measure.
• Potential Interview Date: 12th June, 2024.
• Only shortlisted applicants will be invited for the interviews!