Programme Officer - Conflict And Peace Building at Christian Aid

About the role
The post holder will be responsible for supporting and managing Christian Aid partnerships and programmes with support from the Programme Manager Governance. The role will coordinate the effective disbursement of funds to Christian Aid partners working on the programmatic areas of governance, gender & inclusion and conflict sensitivity. The post holder will contribute to the implementation of Christian Aid Tackling Violence Building Peace strategy while supporting the team on concrete steps in the implementation of the strategy within the wider country programmes. The position will contribute to the representation and brand of Christian Aid in country, engage with and promote communications and fundraising, including institutional donors. The role holder will work directly with partners, conduct technical trainings on conflict analysis, sensitivity, and do no harm, peace building, Participatory Vulnerability Capacity Assessments and protection monitoring. The role will be responsible for strategic planning and will identify new opportunities. Furthermore, the role is expected to build relationship and work closely with external stakeholders including government and donors and to proactively engage with networks and learning groups.

About you

• You are required to have a degree in any of the Social Sciences with at least 3 years progressive experience in implementing gender programmes.
• Knowledge of political and religious context, especially around peace building and conflict in Northern Nigeria is vital for this role.
• You should understand advocacy, campaigning, lobbying and network building.
• You should have good facilitation skills and experience of developing partner capacity.
• You must understand gender and other forms of exclusion. Fluency in Hausa language is an added advantage.

Further information

• This role requires applicants to have the right to work in the country where this position is based.
• We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in its workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, disability, religion or belief.
• You can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits, including flexibility that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance.

Competency questions
As part of your application you will be asked to demonstrate your suitability by giving answers to the following questions:

Build partnership
Tell us about a time when you actively consulted with others to ensure that you understood their needs or goals before taking action. What was the situation? What different expectations were involved and what were you expected to do? What did you do? What was the impact? Were you successful?

Communicate effectively
Tell us about a time when you handled a difficult issue with someone else with openness, honesty and respect. What was the context?What did you have to do? What did you say and how? What was the result? If you were successful, how did you know?

Deliver results
Please give us an example of a time when you had to say no to another colleague or team because of other priorities while acknowledging their needs, What was the situation? What were the competing priorities? What was your task and what action(s) did you take? What was the effect of your saying no? What was the outcome(s) and what did you learn from the experience?