Deadline: Ongoing
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Mercy Corps is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Chief of Party for the Community Initiatives to Promote Peace (CIPP) Programme.
Mercy Corps is a global team of humanitarians working together on the front lines of crisis, disaster, poverty and climate change to create a world where everyone can prosper.
Responsibilities
- Recognise opportunities for innovative action and create an environment where alternative viewpoints are welcomed
- Set direction by prioritising and organising actions and resources to achieve objectives
- Oversee the development of annual, integrated strategic workplans for the programme
- Lead the development of a programme-wide resilience-building framework to guide coordination and integrated implementation
- Oversee programme startup and ongoing programme management and administration of teams across various field locations
- Lead the development of detailed implementation plans and ensure the delivery of the plans
- Lead the socialisation of the programme with government of Nigeria stakeholders, ensuring necessary approvals and collaboration as required
- Ensure beneficiaries are effectively targeted according to established vulnerability criteria
- Integrate community approaches, and gender sensitivity and capacity building into all activities as appropriate
- Provide managerial and programmatic oversight to partners and sub-grantee(s)
- Document processes and achievements to ensure best practices are captured and disseminated
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Social Sciences, Law, Development Studies
- Bachelor’s degree and five years of relevant international development experience can be substituted for the master’s degree
- Ten years, minimum, of progressively responsible experience in the successful implementation of international development activities, with preference given to conflict mitigation and/or violent extremism prevention programmes
- Experience in working in the conflict mitigation/preventing violent extremism sector in Africa is essential
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Proven experience navigating complex and high-pressure operating environments
- Demonstrated ability to establish and sustain interpersonal and professional relationships with different donors, civil society organisations and host country government counterparts
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office
- Ability to use various commercially available accounting software programmes
- Fluency in spoken and written English
- Knowledge of a local language is preferred
To apply and for more information, click here.
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