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Civil Peace Service (CPS) Advisor (m/f/d) “Dealing with the Past (DwP)”

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Job-ID: V000056682 Location: Kathmandu Assignment period: 02/01/2024 - 02/28/2026 Field: Peace, Security and Emergency Type of employment: full-time Application deadline: 10/15/2023

Job description

The CPS is a global programme working on the prevention of violence and peacebuilding in crisis and conflict regions. In Nepal the CPS project ‘DwP and shaping a future free of violence – strengthening non-violent conflict transformation approaches for sustainable peace in Nepal’ supports the process of addressing the root causes of the country’s violent past and the implications for social cohesion in the present. CPS endorses local actors to implement holistic approaches to DwP promoting justice, reconciliation, and healing. The DwP Team consists of two national and one international peace advisor and works with victims’ groups such as the National Network of Disabled Conflict Victims, the Conflict Victims Committee Bardiya, and the Disappeared Citizen’s Memorial Park to enhance their capacities and to conduct meaningful memory work that fosters intra-personal and inter-personal healing. The DwP team also works with the women-led organization.

Your tasks

As part of your service as a development worker, you will take on the following tasks:

Enhance capacity of victims´ groups, partners organizations and other concerned stakeholders in designing and implementing initiatives on holistic approaches to DwP Support participatory approaches to storytelling, collection, documentation and editing Support partner organizations in the process of collection, curation, analyzing, securing and archiving sensitive, victim-related data Contribute to organizational and network development of partners Co-design and co-facilitate workshops and trainings on memory work Contribute to project management and strategic planning, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting Contribute to a periodic context and conflict analysis and needs assessment of partners Support the partners and the CPS programme in other related tasks such as public relations, administrative work, proposal writing, organization of events and workshops, etc. as per request

Your profile

University degree in peace and conflict studies, social science, psychology, social work or related subject Well-founded knowledge and practical experience about concepts and methods of Memory Work and Peace Education In-depth working experience in the area of DwP in a post-conflict country, reconciliation processes, and peacebuilding in general Experience and sensitivity in working with victims and survivors and their networks Knowledge about and experience of secure archiving of sensitive data Strong ability to work in a team, with creative approaches, in a partnership- and solution-oriented way Business fluent in English; knowledge of Nepali language or willingness to learn

Location information

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Notes

GIZ's Development Service is looking forward to applications of candidates with a professional qualification and / or university degree and at least two years of professional experience. In addition you hold the German nationality or the nationality of a member state of the European Union.

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