Contract Type and Duration: 1-year renewable (depending on donor funding)
Background
Interpeace is an international organization for peacebuilding that supports locally led peacebuilding initiatives around the world. Interpeace tailors its approach to each society and ensures that the work is locally driven. Together with local partners and local teams, Interpeace jointly develops peacebuilding programmes and helps establish processes of change that connect local communities, civil society, government and the international community.
As a strategic partner of the United Nations, Interpeace is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland and has offices around the world.
For more information about Interpeace, please visit www.interpeace.org
Interpeace in Rwanda
Interpeace has been working in Rwanda since 2002. During this time, Interpeace has been working in support of national institutions to strengthening durable peace, through the promotion of social cohesion, societal trauma healing, participatory governance and regional collaboration. In this work, Interpeace has had a long-term partnership with the CSO Never Again Rwanda and we are also collaborating with the Ministry of Health, the National Unity and Reconciliation Commission, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Local Governance and Rwanda Prison Fellowship, amongst others. Similarly to our work in other countries,
Important programmes are our Societal Healing and Participatory Governance Programme, supported by the Swedish Embassy. This programme is focused on the facilitation of spaces that promote group-based healing and strengthening relations and improving participation of citizens in Imihigo and related processes. Similarly, an EU funded project on participatory governance is also focused on strengthening the capacity of district level governments to implement participatory governance practices. A regional programme is focused on fostering strong relations across borders. Lastly, a new programme in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Rwanda Prison Fellowship is focused on strengthening mental health, addressing intergenerational transmission of trauma, and promoting reintegration and cohesion of prisoners with the communities to which they return.
Position within the Organization
The Programme Support Officer is a member of the Programme Management Unit which manages and implements all Interpeace’s active and ongoing programmes around the world. The Programme Management Unit is led from the Headquarters office in Geneva, although team members are based in various locations including in East and Central Africa, West Africa, Europe and the MENA region.
The Programme Support Officer will report to the Rwanda Programme Manager and will work in close collaboration with the Great Lakes Regional Representative, the Senior Regional Representative for Eastern and Central Africa, the Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Communication Specialist, and the Finance and Admin Manager in Rwanda.
The Programme Officer supports the design, day-to-day planning and implementation of the Rwanda Programme. S/he is also expected to contribute to the implementation of the broader Great Lakes Regional Programme.
Duties and responsibilities
Strategic Engagement
Programme Management and Development
Management – institutional coherence
Representation
Relevant qualifications and experience
Candidates with relevant qualifications, experience, a tertiary degree, and fluent in English and French, are invited to apply.
Relevant experience and qualifications may include:
Education
Competencies
Interpeace Competencies
This vacancy is archived.