Peace Building Specialist
JOB DESCRIPTION FOR PEACE BUILDING SPECIALIST:
1. To provide expert level strategies in peace building and education, conflict prevention, resolution, transformation and mitigation and monitor their implementation;
2. Development of strategies for inclusiveness with attention to gender integration, youth engagement, social inclusion and empowerment of historically marginalized persons and monitor their implementation ;
3. Identify and promote best practices and innovative approaches to social protection and reintegration of genocide survivors, returnees and ex
- prisoners;
4. Devise strategies for healing of wounds caused to Rwandans by dark passed history and monitor their implementation;
5. Analyze laws and policies with regard to conformity with unity and reconciliation principles and sustainable peace;
6. Carrying out stakeholders analysis to identify the key actors in peace building NURC has to interact with;
7. Coordination and smooth networking between stakeholders in peace building in collaboration with in charge of partnership in NURC, to increase efficiency in delivery;
8. Put up safe and reliable mechanism to receive information on issues that may hinder peace, unity and reconciliation and analyze them;
9. Conduct conflict analysis activities, including the development of an Early Warning and Response System;
10. Coordinate interventions that seek to address lasting peace;
11. Support the design of sound theories of change; ensure that results from conflict analysis inform theories of change and planning, including a continued process of updating;
12. Support the monitoring and evaluation of peace building education results, including an ongoing learning process to ensure that evidence on peace building practice informs programs implementation;
13. Carry out other related duties as required by the supervisor.
Job Profile
Master degree in conflict management, , sociology, Political Sciences, Psychology 1 year of experience or A0 in Sociology, Political sciences and Psychology 3 years of experience.
Key Technical Skills & Knowledge required:
- Good team work and team building skills,
- Capacity to work and interact with multiple stakeholders especially foreign partners to the institution;
- Good communication (both oral and written) and peace building skills with multi
- dimension partners, hardworking and demonstrate capacity to work under pressure with minimum supervision,
- High sense of responsibility and integrity;
- Maturity and confidence in dealing with the staff of government institutions and private sector;
- Ability to seek and apply knowledge, information and best practices from multiple sectors;
- Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
- Advanced computer literacy and proficiency, especially related to professional office software packages (Microsoft Office and graphics);
- Fluent in Kinyarwanda, English, and /or French both written and spoken is an advantage
Unity & Reconciliation Researcher & Monitoring Specialist
Job Description
- Coordinate research activities and measurement of their impact on NURC’s mandate;
- Organize the identification of research themes related to Unity & Reconciliation;
- Overall research works and coordinate the dissemination of findings;
- Identify research themes related to unity and reconciliation, prevention and management of conflicts, etc.
- Prepare terms of reference for researches to be conducted;
- Supervise research works and coordinate the dissemination of findings;
- Organize mobilization of partner’s support on ongoing research works;
- Coordinate the measurement of the impact of research on improvement of Unity & Reconciliation;
- Prepare summary of research findings and their dissemination;
- Conduct qualitative and quantitative opinion surveys on the process of unity and reconciliation and other
critical issues which the Commission should address;
- Build partnerships with governance and conflict management research centres;
- Propose strategies for impact evaluation of the Unity & Reconciation policy & program;
- Collect and analyse data related to Unity & Reconciation, propose improvements and harmonization of the process.
Job Profile
Master’s Degree in Conflict resolution & Management, Political Sciences, Sociology, History, Psychology, Philosophy with 1 year of working experience or A0 in Political Sciences, Sociology, History, Psychology, Philosophy with 3 years of working experience
Key Technical Skills & Knowledge required:
- Knowledge of Rwandan History;
- Documenting Skills,
- Coordination, Planning & Organizational Skills;
- High analytical & Complex Problem Solving Skills;
- Research Skills;
- Computer Skills;
- Communication Skills;
- Judgment & Decission Making Skills;
- Time management Skills;
- Team working Skills; Atleast one of the 3 specialists with skills of law & investigation