The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding, Ghana (WANEP-Ghana) is a non-profit making peacebuilding Non-Governmental Organization. It is a civil society institution meant to prevent, resolve, and transform violent conflicts through collective and coordinated efforts of non-governmental organizations, local and national state institutions as well as individuals actively engaged in peacebuilding practice in Ghana in order to avoid duplication of efforts and maximize resources for more effective responses to conflict situations. The organization seeks to facilitate the creation of a sustainable culture of non-violence, justice, peace and social reconciliation in Ghanaian communities.

We are currently seeking qualified candidates for the position of Conflict Mitigation Coordinator to coordinate and support the implementation of our project in Ghana.

Working in a project team, the Conflict Mitigation Coordinator is expected to:

•   Be part of project team headed by a Chief of Party.
•   Serve as ambassador of WANEP-Ghana to the project office and, unit.
•   Support in the design and implementation of field activities of the project.
•   Support in building capacities of the project consortium and beneficiary communities.
•   Harmonize the project activities in line with WANEP-Ghana’s Strategic objectives and the project goals.
•   Harmonize the project component on peace and security to the other components of capacity and governance, gender and livelihood activities of the project.
•   Monitor the dynamics of conflicts and threats to the implementation of the project related to agric and natural resource governance.
•   Prepare and submit periodic implementation reports.
•   Solicit support and liaise with other project team members in the implementation of the peace component.
•   Foster collaboration with and between CMTs, civil society and existing State institutions and national early warning structures.
•   Support the development of training modules and manuals for capacity building
•   Maintains up to date contact list of Community Monitoring Team (CMT) members i.e. phone numbers, e-mail addresses, twitter, etc in the project location.
•   Maintains up to date contact list of all district peace and conflict stakeholders and build networks.

Duration of Employment: 5 years subject to annual appraisal and renewal.

Qualification Required & Experience

•   A second degree in Peacebuilding, Peace Studies, Conflict Transformation, Development Studies, or related field.
•   Minimum of five (5) years’ experience in NGO work; three of which should be at senior management level
•   Demonstrable competence in peace and social project design and implementation, monitoring and evaluation as well as project coordination.
•   Competent in use of different project design frameworks such as logical frames, RBM and Theory of Change.
•   Experience in training and workshop facilitation.
•   Experienced in report writing and reporting.
•   Competent in research and data analysis
•   Demonstrable ability to build partnership and program networks.
•   Have high communication skills.
•   Be familiar with the context of the project geographic location and demography.
•   Must be peace, cultural and gender sensitive both in communicating and reporting.
•   Must be conversant with the use of Microsoft Office tools and Internet.
•   Be able to use social media such as Facebook, Twitter, etc handles professionally.
•   Must be good team player, open to criticism and be results oriented.
•   Willing to travel and work outside normal hours.
•   Strong team leader: able to inspire; lead team in an empowering manner and motivate other team members to excel in their roles
•   Must not be less than 35 years of age.

Location: Accra

How To Apply For The Job

Interested applicants should submit CV and application by email to:

wanepghanarecruitment@gmail.com

Closing Date: 15 April, 2016

Note:

•   Women are especially encouraged to apply and
•   Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.