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Conflict and differences are inevitable. Violence is not. We partner with people around the world to ignite shared solutions to destructive conflicts. We work at all levels of society to build sustainable peace through three main avenues: Dialogue+, Media+, and Community+.
Position Summary
Search for Common Ground seeks four Community Engagement Officers that will work to ensure that all project activities in project intervention LGAs are implemented efficiently and timely and to high standard. The project will be implemented in Ethiope East LGA, Isoko North and Ndokwa West and Ughelli North LGA of Delta State, and each Engagement officer will be assigned one different LGA.
The Engagement officer will act as main point of contact of Search for Common Ground in the LGA and will be in charge of implementing and /or preparing all project’s activities in the LGA. This includes building a strong network at the LGA level, maintaining cordial and respectful relationship with local authorities and stakeholders. This also includes preparing all logistics of activities and mobilizing for participation to the activities.
The role also entails effective internal coordination with all program and support and cross-cutting departments (such as media, design monitoring, evaluation and learning (DME&L), finance, logistics and administration teams) to ensure that all project activities are adequately supported by these technical departments as required.
Externally, the role ensures effective coordination with all relevant stakeholders at the LGA level. This includes program participants, community response networks, community observers, traditional and religious leaders, media, security services, state officials, National Human Rights Commission, local and international NGOs, United Nations (UN) agencies and others working in the LGA.
The role also includes active participation to monitoring and evaluation activities, such as the feedback mechanisms put in place at the LGA level, the participation to evaluation data collection and studies.
About the Project
Search for Common Ground with support from USAID is starting a two-years project titled “Sharing the Green Grass: Cultivating a Locally-led Peace Architecture in the Niger Delta”. The Action aims to strengthen local capacities to peacefully manage conflict and prevent violence from escalating within a locally-led peace architecture in the Niger Delta. The project pursues two specific objectives: “Farmer and herder communities cultivate the skills and relationships to collaborate on peace and security issues” and “Farmer and herder communities develop effective, sustainable local mechanisms for early warning response, dispute management, and violence mitigation.”
The project will be implemented in Ethiope East LGA, Isoko North and Ndokwa West and Ughelli North LGA of Delta State. This “Peace Architecture,” will work to cultivate a culture of cohesion for communities to be at peace with themselves and equipped to build upon that foundation. Search and her partners will work with authorities first at the lowest level (local administration, authorities, the judiciary) and other higher levels (State, Federal) where necessary. This approach, as developed has successfully applied, in USAID-funded “Building Bridges Between Herders and Farmers in Plateau, Nasarawa, and Kaduna States” program in the Middle Belt, consists of conflict prevention, dispute resolution, and sustainability beginning from the local level and conflict-affected people themselves.
The project will support community-based Early Warning and Early Response (EWER) to identify risks and partner with civil society, security or government actions to institutionalize strategies and approaches that will build community capacity and skills for sustainable peace.
Additionally, the project seeks to ensure conflicts identified through the EWER feed into multi-stakeholder forums for dispute resolution and higher-level policy change and create open and neutral spaces for farmer and pastoralist community members and leaders to identify collective solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Working closely with and reporting to the Project manager, the Community Engagement Officers will coordinate LGA level activities with stakeholders and partners in four local government areas of Delta state Nigeria to deliver strategies activities designed to promote peace and cohesion in challenging community environments. They will amongst others:
Activity planning and implementation
Reporting
Coordination and representation
Financial planning, management and compliance
As job descriptions cannot be exhaustive, the position holder may be required to undertake other duties that are broadly in line with the above key duties.
Education
Required Experience
Other Requirements
Interested candidates should send the following to our career portal
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Only applicants invited for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls please. Please see our website: www.sfcg.org for full details of our work.
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Search for Common Ground (Search) is an international non-profit organization that promotes the peaceful resolution of conflict. With headquarters in Washington, DC and Brussels, Belgium, Search’s mission is to transform how individuals, organizations, and governments deal with conflict—away from destructive approaches towards cooperative solutions. With more than 600 staff worldwide, Search implements projects in more than 30 countries across the globe.
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