Senior Programme Officer

Christian Aid recruits:
Role: Senior Programme Officer-Governance/Tackling Violence and Building Peace
Salary: Highly competitive
Based: Bamako, Mali
Closing date: March 31, 2015
About us
Christian Aid is collaborating with others to end poverty in Africa. At the heart of this vision is transformation of the lives of people who live in poverty, empowering them to have a brighter future and saving lives during emergencies. This is an exciting opportunity to join Christian Aid’s Sahel team (Mali, Burkina Faso). The Sahel programme include a range of innovative and diverse projects aimed at making a real and lasting change in reducing poverty. We are looking for a dynamic, motivated and highly skilled person to provide conceptual and hands-on leadership influencing local partners and stakeholders so that our interventions are conflict-sensitive and conducive to peace.
About the role
As the Senior Programme Officer Governance/-Tackling Violence and Building Peace, you will be responsible for managing Christian Aid partnerships and programmes as well as the effective disbursement of funds to Christian Aid partners working on the governance/tackling violence, building peace programme in the Sahel. You will contribute to the development of Christian Aid policy and strategy in the Sahel countries. You will engage with and promote communications and fundraising, including institutional donors, to address the root causes of violence. You will build network and system to contribute to conflict transformation, to develop peaceful alternatives that draw on traditional strength of communities and fully engage with young people, women, faith based organisation and marginalised groups.
About you
To help make this happen, you will be educated to degree level or equivalent with strong knowledge of Development issues, Governance or any related field. You will have considerable experience working in conflict transformation, peacebuilding and governance programming. You will have a minimum of 5 years of field-based experience managing overseas, multi partner development programmes, preferably Northern Mali. You will have a significant experience in a field-based management position, preferably in Sahel and solid knowledge and understanding of current practices and debates on violence, conflict and development; governance; gender based Violence and Sexual violence and protection of the civilian populations
You will have proven experience in mentoring and strengthening technical skills of local NGOs
You will have strong communication skills – verbally and in writing, with proficiency in French and English and demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills and ability to lead and work effectively in team situations
An experience of working in Burkina Faso and Niger and a significant experience in the role of civil society in complex context will be an asset
To apply for this post, please visit our website https://www.christianaid.org.uk/aboutus/jobs and follow instructions on how to apply. Please email your queries to [email protected]
Competency questions
As part of your application, you will be asked to demonstrate your suitability by giving answers to the following questions
Communicate effectively
Tell us about a time when you handled a difficult issue with someone else with openness, honesty and respect
Deliver results
Please give us an example of a time when you had to say no to another colleague or team because of other priorities while acknowledging their needs
Strive for improvement
Describe a time when you made positive suggestions for a way forward despite being faced by challenges from others
Christian Aid values diversity and aspires to reflect this in our workforce.  We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.