Job Title: Team Leader – Conflict Sensitivity

Department: Programming

Division: Programme

Duty Station: Various

Line Manager. Programme Manager

Line Management Responsibility: Protection Officers and support staff

Position Type: Full-time

Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP) is a dynamic, international non-governmental organization. We work with people affected by violent conflicts to enhance their security and dignity through Unarmed Civilian Protection (UCP). We work to reduce violence, protect civilians in countries affected by violent conflict and its aftermath, and help transform the world’s response to conflict situations.

Overview:

NP has been implementing protection and peace-building projects in South Sudan since 2010. Currently, in South Sudan, NP’s program in South Sudan is comprised of 11 static field teams in six states and one administrative area, providing emergency protection, social cohesion – and violence prevention among communities affected by conflict. NP also operates a mobile response team in Upper Nile and Unity States in response to the April 2023 Sudan crisis.

Job Summary:

The Team Leader (TL) is responsible for the on-site management of an NP field team. This entails ensuring the effective implementation of NP’s programming while providing for field-based personnel management, financial and administrative functions, coordinating with Juba HQ regarding logistics and procurement and ensuring compliance with NP’s policies and procedures. The TL is the primary representative of NP at coordination meetings with NGO partners and government authorities and departments in the field team’s area of operation

This specific TL position will be responsible for a conflict sensitivity project, implemented in collaboration with a partner organization who works in WASH, FSL and shelter. This specific project will be responsible for conducting conflict sensitivity assessments for our partner’s interventions, as well as more broadly for the AoO, and producing high quality reports for publication. The TL will also oversee interventions aimed at promoting social cohesion within the returnee and refugee populations from Sudan as well as with host communities.

Key Responsibilities:

Programme Implementation

• Responsible for the overall planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting, and general administration of NP projects in the TL’s respective field location in accordance with the project description and in accordance with policies, donor agreements and guidelines
• Lead and coordinate conflict sensitivity assessments to understand the needs and vulnerabilities of returnees and refugees from Sudan
• Work collaboratively with partner organizations, especially the consortium member, to ensure a comprehensive assessment and implementation approach leveraging the technical expertise of each organization
• Programmatic responsibility is of paramount importance. The TL must ensure that the activities being implemented follow NP’s UCP methodology, and have relevance for the project they are implementing
• The TL must participate in activities, leading the team by example, mentoring, coaching, and stepping in to fulfill roles as necessary to advance conflict sensitive practices and principles
• Leads, guides and supports their NP field team in proactive and reactive activities, guiding the team on implementation and emergency response as needed
• Oversee the production of high-quality reports based on assessment findings
• Design and implement social cohesion activities that foster positive relationships among returnees, refugees and host communities
• Engage with communities to ensure their active participation in the humanitarian response and gather insights and feedback on the interventions

External coordination and accountability

• In line with UCP, the TL builds effective networks and collaborative relationships, strengthens communication and coordination with partners, communities, NGOs and local- and state-level government stakeholders and protects NP’s integrity and accountability
• Takes prompt and appropriate action to resolve existing and anticipated problems and address the concerns and complaints of stakeholders

Monitoring and reporting

• Carries out regular field supervision and monitoring of activities and processes in which project funds, materials and equipment are utilised and verifies progress and quality of work done in accordance with monitoring and evaluation systems and indicators
• Implements NP procedures for internal monitoring, smooth implementation, and reporting of emergency activities in accordance with project objectives and indicators (as contained in log frames) and ensures regular communication and reporting with relevant NP colleagues
• Oversees preparation of quality and timely weekly and monthly reports for submission to NP Programme Support Team
• Supervises the NP field staff and provides oversight on day to day planning, data collection, analysis, documentation/reporting
• Ensures periodic project reviews and lesson learning exercises are conducted and documented

Finance

• Monitors closely project expenditures against the approved budgets
• Ensures effective application of adequate internal control and risk management procedures, including proper authorization of purchases and payments, and ensures satisfactory accountability of all project expenditures in line with NP financial policies
• Ensures timely submission of weekly financial reports, supporting documentation and supports NP colleagues to fulfill their financial management responsibility

Human Resources

• Applies the UCP methodology within NP, building the capacity and agency of team members to act independently, focusing on building relationships among the team (both in the field and with Juba), etc.
• Recruits qualified local staff with the help of Human Resources Officer and Programme Manager; manages the performance of staff under his/her direct supervision
• Maintains team work and an enabling working environment for field teams including ensuring clear reporting and communication channels and regular documented meetings
• Supports the professional development of the team members and conducts accurate, constructive and regular performance appraisal of the team members according to the schedule set by the Human Resources Department
• Consults with NP colleagues to strategize on responses to performance and disciplinary challenges, identifies staff welfare concerns such as burn-out and flags it to Staff Welfare to ensure intervention and mitigation

Administration/Procurement/Logistics

• Coordinates the timely submission of logistics and procurement requests with Juba Programme Support team
• Implements organisational goals, ensuring compliance by way of guiding field staff and inducting them into organizational systems and procedures, including appropriate hand-over notes to staff covering for the Team Leader while away on leave in order to ensure minimum disruption to programming
• Manages field site assets including equipment and materials in close consultation with the Programme Manager and Logistics Manager
• Maintains updated monthly asset register and monitors and reports regularly on the proper usage of assets, supplies and other consumables
• Ensures safety and security of staff and advises and consults with the Programme Manager and Saftey and Security Advisor on security matters, and takes appropriate action in line with the security policy
• Submits and coordinates timely leave schedules of all national and international staff in accordance with NP’s leave policy and with as little disruption to programming as possible

Qualifications:

• Post-secondary education in refugee law, human rights, international human rights law, international humanitarian law, negotiation, mediation, human security or related field
• 3-5 years’ work experience in human security, child protection, refugee, IDP or civilian protection
• Demonstrated experience in conflict sensitivity and social cohesion work
• Demonstrated management experience in working in complex security environment
• Demonstrated experience working with state authorities, negotiation and mediation
• Demonstrated ability to live, work and solve problems independently and effectively in remote, highly challenging locations
• Demonstrated ability to analyse conflict, security and political contexts
• Understands UCP and uses it as the primary strategy for all interventions

Key Challenges:

• This posting is physically demanding. NP teams live in remote rural settings and in either tented camps or simple cement buildings, with no electricity or running water with limited access. Some of the accompaniment work will require walking through rough terrain for 6-8 hours in a day.
• This field site is a complex security environment where conditions change rapidly–experience in insecure environments is essential to success in this position.

Skills and Competencies:

• Ability to set priorities, solve problems and analyze data
• Ability to manage information with discretion
• Demonstrable conflict analysis skills, identify entry points and design prevention and protection strategies.

Interpersonal and representational:

• Ability to communicate effectively with individuals and motivate and provide leadership to team and to work in a multi-cultural environment
• Solutions focused, creative problem solver
• Proven ability to build relationships with the full range of actors including government, chiefs, military, police and non-state actors
• Genuine commitment and interest in living and working at the community level
• Flexibility and adaptability

Preferred Qualifications:

• Post-secondary education in refugee law, human rights, international human rights law, international humanitarian law, negotiation, mediation, human security or related field
• 3-5 years’ work experience in human security, child protection, refugee, IDP or civilian protection

Working Conditions:

• This field position may include challenging living conditions, limited access to amenities, and potentially unstable security situations.
• You must be prepared to live in basic or non-traditional accommodation, which may include shared housing, camps, or field-based settings.
• Demonstrated ability to adhere to strict security protocols and maintain high level of confidentiality.

Job Title: Team Leader – Conflict Sensitivity

Department: Programming

Division: Programme

Duty Station: Various

Line Manager. Programme Manager

Line Management Responsibility: Protection Officers and support staff

Position Type: Full-time

Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP) is a dynamic, international non-governmental organization. We work with people affected by violent conflicts to enhance their security and dignity through Unarmed Civilian Protection (UCP). We work to reduce violence, protect civilians in countries affected by violent conflict and its aftermath, and help transform the world’s response to conflict situations.

Overview:

NP has been implementing protection and peace-building projects in South Sudan since 2010. Currently, in South Sudan, NP’s program in South Sudan is comprised of 11 static field teams in six states and one administrative area, providing emergency protection, social cohesion – and violence prevention among communities affected by conflict. NP also operates a mobile response team in Upper Nile and Unity States in response to the April 2023 Sudan crisis.

Job Summary:

The Team Leader (TL) is responsible for the on-site management of an NP field team. This entails ensuring the effective implementation of NP’s programming while providing for field-based personnel management, financial and administrative functions, coordinating with Juba HQ regarding logistics and procurement and ensuring compliance with NP’s policies and procedures. The TL is the primary representative of NP at coordination meetings with NGO partners and government authorities and departments in the field team’s area of operation

This specific TL position will be responsible for a conflict sensitivity project, implemented in collaboration with a partner organization who works in WASH, FSL and shelter. This specific project will be responsible for conducting conflict sensitivity assessments for our partner’s interventions, as well as more broadly for the AoO, and producing high quality reports for publication. The TL will also oversee interventions aimed at promoting social cohesion within the returnee and refugee populations from Sudan as well as with host communities.

Key Responsibilities:

Programme Implementation

• Responsible for the overall planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting, and general administration of NP projects in the TL’s respective field location in accordance with the project description and in accordance with policies, donor agreements and guidelines
• Lead and coordinate conflict sensitivity assessments to understand the needs and vulnerabilities of returnees and refugees from Sudan
• Work collaboratively with partner organizations, especially the consortium member, to ensure a comprehensive assessment and implementation approach leveraging the technical expertise of each organization
• Programmatic responsibility is of paramount importance. The TL must ensure that the activities being implemented follow NP’s UCP methodology, and have relevance for the project they are implementing
• The TL must participate in activities, leading the team by example, mentoring, coaching, and stepping in to fulfill roles as necessary to advance conflict sensitive practices and principles
• Leads, guides and supports their NP field team in proactive and reactive activities, guiding the team on implementation and emergency response as needed
• Oversee the production of high-quality reports based on assessment findings
• Design and implement social cohesion activities that foster positive relationships among returnees, refugees and host communities
• Engage with communities to ensure their active participation in the humanitarian response and gather insights and feedback on the interventions

External coordination and accountability

• In line with UCP, the TL builds effective networks and collaborative relationships, strengthens communication and coordination with partners, communities, NGOs and local- and state-level government stakeholders and protects NP’s integrity and accountability
• Takes prompt and appropriate action to resolve existing and anticipated problems and address the concerns and complaints of stakeholders

Monitoring and reporting

• Carries out regular field supervision and monitoring of activities and processes in which project funds, materials and equipment are utilised and verifies progress and quality of work done in accordance with monitoring and evaluation systems and indicators
• Implements NP procedures for internal monitoring, smooth implementation, and reporting of emergency activities in accordance with project objectives and indicators (as contained in log frames) and ensures regular communication and reporting with relevant NP colleagues
• Oversees preparation of quality and timely weekly and monthly reports for submission to NP Programme Support Team
• Supervises the NP field staff and provides oversight on day to day planning, data collection, analysis, documentation/reporting
• Ensures periodic project reviews and lesson learning exercises are conducted and documented

Finance

• Monitors closely project expenditures against the approved budgets
• Ensures effective application of adequate internal control and risk management procedures, including proper authorization of purchases and payments, and ensures satisfactory accountability of all project expenditures in line with NP financial policies
• Ensures timely submission of weekly financial reports, supporting documentation and supports NP colleagues to fulfill their financial management responsibility

Human Resources

• Applies the UCP methodology within NP, building the capacity and agency of team members to act independently, focusing on building relationships among the team (both in the field and with Juba), etc.
• Recruits qualified local staff with the help of Human Resources Officer and Programme Manager; manages the performance of staff under his/her direct supervision
• Maintains team work and an enabling working environment for field teams including ensuring clear reporting and communication channels and regular documented meetings
• Supports the professional development of the team members and conducts accurate, constructive and regular performance appraisal of the team members according to the schedule set by the Human Resources Department
• Consults with NP colleagues to strategize on responses to performance and disciplinary challenges, identifies staff welfare concerns such as burn-out and flags it to Staff Welfare to ensure intervention and mitigation

Administration/Procurement/Logistics

• Coordinates the timely submission of logistics and procurement requests with Juba Programme Support team
• Implements organisational goals, ensuring compliance by way of guiding field staff and inducting them into organizational systems and procedures, including appropriate hand-over notes to staff covering for the Team Leader while away on leave in order to ensure minimum disruption to programming
• Manages field site assets including equipment and materials in close consultation with the Programme Manager and Logistics Manager
• Maintains updated monthly asset register and monitors and reports regularly on the proper usage of assets, supplies and other consumables
• Ensures safety and security of staff and advises and consults with the Programme Manager and Saftey and Security Advisor on security matters, and takes appropriate action in line with the security policy
• Submits and coordinates timely leave schedules of all national and international staff in accordance with NP’s leave policy and with as little disruption to programming as possible

Qualifications:

• Post-secondary education in refugee law, human rights, international human rights law, international humanitarian law, negotiation, mediation, human security or related field
• 3-5 years’ work experience in human security, child protection, refugee, IDP or civilian protection
• Demonstrated experience in conflict sensitivity and social cohesion work
• Demonstrated management experience in working in complex security environment
• Demonstrated experience working with state authorities, negotiation and mediation
• Demonstrated ability to live, work and solve problems independently and effectively in remote, highly challenging locations
• Demonstrated ability to analyse conflict, security and political contexts
• Understands UCP and uses it as the primary strategy for all interventions

Key Challenges:

• This posting is physically demanding. NP teams live in remote rural settings and in either tented camps or simple cement buildings, with no electricity or running water with limited access. Some of the accompaniment work will require walking through rough terrain for 6-8 hours in a day.
• This field site is a complex security environment where conditions change rapidly–experience in insecure environments is essential to success in this position.

Skills and Competencies:

• Ability to set priorities, solve problems and analyze data
• Ability to manage information with discretion
• Demonstrable conflict analysis skills, identify entry points and design prevention and protection strategies.

Interpersonal and representational:

• Ability to communicate effectively with individuals and motivate and provide leadership to team and to work in a multi-cultural environment
• Solutions focused, creative problem solver
• Proven ability to build relationships with the full range of actors including government, chiefs, military, police and non-state actors
• Genuine commitment and interest in living and working at the community level
• Flexibility and adaptability

Preferred Qualifications:

• Post-secondary education in refugee law, human rights, international human rights law, international humanitarian law, negotiation, mediation, human security or related field
• 3-5 years’ work experience in human security, child protection, refugee, IDP or civilian protection

Working Conditions:

• This field position may include challenging living conditions, limited access to amenities, and potentially unstable security situations.
• You must be prepared to live in basic or non-traditional accommodation, which may include shared housing, camps, or field-based settings.
• Demonstrated ability to adhere to strict security protocols and maintain high level of confidentiality.