Based: Kigali, with extensive travel within Rwanda and occasional travel to Burundi
We are looking for a person with a talent for analytical thinking and persuasive communication, balanced with a constructive and highly collegial personal working style that can advance Alert’s goals of coalition-building and promoting peaceful outcomes in Rwanda and Burundi.
You will be responsible for supporting the continued growth and consolidation of the Rwanda/Burundi Programme. The position will work across programme projects and thematic strands to ensure that programme staff and partners have the peacebuilding knowledge and expertise needed to ensure the production of high-quality, high-impact programme outputs.
The successful candidate will have solid experience of programme design and project management in the NGO sector, including responsibility for budgets, staff and donor relations. You will have expertise on peacebuilding. You will be articulate and persuasive, and have a proven ability to build strong working relationships using collaborative approaches. You will be fluent in English, French and Kinyarwanda.
Ideally, you will also have experience of building coalitions within civil society, have relevant research experience, and possess an innovative, creative, problem-solving approach.
Please note we do not accept CVs. For the full job requirements and an application pack, please visit http://www.international-alert.org/about-us/recruitment/list and ‘How to Apply’. In your application, please indicate the full job title of the role you are applying for.
To apply, please send a completed application form to Jean Bosco Siborurema at jbsiborurema@international-alert.org
Closing date is 20th February 2012 at 5pm Kigali time.
Interviews will take place in Kigali.
While International Alert will endeavour to contact all candidates within a reasonable time, this may not always be possible due to limited resources. Therefore, if you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date, you can assume that your application has, on this occasion, been unsuccessful. International Alert is an equal opportunities employer. All applicants will be judged strictly on the basis of merit.
International Alert is a 25-year old independent peacebuilding organisation. We work with people who are directly affected by violent conflict to improve their prospects of peace, and we seek to influence the policies and ways of working of governments, international organisations like the UN and multinational companies, to reduce conflict risk and increase the prospects of peace. We work in Africa, several parts of Asia, the South Caucasus, the Middle East and Latin America and have recently started work in the UK. Our policy work focuses on several key themes that influence prospects for peace – the economy, climate change, gender, the role of international institutions, the impact of development aid, and the effect of good and bad governance.
To learn more about how and where we work, visit www.international-alert.org
The Rwanda/Burundi programme has been running since 1995 with the aim of contributing to peace and equitable development.
