Job Description:
- Salary: £34,628 per annum. If the role is based outside of the UK, National T&C (including pay) will apply.
- Contract duration: 12 months with the possibility of extension.
- Location: London, United Kingdom / The Hague, Netherlands / Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan / Dushanbe, Tajikistan
- Closing date: 30 June 2022 (23:59 UK Time)
To provide technical leadership and support to our customers, partners, and affiliates in Eurasia, International Alert seeks to hire an exceptional peacebuilding and conflict resolution expert. By supporting and developing Alert’s strategy for Eurasia, you will support outreach and relationship development with strategic partners and donors, identify and pursue potential growth areas, and ensure technical quality in existing initiatives on community peacebuilding, resilience, and reintegration.
Your role will involve supporting teams in the Caucasus, Central Asia, Ukraine, and neighbouring countries, with potential development in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The position will require you to provide timely and efficient technical assistance, conduct research and analyses, and contribute to publications and policy briefs, as well as traveling to Eurasia offices. Additionally, will be responsible for building technical capacity in peace and conflict analysis for the teams and partners, as well as supporting impact and learnings across the region and globally.
It will be your responsibility to design, monitor, and evaluate peacebuilding programs, and to package positive peacebuilding outcomes for strategic influence.
The ideal candidate will have strong advisory experience and a track record of successfully supporting programmes in challenging operating environments, ideally with experience of providing remote support to field offices and partners.
By practicing fairness and equity in your professional career, you will be able to unite colleagues around common objectives.
Please note that these are just some of the requirements of the role. For the full requirements, please view the job description.
All applicants must have existing right to work in at least one of the listed countries.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, so early applications are encouraged.
International Alert prides itself on being an equal opportunity employer and particularly welcomes applications from underrepresented people including women, people from the Global South, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ people, disabled people, and other historically marginalised people.
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.