International Alert
This is an exciting opportunity to support International Alert’s peacebuilding programmes across our Eurasia region.
Reporting to the Regional Director, you’ll work with our country teams in Central Asia, Caucasus and Ukraine, supporting them to secure and deliver high quality, peacebuilding programmes. You’ll engage with Country Directors and other colleagues across the region, facilitating effective input from expert support teams. You’ll play a key role in sustaining and growing our country programmes, through supporting country teams to develop and fundraise for new projects, as well as developing relationships with donors and potential partners. You’ll support teams throughout the project cycle, and in strategic planning.
You’ll bring an understanding of conflict transformation and peacebuilding, and experience working in this or a related field, along with an understanding of the conflict dynamics in some countries in the region. Your experience working with a range of donors, securing new funding for peacebuilding or development programmes, and your understanding of project design, will be essential for this role. You’ll bring your financial and project management experience, as well as experience facilitating workshops with diverse participants. Your excellent interpersonal skills and ability to engage with a wide spectrum of actors will ensure your success in this role. Experience living and working in a conflict-affected country, and Russian language skills, are desirable but not essential.
Role duties and responsibilities:
- Provide support to country teams to design, secure and deliver high quality peacebuilding programmes, in line with Head of Programme Development or Regional Director’s guidance and regional strategic priorities.
- Facilitate and ensure strong coordination between country teams and support teams in HQ (Advocacy, Comms, HR, Peacebuilding Advisory Unit, Resource Development), whenever necessary in the project cycle.
- Support country teams with any aspects of the project cycle (programme development, fundraising, project start up, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, project closure), as requested by the Regional Director.
- Provide strategic support to country-led fundraising, including mapping, research, identifying and engaging directly with donors, writing proposals and designing appropriate budgets.
- Play a leading role in identifying and developing regional strategic partnerships.
- Proactively seek information on potential donor opportunities for the region’s programmes, and help colleagues adapt their programming ideas to suit particular donor interests.
- In collaboration with country teams, write project proposals or oversee the project proposal process, and where necessary coordinate submission to the donor.
- Support country teams to ensure that all programme costs, including country staffing and central costs, are adequately budgeted and funded.
- Provide country teams with support and advice on monitoring and evaluation, including logframe and theory of change development, monitoring systems and standard evaluation design, securing evaluation consultants, when requested by the Regional Director. Facilitate engagement between country team and Impact (M&E) and Learning teams for specific technical support if needed and requested.
- Proactively facilitate connections between staff in the country offices in the region.
- Support country teams’ annual and strategic planning, including support to bi-annual reflection sessions, when requested.
- Undertake stand-alone occasional regional projects or consultancies, if requested by the Regional Director.
- Contribute to the vision and strategy of the Eurasia region and support the Regional Director in strategic planning and problem solving.
- When requested by the Regional Director, support the Regional Director or Country Directors with project delivery.
- Represent the regional team internally and externally to donors and other interested parties.
- Contribute to cross-organisational learning, communications and knowledge management.
- Undertake any other tasks commensurate with the role, as required by the Head of Programme Development or Regional Director.
Please note that the above are just some of the role requirements. Please click here to view the full job description.
How to apply
Please follow this link to apply.
The closing date for all applications is the 15th of August, 2022.
All applicants must have existing right to work in at least one of the listed countries.
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.