Team Leader Position

Organizational Background

Peace Paradigms Org. (PPO) is a private consulting company, established to deliver context-specific solutions for peacebuilding actors to achieve holistic and effective conflict mitigation and prevention efforts.

Our work is guided by three core values:

NEUTRALITY: The path towards positive peace is a collective one. We do not side with any actor or agenda and believe the unbiased inclusion of all actors is key to build peace. We trust that all parties to conflict can become peace actors.

ADAPTABILITY: In ever-changing contexts altered by complex dynamics, there is no “one size fits all”. To improve the relevance and the effectiveness of peacebuilding efforts, we believe that community and policy responses need to be driven and informed by localized realities.

HARMONY: The journey to peace needs to be reflective of its end goal. We work collaboratively by bringing together all relevant stakeholders and harmonize peacebuilding efforts with the community needs in order to achieve long-standing societal agreement, wellbeing and ability to coexist by choice.

We strive to achieve the following objectives;

1. To effectively contribute and influence local and national level policy making in Iraq, to be informed by and responsive to community needs and to address the drivers of conflicts at the national and sub-national levels.
2. To increase the impact and effectiveness of peacebuilding interventions in Iraq through context-informed technical support to peacebuilding actors.
3. To increase the organizational and technical capacity of peacebuilding actors and community of practice to enhance programming design and implementation.
4. To inform peacebuilding actors in order to streamline funding, strategies, and interventions, as well as to highlight success and lessons learned.
5. To achieve thematic and institutional credibility both internally and externally.

Project Background

In cooperation with GIZ’s Strengthening Resilience in Dealing with Crises and Conflicts in Nineveh- SRN program, PPO and IBF International Consulting are implementing a project titled “Support of Local Peace Structures and Local Peace Agreements in Nineveh, Iraq”. The overall aim of this project is to support locally driven, need-based, inclusive and participatory peacebuilding processes to strengthen social cohesion in Nineveh. The project has two main tracks; the first is to increase/strengthen the capacity, impact and sustainability of local peace structures in Mosul, Tal Keif, Hamdaniyah, Sinjar and Tal Afar districts to identify and mitigate community-level tensions and conflicts. The second track is to support the development and implementation of local peace agreements in the five targeted districts to help bridging community divides. In addition, frequent conflict analysis exercise is conducted to highlight key conflict drivers, dynamics and trends and to ensure the implementation of the two tracks is evidence-based and context- informed. The project’s period of performance ends in October 2023.

Purpose of Hiring

PPO is hiring a full-time, highly dedicated and motivated Team Leader to lead the implementation of the project “Support of Local Peace Structures and Local Peace Agreements in Nineveh, Iraq” and achieve its desired outcomes in accordance with the project’s contractual and programmatic requirements.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities

• Overall responsibility for the achievement of project’s objectives and deliverables.
• Ensuring the coherence and complementarity of the project’s service packages at local and national levels.
• Design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of capacity development measures for local partners in the following areas of Sinjar, Tal Afar, Mosul, Hamdaniyah, Tal Keif.
• Taking cross-cutting themes into consideration (for example, gender equality).
• Staff management, planning and managing the assignments and supporting local and international experts.
• Ensuring that monitoring procedures are carried out.
• Regular reporting in accordance with deadlines.
• Responsibility for checking the use of funds and financial planning in consultation with the officer responsible for the commission at GIZ.
• Supporting the officer responsible for the commission in updating and/or adapting the project strategy, in evaluations and in preparing a follow-on phase.
• Suggest innovative plans and processes to improve project functions.
• Develop work systems and processes that effectively drive productivity.
• Oversee and manage project risks and challenges in close coordination with the Sr. Programs Advisor.
• Work closely with the Sr. Programs Advisor and the LME Advisor to ensure high-level documentation of success stories, lessons learned, and best practices generated as a result of project implementation.

Key Qualifications & Skills

• Education/training: post-graduate university qualification

• Language: Excellent English skills, very good Arabic skills

• Professional experience:

  o 8 years of professional experience in the Development, Peacebuilding or Humanitarian sector or international cooperation

  o 5 years in designing and implementing peacebuilding or dialogue processes in fragile contexts

  o 3 years of management/leadership experience as project team leader or manager in a company

• Regional experience: 3 years of working experience in projects in Iraq