AGIAMONDO recrute 01 Coordinator of the CPS programme

AGIAMONDO is the personnel service of the German Catholics for Development Cooperation. In the Civil Peace Service (CPS) we offer development workers a meaningful role working with local development agents. The CPS is a personnel programme for peace-building and the prevention of violence in crisis and conflict regions. It sets out to promote a world in which conflicts are settled without violence. Working with church-related and civil-social partner organisations in Sri Lanka, AGIAMONDO aims to make a contribution towards civil conflict management and the sustainable and equitable development of the country through peace-building measures.

Coordinator of the CPS programme Sri Lanka (m/f/d)

 

Your new role – responsible and challenging

Following the change of political power in 2015 and a re-emphasis of the rule of law principle, the AGIAMONDO CPS programme in Sri Lanka aims to support peace and dialogue initiatives, particularly those of the local Catholic Church, and to contribute to the reintegration of internally displaced persons and thus to reducing the causes of flight. As coordinator, you will develop the conceptual approach of the AGIAMONDO programme in Sri Lanka further and maintain an intensive dialogue with current and future partner organisations. This will be in close coordination with the office in Cologne. Through further programme expansion, programme management and programme development, you will contribute to quality assurance and the focus on effectiveness of the national programme, you will be the contact person for partner organisations and development workers and you will represent AGIAMONDO on the ground.

 

Specifically, coordination includes the following tasks:

• You will develop and manage the national programme and the national strategy of AGIAMONDO CPS in dialogue with the local church and partner organisations and acquire new partners in the course of this dialogue.
• You will accompany the CPS development workers and partner organisations in their lives and work on the ground.
• You will actively facilitate networking among the partner organisations involved in the programme and promote cooperation and communication with other relevant national and international organisations and actors.
• You will prepare project applications and the reporting to the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
• You will be responsible for the annual financial planning of the national programme and will manage the use of resources.
• You will be responsible for public relations for CPS in Sri Lanka and support the CPS-related public relations of AGIAMONDO in Germany.

Your profile:

• You have completed a university degree, preferably in a social science or humanities subject, and have extensive work experience in the areas of peace and reconciliation work, and ideally in the field of interreligious dialogue.
• You have leadership and coordination experience in development cooperation, preferably gained in Asia, as well as project experience in civil peace work.
• You have sound knowledge of organisational development as well as programme and project management, which also includes responsibility for large budgets.
• You identify with the church profile of AGIAMONDO, convincingly support the goals and concerns of church development cooperation and you can act appropriately in a church context.
• You speak very good German and English and are willing to learn the majority language Sinhala locally.
• You are an EU or Swiss citizen and a member of a Christian church.

 

What AGIAMONDO offers

• Individual and thorough preparation
• Three-year contract (with an option for renewal), social security and remuneration in accordance with the German Development Aid Workers Act (Entwicklungshelfergesetz), as well as a bonus for a particularly noteworthy role
• Cultural, language or other professional training, as well as coaching and supervision, individual advice

  

We look forward to receiving your detailed application by 21/06/2020.

 

Please use the online application form in the Vacancies section of our website.