Job by The American Friends Service Committee 

1.Salama Hub Program Officer

The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) promotes a world free of violence, inequality, and oppression. Guided by the Quaker belief in the divine light within each person, we nurture the seeds of change and respect for human life to fundamentally transform societies and institutions. We work with people and partners worldwide of all faiths and backgrounds to meet urgent community needs, challenge injustice, and build peace.

Program Description: The Salama Hub Program is the American Friends Service Committee, AFSC, Advocacy and Policy Program for the Horn of Africa. The goal of this program is to ensure that African civil societies and Faith-Based Organizations interact eMciently with institutional stakeholders in Africa and beyond in protection of human rights, peace, and stability in the Horn of Africa region. AFSC has nurtured and sustained strategic partnerships with Brot fur die Welt, BfdW, and the All Africa Conference of Churches, AACC, and currently in a second phase of a Joint Project with AACC on research and advocacy for policy influencing through collaboration with CSOs and FBOs. Evidence-based Advocacy is undertaken on the African continent through engagement with policymakers in the African Union and Regional Economic Communities, Europe, and the United States of America.

To strengthen collaborative work across programs, AFSC South Sudan and the Salama Hub Programs have jointly developed a project on Trauma Healing and Transitional Justice to strengthen social cohesion for conflict-affected communities including migrants. Through this joint project, community members with trauma symptoms will be accompanied for healing, and the legacies of the past conflicts within the communities will be addressed for sustainable peace and community stability. This joint project will give an opportunity for CSO Peacebuilders to be trained during early interventions in in South Sudan and Ethiopia so that they can champion trauma healing and reconciliation in the communities.

Summary of Responsibilities: The Salama Hub Program seeks to hire an experienced and dedicated Program OMcer with a background in peacebuilding, trauma healing, transitional justice, and right-based approaches to join our team. Under the direct supervision of the Salama hub Program Coordinator, the Program OMcer will play a key role in coordinating and supporting the South Sudan and Salama Hub Joint Project focused on promoting peace and healing in communities affected by conflict and trauma. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of peacebuilding principles, trauma healing methodologies, and project management practices, as well as a passion for making a positive impact in the lives of individuals and communities.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Collaborate with project managers and stakeholders to design, plan, and implement peacebuilding and trauma-healing projects.
• Coordinate and monitor project activities, ensuring adherence to project goals, timelines, and budgets.
• Facilitate community engagement and participation in project activities, fostering a sense of ownership and sustainability.
• Work closely with local partners, organizations, and stakeholders to build strong and collaborative relationships.
• Contribute to the development of project proposals, reports, and other project-related documents.
• Integrate trauma-informed approaches and best practices into project activities and interventions.
• Support the monitoring and evaluation of project impact and outcomes, utilizing participatory and inclusive approaches.
• Provide technical support and guidance to project team members, volunteers, and community partners.
• Develop resources, relationships, and processes for increasing the capacity of partner organizations to be innovative and creative in peace building initiatives.
• Identify and provide support to planning innovative and creative initiatives by Salama Hub partners, including proposal development for grants seeking.
• Articulate AFSC’s values and principles including its commitment to peace and nonviolent approaches to social justice and peacebuilding among partner organizations.
• Provide support to efforts towards spaces and learning circles for peace builders’ interactions through organizational exchange visits, representations, and networking.
• Support research, developing policy briefs, writing of briefs, case studies, program knowledge management and other relevant materials reflecting on best practices and lesson learnt for periodic publications and presentations to local and international audiences.
• Support continuous monitoring and evaluation from a results-based perspective. This may include and not limited to review of data collection tools or strategies, recommend intervention strategies and activities from the findings of the current and earlier assessments as well as informed by global and regional trends to ensure ongoing program responsiveness and relevance.
• Produce program reports, craft flyers and brochures, consolidate data, draft PowerPoint presentations and prepare reports for publications: Review narrative and financial reports of grants from partners. Assist in developing strategy for external communication and engaging with media.
• Carry out regular field visits to the partner sites to monitor implementation progress and offer mentorship and accompaniment to partners.
• Support capacity building of CSOs and FBOs in mainstream trauma healing into peacebuilding initiatives.

Supervisor: Salama Hub Program Coordinator 

Duration: 2 Years

Assignment: This position will be offered on an initial two (2) year contract with the possibility of renewal depending on funding and performance.

The American Friends Service Committee is an AMrmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified persons are encouraged to apply regardless of their religious aMliation, race, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation or disability.

AFSC’s Central OMce and some of its oMces in the U.S are unionized workplaces. This position is not represented under the Collective Barging Agreement.

The American Friends Service Committee is a smoke-free workplace. 

About You

Minimum Qualifications:

Education:

• Degree in a relevant field such as political science, Project management, psychology, social work, Sociology, development studies, international Affairs, peace/ conflict studies, or related field.

Experience:

• Minimum of 4 years of experience in relevant work in an NGO environment.

Other Required Skills & Abilities:

• Must have good communication skills including fluency in spoken and written English.
• Strong Writing, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Experience in project coordination, relationship building, and remote partnership
• Ability to develop collegial and professional relationships with various stakeholder groups, especially religious and traumatized communities.
• Excellent leadership, facilitation, communication, and peace program development skills.
• The ideal candidate will be highly organized in their work and passionate about trauma healing initiatives that have the power to enhance peaceful coexistence.
• Ability to take own initiative and work both independently and as a team.
• A desire to grow the program and individually through the work.
• Ability to meet deadlines.
• Capacity to work in a multicultural environment
• Commitment to Quaker values and testimonies. Understanding of and compatibility with the principles and philosophy of the American Friends Service Committee including nonviolence and the belief in the intrinsic worth of every individual.
• Understanding of and commitment to the principles, concerns, and considerations of AFSC regarding issues of race, class, nationality, religion, age, gender and sexual orientation, and disabilities.

Required Skills

• Effective communication and sociability
• Critical thinking
• Leadership

How To Apply

Qualified candidates  should send  their CV  and cover  letter   the   following   link: https:/ forms.gle/PuzEpjcpo9dqtyCk8, electronically with the subject line: Salama Hub Program OMcer position by 31st of July 2024. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Ple
This position is open to all those eligible to work in Ethiopia only.
The application must be in English and include the following elements:

• A cover letter addressed to the Salama Hub Horn of Africa Regional Advocacy and policy program.
• The curriculum vitae including professional experiences classified in chronological order, starting with the most recent experience; Contact details of three reference persons, their telephone numbers, and email addresses; (the CV must be in a Microsoft Word document).

Salama Hub MEAL Officer

Summary of Responsibilities: The Salama Hub Program seeks to hire an experienced and dedicated MEAL Officer who will play a key role in the planning, implementation, and monitoring of the South Sudan and Salama Hub Joint Project activities to ensure effective delivery and impact assessment. The MEAL Officer will also support report writing, development of peacebuilding monitoring tools, and MEAL frameworks, and take an active role in needs assessments, baseline studies, stakeholder analyses, and situation/conflict analyses. S/he will also support the organization’s fundraising efforts; document good practices and lessons learnt and ensure the cooption of research and project outcomes in future proposal applications. S/he will also take a leading role in ensuring compliance handling and response mechanisms related to Salama Hub program areas of intervention.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop  and  implement  program  strategies  and  initiatives  in  line  with organizational goals and objectives.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and partners to plan and execute program activities.
• Monitor program activities and ensure adherence to established goals and timelines.
• Engage with the community to foster participation and ownership of program initiatives.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with local partners and organizations.
• Contribute to the development of Partnership assessment templates, MEAL plan program proposals, reports, and other relevant documents.
• Document and implement best practices and methodologies related to the specific focus of the program.
• Evaluate program impact and outcomes using participatory and inclusive approaches.
• Provide support and guidance to program team members and partners.
• Support the AFSC Salama Hub program team to develop a Monitoring and Evaluation plan in line with the results to be attained in the framework of AFSC’s current program cycle and ASPS.
• Responsible for the fine-tuning and operationalization of the developed log frame together with any other MEAL aspects of the Salama Hub program’s current and future work.
• Responsible for ensuring partner compliance to project agreements and AFSC compliance to internal and back donor reporting timelines, templates, and achievement of program results.
• Develop and periodically review and update Standards of Procedures to ensure continuing project viability and relevance in guiding management, partners, and project beneficiaries.
• Responsible for the training and coaching of the implementing partners, to ensure that they build capacity to collect, analyze, reflect, and use the monitoring data for quality improvement of the program.
• Responsible for aggregating the monitoring data and liaising with the AFSC Programme team to enter data into the Salama Hub program system and generally update the AFSC internal database for its past and current projects.
• Together with the finance and administration oMcers process award documents, draft sub-agreements, MOUs, and similar documents to local partners to ensure that key compliance requirements are reflected.
• Responsible for facilitation of the use of monitoring information, evaluations for learning & accountability at both partnership and AFSC program team levels on an ongoing basis and during organized learning events.
• In collaboration with the Program Team, responsible for the coordination of the work of external consultants involved in the baseline, mid-term, and final evaluations, to ensure consistent, high-quality evaluations to enable organizational learning, accountability, and visibility.
• Responsible for making MEAL results visible via AFSC and partners’ websites, stakeholder meetings, and other relevant visibility/communication channels. Integration of this learning into funding proposals, whilst ensuring monitoring and evaluation aspects are adequately represented in proposals.
• Provide periodic Monitoring and Evaluation briefings of AFSC program implementation internally and to stakeholders as appropriate.
• Provide guidance by identifying capacity-building needs for participants and partner organizations with special attention to Monitoring and Evaluation of projects and activities using active accompaniment of program activities.
• Participate in planning and implementing Dialogue and Exchange Programme organized by Salama Hub by enhancing the Monitoring and Evaluation aspect of DEPs.
• Assist with inputs into quarterly reports, biannual and annual reports, and review narrative and financial reports of grants to partners from a monitoring, accountability, and evaluation lens.
• Develop relevant tools, training modules, curricula, and courses for enhancing monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning systems of the organisation, pre- test/test/review/update tools for relevance, eMciency, effectiveness, impact, and sustainability.
• Articulate AFSC’s values and principles including its commitment to peace and nonviolent approaches to social justice and peacebuilding at external meetings and when required.
• Formulate performance objectives and personal development plan.
• Meet regularly with line supervisor to review performance objectives and exchange feedback and perform any other duties deemed necessary by the Salama Hub Director.

Assignment: This position will be offered on an initial two (2) year contract with the possibility of renewal depending on funding and performance.

The American Friends Service Committee is an AMrmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified persons are encouraged to apply regardless of their religious aMliation, race, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability.
AFSC’s Central OMce and some of its oMces in the U.S. are unionized workplaces. This position is not represented under the Collective Bargaining Agreement.
The American Friends Service Committee is a smoke-free workplace. 

About You

Minimum Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in social science fields, such as economics, development studies, information management, statistics, or sociology, peacebuilding, international relations, humanitarian affairs, or other fields relevant to AFSC’s work on peace, social justice, and humanitarian assistance. Specific training in M&E will be an added advantage.

Experience:

• Knowledge/experience of 4 years in Program / Project cycle management, organizational development, evaluation and monitoring.
• Knowledge/experience in Grant management and exposure to multiple donor agencies.
• Knowledge of working within the context of NGOs or development organizations. Experience in specific program areas, such as education or human rights protection, can be preferred. Knowledge/experience in documentation and database management
• Knowledge/experience in peacebuilding areas, and conflict sensitivity approaches

Other Required Skills & Abilities:

• Commitment to Quaker values and testimonies. Understanding of and compatibility with the principles and philosophy of the American Friends Service Committee including nonviolence and the belief in the intrinsic worth of every individual.
• Understanding of and commitment to the principles, concerns, and considerations of AFSC regarding issues of race, class, nationality, religion, age, gender and sexual orientation, and disabilities. Demonstrated ability to work and communicate with diverse staff.
• Demonstrated analytical and communications skills; fluency in spoken and written English is required,
• Strong analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills are essential. Proficient in data collection, analysis, and management tools, such as Microsoft OMce Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and potentially statistical software (SPSS, STATA),
• An ability to take the initiative, manage priorities and work independently on specific issues.
• Willingness to work in the context of insecurity, under tight schedules, and keen interest in supporting communities living post/in conflict scenarios.
• willingness to learn and desire to use this placement to further your personal and career development.

Required Skills

• Effective communication and sociability
• Microsoft Office Pack: Word, Excel, Access, Publisher, Outlook, Powerpoint
• Critical thinking

How To Apply

Qualified candidates should send their CV and cover letter to: https://forms.gle/p6h2Yp7AvaXAsx9W9 electronically with the subject line: Salama Hub MEAL OMcer position by 31 July 2024. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.