Job Description
Position Summary
Search for Common Ground seeks a professional, motivated, and creative Project Manager that will work with Search’s program teams to implement Search strategy for the project ensuring that the project addresses real needs and contributes to the organization’s national, regional and global strategies. The position entails project logic and strategy development; team leadership; project management; financial, operations, and administrative oversight for the project; security management; and liaison with key stakeholders including Security actors.
The position requires an experienced conflict transformation, peacebuilding and or development expert, conversant with project management cycles and managing a field implementation. The position holder must be organized and experienced in culturally identifiable conflict and context analyst capable of steering various project activities in Adamawa and Benue, to respond to real-time conflict, peace efforts, security and the overall aim of conflict transformation. The Project Manager must have good diplomacy skills be capable of negotiating with challenging stakeholders and also lead a diverse team. The position holder advises the Country leadership on the project needs, strategies, staffing issues, local context, and dynamics.
This position will be based in our Abuja office with frequent travels to Adamawa and Benue states. She/he will work under the direct supervision of the Head of Field Programme Implementation. The position holder will directly oversee the project implementation and have a team of officers and assistants.
About the Project
National and international attention, garnered by the #EndSARS protests have shone a light on the history of impunity experienced from Nigerian security forces and amplified messages calling for greater accountability of security actors accused of human rights violence. This moment presents a window of opportunity to further entrench security sector reform from a collaborative and rights-based lens, empowering stakeholders at all levels, including communities, CSOs, media professionals, government authorities, and security actors. The project aims to enhance the role of CSOs and communities in constructively engaging security forces, while increasing the capacity of security actors to effectively assume their roles and responsibilities in a manner that upholds human rights standards. Through trainings, dialogue, advocacy, and peace and security initiatives, these actors will work together towards shared solutions to persistent security challenges. Search’s intervention is informed by strong evidence from over 10 years of lessons learned and networks built through our human rights and security sector accountability programming in Nigeria.
The overall goal is to strengthen engagement and advocacy processes to reduce human rights abuse by security forces in North East and North Central Nigeria. This is supported by three specific objectives that will guide the project’s activities:
Objective 1: Increased capacity of target CSOs and media actors’ in human rights monitoring, reporting and advocacy. CSO and media actors’ coordination, communication, and action to influence security sector policy and practice related to accountability and human rights are strengthened
Objective 2: Improved capacity of security forces to understand and respect human rights principles. Increased dialogue between affected communities, key stakeholders, and security actors on issues related to human rights and protection.
Objective 3: Empower diverse communities and groups to contribute to the design and implementation of security sector reform processes. Strengthened collaboration between communities, CSOs, security actors, and government authorities around joint initiatives responding to demands for accountability and improved security
Duration
- Six (6) months duration with possibility of extension contingent upon satisfactory performance and continued funding.