Job Title: Technical Advisor I – Social Cohesion & Justice, WARO
Job Type: Regular, Full Time
Job Location: International Telecommuter
Reports to: DRDPQ, WARO
Salary Grade: 9
About CRS
Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding.
With the launch of the Agency Vision 2030, CRS has reaffirmed and strengthened its commitment to ensuring that all people live in just and peaceful societies throughout the world. CRS drives towards this goal through high quality programming that seeks to achieve strengthened social cohesion through people-to-people and multi-stakeholder engagement to transform violent conflict, and approaches that ensure greater justice through improved governance including more accountable, safe, equitable and inclusive civic participation, systems and structures. A key approach in the Vision 2030 is to increase impact through integration SC&J across CRS’s core development and humanitarian programmatic areas, including agriculture, health, emergency response, and youth.
Job Summary:
The Technical Advisor I for Social Cohesion and Justice will provide technical direction and support to West Africa Country Programs (Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, Ghana, Senegal, The Gambia and Guinea Bissau) to ensure high quality programming across all project phases–design, implementation, evaluation of results and documentation of learning and best practices. S/he will also support the regional Sahel Peace Initiative program by providing technical direction on social cohesion programming and layering. The TA I for Social Cohesion and Justice will ensure high technical quality of West Africa programming in line with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) program quality principles and standards, donor guidelines and industry best practices, and work in close coordination and collaboration with WARO Regional Technical Advisors for various sectors (agriculture, health, gender, WASH, MEAL, HRD, etc) and with relevant Senior Technical Advisors in Headquarters (STAs Governance, Youth, Gender, Social Cohesion, Justice and Peacebuilding).
Primary functions:
The Technical Advisor is responsible for providing technical leadership in articulating and advancing the Social Cohesion & Justice technical sector in the West Africa Region building on the agency’s experience and best practices and implementing innovative approaches. Currently in West Africa, CRS is implementing People to People (P2P) peacebuilding approaches with funding from USAID/CMM in Senegal, Liberia and Guinea; in Mali and Niger CRS is supporting community infrastructure in cross-border zones with wrap-around social cohesion activities supported by PATRIP foundation; in USAID/FFP programming in Niger, CRS has strong experience and success with community-level governance approaches. CRS is currently scaling up social cohesion and increasing advocacy to prevent the worsening of the conflict in the Sahel, in close collaboration with the Catholic Church in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire under the Sahel Peace Initiative (SPI). Opportunities for CRS expansion in the sector in West Africa are increasing through advocacy for greater funding, as are opportunities to ensure learning and strengthening of best practices across country programs and regions.
The Technical Advisor will provide technical leadership and support for both “stand-alone” social cohesion and peacebuilding activities, as well as supporting the integration of social cohesion in multi-sectoral development and emergency response and recovery programming in the region including the Sahel Peace Initiative. The Technical Advisor will be responsible for the following core functions:
Basic Qualifications
Required Languages – Ability to work in French language required.
Travel - Must be willing and able to travel up to 30 %.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Preferred Qualifications
Agency-wide Competencies (for all CRS Staff)
These are rooted in the mission, values, and guiding principles of CRS and used by each staff member to fulfill his or her responsibilities and achieve the desired results.
Supervisory Responsibilities: None
Key Working Relationships:
Internal: West Africa Country Program staff including Peacebuilding Project Managers/Focal Points, Heads of Programs, and Country Representatives; WARO Staff including Peace in Sahel Project Manager; APIMA Migration Project Manager; WARO Regional Technical Advisors; HQ Technical Advisors
External: Catholic Church and Caritas partners; key working groups and coalitions focused on peacebuilding and peace in Sahel; key donors including USAID; National Government partners and other stakeholders
***Our Catholic identity is at the heart of our mission and operations. Catholic Relief Services carries out the commitment of the Bishops of the United States to assist the poor and vulnerable overseas. We welcome as a part of our staff people of all faiths and secular traditions who share our values and our commitment to serving those in need. CRS’ processes and policies reflect our commitment to protecting children and vulnerable adults from abuse and exploitation.
Disclaimer: This job description is not an exhaustive list of the skill, effort, duties, and responsibilities associated with the position.
CRS’ talent acquisition procedures reflect our commitment to protecting children and vulnerable adults from abuse and exploitation.
CRS is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS' relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding.
With the launch of the Agency Vision 2030, CRS has reaffirmed and strengthened its commitment to ensuring that all people live in just and peaceful societies throughout the world. CRS drives towards this goal through high quality programming that seeks to achieve strengthened social cohesion through people-to-people and multi-stakeholder engagement to transform violent conflict, and approaches that ensure greater justice through improved governance including more accountable, safe, equitable and inclusive civic participation, systems and structures. A key approach in the Vision 2030 is to increase impact through integration SC&J across CRS's core development and humanitarian programmatic areas, including agriculture, health, emergency response, and youth.