Interpeace

Position: Junior Police Advisors

Job Time: Full-Time

Job Type: Contract

Place of Work: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Posted date: 55 minutes ago

Application Deadline: Mar, 15/2022 (7 days left)

Reporting to: Country Representative

Background

Interpeace is an international organization for peacebuilding that supports locally-led peacebuilding initiatives around the world. Interpeace tailors its approach to each society and ensures that the work is locally driven. Together with local partners and local teams, Interpeace jointly develops peacebuilding programs and helps establish processes of change that connect local communities, civil society, government, and the international community.

As a strategic partner of the United Nations, Interpeace is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and has offices around the world.

For more information about Interpeace, please visit www.interpeace.org

Position within the Organization

The Junior Police Advisor is a member of a small but growing Ethiopia team. The Junior Police Advisor reports to the Country Representative and will be working on Interpeace’s project on ‘Building trust between communities and the police through a problem-solving approach in Addis Ababa’. The project is a collaborative work with the Ministry of Peace.

Duties and responsibilities

• Provides technical and context related support for the successful project implementation
• Facilitates meetings, provide logistical support, and organizes events in the four Woredas of Addis Ababa the project is being implemented
• Provides support to the senior advisers of the project and GIS technical team
• Works closely with the Police University and the Ministry of Peace as part of the implementation of the project
• Maintains an acute awareness of political and social dynamics in the Ethiopia context

Qualifications:

• Candidates with relevant qualifications, experience, a tertiary degree, and fluent in English and Amharic.
• Previous work experience on police in general and community police, in particular, is highly desirable

Education:

• Tertiary degree in policing, international relations, political science, development, management, or related field

Experience

• Five years of relevant experience in the security sector in Ethiopia in general and community policing in particular
• Professional experience in academia
• Excellent knowledge of NGOs work in Ethiopia, particularly those working on peacebuilding
• Excellent interpersonal communication

Interpeace Competencies

• Collaboration and Weaving
• Communication
• Drive for results
• Adaptability and Continuous Learning
• Respect for Diversity

Scope

The assignment is for a total of 90 working days until December 2022.

How to apply

For consideration for this opportunity, please submit your CV, motivation letter and financial budget via email: recruitment-eca@interpeace.org on or before 15th March 2022, 23:59 pm, Addis Ababa time.

Note: “Junior Police Advisors, Addis Ababa” MUST BE included in the subject line of the application email to be considered. CVs will be reviewed on a rolling basis by the Partnership strategy working group, early applications are encouraged.

Interpeace values diversity among its staff and aims at achieving greater gender parity in all levels of its work. We welcome applications from women and men, including those with disabilities.