Key responsibilities

• Translate the SICO portfolio strategy into annual plans, project pipelines, and costed workplans grounded in conflict sensitivity and inclusion priorities.
• Design and manage delivery of projects that strengthen civic participation, inclusion, and cohesion, ensuring safeguarding and do-no-harm approaches.
• Facilitate multi-stakeholder coordination with local governance actors, traditional/religious leadership, CSOs, and youth and women’s groups.
• Lead the setup or strengthening of accountability mechanisms (community feedback, response tracking, scorecards, dialogues) and coordinate communications of results.
• Work with the Technology, Innovation and Training Unit to deploy digital components for citizen engagement, feedback loops, and analysis dashboards where relevant.
• Oversee partner management, compliance, and capacity strengthening, including quality assurance of community facilitation processes.
• Co-lead MEAL for cohesion and inclusion outcomes; support learning, documentation, and evidence-based adaptation.
• Prepare donor reports, learning briefs, and case studies; support audits and compliance requests as required.
• Contribute to resource mobilisation through opportunity scanning, partnership development and management, concept notes/proposals, and donor engagement.

Required qualifications

• Master’s degree in Peace and Conflict Studies, Governance, Political Science, Development
• Studies, Sociology, Human Rights, or a related field.
• Training in mediation/facilitation, social accountability tools, safeguarding, or project
  management is an advantage.
• Demonstrated commitment to ethical programming, safeguarding, and inclusion.

Required experience

• Minimum of 6 years’ experience managing donor-funded programmes in inclusion, governance, peacebuilding, civic engagement, or related areas.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating dialogue processes and working with sensitive issues such as misinformation, polarisation, or exclusion.
• Experience with ICT-enabled citizen engagement or accountability tools (e.g., SMS feedback, dashboards, scorecards, conflict maps) is strongly preferred.
• Proven experience in donor reporting, results frameworks, and partner coordination.

Skills and competencies

• Strong facilitation skills, political economy awareness, and ability to operate effectively in complex stakeholder environments.
• Conflict sensitivity and do-no-harm competence; ability to design safe, inclusive participation processes.
• Strong writing and synthesis skills for donor reporting and learning documentation.
• Strong safeguarding practice and ability to manage confidentiality and safe referrals.
• Strong planning, risk management, and team leadership skills.