Civil Peace Service (CPS) Advisor (m/f/d) for Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation (PME)
Job-ID: V********* Location: Erbil, Iraq Duration: *********************** Job Category: Monitoring and Evaluation Working hours: full-time
Our Offer
The Civil Peace Service (CPS) is a global program for violence prevention, civil conflict transformation, and peacebuilding. In cooperation with civil society and government partners, CPS in Northern Iraq advises governmental and non-governmental institutions and organizations on dealing with past violence, expanding psychosocial support measures, promoting intercultural dialogue to reduce prejudice, and networking actors at local, national, and international levels.
Responsibilities
- Advising and supporting the CPS Program Coordinator in ensuring context- and conflict-sensitive, coherent, and impact-oriented implementation of the CPS program.
- Developing, updating, and monitoring the Joint Country Strategy (TLS), ensuring alignment with CPS objectives.
- Preparing reports, portfolio outlines, and project proposals in line with the quality standards of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)/EG, GIZ, and CPS; developing recommendations for program steering based on monitoring results.
- Supporting strategic and operational planning, implementing impact-oriented monitoring, and integrating cross-cutting issues such as conflict sensitivity, human rights, and diversity/intersectionality.
- Assisting partner organizations in participatory PME and reporting for joint measures, ensuring the use of suitable tools, clear roles, and adherence to CPS Global Program and GIZ standards.
- Systematizing PME findings, documenting good practices, and channeling lessons learned into internal and external learning processes.
- Managing knowledge in accordance with CPS Global Program requirements and contributing to knowledge sharing within CPS partners, CPS structures, GIZ platforms, and the CPS Consortium.
- Coordinating PME-related tasks among the team and acting as a point of contact for CPS during the coordinator's absence.
Qualifications
- University degree in Social, Political, or Cultural Sciences, or a comparable professional qualification, preferably with a focus on Peace and Conflict Studies.
- Several years of professional experience in planning, monitoring and evaluation, preferably in peacebuilding and conflict transformation.
- Expertise in conflict-sensitive approaches and participatory methods.
- Experience in training, facilitation, and adult learning.
- Excellent communication, advisory, and interpersonal skills; strong self-organization, strategic thinking, and intercultural competence.
- Strong ability to work in a team.
- Willingness to undertake frequent business trips within the project region (e.G., Dohuk, Sulamaniya, Ninevah); work experience in Iraqor the region is desirable.
- Fluent in German and English; knowledge of or willingness to learn Kurdish is an advantage.
- Candidate must hold German nationality or the nationality of a member state of the European Union.
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