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Job Title:   Transitional Justice Specialist

Organisation: Center for Victims of Torture (CVT)

Duty Station:  Gulu, Uganda

Reports to: Field Representative

About US:

The Center for Victims of Torture (CVT) is an international non-governmental organization dedicated to providing trauma rehabilitative services to survivors of gross human rights abuses, including torture, CVT was founded in Minnesota, USA with offices in Africa and the Middle East. CVT has provided torture rehabilitation for 13 years to survivors of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in northern Uganda and in refugees setting in West Nile. CVT clients receive high-quality mental health rehabilitation through individual and group counseling and referrals to other service providers for unmet needs. Services are adapted for cultural relevance and sustainability. Additionally, CVT works to increase mental health service capacity by conducting trainings with partner organizations including staff mental health needs (burnout, stress, secondary trauma) and workshops to increase capacity and respond to trauma or gender-based violence. CVT is also collaborating with partners in activities to promote community cohesion, sustainable peace, justice, storytelling, and healing for survivors of war and violence.

Job Summary:  The Transitional Justice Specialist is familiar with current and emerging thinking, policy, interventions, trends, and practice in the fields of transitional justice in northern Uganda. The Specialist understands and guides how key stakeholders can be engaged to achieve healing, peace, justice and reconciliation for survivors of war. The Specialist provides input into the strategic direction of the project, and will be responsible for project-related tasks in Uganda, in particular partner and stakeholder engagement, providing support and guidance to program implementation, development, design, and strategy.

The position works in close collaboration with the Ugandan program team (comprised of colleagues based in Uganda and at CVT headquarters, and including staff in operations, finance, M&E, and development) in the development of project partnerships throughout northern Uganda, developing the annual program implementation workplan, and managing the performance against objectives and indicators. S/he will also connect with other CVT transitional justice initiatives globally.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Transitional Justice Strategic Leadership

• Ensure CVT programming reflects an up-to-date understanding of local and national context, donor trends, needs and gaps, and who does what and where. This includes helping to identify and prioritize emergent conflicts to address and vulnerable populations to assist.
• Use previous or expert knowledge in transitional justice to help conceptualize, design and lead the project strategy, approach, interventions (including justice pathways and social cohesion programming), and implementation, as well as internal CVT Uganda staff capacity building.
• Provide technical leadership in efforts to promote project innovation and coordination

Partnership Development and Community-Building

• Lead efforts to identify and develop strategic partnership opportunities and a comprehensive partner network in collaboration with the in-country leadership team
• Serve as a focal point for project events, including commemorations, observances, exchange visits, information sessions, program monitoring visits, and workshops/conferences.
• Coordinate efforts to identify potential partners to expand CVT’s network, develop criteria for and establish formal and informal collaborations, and to increase appropriate referrals
• Represent the organization with national and local government officials, donors, and media, and at external transitional justice coordination mechanisms, conferences and other fora.
• Support positive relationships between transitional justice stakeholders

Project Management

• Serve as technical and project lead on key objectives of a transitional justice initiative that builds on CVTs’ 13+ years of experience in torture survivor rehabilitation in northern Uganda
• Work in close collaboration with the M&E Officer, monitor performance against project goals based on the development of annual implementation workplans
• Contribute to project approval processes and reporting
• In collaboration with M&E, contribute to the design, improvement, and maintenance of program data systems
• Manage assigned budgets in accordance with CVT Finance Policies and Protocols, including expense projections, tracking, monitoring, and reconciliation
• Support the development and monitoring of project implementation plan and timeline

Fundraising and Program Development

• Identify and propose new opportunities related to transitional justice within Uganda and the region that are aligned with CVT’s mission, objectives, and partnerships
• Assist in the development of prospective program budgets, workplans, timelines, and other supporting documents for grant modifications and applications

Risk Management

• Act as risk management focal point for in-country activities as requested.
• Contribute to project risk analyses, risk level determination, and threat matrices as requested.

Other Duties:

• Participate in other department and organization-wide activities, meetings and trainings.
• Complete administrative responsibilities.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

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Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The ideal candidate should hold a BA degree required international development, transitional justice, peace studies or related fields.
• Five years of experience in relevant management and supervisory experience in an international or Ugandan non-governmental organization.
• Three years of experience in Transitional Justice field
• Required: Familiarity with private, US government, UN and multi-lateral funders.
• Required: Demonstrated success in all areas of program management, including donor proposal development, implementation, project monitoring and evaluation.
• Required: Flexibility, adaptability and sensitivity to working in a complex environment.
• Required: Strong participatory leadership skills.
• Required: Working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite (Outlook, Word and Excel).
• Required: Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communications skills.
• Required: Excellent skills in organization, attention to detail and time management.
• Required: Fluency in English.
• Required: Commitment to the ethical and sensitive implementation of project activities, including a commitment to confidentiality, diversity, equity, and inclusion, quality service provision, and the prevention of sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment (including online)
• Required: Ability to consistently promote and represent a humanitarian and human rights understanding of their work internally and externally, including promoting acceptance of differences and non-discrimination.
• Required: Commitment to and role modeling of human rights approach including: maintaining respect regarding any sensitive issues such as religion, minority or political affiliation and treating colleagues equally regardless of differences. Strong commitment to serve beneficiaries of CVT’s project regardless their religion, gender, disability, minority affiliation or political background.
• Required: Luo language skills

Preferred education, experience, certificates, licenses or registrations

• Advanced degree in international development, transitional justice, peace studies, or related fields.
• Experience working in mental health and psychosocial programs

Note: Only Ugandan Nationals are encouraged to apply

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified and interested applicants should submit a cover letter, CV, and 3 professional references to CVTGuluHiring@gmail.com including the job title in the subject line of your email.

Deadline: 28th December 2022

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