Job Title: Social Cohesion Senior Project Officer |
Reports to: Social Cohesion and PYD Program Manager |
Department: Shared Future |
Salary Grade: 8 |
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.
Through the Shared Future project, a 7.25 year project CRS Iraq’s social cohesion component seeks to build mutual understanding, tolerance, and trust among religious and ethnic groups in five project locations in Ninewa: Bartella, Bashiqa, Qaraqosh, Telkeif, and Nimrod.
Job Summary:
The Social Cohesion Senior Project Officer (SPO) will support the Social Cohesion and PYD Program Manager to manage, coordinate, and monitor activities for youth, religious and community leaders across five locations, Telkeif, Bartella, Nimrodd, Qaraqosh and Bashiqa, in the last year of the project. As a lead for the project team in Qaraqosh, Nimrod, and Bashiqa, the SPO will facilitate the achievement of project objectives through coordinating and reporting on all project activities and providing technical guidance and advice to staff and implementing partner(s) advancing Catholic Relief Services’ (CRS) work serving the poor and vulnerable. The SPO will serve as the main liaison to youth, religious and community leaders and other key stakeholders in the project locations to promote the project, ensure buy-in from the community, and facilitate smooth implementation. The SPO will also work closely with other project consortium members to foster synergy across project objectives. The SPO’s coordination, relationship management skills, and knowledge of the program area, and community mobilization/volunteerism/ community activist/sustainability skill set will ensure that the project applies best practices and constantly works towards improving the impact of its benefits to those CRS serves. The contract duration will be 10 months with the possibility of renewal and the position will be based in, Mosul.
Roles and Key Responsibilities:
Basic Qualifications
Required Languages - Spoken and written English and Arabic fluency is required. Knowledge of Assyrian, Shabaki, Turkmen, or Kurdish is a plus.
Travel - The position is based in Mosul, with up to 40% travel to project sites in Ninewa, as allowed by local and national health regulations. Minimal regional and international travel for training or project activities, as needed.
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:
Three CRS Project Officer.
Key Working Relationships:
Internal: Project Director; Social Cohesion and PYD Program Manager; Social Cohesion Quality SPO, MEAL Program Manager Head of Programming; Procurement and Finance staff
External: Caritas Iraq; project partners; other operational partners and colleague organizations; local government; UN agencies and relevant sector leads
***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.
Protection Acknowledgment: CRS prohibits all forms of abuse and exploitation towards children and vulnerable adults. As a professional candidate, you commit to adhering to the Agency’s policy on protection, rights and dignity of children and vulnerable adults and to safeguard them from abuse and exploitation as defined in CRS’ Safeguarding Policy.
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
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You can apply via the link below:
https://crsiraqcareers.crs.org/job?id=236
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