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Team Leader – Tawargha

Background:

Y-PEER is recruiting a Tawargha team leader for a project designed to promote peace and reconciliation. The project will incorporate a people-to-people approach and empower youth to advance peace, stability, and dialogue through organized groups, civic participation, positive media, and localized peace projects.  The project will enable youth groups of each city to work with municipal councils and other relevant actors to promote peace processes, reconciliation, and peaceful co-existence. Activities will mitigate conflicts from escalating by providing targeted support to peace actors, community-level leaders/groups and influencers, and constituent-responsive authorities who are engaged in, or wish to be engaged in, peace-building, conflict mitigation, and reconciliation.

Position Summary:

Y-PEER is seeking a qualified Team Leader that will support the implementation of project activities at the city level, with an emphasis on social cohesion, peacebuilding, and capacity-building activities.  S/he is responsible for the implementation and monitoring of projects in the assigned city in accordance with Y-PEER and donor requirements.

Main Responsibilities:

• Oversee the successful delivery of the project within the city.
• Serve as the main point of contact for the city, collecting their feedback, reporting back to them on progress;
• Design and implement a youth community engagement strategy
• Liaise directly with the city authorities on behalf of your representative the project;
• Coordination with the stakeholder in the city;
• Supervising the time plan for the project in the city;
• Supervising the daily operations of the project in the city;
• Determine the needs and receive supplies from the supply chain.
• Evaluation and follow-up of the city team members.
• Coordinate basic training with the trainer and setting deadlines for them.
• Create a good working environment between the project trainers and the national core team.
• Preparing narrative reports for the city’s activities.
• Support the city team members to communicate with the project team.
• Any other related duties assigned to the candidate.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in social sciences, economics, or related field required. Urban planning, or public policy related field a plus.
• Resident in Tawargha City
• Minimum two years of professional peace-building/ conflict mitigation experience; Experience with youth empower projects highly desirable.
• Experience with community engagement and participatory processes.
• Strong presentation skills and writing ability.
• Able to solve complex problems through a reciprocal and consultative approach
• Prior experience working with government actors and/or community leaders is required.
• Experience with community empowerment programming, including community-driven development or other participatory development processes;
• Strong computer skills in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook);
• Ability to work under pressure with several tasks and various deadlines
• Actively generates creative, practical approaches and solutions to overcome challenging situations
• Ability to work under pressure with several tasks and various deadlines
• Actively generates creative, practical approaches and solutions to overcome challenging situations
• Fluency in Arabic and preference for strong verbal and written communication skills in English

How To Apply:

Please send your CV and cover letter by email, with the subject reference ( P.L.A.Y. Team leader Tawargha 2020  ) to:  ypeerlibya@gmail.com .