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Civil Peace Service (CPS) Advisor (m/f/d) for Dealing with the Past (DwP) and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) at Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

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Job Description

Our model for success is a better life for everyone and purposeful tasks for our employees. For more than 50 years, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), as a company of the German Federal Government, has been supporting the implementation of development policy goals worldwide. Together with partner organisations in 120 countries, we are involved in a diverse range of projects. If you want to make a difference in the world and develop yourself in the process, you've come to the right place.

  • Job-ID:V000063549
  • Location:Bujumbura
  • Assignment period:01.01.2027 - 28.02.2029
  • Job Category:Peace, Security and Emergency
  • Working hours:full-time
  • Application deadline:30.09.2026

Our Offer

The Civil Peace Service (CPS) is a programme for violence prevention and peacebuilding in crisis and conflict regions. CPS professionals provide long-term support to local organisations in their commitment to promote peace, dialogue and human rights. The GIZ' regional CPS programme "Fostering peace literacy and civil society networks in the Great Lakes Region" aims to create and link existing cross-border civil society peace initiatives in the region. Since 2019, partner organisations (POs) of the three countries form communities of practices to adress conflict issues using collaborative processes and standards to implement peace projects in areas such as youth empowerment and critical thinking, nonviolent conflict transformation and dialogue, sexualised and gender based violence, digital peacebuilding and media literacy. Through annual meetings of all POs and regular exchanges during workshops, trainings and joint activities, a stable regional civil society network has been established, which will be further consolidated and extended in the coming years.

Job Industry

Social Sciences

Job Salary Currency

Job Salary Fixed

No

Key Deliverables

  • Support the partner organization and its employees with a focus on integrating MHPSS into peacebuilding approaches and vice versa;
  • Support the partner organization in developing their PMEL system;
  • Support networking activities of the partner organization on the field of exchange, mutual technical support within and outside of the GIZ CPS program and the CPS consortium;
  • Support and advice other GIZ CPS partner organisations in developing their capacities in mainstreaming MHPSS in their work;
  • Support the compilation of an overview of MHPSS resources and services in the partner countries;
  • Develop a concept for the integration of MHPSS approaches into CPS programming;
  • Support approaches to make the organization (and others in the CPS regional program) economically sustainable

Essential Qualities

Essential Qualities
  • University degree in psychology or any other related field, plus several years of proven field experience in MHPSS support and trauma sensitive training approaches
  • Proven experience in connecting MHPSS approaches into peacebuilding initiatives
  • Proven intercultural sensitivity and experience of efficiently communicating and working with colleagues from different cultures
  • Driving license; readiness to frequently travel in the country and in the region
  • Resilience in dealing with abrupt changes due to a dynamic political and economic context; Experienc in dealing with complex organisational and administrative requirements
  • Knowledge and experience in conflict sensitive programming; Knowledge and skills in strengthening the economic sustainability of local organizations are an asset
  • Fluency in French and English; Readiness to learn Kirundi is desirable; knowledge of German is an asset

Application Process

Close Date

30/09/2026

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