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Civil Peace Service (CPS) Advisor (m/f/d) for traumasensitive approaches in peacebuilding

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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:01.02.2027 - 31.03.2029
  • Job Category:Peace, Security and Emergency
  • Working hours:full-time

The Civil Peace Service (CPS) is a program for violence prevention and peacebuilding in crisis and conflict regions. CPS professionals provide long-term support to people on the ground in their commitment to dialogue, human rights and peace. The GIZ CPS program Great Lakes Region  aims to create and link cross-border civil society peace initiatives. Since 2019, partner organisations (PO) of the three countries form communities of practices to address conflict issues and implement peace projects in areas such as critical thinking, nonviolent conflict transformation and dialogue, digital peacebuilding and media literacy. In annual meetings of all PO, physical and digital exchanges during workshops, trainings and during joint activities, the partners strive to establish a stable regional network. 

Job Industry

International Relations, Development, Humanitarian Management

Job Salary Currency

Job Salary Fixed

No

Key Deliverables

The position is embedded in the partner organization and will contribute both to the partner organization (70%) and to the program (30%)

  • Capacity development and advice to the partner organisation focussing on connecting mental health and psychosocial support with peacebuilding approaches;
  • Support and advice planning, monitoring and evaluation of partner projects
  • Support and advice on strategies on measures to ensure economic sustainability of the partner organisation
  • Support cooperation and exchange between the partner organization and other stakeholders in- and outside the GIZ CPS network and the CPS consortium
  • Capacity development and advice to other partner organizations of the program in the three countries with a focus on mainstreaming MHPSS in peacebuilding
  • Development of a concept for mainstreaming MHPSS in peacebuilding within the GIZ CPS framework
  • Support compiling an overview of services and resources related to MHPSS in the Great Lakes region 


Essential Qualities

Essential Qualities
  • At least five years of hands-on experience in working on conflict, trauma and/or MHPSS; Knowledge and experience in conflict sensitive programming
  • Several years of experience in psychotherapy/counselling; Knowledge and skills in strengthening the economic sustainability of local organizations are an asset
  • Proven intercultural sensitivity and experience in efficiently communicating and working with colleagues from different cultures; Experience working in a country in the global South is an asset
  • Driving licence; readiness to frequently travel in the country and in the region
  • Resilience in dealing with abrupt changes due to a highly dynamic political and economic context; Patience and resilience in coping with slow and complicated administrative procedures, rules and regulations
  • Fluency in French and English; Readiness to learn Kirundi is desirable, knowledge of German is an asset 

Application Process

Close Date

26/10/2026

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