Position: NEWS, WPS and Y4P Volunteers

Employment type: 1 year

Application ends:  Wednesday, 8th November 2023

Vacancy: Five (5)

Location: Freetown

JOB DESCRIPTION

Are you a competent, team player, passionate about community development, ready-to-learn, and self-motivated individual looking forward to advancing your career? Apply to fill the position of NEWS, WPS, and Y4P Volunteers in our organization with the major responsibility of supporting the heads of the various programs to deliver on different interventions under their portfolio.  According to our organization’s organogram, In this position, you will be reporting to the respective officers in charge at the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding Sierra Leone.

ABOUT WANEP-SIERRA LEONE

The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) Sierra Leone was established in 1998 and is registered with the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development in Sierra Leone. WANEP-SL is a well-established national network of peacebuilding civil society organizations including women’s groups, youth groups, and religious institutions committed to encouraging, facilitating, and mobilizing local initiatives for peacebuilding, promotion of gender justice, conflict resolutions, and transformation. WANEP-SL is a membership network with over 50 registered organizations across the country with a shared responsibility and interest to prevent conflict and build peace in Sierra Leone.

We envision a Sierra Leone characterized by just and peaceful communities where the dignity of the human person is paramount and where the people can meet their basic human needs and decide their own direction, we seek to enable and facilitate the development of mechanisms for cooperation among civil society-based peacebuilding practitioners and organizations by promoting cooperative responses to violence and conflict in Sierra Leone.

JOB PURPOSE: 

In line with our continuous engagement and the need to train, mentor, and develop upcoming peacebuilding practitioners through participation in our intervention across Sierra Leone we are in the process of recruiting five (5) volunteers passionate about community development and peacebuilding to promote the aims, objectives, and cores values of WANEP-Sierra Leone.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

YOUTH FOR PEACE VOLUNTEERS 

• • Assist in coordinating activities related to Peace Education at the secretariat.
  • Support in the development of a national Peace Education strategy for the coordination of network members/school peace clubs
  • Support with the coordination of the secretariat of the Youth for Peace Network members
  • Support the Youth for Peace Officer to prepare quarterly/annual activity plans and narrative reports of project activities.

• Follow up on Youth for Peace Network member’s activities and peace clubs.

• Liaising with partners including Youth groups, Y4P Members, and Peace Clubs to ensure the smooth day-to-day functioning of the Peace Education programs and activities.

• Assist in the facilitation of training modules for peace club supervisors in schools.

• Support other departments with project implementation when needed.

WOMEN’s PEACE AND SECURITY VOLUNTEERS

• • Assist in coordinating activities related to Women’s Peace and Security-related issues.
  • Support with the preparation of quarterly/annual activity plans and narrative reports of project activities.

• Support with monitoring and collating information related to women’s peace and security threats issues.

• Support liaising with partners including WIPNET members to ensure the smooth day-to-day functioning of the WIPNET programs and activities.

• Assist in the facilitation of training modules for women in peacebuilding and other thematic areas.

• Support the NEWS team in analyzing the security situation of women in the production of early warning reports including News bulletins, policy briefs, and other reports when needed/requested on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.

• Support the submission of timely reports of activities to the program manager on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.

NEWS VOLUNTEERS

• • Assist in coordinating activities related to WARN (West Africa Early Warning System) at the national level in collaboration with the NEWS Officer

• Support with monitoring and collating information related to peace and human security threats and help with inputting the data into the NEWS, ECOWARN, and AU

• Liaising with all the NEWS community monitors to ensure the smooth day-to-day functioning of NEWS.

• Assist in the facilitation of training modules for early warning and strategic responses for field monitors.

• Work with the NEWS Officer and Manager in Analyzing the security situation and initiate the production of early warning reports including News bulletins, policy briefs, and other reports when needed/requested on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.

• • Support with the filing of the field monitors report on a timely basis in the WANEP NEWS platform
  • Monitors court sittings on issues related to peace and security.

• Support various programs or other initiatives at the secretariat as may be directed by the Acting NNC, NEWS Manager, NEWS Officer, and other senior officials of the national secretariat and the regional office.

• Support other departments with project implementation when needed.

OTHER DUTIES  

• Other duties as required, including occasional work on weekends if needed.
• Other duties assigned by the Senior Management Team (SMT).

SAFEGUARDING RESPONSIBILITIES:

Practice, promote, and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action while on and off duty, promote a safe work environment in all dealings, and avoid actions, that may cause any form of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation of team members, beneficiaries, and other interns/ volunteers, and network members to achieve the program’s goals on safeguarding.

EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS: 

• Candidate must have a Diploma Degree in Peace and Conflict Studies, Peacebuilding, Community Development Studies and Gender Studies, or a recent graduate in a similar field.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal skills.
• Good time management and organizational skills
• Proficient/Interested in Microsoft Office packages.
• Team player
• Willingness to learn.

HOW TO APPLY:

Interested candidates need to send an expression of interest/application letter, stating the position applied for, and contact details of three references. Expression of interest/application letter should be sent to our secretariat’s email wanep-sierraleone@wanep.org OR hand delivered to our secretariat at 57 Fort Street, Off Circular Road, Freetown. Only completed applications will be accepted and shortlisted candidates will be contacted.