Salary: £39,963 per annum, with benefits including accommodation, relocation package, annual flight back home and medical insurance cover.
Based: Monrovia, Liberia

We are looking for an exceptional candidate to join our Africa programme. You will be responsible for leading Alert’s peacebuilding work in Liberia. This will involve managing upcoming projects and developing the country programme, supervising the work of partners with a focus on DM&E and quality control of project outcomes, as well as financial oversight. The post holder will also shape the priorities for longer term programming in the country.

To be great in this job you are likely, first and foremost, to have a talent for entrepreneurial and strategic programme development and monitoring and evaluation. To do this you will have strong process and interpersonal skills which will enable you to gain and maintain the trust and respect of both local actors and international donors.  

You will have significant experience of leading field-based peacebuilding or development projects preferably in Liberia or elsewhere in West Africa and you will have experience of responsibility for financial management of projects.

The above are some of the requirements for the job. For the full job requirements and an application pack (the person specification section of which will form the basis of short-listing), please visit http://www.international-alert.org/jobs. In your application, please indicate the full job title of the role you are applying for.

To apply, please send a completed application form and equal opportunities form to jobs@international-alert.org , both of which can be found under ‘Downloads’.

Please note we do not accept CVs
Closing date: Wednesday 9th December 2015 at 5pm (UK time)

Initial interviews for shortlisted candidates will take place via Skype from the 14th December 2015.

While International Alert will endeavour to contact all candidates within a reasonable time, this may not always be possible due to limited resources.  Therefore, if you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date, you can assume that your application has, on this occasion, been unsuccessful. International Alert is an equal opportunities employer. All applicants will be judged strictly on the basis of merit.

International Alert helps people find peaceful solutions to conflict.

We are one of the world’s leading peacebuilding organisations, with nearly 30 years of experience laying the foundations for peace. We work with local people around the world to help them build peace. And we advise governments, organisations and companies on how to support peace. We focus on issues which influence peace, including governance, economics, gender relations, social development, climate change, and the role of businesses and international organisations in high-risk places.