Responsibilities
- Ensure MAG’s approach to community participation leads how communities shape and guide mine action work.
- Ensure communities' knowledge, priorities, and concerns are central to everything done in the area of operation.
- Manage and mentor Community Liaison teams.
- Work closely with technical colleagues.
- Ensure high-quality delivery of non-technical survey and explosive ordnance risk education.
- Ensure evidence gathered directly informs safe land release and clearance.
- Strengthen national capacity through management, mentoring, and quality assurance.
- Improve how evidence is gathered, analysed, and used in decision-making.
- Balance strong technical judgement with excellent organisational, communication and interpersonal skills in complex humanitarian settings.
- Contribute to community-driven operations where work supports safer futures for people living with the consequences of conflict.
Requirements
- Significant experience internationally managing Humanitarian Mine Action Community Liaison or any of the following: - Armed Violence Reduction (AVR) - Conflict Preparedness and Protection (CPP) - Educational development programmes
- Experience in the training, monitoring, coaching and capacity development of field staff
- Fluent in English, oral and written
- Demonstrable background in designing and implementing monitoring and evaluation tools, needs assessments, risk assessments, impact assessments or the like
Nice to Have
- Ability to design and implement effective community-based interventions.
- Confident applying participatory approaches, conducting needs and risk assessments, leading and motivating diverse teams, and delivering high quality training and capacity building support.
- Excellent communication, coordination and organisational skills.
- Solid understanding of humanitarian response and conflict sensitive approaches.
- Ability to manage projects and people in complex or remote environments.
- Flexible, proactive, solutions oriented, and committed to humanitarian principles, inclusion, and a do no harm approach.
