Technical Specialist – Inclusive Governance & Stabilization

Place description

The Close to East Basis (NEF) seeks candidates for the place of Technical Specialist- Inclusive Governance and Stabilization to be based mostly in its Syracuse, New York headquarters. Since 1915, NEF has supported community-led financial and social improvement within the Center East, Africa, and Caucasus. As a non-profit worldwide improvement group, NEF attracts on native groups, expertise, and partnerships in these areas to create community-led options to scale back poverty, create financial alternative, improve resilience, and empower battle, climate- and crisis-affected individuals to enhance their outlook and wellbeing. Our packages span three focal areas: Inclusive Financial Growth, Local weather Resilient Growth, and Peace and Stability.

NEF works by means of a community of nation places of work and with native companions, with present or latest operations in Armenia, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Mali, Morocco, Palestine, Sudan, South Sudan, and Syria. Our world headquarters are based mostly in Syracuse, NY, London, UK, and Brussels, Belgium.

Inclusive Governance & Stabilization

NEF leverages and adapts sustainable financial improvement and resilience methods to help individuals and communities impacted by fragility, battle, and crises bridge reduction to restoration and reconciliation, rebuild belief, reestablish their livelihoods, and strengthen economies, civil society and governance programs. NEF’s packages in inclusive governance aspire to raise the participation of all stakeholders in decision-making processes. Our strategy is designed to make sure that each individual in a group, no matter their background, id, or socio-economic standing, has a voice and is taken into account within the insurance policies and selections that have an effect on them. Present packages embrace civil society contributions to resilience, entry to important companies, and peacebuilding by means of cooperation.

Place Overview

We’re in search of a talented and motivated particular person to affix our group as an inclusive Governance & Stabilization Technical Specialist. This place requires experience in conceptualizing concepts and growing successful proposals for inclusive governance and stabilization initiatives. The perfect candidate could have a confirmed monitor report of writing profitable proposals to safe funding for such initiatives.

The Technical Specialist will sit inside the Enterprise Growth (BD) group.

1. Proposal Growth: Lead the event of high-quality proposals for inclusive governance and stabilization initiatives. Conceptualize venture concepts in partnership with related nation and HQ colleagues, contribute as lead technical author, and coordinate technical inputs from NEF HQ and nation group members. Coordinate with Price Specialist, MEAL, HR, and compliance groups to make sure alignment of technical and monetary parts in proposals. Contribute to the event of budgets, value narratives, and monetary projections for proposed initiatives.
2. Proposal Assessment and Alignment: Assessment proposal paperwork to make sure readability, coherence, and alignment with donor necessities. Present suggestions and revisions as vital to reinforce proposal high quality and competitiveness.
3. Illustration and Networking: Symbolize the group at conferences, conferences, and different occasions to showcase NEF’s experience in inclusive governance and stabilization programing. Determine and have interaction potential companions and donors to help NEF’s inclusive governance and stabilization packages.
4. Analysis and Evaluation for Enterprise and Program Growth: Work with this system and MEAL groups to prioritize, devise, and conduct strategic analysis and evaluation to establish key alternatives and challenges for inclusive governance and stabilization packages in goal communities or areas that may assist the event of technique for donors’ engagement. Make the most of insights to tell program design and enterprise improvement.
5. Program Design and Technical Advisory: Work with program, MEAL, and different related groups to prioritize, conceptualize, and develop inclusive governance and stabilization technical improvements and initiatives. Present technical advisory to venture groups when wanted to make sure the efficient incorporation of finest practices into venture actions, program methods, and studying agenda.
6. Information Integration: Keep up to date on the most recent traits, analysis, instruments, and methodologies associated to inclusive governance and stabilization. Combine related insights into NEF’s program methods and data merchandise to tell program and enterprise improvement and contribute to program progress. Co-lead with MEAL and program groups on deep-dive processes at venture and program ranges. Contribute to the event of studying agendas and the prioritization, conceptualization, and improvement of data and enterprise improvement merchandise corresponding to technical improvements, technical briefs and reality sheets, technical capability statements, and technical displays. Contribute as technical lead author on strategically necessary merchandise.

Crosscutting:

Uphold NEF’s core values of localization, respect, inclusion, and integrity by serving to to construct an setting of accountability and studying, holding work commitments and respecting colleagues’ time, listening to various colleagues, and taking part in common suggestions and efficiency evaluations.

Different duties as assigned.

{Qualifications}

We encourage all people who imagine they’ve the talents essential to succeed inside this place and thrive at NEF to use for this function, even when you don’t meet 100% of the {qualifications}.

Dedication to NEF mission, curiosity, a robust willingness to study and perceive NEF’s packages and the communities and stakeholders who’re our companions in improvement, and a capability for passionate advocacy for regionally led and impactful work.

• Superior diploma in Worldwide Relations, Battle Research, or associated disciplines.
• A minimum of 5 years of hands-on expertise within the peacebuilding, stabilization, and governance sector.
• Confirmed experience in designing, growing, and drafting profitable proposals.
• Thorough understanding of stabilization-focused technical domains, together with governance in Fragile, Battle, and Violence (FCV) contexts, in addition to methods for peacebuilding and social cohesion.
• Proficiency in a big selection of evaluation, monitoring, and analysis instruments very important for stabilization and governance initiatives.
• Complete data of the worldwide battle framework, partnership ecosystem, and familiarity with key world stakeholders and funders concerned in advancing stabilization and governance agendas.
• Demonstrated management capabilities, with the capability to work autonomously and inside groups seamlessly.
• Proficiency in Salesforce, Microsoft Phrase and Groups, familiarity with Excel.

Required Qualification

Candidates have to be legally licensed to reside and work in the USA with out firm sponsorship now and sooner or later.

Most well-liked {Qualifications}

• Expertise utilizing participatory approaches to design packages and develop proposals, together with making use of ideas of co-creation.
• Expertise participating related communities of observe.
• Expertise participating and coordinating with worldwide colleagues and packages.
• Information and understanding of themes and cross-cutting necessities in worldwide improvement, corresponding to gender mainstreaming, market-based approaches, locally-led programming, resilience, progressive finance, expertise and innovation.
• Proficiency in French and/or Arabic

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