This project is a key intervention in helping South Sudanese youth, both male and female, fulfil their potential as young changemakers and offers UNHCR a unique opportunity to regionally test a youth led approach to peacebuilding.
Youth can and should play a vital role in helping to build peaceful communities and serve as local peace builders, advocating and taking action to promote peace, reconciliation and non-violent conflict resolution at local and national levels. Youth can serve as agents of peaceful change and as proactive peacebuilders who promote a culture of dialogue.
The core of the programme is a specifically developed peacebuilding training. This will be taught to master trainer candidates (MTs) through a “training of trainers” workshop. At the end of the training, successful candidates will be selected and contracted to train youth across camps and settlements in peacebuilding and conflict transformation. Master trainers will establish close relationships with diverse youth from different backgrounds, identify the most promising training participants, and help develop a network of youth peer educators who will take on training and implement youth-led peacebuilding projects in their communities.
The consultant trainer will support the Global Advisor for Training and Curriculum Development (GATCD), who has developed a peacebuilding curriculum (7 modules) for UNHCR targeting young South Sudanese refugees and their hosts. The trainer will facilitate the 5-day training-of-trainers (TOT) in person, with remote support from the Global Advisor for the first training (through real-time video link). S/he will then go on to conduct subsequent TOTs in other locations, aided by UNHCR staff in each location. S/he will contribute to the assessment of MTs and their final selection, evaluate the MTs in the field and offer suggestions for improvement and refinement of both the youth training curriculum and the methodology of the training.
- Refine and contextualise the training of trainers’ curriculum.
- Co-facilitate the 5-day Training of Trainers for the Master-Trainers with the Global Advisor.
- Facilitate the other TOT workshops across West Nile
- Contribute to the assessment of the MTs and the final selection
- Offer feedback on the performance of the MTs and suggested areas for their improvement.
- Perform field evaluations of the MTs, depending on need
CORE COMPETENCIES
- Accountability
- Communication
- Organizational Awareness
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Commitment to Continuous Learning
- Client and Result Orientation
- Post-graduate university degree, MA in a relevant social science related to youth, refugees, gender, peacebuilding, reconciliation, mediation, conflict resolution, community cohesion/social inclusion, or related fields is required
- Minimum of 7 years of relevant work experience in the above-mentioned fields of work is required.
- Significant experience in designing and implementing peacebuilding, conflict management, resilience and leadership training programs using innovative methodologies is required.
- Enthusiasm for and experience working with youth / young people, including refugees and those from diverse educational, linguistic and socio-cultural backgrounds is required.
- Written and spoken fluency in English is required
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, ability to effectively employ and combine online and offline communication and training tools and methodologies, reliability, maturity, and independence is required.
- Willingness and availability for extended travel to northern Uganda is required
- Working knowledge / understanding of MHPSS in humanitarian settings is desirable.
- Work experience in South Sudan and/or the region and a strong understanding of the South Sudanese context is highly desirable.
- Command of local languages is desirable