Your tasks
Your work helps to promote a peaceful and tolerant life on campus between students and staff.
- You will support the implementation and coordination of a new initiative for conflict transformation on campus.
- You will be the point of contact for and train those involved in dealing with sexual harassment and discrimination on campus.
- You will work with students and staff to develop conflict transformation activities.
- You will cooperate with other experts and build networks with national and international organisations and institutions.
- You will contribute your professional knowledge by teaching a course at the Faculty of Arts.
- You will be responsible for the proper disbursement and administration of funds on site in accordance with donor guidelines and AGIAMONDO specifications. You will work in partnership with colleagues from the partner organisation.
Your profile
- You have a relevant university degree in e.g. education, social work, psychology, peace studies or a comparable discipline.
- You have at least 3 years of professional experience in the field of conflict transformation or gender/safeguarding, ideally gained at a university.
- Your experience in project management enables you to actively shape new projects.
- You have experience in capacity development and training delivery.
- You are proficient in English.
- You are an EU citizen or Swiss national and identify with the goals and concerns of church development and peace work.
Our benefits - your impetus
We want you to feel good working with us:
Subsistence payments
12 subsistence payments (and a prorated 13th) are based on your degree, experience, marital status, and your obligations to support your dependants. Other allowances will be considered on an individual basis.
Social benefits
Social insurance includes statutory pension, accident and unemployment insurance as well as health insurance for you and the dependants accompanying you.
Private insurance
In addition to statutory insurance, we also take out private insurance including professional and personal liability as well as accident insurance.
Personnel development
Individual seminars including language and safety courses ensure your personal development and effectively strengthen your work on location.
Health care
We bear the costs for medical examinations, the health check beforehand and vaccinations to ensure you are perfectly prepared for your assignment.
Cost coverage
We bear the costs for rent and consumption. The pro-rata costs for furnishing your accommodation depend on the number of people living there.
"Many small but important steps are needed to work for peace."
AGIAMONDO Co-worker about their daily work and life in Cameroon
Shaping change as a CPS expert
Responsible and challenging
AGIAMONDO is the personnel service of German Catholics for development cooperation. In the Civil Peace Service (CPS), we offer professionals the opportunity for meaningful service in cooperation with local development actors. The CPS is a personnel program for violence prevention and peacebuilding in crisis and conflict regions. It works for a world in which conflicts are settled without violence. Together with church and civil society partner organizations in Sierra Leone, AGIAMONDO wants to contribute to the civil conflict resolution there and to the sustainable and just development of the country through peacebuilding measures.
Fourah Bay College is part of the University of Sierra Leone and was founded in 1827. The prestigious public institution is located on Mount Aureol in Freetown. As the first western university in sub-Saharan Africa, the college is one of the leading universities in Sierra Leone with around 10,000 students. The college offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses in various fields, including arts, engineering and architecture, pure and applied sciences, peace and conflict studies, political science and law, and gender and development studies. Students and staff come from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
From the application to the preparation contract
How can I apply?
We will gladly accept your online application. You will receive feedback approximately 14 days after the application deadline.
What follows positive feedback?
We will invite you to the next available selection day. You will receive information about the procedure in advance.
What do the selection days involve?
Over the course of two days, we will provide you with specific information about the conditions and framework. We will also conduct selection interviews with you.
What happens after that?
If we consider you to be a good match for the assignment, we will request your consent to introduce you to the partner organisation. You will then receive a contract for the preparation period.
What does preparation include?
All specialists receive extensive training for 3 - 4 months in Cologne to prepare them intensively for their assignment.
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