The mission of the Civil Peace Service (CPS) programme consists of the non-violent and constructive conflict resolution. Professionals in CPS seek to prevent the outbreak of violent conflicts and contribute to settle existing violent conflicts peacefully. Based on the church-related and civil-social commitment of our partners in Kenia, the CPS aims to contribute to civil conflict management through peace-building measures.

The non-party and interreligious Coast Inter-Faith Council of Clerics Trust (CICC) arose from the Coast Peace Initiative in 2001, following the unrest in Mombasa in 1996. Its activities include interreligious dialogue, political education and mediation during politi-cally or religiously motivated unrest in the coastal region, mainly in Mombasa. The CICC was particularly widely respected for its educational work and mediation between the religious groups following the murders of Islamic leaders Rogo and Makaburi and the subsequent unrest in 2013 and 2014.

… require a high degree of professional skill in peace-building and reconciliation work, which you will use to support existing activities and which will also offer you a wide range of opportunities to develop project-based methods.

• You will design and develop training methods to strengthen the skills of interreligious committees as well as the leaders of faith-based organisations, and implement these. Your work will focus on conflict management, interreligious dialogue, peaceful coexistence and mobilising communities for community projects.
• You will develop planning, monitoring and evaluation standards, assist in reporting and support in accounting and processing of project activities. You will provide instruments for results-oriented project management to employees and partners in workshops, training manuals, handbooks and information sheets.
• You will support interconfessional and political networking. You will support religious leaders in your role as consultant and mediator and motivate these to take part in ecumenical and interreligious dialogue, prayer sessions, conferences and symposia.
• You will develop and distribute information material, educational and communication material regarding peace-building and conflict management for the peace committees and other target groups and organise reconciliation and peace-building activities at community level.

• You have completed a university degree relevant to the field of development cooperation and have acquired professional experience in Germany and abroad.
• You are keen to use your theoretical and practical knowledge in the fields of conflict management as well as peace-building and reconciliation work as a consultant in a multicultural team. You have already worked in a theological or socio-political role involving interreligious dialogue in Africa.
• You are familiar with organisational development and project management. You are well versed in planning, monitoring and evaluating as well as in filing applications and fundraising.
• You enjoy imparting knowledge in the field of adult education and are able to prepare and communicate content in a way that is appropriate to the target group.
• You are adaptable and prepared to live in simple urban living conditions. Your work will involve travel in a crisis region. You must be fit to work in a tropical climate.
• You can identify with the self-image of the AGEH (Association for Development Cooperation) as a Catholic personnel service and can act appropriately in a Christian environment. Interreligious tolerance is important to you and you are interested in working with partner institutions and people with differing religious motivations.
• You speak very good English and, ideally, Kiswahili.

We offer you a meaningful role within a challenging, intercultural environment. You will live and work in Mombasa for a period of three years. We will prepare you thoroughly and individually for your work. As per the German Development Aid Workers Act (Entwicklungshelfergesetz), you will receive an employment contract, including social security and a remuneration commensurate to the position.

The Asssociation for Development Cooperation (AGEH e.V.) is the personnel service of the German Catholics for Development Cooperation. For over 50 years, we have been selecting professionals, ensuring their continued training and their insurance coverage. We place them in development organisations and projects in more than 60 countries. 

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