Head of Dialogue and Partnership Services in Mali
, Mali
Misereor operates a regional Dialogue and Liaison Office focusing on Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, based in Bamako. On behalf of Misereor, AGIAMONDO is looking for a manager for this office with experience in church development cooperation in Africa to start as soon as possible.
Misereor, the Catholic organisation for development cooperation, advocates for people who are denied the right to a life with dignity, freedom and sufficient and healthy care, regardless of skin colour, background, gender and religion. Misereor works hand in hand with project partners in Africa, Asia and Latin America and supports people in making positive, lasting changes in their lives through their own efforts, also with a view to the integrity of creation and the challenges posed by climate change.
In close coordination with its key partners in French-speaking West Africa, Misereor established a regional Di-alogue and Liaison Office in Bamako in 2018, focusing on Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger.
The aim of the Dialogue and Liaison Office is to strengthen cooperation and dialogue with partners and other relevant players in the West African countries concerned, to improve networking among the partners and to promote the development policy concerns of partner organisations and Misereor.
In the region, the Dialogue and Liaison Office acts as a knowledgeable point of contact and supports the partner organisations in the conceptual design, execution and evaluation of development projects.
The office is in close contact with the General Secretariat of the Episcopal Conference of Mali and other central development structures of the local church and civil society. Other local dialogue partners of the office include various international players active in the region, such as the German embassy, political foundations and other aid organisations. Misereor’s Africa Department is responsible for content management for the Dialogue and Liaison Office.
Your new role
Your work will enable Misereor and partners in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger to understand each other bet-ter, to learn from each other, to recognise important challenges at an early stage, to act on new initiatives and to work together in an effective way based on mutual trust.
• You will provide information important for the strategic and programmatic development of Misereor’s work.
• You will carry out networking activities as well as representative tasks and you will strengthen the co-ordination, development and fostering of cooperation with important local and international players in the region.
• You will identify and arrange for local consultants who can help the partners with issues such as or-ganisational development, outcome orientation and knowledge management.
• You will familiarise existing and potential partners with the concepts, tools, resources and quality re-quirements of Misereor and KZE (German Catholic Central Agency for Development Aid).
• You will contribute to Misereor’s lobbying and public relations work, taking voices in and from the re-gion into consideration.
Your profile
• You have completed a university degree in a field such as politics, social sciences or economics, or a comparable subject.
• You have several years of professional experience in development cooperation and partner consulting, ideally acquired in Africa, and you have knowledge in the field of organisational development and outcome-oriented project work.
• You are diplomatic and have strong intercultural communication skills, to enable you to deal with the relevant players in a manner based on mutual partnership, and you can act appropriately in a church context.
• You are prepared to travel extensively under generally difficult conditions in the West African region.
• Your written and spoken French language skills are very good, and your German skills are at least good.
• You are an EU or Swiss citizen and a member of a Christian church.
What AGIAMONDO offers
• Individual and thorough preparation
• Three-year contract, social security and remuneration in accordance with the German Develop-ment Aid Workers Act (Entwicklungshelfergesetz)
• Cultural, language or other professional training, as well as coaching and supervision, individual advice
We look forward to receiving your complete online application (cover letter, Europass CV, certificates in *PDF format) by no later than 17/07/2022.
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Expiring: Jul 17, 2022