Position: Advisor for Regional Government Cooperation, Community-based MHPSS and Peacebuilding
Vacancy Number:106/2026
Project: Building Inclusive Institutions for Resilience, Reconciliation and Reforms (BIRRR)
Duty Station: Tigray, Mekelle
Contract Duration: 30.11.2027
Required Candidate:1
Brief and attractive description of the project/ unit
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is a German public-benefit federal enterprise. GIZ works worldwide in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development and has over 50 years of experience in a wide variety of areas. We work to shape a future worth living in over 120 countries around the worldwide.
The Project “Building Inclusive Institutions for Resilience, Reconciliation and Reforms (BIRRR)”is accompanying the transitional justice process (TJ), that has been initiated by the Ethiopian Government. This process is an essential element in the national peace process to secure reconciliation and long-lasting and sustainable peace. The project aims at advising and strengthening key government institutions as well as Civil Society Organisations to ensure that the TJ process is conducted in an inclusive, gender responsive, survivor and victim-centred manner and according to international human rights standards.
The project will be implemented in selected regions of Ethiopia. The regional implementation includes a focus on:
- Implementing capacity development and networking activities on TJ and gender for and with local civil society organizations.
- Strengthening the capacities of regional governments, especially the Bureaus of Justice, Bureaus of Women, Bureaus of Social Affairs and Bureaus of Health with regards to TJ, peacebuilding and gender equality for their involvement in the national TJ process. This includes advising regional governments on the provision of holistic mental health and psychosocial support services (MHPSS) to conflict-affected communities.
- Providing holistic, gender-responsive and community-based MHPSS to IDPs, marginalized groups and survivors of conflict and grave human rights abuses, such as conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV).
As an Advisor for regional government cooperation, community-based MHPSS and peacebuilding in Tigray, you will be responsible for facilitating the regional cooperation with the relevant Bureaus on TJ, peacebuilding and MHPSS. Moreover, you will be facilitating the regional project implementation on holistic MHPSS and peacebuilding measures to promote a gender-responsive and victim-centered TJ process. This includes cooperating with regional government, local MHPSS service providers and community-based organizations.
Responsibilities and Duties
- You are facilitating capacity development and networking activities for and with local civil society organisations on TJ and gender, in line with the responsible team members based in Addis Ababa.
- You are responsible for implementing the activities of the project output on the strengthening of capacities of regional governments (training and networking events), especially the Bureaus of Justice, Bureaus of Women, Bureaus of Social Affairs and Bureaus of Health with regards to TJ, peacebuilding and gender equality for their involvement in the national TJ process. This includes technical support and advisory services.
- You are responsible for implementing the regional project activities around community-led initiatives on MHPSS, community activities, and peacebuilding for survivors of war, conflict, and conflict-related SGBV (especially women, youth IDPs) in Tigray.
- You are facilitating the roll out of a funding mechanism for community-led activities around MHPSS, peacebuilding and dealing with the past in the project regions, including setting up and accompanying financial agreements with local government bureaus, CSOs and community-based organizations.
- You support the identification of suitable medical- and community-based MHPSS providers in the selected regions of the project.
- You prepare financing, local subsidy and consulting contracts and supervise their implementation.
- You support the implementation of the capacity development strategy on how to strengthen community initiatives on peacebuilding and transitional justice, such as local mechanisms of dealing with the past and community healing. This also includes income generating activities for livelihood and economic empowerment where necessary.
- You anticipate potential push backs and elaborate strategies to deal with them jointly with partners on the ground
- You facilitate the monitoring and mitigation of unintended, negative consequences of project activities in the area of MHPSS and peacebuilding in cooperation with BIRRR team and partners and you contribute to the project monitoring and evaluation system in cooperation with the BIRRR M&E expert
- You are in charge of general cross-cutting support activities in your area of responsibility, e.g. knowledge management and documentation, communications and administrative processes if requested