Peace Direct jobs: latest jobs and internships at Peace Direct, an international peacebuilding charity.
Jobs in our London Office*
Content and Storytelling Officer
£26,000 per year
Full time, fixed term 12 month contract
For this new role, we’re looking for someone with bundles of creative flair and imagination to help us unearth, develop and publish a wide range of impactful, multimedia content, to tell the story of local peacebuilders.
We have ambitious plans to raise our profile and engage even more supporters in the next 12 months – so you’re joining us at an exciting time!
You will be part of a supportive and experienced communications and fundraising team. The right person will understand the basics of project planning, content creation, design, creative writing and editing. You should be comfortable working with internal and external colleagues as well as supporting local groups around the world to develop their own content.
You’ll be a positive person, able to communicate and articulate clearly to multiple audiences. You relish every challenge, every creative opportunity, everyday. You’ll help us to inspire, deliver and collaborate and be a positive force, who will put skin in the game and want to produce the best work possible.
Finally, we are looking for someone with a genuine passion for our mission to support local efforts to build peace.
*While the post is based in our London office, we have closed our office due to Covid and do not expect to reopen it fully until September 2021. Therefore the successful candidate will be expected to work from home initially. Please note that this is a fixed term contract, for 12 months.
Peace Direct strives to be a diverse and inclusive employer, with equality of opportunities regardless of personal identity, and we are committed to improving our systems and ways of working to support this, including creating a Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) working group, DEI strategy and recruitment guidelines. We strongly encourage individuals from disadvantaged and underrepresented backgrounds to apply, including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME), LGBTQ+, people with disabilities and people with mental health challenges. See the ‘Working at Peace Direct’ section below for some of the benefits of joining our team.
Deadline for applications Sunday 11th July.
Only completed applications will be accepted (no CVs please) and only applicants with the right to work in the UK will be considered (we do not yet hold a Home Office visa sponsor license and so cannot accept applications from people who don’t already have the right to work in the UK.
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Senior Programme Officer
£31,500 per year, full time
As Senior Programme Officer, you will be part of the Programmes and Research team where you will be responsible for supporting our local partners across sub-Saharan Africa and selected countries on other continents depending on our strategic priorities. The peacebuilding programmes that we support range from youth-led peacebuilding efforts in Mali and Pakistan, atrocity prevention initiatives in Sudan to post-conflict community cohesion activities in Nigeria. Our local partners are working under the most difficult conditions and your job is to provide the best possible support to them, through helping them think through learning frameworks, leading on various aspects of grant management and reporting, exploring ways to strengthen financial sustainability, supporting new programme development, and solving problems together as they arise.
The successful candidate will have a minimum of four years’ experience in a similar or relevant role, and experience of working with local partners in developing countries on multi-year programmes funded by institutional donors. The role requires excellent communication skills, written and verbal, and the successful candidate must be fluent in French. Managing complex programmes requires excellent organisational skills and very strong financial literacy skills as we expect the successful candidate to be very comfortable in handling complex spreadsheets and reviewing financial reports from partners. We are also looking for someone who is creative, calm and adaptable even under the most challenging of circumstances. The work we support around the world is based in some of the most volatile contexts, and things often don’t go according to plan. We are looking for people who thrive under these situations.
Finally, we are looking for someone with a genuine passion for our mission to support local efforts to build peace. We have no overseas offices, employ no expatriate staff and we are looking for people who see this as our strength, as everything we do is designed to strengthen the role of local people’s efforts to stop violence and build sustainable peace.
*While the post is based in our London office, we have closed our office due to Covid and do not expect to reopen it fully until September 2021. Therefore the successful candidate will be expected to work from home until September at the earliest, though some work in the office may be possible upon request.
Peace Direct strives to be a diverse and inclusive employer, with equality of opportunities regardless of personal identity, and we are committed to improving our systems and ways of working to support this, including creating a Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) working group, DEI strategy and recruitment guidelines. We strongly encourage individuals from disadvantaged and underrepresented backgrounds to apply, including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME), LGBTQ+, people with disabilities and people with mental health challenges. See the ‘Working at Peace Direct’ section below for some of the benefits of joining our team.
Deadline for applications: Sunday 20th June.
Only completed applications will be accepted and only applicants with the right to work in the UK will be considered (we do not yet hold a Home Office visa sponsor license and so cannot accept applications from people who don’t already have the right to work in the UK. Some of the benefits of working for Peace Direct are listed below.
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Working at Peace Direct
Peace Direct works hard to ensure its staff have a good work life balance and feel valued. Some of the benefits we have include:
- 25 days annual leave not including the office closing between Christmas and New Year.
- Stakeholder Pension with Peace Direct contributing 6%
- An interest free season ticket loan for the purchase of a commuter season ticket
- Flexible working hours
- Enhanced maternity and adoption leave pay (12 weeks full pay, 12 weeks half pay)
- Training budget available for all staff (we have secured ‘Investors in People’ accreditation and are committed to the development and support of all staff).
- A warm and friendly work environment!
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