Life and Peace Institute Strategic Peace-building Policy Advisor - Jobs in Kenya

Life and Peace Institute Strategic Peace-building Policy Advisor - Jobs in Kenya

LPI is launching a novel and ambitious programme in 2019 which seeks to examine how international
peace policies- and actors engage with conflict-affected communities and local civil society and
engages relevant stakeholders to ensure more meaningful participation of those affected by
conflicts in global conversations on peace-and conflict.

Are you passionate about seeing a more
equitable world and interested in asking the fundamental questions about the current status quo
and keen to find new answers, together with others?

Do you want to be a part of a new team who is
seeking to ‘ignite a rethink’ on global policy engagement on peacebuilding?

The Life & Peace Institute is now looking for a committed and experienced professional to provide overarching strategic policy advice for our work, in the role of Strategic Peacebuilding Policy Advisor.

About us

The Life & Peace Institute (LPI) is an international centre that supports and promotes nonviolent approaches to conflict transformation through a combination of research and action.

At the core of this work is the strengthening of existing local capacities and enhancing the preconditions for building peace.

For the past thirty years, LPI has partnered with civil society organisations and
research institutions to strengthen locally-led peacebuilding processes through capacity
development and accompaniment.

Through programmes in Democratic Republic of the Congo,Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Sudan, LPI brings a range of participatory approaches and
methodologies that are effective in creating space for dialogue, violence prevention, and
peacebuilding action.

LPI also supports the development of policies that help to improve the lives of people in places affected by violence, including through its Horn of Africa Regional Programme based in Addis Ababa.

Increasingly, LPI is also seeking to link its work to the global policy discussions
on peacebuilding and conflict transformation with a view to inform the theoretical and policy
debates with the practice of lived experience of peacebuilders.

About your role

The Strategic Policy Advisor will guide and support the implementation of LPI’s overarching and
programmatic policy advocacy efforts and monitoring progress towards agreed policy goals as well
as support coordination with LPI’s global policy efforts, in close coordination with managers and LPIcolleagues.

Main Tasks

Support to policy work in individual programmes