Programme Officer, South Asia Programme

Job Title: Programme Officer, South Asia Programme

Location: UK, with ability to work from our London office one day a week or equivalent, with occasional international travel

Reporting to: Programme Manager

Duration: Until end of March 2025 initially, with potential for extension based on project funding.

Salary: £34,690.45

Deadline: 17:00 UK time, Friday 26 July 2024

Conciliation Resources

Conciliation Resources is an independent international organisation working with people in conflict to prevent violence, resolve conflicts and promote peaceful societies. We believe that building sustainable peace takes time. We provide practical support to help people affected by violent conflict achieve lasting peace. We draw on our shared experiences to improve peacebuilding policies and practice worldwide.

In South Asia, Conciliation Resources has been working with Kashmiris on either side of the Line of Control (LoC) supporting locally-led peacebuilding initiatives since 2008. Working with partners and a network of civic actors in all parts of Kashmir, we support their efforts in articulating local needs and perspectives to build up peace constituencies in support of conflict transformation in the region. Our goal is to enhance prospects for a non-violent transformation of the long-standing conflict over the disputed territories of Jammu and Kashmir. Additionally, the South Asia Programme has worked with partners on Afghanistan-related analysis and activities. The South Asia Programme is part of our wider Europe-Asia Department.

Job purpose

The Programme Officer provides project, partner, administrative and logistical support necessary for the implementation of the South Asia programme. The post holder will play a key role in liaising with partners across the areas in which we work, and in managing programme events and information. They will support consultants and volunteers working with the team.

Our South Asia Programme works closely with partners on both sides of the LoC, with UK based colleagues, supporting partners in person through travel, and also remotely. The candidate would need to be based in the UK, with travel to the London-based office weekly, and they will occasionally undertake international travel. They will be supported by colleagues in our wider Europe Asia Department, as well as colleagues within the South Asia programme.

The Programme Officer may be required to support wider departmental tasks as required. This may involve work with other programmes in the department and Research, Advisory and Policy Department colleagues as appropriate

Person specification

Essential knowledge, skills and experience

• Experience of working as part of a team in an administrative and support position.
• Strong organisational skills including planning, developing, implementing and maintaining administrative systems.
• Understanding of and interest in peacebuilding and conflict transformation processes.
• Knowledge of and interest in the South Asia context, and in particular Kashmir.
• Excellent communications skills, and ability to work in a multi-cultural environment.
• Experience supporting financial management including experience of preparing budgets, monitoring organisational and partner expenditure and supporting financial reporting.
• Experience remotely supporting partners on the successful joint delivery of work.
• Experience of supporting monitoring, evaluation and reporting of projects, and experience ofrevising and contributing to the drafting of reports.
• Strong commitment to, and experience of, team and cross-organisational working.
• Appreciation of issues of confidentiality, and cross-cultural and political sensitivity.
• Initiative, enthusiasm and a problem-solving approach to new challenges.
• Ability and willingness to travel to the South Asia region, and experience of hostile environment training or willingness to undertake hostile environment training.
• Fluent written and spoken English

Desirable knowledge, skills and experience

• Spoken or written Hindi or Urdu.
• Experience of supporting project management on UK and EU funded grant programmes.
• Experience fundraising