• A university degree in the relevant areas (eg. development studies, social work or programme management or finance).
• Experience of supporting or managing humanitarian and development programmes.

Learning and development opportunities:

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has a range of L&D opportunities to help develop the right candidate in the role and provide wider learning of FCDO. The successful candidate will have opportunities to build their skills by on-the job experience, learning sessions delivered through FCDO’s centre for delivery and potentially programme management accreditation if the candidate meets the criteria.

South Sudan is the world’s youngest country and third most fragile state. It has regressed on key stability and development indicators since independence in 2011.  

We have a significant interest in promoting stability in South Sudan as members of the Troika, guarantors of the Peace Process, and using our aid and diplomacy efforts to improve the accountability between the state and its citizens, save lives and build resilience. A stable South Sudan will rely less on humanitarian assistance and allow more UK aid spending to be directed towards development.

Through our work in partnership with the UN and others on South Sudan, we help to shape international responses to protracted humanitarian crises, intractable conflicts and supporting countries in transition.  South Sudan is a priority country for PSVI and is a focus country in the UK’s Gender National Action Plan.

UK Objectives

We want to see a South Sudan that is more stable, with reduced levels of conflict throughout the country and reductions in food insecurity and poverty, and increased resilience to shocks and stresses. We want to see the Government of South Sudan use more of its own resources (including oil revenues) to deliver essential services to its people.  
  
British Embassy Juba (BEJ)

BEJ is a mid-sized post with around 80 staff. We draw on the expertise, mandates and advice of East Africa Department including the Sudan and South Sudan Envoy, regional posts (Nairobi and Kampala in particular) and missions in New York, Washington and Geneva.  
 
To deliver BEJ objectives in South Sudan, our political, development and humanitarian experts develop joint analysis and policy and deliver jointly on objectives across the full range of BEJ priorities. The deeply entwined political, humanitarian and development challenges require us to fully exploit our diplomatic and development expertise in both strategy and delivery. 
 
We are organised into 5 teams:  

• Delivery Excellence (DelEx) – responsible for providing strategic oversight, coordination, quality assurance and compliance across BEJ programming, influencing and policy work to support delivery and monitoring of the Country Plan
• Essential Services Team (EST) – responsible for delivering policy and programming aimed at improving provision of essential services, with a focus on Girls Education and ending preventable deaths.
• Humanitarian and Livelihoods Team (HLT) – Focussed on delivering lifesaving humanitarian assistance and resilience building work, influencing the in-country humanitarian architecture and leading on BEJ’s climate resilience activity.
• Building Stability and Open Societies (BSOS) – responsible for political, economic, conflict and social development advice and analysis as well as peacebuilding, governance and GBV programming.
• Corporate Services Team (CST) – responsible for running the platform, non-programme finance, transport, security, IT, protocol and estates.

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