Experto/a en trabajo comunitario

Strengthens community organisations participating in Colombia’s drug-policy and peacebuilding initiatives through participatory methods, technical accompaniment and territorial analysis, helping communities formulate, implement, monitor and sustain locally owned projects.

Department: Peacebuilding and Inclusive Governance Cluster

• Accompany civil-society organisations and territorial leaders through project formulation, implementation and monitoring
• Assess organisational, community, methodological and participation needs affecting project sustainability
• Design participatory, pedagogical and methodological tools for community training and initiative development
• Facilitate dialogue, consultation and collective work among communities, public bodies and technical partners
• Strengthen community capacity to manage initiatives supporting lawful economies, peace and social cohesion
• Integrate human-rights, peacebuilding, territorial, differential and do-no-harm approaches
• Identify participation barriers, community conflicts and territorial risks and propose mitigation routes
• Produce methodological guides, monitoring matrices, technical reports and documented lessons for project decisions

• At least eight years of professional experience in community work, organisational processes, peace education, civic participation, participatory methods, territorial advocacy, social-project management or peacebuilding
• Experience designing and implementing participatory methods, popular education, civic training or community learning
• Experience formulating, managing, monitoring or following up social and community projects
• Command of office tools and community-monitoring information
• Fluency in Spanish

• National UN Volunteer assignment with an indicated duration of 92 days
• Monthly Volunteer Living Allowance is COP 8,515,500
• Regular missions are expected to municipalities in several Colombian departments
• The volunteer is responsible for arranging housing in Bogotá
• Extension is subject to funding, operational need and satisfactory performance, but renewal is not currently foreseen