Organization: Fellowship of Reconciliation Peace Presence
Country: Colombia
Closing date: 15 Jun 2017
Job responsibilities
- Provide international protective and political accompaniment to our partner organizations and movements throughout Colombia. This includes ongoing information gathering and security analysis as a permanent human rights observer in conflict zones.
- Work to uphold human rights and international humanitarian law through supporting the FOR Peace Presence Coordination with political advocacy with the diplomatic core in Bogota.
- Help grow a global grassroots solidarity network to support nonviolent peace initiatives in Colombia through delegations, speaking tours, short videos, written articles and other social media outlets.
Job Qualifications
- A clear understanding of and commitment to nonviolence.
- Proficiency in both Spanish and English.
- A strong commitment to teamwork.
- Minimum commitment of one year.
- Minimum 24 years of age to apply.
- Resilience, the ability to work effectively under intense pressure and stress.
- Willingness to live in an extremely rural environment.
- Sensitivity to and the ability to work with people of different cultures demonstrated through previous experience with people of another culture. Experience in the field is an asset, but is not required. Familiarity with rural communities is also helpful.
- Familiarity with consensus decision-making.
- Ability to represent the project in a professional and appropriate manner, in a wide variety of settings.
- Ability to track and analyze information that is pertinent to the safety of volunteers, the need for external support, and/or the opportunities for enhancing the work.
- Basic computer skills.
- Reasonable proficiency with writing reports, summarizing information, and capturing stories through anecdotes or interviews, is highly recommended. Some familiarity with photography is recommended.
Other skills that may be useful but are not required include experience with first aid, translating and interpreting, cooking, and other skills of daily life. A good working knowledge of the current situation in Colombia is highly recommended.Team members are expected to do outreach and share their experience (speaking, writing) after service in Colombia.
Project Mandate
Fellowship of Reconciliation Peace Presence (FORPP)
Our mission is to provide physical safety, political visibility and solidarity by accompanying communities and organizations that embrace active nonviolence to defend life, land and dignity.
FORPP’s works to provide physical safety, political visibility and solidarity to those at risk in Colombia. In Colombia’s current changing context, this kind of accompaniment is essential. In addition to providing ongoing physical accompaniment to our partners, we also provide political accompaniment through meetings with Colombian civil and military officials as well as embassies, UN and other international officials. We provide visibility for these struggles through delegations, speaking tours, publications and an online presence, building bridges between communities in the north and south around issues important to both.
A priority in our work is to use the tool of accompaniment to not only hold governments accountable for basic human rights abuses, but to hold multinational corporations accountable for environmental devastation and social, economic, and cultural rights abuses in order to limit further damages.
How to apply:
For any questions and/or to submit a completed application with three references, please write Peter Cousins at peter@peacepresence.org with a copy to maren@peacepresence.org. We accept applications until 15th of June 2017 and will invite successful applicants to a phone interview followed by a week long training the 24th-28th of July 2017 in Bogotá, Colombia. The training is a mutual discernment process and will determine whether the applicant is invited to join the team.
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