Generic Roles And Responsibilities

The balance of effort on each Conflict Adviser role will vary between specific roles.

Assessment and analysis:
Maintain situational awareness through regular analysis and assessment of conflict dynamics, needs and corresponding response.
Communicate this well to colleagues, senior officials and Ministers within FCDO and HMG and to external partners in order to effectively influence the necessary evolution or changes of policy and programme priorities.
Policy:
Position the UK at the forefront of conflict policy engagement through developing policy, contributing to influencing strategies and directly advocating for UK conflict policy objectives through various senior forums within HMG or externally at country, regional or global level.
Engage effectively with senior officials and alsodirectly with Ministers as necessary.
Develop close engagement with HQ conflict policy and research teams to ensure that the policy work in this role is informing and learning from UK conflict policy as it develops.
Influence the conflict sensitivity of FCDO policy including surfacing and helping manage tensions and trade-offs between competing objectives.
Ensure evidence driven policy making including through providing clear and well targeted advice based on the latest research and evidence.
Programme:
Provide technical oversight and lead technical advice into the design, delivery, monitoring, evaluation and learning of FCDO conflict projects and programmes.
In some contexts, conflict advisers will also provide overall Senior Responsible Owner programme leadership functions, including ensuring compliance with internal programming rules and engaging other staff effectively as necessary etc.
Support the conflict sensitivity of FCDO programmes through advising on those programmes and building the conflict sensitivity capability and systems of other teams.
Relationships and networks:
Establish constructive relationships with key individuals and organisations, including representing FCDO with relevant partners and in relevant forums (e.g., donor coordination, Conflict Country Teams etc.). This will be dependent on the role but could include for example:
Internally within FCDO and HMG: working across FCDO teams and with other government departments.
Externally: with host or donor governments including at senior levels, with the private sector, civil society, research organisations, academia, but also with international bilateral and multilateral aid agencies and foundations, in-country, at headquarters, regionally and/or internationally – as needed.
People and building capability:
Maintain cutting edge understanding of and application of evidence and work to build the capability of others.
Conflict Advisers may sometimes be required to also effectively line manage a number ofother technical advisers or broader teams.

For further details on the skills and experience required for a Conflict Adviser please refer to the Conflict Technical Competency Framework

All Conflict advisers are also required to provide up to 10% of their time (equivalent to 22 days per year) to support FCDO’s wider conflict objectives. This might entail support to another country programme such as contributing to an annual review, developing an evidence product or the design and delivery of training for other cadre members or HMG officials.

As a Conflict Adviser you would be part of a broader community of practice (Cadre) and a network of people who will support you in your career – helping with questions, providing examples, encouraging you to do your very best!

You will be able to take advantage of significant Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and learning opportunities, including the ability to access and collaborate with an extensive network of technical experts embedded across the organisation.

You would be assigned a Technical Quality Assurer (TQA) – a more senior or experienced member of the cadre, able to provide technical guidance, monitoring and connections across the organisation. 

We welcome applications from all parts of the community regardless of gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or background. We are committed to diversity and inclusion in all that we do. We encourage and support all staff to realise their potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Everyone gets the support to develop their skills and capabilities, as well as benefits that help to make the most of life in and out of work; for example, flexible working, Learning & Development opportunities tailored to your role, and access to the Civil Service pension scheme.

In return, we guarantee a fascinating, personally rewarding career at the centre of world events.

Please note we are also recruiting for Overseas Conflict Advisers 364961 so if you are interested, please apply through that campaign.

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