Contract Manager – Home Based Volunteer Position

**Volunteer Position: Young Peacebuilders Contract Manager

Job Title: Contract Manager

Hours: 12-20 hours weekly on average Commitment: 12 Months

Pay: Unpaid position, no salary or stipend paid, only agreed expenses paid.

Reporting To: Partnerships or Development Director

Language: Spoken and written fluency in English

Location: Anywhere with good communications & internet (internet not provided)

Deadline: Reviewed until position is filled.

Benefits

Fantastic experience and responsibilities to strengthen your resume. Coaching and learning from the industry’s finest (PhD’s amongst others) with ample opportunity to build capacity and develop skills while helping conflict affected children and youth wage peace. Learning about child/youth peacebuilding and a potential letter of recommendation.

What Young Peacebuilders Does

Young Peacebuilders (YP) develops partnerships, research, projects and tools that nurture peacebuilding passion and skill in children and youth in conflict-affected contexts. In this way YP helps prevent and end cycles of violence. We also help design effective child and youth peacebuilding projects and research for others. We want to see a major shift in the dominant method of addressing contemporary conflicts toward investing in young people as peacebuilders.

Role Summary

YP is known as an expert in the field of child and youth peacebuilding. We’ve received contracts from various UN agencies and international non-profits. As part of our strategy to build the capacity of other organizations around the world to better support children and youth as effective peacebuilders, we aim to increase the consulting services we offer to others. The successful candidate will oversee the pursuit of child and youth peacebuilding related consulting contracts and manage delivery of awarded contracts among a roster of consultants. The successful candidate may help deliver on contracts where s/he is qualified to do so.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities vary depending upon the duration of one’s commitment, number of hours committed, interests, skills, and experience. We ensure responsibilities increase along with one’s skill level.

• Help build and manage a team of consultants who satisfy consulting contracts for YP

• Help build and manage a team of volunteers who research and identify YP relevant contracts, submit proposals, budgets, and work plans, and then clarify and build the team to deliver on each awarded contract

• Oversee delivery of awarded contracts to ensure YP exceeds expectations. This may include among other things:

• Ensuring flights are booked for o consultants at cost-effective rates

• periodic analysis of demand and service provided

• Recruitment and selection of staff in consultation with Director / YP’s Human Resources Team

Skills and Qualifications

• Experience working as a paid contracted consultant

• Extremely organized and faithful with great team and project management skills

• Bachelor’s degree, or similar experience, in business, non-profit management, political science, peace and conflict studies

• 4+ years of experience in project management roles that include managing other people

• Experience working with small and large NGOs, community-based organizations, foundations, and/or governments

• Experience travel management and human resources management

• Experience working remotely with teams across the world

• Fluency in English, both written and oral

• Strong interpersonal, presentation, and communication skills to meet the diverse technical and managerial requirements of the program and to effectively coordinate with a wide range of stakeholders.

• Strong computer skills

• Ability to train team, set and meet deadlines **