Political Advisor IRTEQA – Enhancing the Political Transition

Join GIZ as a Political Advisor to enhance Syria's political transition through strategic oversight and collaboration with national institutions.

• Ensuring strategic and operational oversight for managing relations with Syrian national bodies, incl. senior-level engagement with government representatives
• Developing coherent strategies and practical approaches at the project level
• Providing hands-on political advice and support to project implementation, including advisory services to partners and support to project management
• Providing expertise in politically sensitive positioning, structured dialogue and the careful calibration of engagement in line with the project’s objective and mandate.
• Ensuring strategic planning, coordination and sequencing of activities, quality assurance and proactive partner management in the domains of civil peace, transitional justice, and public policy for peace and social cohesion
• Supporting the integration of relevant technical approaches into project strategies and activities, ensuring they are applied effectively in complex contexts
• Supporting the design and facilitation of project activities related to the project’s thematic areas
• Contributing to monitoring, documentation and reporting, ensuring that results, lessons learned and evidence from implementation are documented
• Ensuring that learning from project implementation is systematically fed back into adaptive project management and continuous improvement of approaches
• Where appropriate and reasonable, performing additional tasks upon request of the management

• University degree (Master’s level or equivalent) in political science, international relations, public administration, development studies, economics, or a related field
• Minimum 5 years practical experience in the areas of diplomacy, mediation, peacebuilding, dialogue promotion and facilitation, civil peace or transitional justice
• Experience in politically sensitive relation management and advisory in complex contexts, incl senior-level engagement with governmental representatives
• Strong ability to collaborate and build networks with various stakeholders on different national and international levels
• Political and analytical thinking, political sensitivity and intercultural competence
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written
• Commitment, team spirit, reliability, diplomatic skills and gender competence
• Professional fluency in written and spoken English and Arabic, knowledge of German is an asset