CPTnet
10 October 2016
CPT INTERNATIONAL: CPT Seeks Psychosocial Care Coordinator
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Christian
Peacemaker Teams (CPT) is accepting expressions of interest for the full-time position
of: Psychosocial Care Coordinator.
Team: Independent Consultant accountable to CPT’s Administrative Team
Reports to Program Director
Terms: Independent Consultant, full-time, 40 hours/week, three-year appointment
Compensation: to be negotiated
Location: flexible; international travel required
Start Date: 1 December 2016
Application
Deadline: 30 October 2016
Please
send resumé and statement of motivation to program@cpt.org.
Full job description available upon request.
Position Summary:
This full-time (40 hours/week) position
supports CPT’s efforts to resource the well-being of its workers. It entails providing
independent spiritual and psychosocial support for CPT members whose work
involves physical rigor, communication in crisis situations, and exposure to
violence and trauma.
Responsibilities include 1) providing group support to all CPT teams; 2)
coordinating CPT’s Circle of Care (network of volunteer counselors and healers);
3) developing organizational structures that foster a culture of sustainable care
in peace work; 4) working with CPT staff to coordinate holistic responses to
team needs.
The position involves international travel to project sites and some
organizational meetings.
Description of Organization:
Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) is an international non-profit organization dedicated
to building partnerships to transform violence and oppression in situations of lethal conflict around the
world. We are committed to
work and relationships that: 1) honor and reflect the presence of faith and
spirituality, 2) strengthen grassroots initiatives, 3) transform structures of
domination and oppression, and 4) embody creative nonviolence and liberating
love.
CPT understands violence to be rooted in systemic
structures of oppression. We are
committed to undoing oppressions within our own lives and in the policies and
practices of our organization.
CPT is a Christian-identified organization with
multi-faith, spiritually diverse membership.
We seek individuals who are capable, responsible and rooted in
faith/spirituality to work for peace as members of violence-reduction teams
trained in the disciplines of nonviolence.
Information about our
current peacemaking work in Canada, Colombia, Iraqi Kurdistan and Palestine is
available on our website at www.cpt.org.
Qualifications –
Position-specific:
- Education
and experience with trauma counseling - Education
and/or experience with group dynamics and conflict transformation - Experience working with people from a variety of faith/spiritual backgrounds
- Experience
or affinity with peace and justice activism - Ability
to appropriately navigate needs for both transparency and confidentiality - Excellent people management skills
- Oral and written fluency in English and Spanish required. Fluency in Arabic, Kurdish, and/or Ojibwe a plus
- Proficient with e-mail, telephone, conference call, and
video-conferencing as primary tools of work communication across continents - Able to:
- work independently and
collaboratively as part of a globally dispersed team - travel across international borders
- Must be over age 21
- Non-CPT members must participate in CPT’s month-long training
program as part of their orientation
Qualifications –
General:
- Commitment to CPT’s mission,
vision, and values - Commitment to support nonviolent peacemaking as part of a team in a
context of intense conflict and oppression - Grounding in faith/spirituality
- Experience in and commitment to dismantling racism, sexism, heterosexism
and other oppressions; awareness of ways that oppressions intersect;
sensitivity to ways oppression operates differently in different cultural
settings - Understanding of and willingness
to participate in decisionmaking by consensus while nurturing a culture of
communication and consultation
