Handläggare för fred, säkerhet och resiliens

The embassy of Sweden in Dakar recruits a national programme officer (NPO) and policy officer for Peace, Security and Resilience 

Deadline for applications: 14 December, 2025

THEMATIC FOCUS

Peace, security and resilience

RESPONSIBILITIES/JOB DESCRIPTION

The Officer’s responsibilities include, but will not be limited to:

Identify, assess and manage projects/programs in accordance with procedures provided by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida);

Engage in monitoring, follow-up of results and policy dialogue with cooperation partners;

Participate in consultations and coordination with donor groups;

Participate in cyclical activities led by the Regional Section at the embassy in Addis Ababa, normally quarterly planning and follow-up, semi-annual and annual reporting, as well as ad-hoc reporting as required by HQ;

Contribute to the analysis and reporting of the embassy within the fields of politics, migration, peace, security, resilience and humanitarian affairs.

Organise meetings, events and roundtables on the thematic areas covered.

The tasks to be undertaken require a certain amount of travel, mainly within West Africa, as well as coordination with colleagues at Sida in Stockholm and at other Swedish Embassies in Africa.

QUALIFICATIONS AND WORK EXPERIENCES

Required qualifications:

• Documented academic degree within political science, peace and security, conflict studies or other relevant academic background, minimum at Master’s level;
• Fluency in English and French (both oral and written);
• Extensive experience of working with computer programmes, applications, and systems.

Required work experience:

• Three to five years documented experience of work related to Peace, Security and resilience in an African continental or regional context; and
• Documented experience of managing donor-funded programmes and projects in a development cooperation context, including legal aspects related to agreements and financial follow-up.

Additional qualifications considered as merits are:

• Proven capacity to work independently, take leadership of processes, manage programmes and budgets, create relevant professional networks and to conduct dialogue and negotiations with partners and colleagues;
• A team-player with good communication skills;
• A results-oriented approach to work as well as practical experience from Results Based Management (RBM);
• A good understanding of the African continental and sub-regional institutional structure (African Union, Regional Economic Communities (RECs) etc), as well as policies and legal frameworks;
• Experience in risk assessment and anti-corruption;
• Proficiency in Swedish or other additional language skills that are relevant to the position.

We offer:

- A time-limited contract of one year, with possible extension (Contrat à durée déterminée (CDD) de droit sénégalais) with one + one months trial period

- Starting date : February 1st

- Work hours : 39h45 per week, Monday to Friday

- 28 days paid vacation per year + national holidays according to Senegalese law

- Medical insurance

- Pension

- We apply individual and differentiated salaries based on local labour market salary levels

- Possibility for competence and skills development

The embassy is located in Fann Résidence.

Your application :

Candidates are invited to send their application (CV, personal letter, copy of id card) no later than December 14 to ambassaden.dakar@gov.se Please mark your e-mail with subject line: Candidature – NPO peace, security and resilience