Closing Date: 15 August 2025
SADC is recruiting for a Programme Manager – ECESPA Project: Apply Now
Overview
The SADC Secretariat invites suitably qualified, experienced, innovative, result oriented and self-driven individuals who are citizens of SADC Member States to apply for the position of Programme Manager – ECESPA tenable at SADC Secretariat Headquarters in Gaborone, Botswana.
| Eligibility | All nationals of SADC Member States |
| Recruitment age limit | 52 and below |
| Salary range per annum (US$) | Grade 4 (99,643 – 93,097) |
| Contract duration | Effective from date of assumption of duty until 30 June 2028 |
Purpose of the Programme Manager – ECESPA job:
To provide strategic, technical and financial leadership to the overall implementation and monitoring of the SADC–EU Peace and Security Programme: Enhancing the Capability and Effectiveness of SADC’s Peace and Security Architecture (ECESPA). The Programme is designed to support and strengthen key Organ mechanisms and institutions from June 2024 to June 2028. The Overall Objective of ECESPA is to promote
peace, security, stability, and democracy as a foundation for regional integration and development, in line with the SADC Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan (RISDP 2020-2030).
The Specific Objectives are two fold:
i) Effectiveness of SADC Peace and Security Architecture to enable early response and action enhanced; and
ii) Capacity of Non-State Actors (NSAs) in Conflict tracking and early response enhanced.
Guided by SADC’s RISDP 2020-2030, ECESPA aims to strengthen SADC’s peace infrastructure, making it more capable and responsive to crises in a timely and informed manner. In this respect, the Programme will seek to enhance the capacity of SADC conflict prevention and management structures effectively integrating gender and human rights, (in line with SADC Protocol on Gender and Development and Women, Peace and Security Strategy), as well as addressing Transnational organised crime, terrorism and
violent extremism, radicalisation, and human security concerns.
The Programme also includes Conflict Related Sexual Violence (CRSV), Sexual and Gender Based Violence
(S/GBV) and the Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) in conflict and humanitarian situations. In addition, the capacitation of women and youth to participate in SADC peace and security interventions is cardinal, as is the strengthening of SADC’s peer review mechanisms on good governance.
In this regard, the Programme enhances the capacity of the Organ partly through the curriculum development and trainings of the Regional Peace Keeping Training Centre (RPTC) based in Harare; support to the Regional Counter Terrorism Centre (RCTC) in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania,Warning Centre (REWC), the Mediation, Conflict Prevention and Preventative Diplomacy Structures, and the region’s electoral assistance mechanisms
Position Requirements
Qualifications
Master’s degree in Political Science, Development Studies, International Relations,
Security Studies, Communication Science or other suitably related Social Sciences or
Management disciplines.
Specialised Knowledge
- Experience and knowledge of EU Development Assistance Procedures/facilities, such as Contribution Agreements (CA) and Pillar-Assessed Grant or Delegation Agreement (PAGoDAs) OR any other EU funded programmes, is highly desirable
- 10 years practical experience and knowledge in at least four key thematic areas of the Programme including: i) Transnational organised crime ii) conflict prevention and management iii) electoral assistance and good governance; iii) CRSV, GBV, PSEA and other related human security areas iv) Post Conflict Reconstruction and Development (PCRD) v) Knowledge Management and partnership building (including Non state actors)
How to Apply
Applicants are advised to apply online by attaching CV’s, certified copies of educational, professional certificates. Applications with inadequate supporting documents will not be considered.
Only applicants who meet the requirements of the SADC Secretariat will be considered for interview. Should you not hear from the SADC Secretariat within two months after the closing date, kindly consider your application as unsuccessful.
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