Consultant for Resilient States Project - Pennsylvania

Search for Common Ground • PA

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About The Position

Common Ground USA (CG-USA) is seeking a consultant to advise CG-USA on building connections and relationships with key state-level political leaders, civil society organizations, and other leaders across the political spectrum in Pennsylvania, with a focus on organizing anti-political violence efforts in Harrisburg. This consultancy is program-funded. Common Ground USA (CG-USA) fosters collaboration across differences to address America’s most significant challenges and build a society where everyone can belong and thrive. As part of Search for Common Ground, with 40 years of global conflict resolution experience, CG-USA transforms conflict into cooperation with programming focused on the United States. At CG-USA, we believe that most Americans want to overcome the divisions we face in our society and that we all have a role to play. Engaging across political and other divides, we view disagreement as an opportunity to transform conflict into cooperation and solve our most pressing problems. All of our work is rooted in an evidence base where we strengthen the five vital signs of peace: safety, social cohesion, institutional legitimacy, personal agency, and resourcing peace.

Requirements

• More than 7 years of experience in a combination of the following areas are required.
• Deep working knowledge and relationships with community leaders and civil society organizations within Pennsylvania.
• Deep understanding of political violence, conflict resolution, and related socio-political issues in the United States.
• Excellent writing, editing, and communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with diverse groups and individuals, including across political differences.
• The candidate must be based in the state of Pennsylvania.

Nice To Haves

• Pre-existing relationships with Pennsylvania state leaders working on community building or political violence mitigation.

Responsibilities

• Provide networking and relationship-building with key state-level political leaders, civil society organizations, and other leaders who have some measure of interest, capacity, or influence to prevent political violence in Pennsylvania.
• Convene state-level political leaders in efforts that oppose or discourage political violence.
• Advise the CG-USA team on initial stakeholder consultation for anti-political violence effort in Harrisburg.
• Advise CG-USA on a facilitation plan for convening political leaders against political violence in Harrisburg.
• Organize and facilitate a Harrisburg convening of political leaders against political violence.
• Review list of existing relationships, identify gaps, provide recommendations for additional outreach, and make target introductions to the CG-USA team as needed.
• Complete the reports listed below.

Benefits

• Compensation for required travel and other additional expenses that are pre-approved.
• Support in arranging logistics as agreed upon based on the consultant’s proposal.

What This Job Offers

• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees