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Project Implementation Consultant (PIC)

Search For Common Ground
United States, D.C., Washington
May 02, 2025
Team Summary Common Ground USA (CG-USA) fosters collaboration across differences to address America's biggest 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 in 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 see disagreement as an opportunity to transform conflict into cooperation to solve our most pervasive 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. We launched our Collective Memory Program through The Reconstructing Reconstruction project in New Orleans. Our Collective Memory work empowers communities to recognize New Orleans as a historic testing ground for equality in America and to address long-standing divisions through trust-building, community memorialization, and collective action. Participants engage with stories of both trauma and triumph, gaining tools to navigate difficult conversations about the past and its present-day impacts. Central to this work is the belief that communities should have the power to decide what gets remembered. Participants nominate, discuss, and vote on the historical figures, places, and events they want to lift up-ensuring the stories preserved reflect lived experience and collective values. By building authentic relationships and nurturing transformative leadership, we support efforts to bridge divides, repair historical wounds, and prevent future conflict-not just for one community, but for everyone who calls this city home.We are currently in the design phase for our next project in New Orleans, and are in need of Project Implementation Consulting Services for the second phase of our Collective Memory Work in New Orleans. The PIC will work closely with the Program Manager to implement a collective memory program for the next 12 months. The PIC should have the following experience: Community organizing Forms of memorialization in New Orleans and the United States Collective memory work Project management RESPONSE DUE MAY 4, 2025 TO KJAMES@SFCG.ORG Please consider the following scope of services requested, and provide your response/quote. Thank you! TERM 12 MONTHS 30 HOURS PER MONTH SCOPE OF SERVICES: Recruit potential cohort members Participate in selection of cohort members Design cohort training curriculum Lead cohort trainings in accordance with curriculum Facilitate program implementation Participate in program evaluation PROJECT TIMELINE: May 2025 Finalize project design Draft cohort member responsibilities Develop two-year work plan with goals and outcomes Design cohort training curriculum Recruit and Select Cohort Members The 15-member cohort will be selected by June 1, ensuring diversity across race, geography, religion, age, political perspective, gender, and identity (including both indigenous and transplant voices). June - August 2025 Cohort Training Over three months, cohort members will take part in immersive, hands-on training. In addition to Common Ground Approach training, participants will explore the selected historical topic through oral histories, site visits, and interactive sessions. They'll also be introduced to different approaches to memorialization-including traditional markers, public art, and community storytelling. September 2025 - December 2026 - Program Implementation Following training, the cohort will decide on a shared project rooted in what they've learned. This could include historical markers or other creative forms of public memory, with a focus on methods that are visible, lasting, and accessible. Participants will be given budget-aligned options and support to shape the final work. As job descriptions cannot be exhaustive, the position holder may be required to undertake other duties that are broadly in line with the above key responsibilities. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Only applicants invited for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please. Please see our website www.sfcg.org for full details of our work. All Search Employees must adhere to the values: Collaboration- Audacity - Tenacity - Empathy - Results. In accordance with these values, Search enforces compliance with the Code of Conduct and related policies on Anti Workplace Harassment, Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Conflict of Interest, and Anti-fraud. Search is committed to safeguarding the interests, rights, and well-being of children, youth, and vulnerable adults with whom it is in contact and to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for children, youth, and vulnerable adults. Search for Common Ground does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of its activities or operations. View our code of conduct here and our privacy policy here . Les descriptifs de pouvant ne pouvant etre exhaustifs, le titulaire du poste pourra etre amene a entreprendre d'autres taches qui correspondent globalement aux responsabilites cles ci-dessus. -------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- Seuls les candidats invites a un entretien seront contactes. Pas d'appels telephoniques s'il vous plait. Veuillez consulter notre site Web www.sfcg.org pour tous les details de notre mission. Tous les employes de Search doivent adherer aux valeurs de Search : Collaboration- Audace - Tenacite - Empathie - Resultats. Conformement a ces valeurs, Search fait respecter le code de conduite et les politiques connexes sur la lutte contre le harcelement au travail, la protection contre l'exploitation et les abus, la protection des enfants, les conflits d'interets et la lutte contre la fraude. Search s'engage a preserver les interets, les droits et le bien-etre des enfants, des jeunes et des adultes vulnerables avec lesquels elle est en contact et a mener ses programmes et ses operations d'une maniere qui soit sure pour les enfants, les jeunes et les adultes vulnerables. Search for Common Ground ne fait pas et ne doit pas faire de discrimination fondee sur la race, la couleur, la religion (croyance), le sexe, l'expression de genre, l'age, l'origine nationale (ascendance), le handicap, l'etat matrimonial, l'orientation sexuelle ou le statut militaire, dans aucune de ses activites ou operations. Consultez notre code de conduite ici et notre politique de confidentialite ici. Dado que la descripcion de funciones no puede ser exhaustiva, el titular del puesto puede tener que realizar otras tareas que coinciden en lineas generales con las responsabilidades clave mencionadas. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Solo se contactara con los candidatos invitados a una entrevista. Se agradece no recibir llamadas telefonicas. Consulte nuestro sitio web www.sfcg.org para conocer todos los detalles de nuestro trabajo. Todos los empleados de Search deben adherirse a los valores de la organizacion: Colaboracion - Audacia - Tenacidad - Empatia - Resultados. De acuerdo con estos valores, Search hace cumplir el Codigo de Conducta y las politicas relacionadas con luchar contra el acoso en el lugar de trabajo, la proteccion contra la explotacion y el abuso, la proteccion de la infancia, los conflictos de intereses y la lucha contra el fraude. Search se compromete a salvaguardar los intereses, derechos y bienestar de los ninos, jovenes y adultos vulnerables con los que esta en contacto y a llevar a cabo sus programas y operaciones de una manera que sea segura para los ninos, jovenes y adultos vulnerables. Search for Common Ground no discrimina ni discriminara por motivos de raza, color, religion (credo), genero, expresion de genero, edad, origen nacional (ascendencia), discapacidad, estado civil, orientacion sexual o condicion militar, en ninguna de sus actividades u operaciones. Consulte nuestro codigo de conducta aqui y nuestra politica de privacidad aqui .