Local Coordinator for Galle District – Search For Common Ground

Terms of Reference: Local Coordinator for Galle District

Search for Common Ground, Sri Lanka is recruiting a local coordinator for Galle District to support the implementation of the “It’s About Time: Travelling History Museum”. This initiative aims to strengthen social cohesion and peace in Sri Lanka by promoting a more inclusive and pluralistic public discourse on issues pertaining to Sri Lanka’s past.

For the complete terms of reference and process of sending the application please use the following link https://shorturl.at/iEEmR

Interested and qualified applicants are requested to submit the relevant documents to sfcgprocurementsri@sfcg.org on or before 07th October 2024.

This project is a continuation of the It’s About Time: Traveling History Museum initiative, implemented by Historicaldialogue.lk, which was a unit of the GIZ program Strengthening Reconciliation Processes in Sri Lanka (SRP). The current phase of “It’s About Time Traveling History Museum” will be implemented by Search for Common Ground (SFCG) with Collective for Historical Dialogue and Memory (CHDM) playing a technical advisory role and supported by GIZ under the program Strengthening of Social Cohesion and Peace in Sri Lanka (SCOPE).

This initiative, will mobilize a wide range of people, including children and students through the content of the museum, to question, debate and understand the impact of historical injustices, war and violence, as well as historical connections between Sri Lanka’s peoples to strengthen peace and reconciliation efforts under Search for Common Ground’s peacebuilding pillar. The museum will be a launching pad for conversations on systemic and structural issues of governance, equality and peace that complement and further Search’s existing work with youth, local government officials and women in particular.

The overall objective of this project is ‘strengthening social cohesion and peace in Sri Lanka by promoting a more inclusive and pluralistic public discourse on issues pertaining to Sri Lanka’s past’. This is supported through the following two complementary outcomes.

Outcome 1: Increased awareness and acceptance of diversity/pluralistic historical narratives and commonalities of Sri Lankans among the museum visitors.

Outcome 2: Enhanced social cohesion through community engagement and shared cultural and social understanding

Under this two-year project, there will be 6 mobile museums and each Museum will take place for a period of 8 days in the selected location. Search has conducted the first Museum in Kandy during the month of September 2023. The second and third Museums were held in Kurunegala and Badulla during the months of November 2023 and March 2024 respectively. The fourth museum and fifth museums took place in Batticaloa and Mannar. The final museum is scheduled to take place in Galle in the month of January 2025. During the museum, there will be other fringe events including film screenings, memory walks, and story-telling sessions as well as other activities such as community dialogues, seed grant initiatives, and social media campaign will also be running alongside and after the museum. In addition to that, a ‘sounding board’ made up of community leaders, government officials, CSO activists, etc. will be established at each location.

Search for Common Ground, Sri Lanka is recruiting an agency or an individual to work as a local coordinator in the Galle District during the sixth (final) mobile museum for a period of 3 months (October 2024 to February 2025). This Terms of Reference (TOR) will detail out the key deliverables of the local coordinator.

To be completed by % of payment Proof of delivery 01 Scheduling the meetings with the sounding board, Provincial/ Zonal Education departments, Principals, and journalists November 20th 2024 30% A brief report (in English) of the task completed during the period

02 Mobilizing the participants for the dialogues and informing them about the dates for the curated tour and dialogue December 20th 2024

30% List of names of the participants for the community dialogues A brief report (in English) of the task completed during the period

03 Meet relevant businesses in the area/ chambers of commerce/ journalists/CSOs/Government officials to create awareness about the Mobile Museum in Galle. Follow up with schools, youth groups, technical colleges, women groups, etc. about museum tours.

Support the Search team during the museum days for the implementation and after the museum for the post-museum events (closing ceremony and museum review meetings etc.)

February 20th, 2025 40% A brief report (in English) of the task completed during the period Search will bear the cost for Sounding Board meetings, review meetings, and other stakeholder meetings. (Venue cost, refreshments, travel allowance, etc.)

Interested candidates should send:

Please send all the above requested documents to sfcgprocurementsri@sfcg.org on or before 7th October 2024.

If all required documents are not submitted, it will be considered as an incomplete application and will be eliminated.

If all required documents are not submitted, it will be considered as an incomplete application and will be eliminated.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for the selection process.

Search Sri Lanka is committed to create a diverse, inclusive and equitable environment for its employees and encourages all candidates irrespective of race, religion or belief, caste, national, social or ethnic origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV status, marital status, pregnancy, family or parental status.