Country: Norway
Closing date: 12 Feb 2018
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for refugees and internally displaced people. NRC advocates for the rights of displaced populations and offers assistance within the shelter, education, emergency food security, legal assistance, and water,sanitation and hygiene sectors.
The Norwegian Refugee Council has approximately 5000 committed and competent employees involved in projects across four continents. In addition, NRC runs one of the world’s largest standby rosters -NORCAP, with 650 professionals, ready to be deployed on 72 hours notice when a crisis occurs
About the region
The Asia Europe region for NRC comprises a diverse range of country programmes across a vast geographical area: Greece, Ukraine, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar. The operating environment is varied, encompassing a complex and multi-faceted set of humanitarian and recovery response needs in countries that are either fragile, environmentally vulnerable or both.
Home to some 3.5 million refugees, the Asia Europe region also hosts over 5 million IDPs and 1.4 million stateless people, with the majority of refugees originating from Myanmar and Afghanistan. The Afghan refugee population now constitutes the largest protracted situation in the world.
The Asia Europe Regional Office, based in Oslo/HQ, is overseeing the Asia Europe Country Offices and its operations, and provides strategic guidance across core programme, advocacy and support functions. The Regional Programme Unit, led by the Regional Programme Director, supports with development of capacity in core competencies and cross-cutting themes, working collaboratively and in a matrix structure with the Regional Support Unit, Regional Protection and Advocacy, and the global Programme Development and Support Section in HQ, and not least with Heads of Programme in Country Offices. The Regional Programme Unit also takes lead regionally on donor relations, monitoring and evaluation, and other specialist areas as assigned.
About the position
The purpose of the regional programme adviser is to be the country expert at the regional level and act as the key interface between the country office, regional office and head office regarding programme structures, systems and resources. The regional programme adviser provides specialist advice and guidance on country programme strategies, structures, systems and resources and assists the CO to ensure donor obligations and requirements are met. See list below for more details about the positions responsibilities.
- Compliance and adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures
- Responsible for quality control of donor proposals and reports, and internal programme strategy documents and reports, in regards to NRC strategies and donor compliance.
- Provide specialist support, advice and guidance to programme development and to strategic planning in Ukraine, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Greece country programmes.
- Support evaluations in Ukraine, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Greece country programmes.
- Promote lessons learned and best practices into programme development in country programmes, including from M&E products (such as GORS and Evaluations).
- Responsible for PCM support, including facilitation and delivery of trainings, to country programmes within the region.
- Coordinate internal reporting and facilitate meetings between country offices, the Regional Office and Head Office as required, ensure correct archiving of key Country Office strategy, programme and project documentation, and keep oversight of Country Office proposal and reporting deadlines.
- Responsible to stay updated on Ukraine, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Greece and/or themes as assigned.
- Focal point for specific donors as assigned and responsible for staying updated on trends of these donors in the region.
- Support to regional and cross border proposals.
- Conduct analysis of trends in the region or sub-region to contribute to regional understanding and provide evidence for advocacy and innovative project ideas.
- Assigned to work on thematic areas and represent NRC in relevant fora as appointed by line manager.
Our ideal candidate
The ideal candidate for this position would have:
- Minimum 5 years of experience within the humanitarian/recovery context, of which 3 years of Manager/Advisor experience
- Specialist knowledge and expertise equivalent to an advanced university degree in a relevant field (e.g. international development, politics, social science)
- Experience developing proposals and reports for various key donors (NMFA, UNHCR, DFID, ECHO etc.)
- Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
- Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
- Fluency in English, both written and verbal
Context related skills, knowledge and experience
- Experience working with overall strategy development and planning
- Expertise/knowledge about the relevant region
All NRC employees are expected to work in accordance with the organisation’s core values: dedication, innovation, inclusivity and accountability. These attitudes and beliefs shall guide our actions and relationships.
The employee is personally responsible of ensuring access to documents including NRC handbooks and guidelines on intranet, and other information necessary to the post.
We offer
Contract period: Permanent
Salary/benefits: According to NRC’s general directions
Duty station: Oslo, Norway with 25% travel
How to apply:
Please visit this webpage for further instructions on how to apply for the position: nrc.no/vacancies
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