Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) has an exciting position at its Head Office in Oslo, Norway, to contribute to the organisation's international development and humanitarian aid work and advance its long-term goals to save lives and seek justice. We seek an ambitious and goal-oriented professional with strong analytical, oral and written communication skills to contribute to our ambitions to broaden funding from international institutional donors further.
The Institutional Partnership Advisor (IPA) will be a member of the Institutional Partnerships and Grants (IPAG) Division in the Department of International Programmes at NCA’s Head Office in Oslo, Norway. The position reports to the IPAG Head of Division.
IPAG is responsible for leading NCA's cooperation with international and Norwegian institutional and private sector partners.
NCA seeks a professional to focus on resource mobilisation from international institutional donors.
Primary responsibilities include:
- Contributing to NCA’s funding ambitions to broaden its donor base with international institutional donors.
- Keeping informed of intelligence on relevant institutional donor priorities, plans and funding opportunities.
- Assessing funding opportunities and supporting NCA’s Country Offices with resource mobilisation.
- Leading or supporting the development of funding applications or reports to institutional donors and ensuring compliance with donor policies and guidelines.
- Quality assurance of proposals and reports to institutional donors and ensuring compliance with their policies and guidelines.
- Providing Head Office or Country Offices with support to grants management to ensure alignment with donor policies and guidelines.
- Supporting staff and senior management in donor relations and communication.
The right candidate must have:
- Relevant higher education.
- Minimum three years of experience working with institutional donors in a development and/or humanitarian organisation or experience working with or for institutional donors at the headquarters or field level.
- Knowledge of institutional donor priorities and processes related to resource mobilisation and grant management.
- Documented experience developing funding proposals, budgets, and reports to institutional donors.
- Understanding of the project development and implementation cycle.
We are looking for someone who is:
- Conscientious and works systematically.
- Proactive and customer service oriented.
- Has excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Can manage deadlines and works well under pressure.
We are looking for someone who has:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English. Proficiency in Norwegian or a language where NCA operates is an advantage (French, Portuguese, Arabic).
- Strong administrative and computer skills (MS applications and 365).
- The aptitude to learn new computer applications.
- Is willing to travel on occasion, including to challenging contexts.
We offer:
- Exciting and meaningful tasks in one of Norway's largest aid organisations
- Dynamic working day in collaboration with professionally skilled colleagues
- Good working environment
- Flexible working hours
- Contractual salary, good pension and insurance schemes, IA company.
We encourage all qualified candidates to apply for a job with us, regardless of age, gender, ability and ethnicity. Through our recruitment portal, you can register your CV, write an application, attach certificates and diplomas - and send everything electronically with the press of a button. Only applicants who use our recruitment portal will be considered for the position.
Before you apply:
We kindly ask you to carefully read the ACT Code of Conduct for the prevention of misconduct, including corruption, fraud, exploitation and abuse, including sexual; and to ensure child safeguarding and the Protection from Sexual Harassment, Exploitation and Abuse and Child Safeguarding policy before you submit your application. If you are the selected candidate for this position you will be asked to complete and sign our Code of Conduct and Protection from Sexual Harassment, Exploitation and Abuse, and Child Safeguarding Policy.
In accordance with core humanitarian principles, NCA implements a range of safeguards to prevent or reduce the possibility of humanitarian aid falling into the wrong hands. This includes those individuals and groups who are subject to sanctions by the United Nations Security Council. As part of this process, NCA will screen the details of the successful candidates for this post against the sanctions lists maintained by the UN and by some of NCAs governmental donors.
How to apply
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