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  • Posted: Jul 29, 2017
    Deadline: Aug 6, 2017
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    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
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    Emergency Programme Manager (BRCiS Consortium)

    Job description

    • Generic Responsibilities
    • Support the two technical project managers to provide strategic, technical guidance and standardization of technical approaches, tools, guidelines, assessments, monitoring and evaluation of the overall IRF emergency response to the IRF partners
    • Ensure standards are agreed up on in Standard Operating Procedures
    • Provide guidance in developing a framework for the institutionalization and mainstreaming of disaster risk reduction within the emergency components.
    • Represent the BRCiS in donor meetings on the emergency scale-up and the necessity of linking the emergency to early-action and the long-term resilience programme.
    • Support the Chief of Party and the advocacy/communication officer in proposal writing and fund-raising to ensure a sustainable longer term approach, linking emergency to the resilience programmes.
    • Maintain ongoing surveillance, scoping, forecast and innovative approaches to emergency responses in the region
    • Ensure adequate compliance with contractual commitments, monitoring, reporting and acquittal of emergency activities in accordance with humanitarian accountability framework, relevant humanitarian standards and essential environmental mitigation measures
    • Ensure systematic capacity building and competence of technical staff with the emergency response tool kits in terms of its usage, procedures and relevant protocols
    • Ensure with BRCiS and IRF partners to establish of a functional procurement, ICT, supply chain and appropriate logistics infrastructure during emergency response, especially for the nutrition and health supplies.
    • Networking and representing NRC at relevant donor, OCHA, UN, Government and other relevant stake holders and emergency coordination meetings at the Country Level
    • Facilitate learning through reviews of progress against bench marks, collecting lessons learnt and best practices and facilitating dissemination of the same across in region
    • Specific Roles and Responsibilities are
    • Emergency Drought Response Programming
    • Overall responsibility for all emergency response programmes for the BRCiS consortium: both IRF and reprogramming of BRCiS funding – overall budget monitoring, timely response timely, ensuring donor and BRCiS internal compliance
    • Take lead in coordinating the collection of fortnightly sitreps ensuring this is submitted in a timely manner.
    • Take lead in coordinating and consolidating adhoc emergency response information, proposal applications and reports.
    • Coordinate, facilitate and manage the IRF emergency programme.
    • Take lead in coordinating updates and amendments to the IRF proposals.
    • Manage all re-programming of IRF funding.
    • Work closely with the consultants on the learning component, linking to marginalization, minority groups and hard to reach areas.
    • Ensure integrated programming is pushed in-between nutrition, health, wash and safety net programmes.
    • Coordinate closely with NRC, who is leading the shelter component.

    Qualifications

    • Minimum 5 years of relevant leadership/ management experience in disaster prevention, preparedness and humanitarian response
    • University Graduate qualification in a relevant discipline (development studies, rural development, economics, community development, agriculture, public health, disaster risk manager)
    • Master qualification and experience in managing slow onset disasters, disaster risk reduction; conflict analysis; humanitarian response, climate adaptation; and program management including result-based monitoring and evaluation
    • Training in humanitarian frameworks (Sphere, HAP, People in AID and Good Enough Guide)
    • Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
    • Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile
    • Ability to work closely with field based national staff and experience in various staff training and development approaches
    • High level of communication, interpersonal, representation and negotiation skills
    • Strong planning, monitoring and organizational skills with good knowledge of the use of logical and result-based monitoring and evaluation frameworks;
    • Ability to write high quality concept notes and technical sections for donor proposals
    • Fluency in English, both written and verbal, proficiency Somali language is an asset

    Education level

    • College / University, Bachelor's degree

    Personal qualities

    • Knowledge of the context in the Greater Horn of Africa Region
    • Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts, multi-country disaster preparedness, response and recovery programming.
    • Experience with project development, especially from an emergency and post-emergency phases
    • Experience in resource mobilisation and working with various donors and conversant with their technical frameworks and strategies (eg. UNHCR, DFID, SIDA, ECHO, EU etc.)
    • Experience with coordination mechanisms (cluster and sectorial)
    • Experience in advocacy work
    • Safety and security awareness training

    We offer

    • Duty station: Nairobi with frequent travels to Somalia
    • Contract period is 5 months.
    • Salary/benefits: According to NRC’s general directions.
    • The candidate will observe NRC’s code of conduct and working hours for the NRC Office in Nairobi.
    • Approved health certificate will be requested before contract start
    • NRC may be required to verify the identity of its partners/employees and to check that its partners/employees have not been involved in illegal activities. NRC reserves the right to use electronic screening tools for this purpose.
    • Application procedures and CV registration: Please note that you are required to enter the geographical location for all your previous positions while registering your CV. There is no specific field for this information in our CV form, but you can use the "Company name" field for both company and location

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Norwegian Refugee Council on www.webcruiter.no to apply

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