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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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    Project Manager-Health & Nutrition (BRCiS Consortium)

    Job description

    • Generic Responsibilities
    • Provide strategic, technical guidance and standardization of technical approaches, tools, guidelines, assessments, monitoring and evaluation of health and nutrition emergency response activities within the BRICS-IRF consortium.
    • Ensure the development and application of appropriate systems for systematic documentation, dissemination and storage of best practices and knowledge gained from implementing the programme.
    • Support the Steering Committee and members of the consortium in identifying opportunities for improving the quality and scope of the programme.
    • Support BRCiS-IRF members to ensure emergency activities are carried out in accordance with the Sphere Minimum Standards and Humanitarian Charter in disaster response.
    • Support BRCiS-IRF members to 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.
    • Networking and representing BRCiS-IRF at relevant coordination meetings.
    • Facilitate learning through reviews of progress against bench marks, collecting lessons learnt and best practices and facilitating dissemination of the same.
    • Specific Roles and Responsibilities are
    • Coordinate and consolidate BRCiS-IRF member reports on health and nutrition including bi-weekly narrative reports, bi-weekly drought situation reports, etc as required. Ensure all reports are completed to the highest quality standards before submission.
    • Provide detailed feedback on all reports received from relevant teams and inform/advise relevant team members of quality deficiencies.
    • Ensure that all reports are coherent with previous submissions and that financial and programmatic information provided corresponds.
    • Work closely with the Consortium MEAL Manager and H&N technical specialists in member organisations for the compilation of the donor reports and progress updates.
    • Follow-up and monitor the implementation of the programme including procurement of supplies.
    • Coordinate and contribute to drought response proposals and programme revisions.
    • Work with the Communications & Advocacy Manager to coordinate collection of stories, case studies, pictures etc for raising the profile of the humanitarian crisis in Somalia, and to communicate technical information in a clear way to a non-technical audience.
    • Maintain a constant and high level of communication with the consortium members.
    • Respond and follow-up to ad-hoc donor requests.
    • Coordinate together with other partners upcoming innovative approaches in hard to reach locations.
    • Support members to collect, analyse and keep updated relevant monitoring information to inform the design of the health and nutrition emergency response. Recommend and support the implementation of any adjustments needed based on contextual changes.

    Qualifications

    • Minimum 8 years of relevant leadership/ management experience in disaster prevention, preparedness and humanitarian response including result-based monitoring and evaluation
    • University Graduate qualification in nutrition, health or public health
    • Training in humanitarian frameworks (Sphere, CHS, Good Enough Guide)
    • Experienced in managing emergency health and/or nutrition projects, preferably in East/Horn of Africa.
    • Ability to accurately interpret health and nutrition data, statistics and technical reports and communicate the meaning of them to a wider audience in a clear, concise, jargon-free manner.
    • 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. DFID, 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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