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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
Role and responsibilities
The purpose of the Assistant position is to implement the day-to-day activities of the LFS Project.
Generic responsibilities (max 10)
These responsibilities shall be the same for all positions with the same title. The responsibilities shall be short and essential. Details belong in the Work and Development plan.
- Adhere to NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
- Assist with the implementation of the support function portfolio according to plan of action
- Prepare and develop status reports as required by management
- Ensure proper filing of documents
- Promote and share ideas for improvement of the support function
Specific responsibilities
These responsibilities shall be adapted to the particularities of the job location and context, phase of operation, strategic focus and type of programme intervention. This section shall be revised whenever a new employee is hired or the context changes significantly.
- Support the development, implementation and monitoring of the general LFS livelihood project activities in Dadaab.
- Conduct project awareness among stakeholders at community level in Dadaab camps and surrounding communities
- Conduct beneficiaries’ mobilization and registration based on the targeting criteria for a particular activity or project
- Conduct regularly monitor activities of other youth groups and SMEs and provide follow up support in relation to training, inputs and post-training/distribution monitoring.
- Carry out distribution of materials or cash grants to registered beneficiaries and complete distribution lists in accordance with NRC’s beneficiary distribution lists and cash-based intervention (CBI) standard operating procedures (SOP). Facilitate and gather information on market systems, market analysis
- Collect data required for the projects’ output and outcome monitoring system. Write weekly/monthly progress reports.
- Ensure all Livelihood reports are prepared and submitted on timely basis.
- Ensure the supervision and management of all the community workers within the sector.
- Assist all the activity implementation of livelihoods for both the refugees and the host community groups.
- Raise all the required project Purchase request in consultation with the line manager.
- To represent NRC and LFS Sector in livelihood Cluster meetings.
- To carry out any additional task assigned by the supervisor
Qualifications
Competencies
- Competencies are important in order for the employee and the organisation to deliver desired results. They are relevant for all staff and are divided into the following two categories:
Professional competencies
- These skills, knowledge and experience are important for effective performance.
Generic professional competencies:
- Bachelor degree in Social Science
- Certificate in Project Planning and Management
- Certificate in Monitoring and Evaluation
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience within the related field in both emergency and recovery.
- Technical specific knowledge from the humanitarian sector
- Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
- Documented technical competences related to the position’s responsibilities
- Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
- Fluency in English, Kiswahili and Somali both written and verbal
Context/ Specific skills, knowledge and experience:
- Relevant experience in Livelihood and Food security in emergency, recovery and development stages.
- Strong analytical, administration and documentation skills in the management of food security and livelihoods activities in both emergency and protracted programmes.
- Ability to organize and prioritize work
- Excellent ability to coherently lead and manage diverse spread out teams
- Works well under pressure and meet deadlines
- Excellent action and process focus on outputs and outcomes
- Excellent analytical skills
- Ability to resolve individual and group conflicts
- High level of computer literacy
- Good community mobilization, community participatory approaches skills
- Individual and group facilitative capacity building skills
- Possess cultural awareness and sensitivity
- Excellent program evaluative and report writing skills.
Behavioural competencies (max 6)
- Strategic thinking
- Planning and delivering results
- Working with people
- Communicating with impact and respect
- Analysing Skills
- Handling insecure environments
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