مطلوب مدير/ برنامج للعمل لدى المجلس النرويجي للاجئين

Rights Respected, People Protected

NRC currently has more than 2,000 staff in the Middle East region assisting people displaced by conflict in Syria . As a leading humanitarian organization, we support displaced persons by implementing programmes across the Shelter, Education, Food Security, Information Counseling and Legal Assistance (ICLA) and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sectors with strong protection and resilience focus integrated into our programmes.
The Syrian crisis is almost into its 9th year, but the level and intensity of the conflict in the country remains high. Humanitarian and protection needs inside Syria are overwhelming. Ongoing conflict and continued displacement compound a complex emergency situation. According to UN OCHA, 13.6 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance in Syria and millions have been forced to flee. More than 1.4 million displacements were recorded in 2019. More than 6.5 million are internally displaced and many have fled the war-torn country, including 5.5 million refugees across the region.

Duties and responsibilities

The Area Programme Manager (APM) is responsible for overseeing a substantial part of NRC’s Syria programme, in selected geographical areas. S/he will ensure that all projects and project activities meet relevant quality and compliance standards, extend adequate levels of high-quality support and supervision to the Project Managers, and contribute extensively to new programme development. The APM will ensure that NRC continues to implement holistic and needs-based programming and will represent NRC at relevant coordination forums. The APM is also a member of the Area Senior Management Team.
General responsibilities

• Line management of the CC Project Managers;
• Ensure full adherence to NRC policies and procedures;
• Responsible for actively promoting, supporting and driving ‘integrated’ (multi-sector) programmes, cross-sectorial exchange of lessons learnt and adherence to relevant quality standards;
• Contribute towards country and area level (programmatic) strategies;
• Ensure Compliance to donor standards, and oversee effective grant management and regular, timely and high-quality reporting to donors of the Area programme, within the SRO grants management structure;
• Identify funding opportunities and develop funding strategy and forecasts and contribute substantially towards new program development;
• Responsible for grants management and BPO allocations in Area;
• Ensure compliance with contractual commitments and extracting and implementing key learnings from project implementation;
• Coordinate emergency responses in Area as and when relevant;
• Ensure a capacity building plan for all technical staff is developed and implemented.

Qualifications, skills and experience

Generic professional competencies for this position:

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a management position in a humanitarian/recovery context
• Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
• Expertise in one or more of NRC’s Core Competencies is considered an advantage
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
• Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal

Context/Specific skills, knowledge and experience:

• Knowledge of the context in Syria.
• Knowledge of complex multi core competency programming.
• Knowledge of donor proposals, budgets, financial reporting.

Personal qualities

• Strategic thinking
• Managing resources to optimise results
• Empowering and building trust
• Initiating action and change
• Influencing
• Handling insecure environments

Additional Information

-Contract period: 12 months
-Salary/benefits: According to NRC’s salary scale and terms and conditions
-Duty station: Amman, Jordan, with 10% international travel

Please download Job Description of the position here.

We may review applications on an ongoing basis, prior to deadline, interested candidates are encouraged to apply early