Camp Management Officer Myanmar Sittwe
Support camp management operations and community engagement in crisis areas.
Overview
Support camp management operations and community engagement in crisis areas.
You have:
- Relevant academic background (Bachelor Degree level)
- Experience from working in development or humanitarian/recovery context
- Experience from doing community mobilization and training required
- Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
- Fluency in English, Rakhine, and Myanmar languages, local/Muslim language an advantage
- Ability to travel in rural areas
- Willingness to learn and adapt to fast-changing field dynamics
- Handling insecure environment
- Planning and delivering results
- Empowering and building trust
- Communicating with impact and respect
Contract
This is a Professional contract (NRC) contract. More about Professional contract (NRC) contracts.
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a global humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee.
Join us in assisting millions of people in areas where others cannot, tackling some of the world's most dangerous and difficult crises. Bring your skills and dedication to an organisation recognised for providing high quality aid and for defending the rights of refugees and internally displaced people.
At NRC, we give responsibility to employees at all levels and foster professional growth and innovative teams. You can expect a supportive culture and an open dialogue with management. We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion.
Together, we save lives and rebuild futures.
Safeguarding is central to NRC’s work. We expect all employees to:
• treat everyone with respect and dignity
• contribute to building a safe environment for all
• never engage in any form of exploitation, harassment and specifically sexual exploitation, abuse and sexual harassment (SEAH)
• always report. NRC has a zero-tolerance approach to inaction against exploitation, abuse and SEAH
Position: Camp Management Officer - Field Operation (camp-based)
Grade: 5, Step 1
Number of posts 1 Post
Reports to: Site Management Team Leader
Supervision of: Camp Focal Points, Community Centre Assistants
Duty station: Basara & Thae Chaung Camps, Sittwe, Rakhine State
Travel: 50%
Duration and type of contract: 6 months
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Qualifications
- Competencies
Professional competencies
- Relevant academic background [Bachelor Degree level]
- Experience from working in development or humanitarian /recovery context
- Experience from doing community mobilization and training required
- Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
Context related skills, knowledge and experience:
- S/He should be fluent in English, Rakhine, and Myanmar languages. Some skills in local/Muslim language an advantage.
- Experience from working in an insecure environment
- Ability to travel in rural areas
- Ability to work in a cross-cultural setting
- Willingness to learn and adapt to the fast - changing field dynamics
Behavioral Competencies
These are personal qualities that influence how successful people are in their job. NRC’s Competency Framework states 12 behavioral competencies, and the following are essential for this position:
- Handling insecure environment
- Planning and delivering results
- Empowering and building trust
- Communicating with impact and respect
Responsibilities
- Role and responsibilities
The Site Management Officer is a member of NRC’s Site Management Team in Rakhine State that provides direct site management services to Basara and Thae Chaung camps as well as capacity building and coaching of committees in the camps. They will also reach out to IDPs living outside camps and the host community.
The following is a brief description of the role.
Generic responsibilities
- Adhere to NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
- Assist with the implementation of the Site Management portfolio according to the plan of action
- Conduct site management field activities independently according to the work plan and targets
- Prepare and develop camp context situation analysis reports weekly basis
- Manage, monitor and support camp-based team for the daily assignments
- Ensure proper filing of the project supporting documents at camp offices and using Microsoft Office 365
- Promote and share ideas for improvement of the site management response
- Contribute to the fulfilment of the aims and objectives for NRC’s presence in Myanmar.
- Carry out duties with respect to NRC Mission Statement, Values, Code of Conduct, standards of accountability, policy guidelines and handbooks
Specific responsibilities
The Camp Management Officer – Field Operations (camps-based) will be expected to perform the following tasks:
- Supervise, recruit, and manage community-based workers from Basara and Thae Chaung Camps
- Overseeing site management activities in the camps according to the project work plan
- Organize and facilitate site-level Coordination meetings with other service providers and representatives from camp committees
- Maintain and build up good relations with stakeholders, CMCs, service providers, etc. and the communities in the camps
- Oversee service monitoring & data collection and use data collection tools proficiently
- Lead implementation of the rapid needs assessments, outcome monitoring and post-distribution monitoring exercise
- Submit context analysis report to Site Management senior colleagues which comprises updates of service provisions, contextual changes and challenges
- Ensure running and managing camp offices and community centers properly with the fully equipped necessity
- Oversee and conduct regular shelter monitoring – in order to identify shelter and infrastructure needs and gaps in the camps
- Coordinate with service providers on gap filling, arising needs, and referrals at the field level
- Conduct qualitative assessments, key informant interviews and focus group discussions to identify community needs and gaps, reducing duplications in the field
- Plan and manage distributions of NFIs either for blanket population or specifically to PSNs in line with distribution SOP
- Prepare contextualized training materials and conduct training for community members and camp-based workers
- Assist the team in identifying and responding to emergency cases
- Participate in any other activities as needed upon Line Manager Guidance
Critical interfaces
- Liaise with other NRC core competencies in order to maximize synergy/complementarity of field activities
- Co-facilitation of community meetings and activities
- Joint meetings with host community and IDPs outside camps
- Support departments in NRC (e.g. Finance, Admin, HR, Logistics)
Scale and scope of position
Staff:
Camp FocalPoints, Community Centreassistants, indirect management of 28
community mobilisers/ 4 Animators/ 8 Security Guards
Stakeholders:
CCCM Cluster, UNHCR, Camp Service providers, Camp Committees, Camp
Community Groups, NRC CoreCompetences
Potential interview questions
| Can you describe an experience where you had to work in an insecure environment? | This question assesses your ability to manage stress and react in potential crisis situations. | Provide a specific example where you successfully navigated challenges in an insecure setting. |
| How do you approach community mobilization in culturally diverse settings? | The interviewer wants to understand your strategies for engaging different cultural groups effectively. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| What methods do you employ to monitor and evaluate program effectiveness? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| Describe a time when you identified a community need through assessment. What steps did you take next? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| How do you handle conflicts among community members or teams? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |