Emergency Deployment Specialist Norway

Human Resources

Overview

Ensure high quality and timely deployment of ERS human resource capacities

You have:

• 5 years of experience from operational HR
• Relevant graduate or professional qualification
• Knowledge and experience of working with HR processes and managing people
• Experience from humanitarian HR, or emergency response field work is desirable
• Experienced user of HR/People Management systems
• Experienced user of Microsoft Office – excel, ppt, word, O365/sharepoint
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal. Additional language skills (French or Spanish) an asset

Contract

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The Emergency Response Section (ERS) in the HO Field Operations Department has systems and capacities for improved emergency response, both in start-ups and for existing operations facing sudden changes in their context or unexpected critical staffing gaps. ERS is working with NRC regional offices and country offices, supporting them with short-term deployments (1-6 months) of highly qualified managers and experts within different functions and areas of expertise. ERS’s emergency human resource capacities consists of the Global Surge Roster of approximately 110 members and a pool of 19 staff on international global roving contract. Incoming deployment requests are prioritised according to the organisation’s strategic priorities and ERS’s mandate, which in general terms means that priority crisis, start-up of new country offices (or area offices), scale up of operations and sudden onset emergencies are prioritised over requests for support for the purpose of quality enhancement/capacity building and critical staffing gaps.

About the Role

The purpose of the Emergency Deployment Specialist role is to ensure high quality and timely deployment of ERS human resource capacities to NRC country programme and follow up of Surge Roster members in the field, ensuring that they are enabled to deliver work of high quality and in line with NRC’s strategic goals.

The work requires close coordination and collaboration with the Head of Emergency Human Resources who manages a majority of the section’s global roving staff.

Your responsibilities will also include

• Coordinate individual deployments of Global Surge Roster members and Global Roving staff, in collaboration with internal counterparts
• Overall management and administration of the Global Surge Roster and its members, prior to, during and after their individual deployments
• Coordinate assessment, selection, and categorisation of new Surge Roster members
• Update and develop the Global Surge Roster database
• Establish strong work relations with key internal counterparts at different levels within the organisation
• Provide support to the induction and end of assignment process and procedures for ERS staff on international global roving contract, i.e., Global Roving staff and Global Emergency Response Team (ERT) staff
• Update deployment tracking tools (e.g., for ICT, Finance/Payroll, NRC People) for ERS emergency human resource capacities, both Roster members and staff on global roving contract,
• Mentoring of intern
• Facilitate and promote best practice and learning across departments/offices
• Compliance and adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures

Please access the full Job Description for more details about the role.

About you

We are looking for:

• 5 years of experience from operational HR
• Relevant graduate or professional qualification
• Knowledge and experience of working with HR processes and managing people
• Experience from humanitarian HR, or emergency response field work is desirable
• Experienced user of HR/People Management systems
• Experienced user of Microsoft Office – excel, ppt, word, O365/share point
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal. Additional language skills (French or Spanish) an asset.

We can offer

• A strongly committed, challenging and international work environment in a large, world-renowned humanitarian organisation.
• The position is a full-time, permanent position at our Head Office in modern locations in central Oslo.
• Salary by agreement, good pension and insurance schemes.

We are also looking for people who share our values

• To be dedicated in what we do;
• To be innovative with our solutions;
• To act as one unified and inclusive team;
• To be accountable to the donors that make our work possible; the people we exist to serve, and to each other… the members of our NRC family.

Please note

• For any other questions please contact Laila Badawy, Head of Emergency HR, NRC / [email protected]
• Please submit all relevant documents when applying

NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality and physical ability.

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