Global Roving Emergency Area Programme Manager

Contract

This is a Professional contract, Grade 9 (NRC) contract. More about Professional contract, Grade 9 (NRC) contracts.

Background

NRC’s Emergency Response Section (ERS) leads the organisation’s overall capacity to respond to new and emerging humanitarian crises, including through active monitoring, innovation and system development, crisis activation and emergency deployments. Working across all organisational levels, the ERS provides guidance and capacity to enable established country offices to respond to emerging crises and leads on the establishment of new country start-ups responding to critical humanitarian situations. The ERS’ multi-disciplinary team of roving emergency experts is backed by a small team of technical leads at head office, focused on ensuring that NRC’s emergency responses are principled, timely, agile and relevant to the priorities of people affected by crises.

What you will do

• Line management of Core Competency (CC) Project Managers, and Project Coordinators where no Project Manager exists.
• Responsible for ensuring programme support to integrated programme, coordination and technical quality in Area office.
• Provide area specific input relevant for CC strategies.
• Compliance to donor standards, and grant management and regular reporting to donor in Area.
• Identify funding opportunities and develop funding strategy and forecasts.
• Responsible for grants management and BPO allocations in Area.
• Ensure compliance with contractual commitments and extracting and implementing key learnings from project implementation.
• Coordinate new emergency response in Area.
• Ensure capacity building of all technical staff.
• Deputise the Area Manager during deployments, if required
• Responsible for the CC programmatic input to the contingency plan
• Representation in sectorial coordination, clusters and/or working groups, at Area level.

Note:Reference to specific responsibilities is outlined in a separate Terms of Reference (TOR) which will be developed for each assignment.

Professional Competencies and Qualifications Required

These are skills, knowledge and experience that are important for effective performance.

• Bachelors degree in a relevant field of study.
• Minimum 4 years’ experience from a management position in a humanitarian/ recovery context
• Previous experience in emergency response
• Significant experience in a similar role managing programmes across multiple core competencies, or significant experience in a senior role managing/overseeing one core competency.
• Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts.
• Core competency expertise
• Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile with documented results related to the position’s responsibilities.
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal. French, Spanish or Arabic language skills are preferable.

Behavioural competencies

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

What We Offer

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

We offer an opportunity to match your career to a compelling cause and a chance to meet and work with people who are the best in their fields.

Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply and join our work culture that empowers every employee to share ideas and take responsibility: At NRC we think outside the box. We encourage ideas and give responsibility to all employees at all levels, to help solve the complex issues that we face. You will have many opportunities to be heard and take initiative.

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.

Additional Information:

Duty Station: Global Roving

Travel: Up to 75%

Duration of contract: 12 Months.

Grade 9 in NRC's grading structure

Reports to (overall reporting): Head of Emergency Human Resources

Reports to (during deployments): Area Manager

Provides supervision to: Defined per deployment

We invite applications from all qualified and interested candidates to be sent on or before November 17, 2023.

All applications should be submitted in English!

This position is open to qualified candidates of all nationalities!

Please ensure you attach copies of your academic and professional certificates.

For more information regarding the role, here is the detailed job description.

For any queries, please email us at [email protected] with “Global Roving Emergency Area Programme Manager” as the subject line.