Global Roving Emergency Protection from Violence Specialist (& UDOC/CCCM)

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

• Develop (or adapt existing) Protection from Violence Core Competency (CC) strategy, technical guidance and macro-log frames that are aligned with regional and global strategies and priorities and the First Line Response SOPs. This includes NRC’s Site Management and UDOC work.
• Contribute to fundraising, develop and revise funding proposals, budgets and donor reports.
• Follow up on compliance with contractual commitments within Protection from Violence CC, ensure high technical quality and synergies in project implementation.
• Provide technical direction and project implementation support.
• Provide systematic training and build capacity of technical staff, in approaches to the prevention of and response to violence.
• Engage in humanitarian coordination structures, collaborating with other organisations and partners to ensure the protection programme is aligned with broader efforts to prevent violence and coercion
• Represent NRC in relevant working groups, including with national authorities and donors.
• Promote the prevention and response to violence against refugees/host communities in line with the advocacy strategy.
• Contribute to Protection from Violence global programme development initiatives.
• Develop and improve the provision of violence prevention and response programs in an operation, in line with the Response Policy and First Line Response SOPS, including support with implementation of relevant global strategic initiatives
• Work jointly with other Core Competencies and thematic experts to address barriers to claiming rights and ensure high quality, safe services.
• Support ERS and GPS to further develop, integrate and implement CC and thematic specific First Line Response component as well as other broader initiatives (incl. Cash & Market based interventions).
• Support the consideration and inclusion of cash-based interventions and market-based approaches within (and across) NRC core competency responses, where appropriate.

Note: Reference to specific responsibilities is outlined in a separate Deployment Requests which will be developed for each assignment.

Professional Competencies and Qualifications Required

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

• Degree in related field such as social sciences, humanitarian response.
• Minimum 4 years of experience from a senior level project implementation position in a humanitarian/recovery context, including in the areas of protection or site management
• Substantial experience working in acute emergency situations. Experience in access or other humanitarian negotiations would be an asset.
• Strong knowledge of global protection standards and humanitarian principles
• Demonstrated experience in implementation of one or more of the core areas of NRC’s protection from violence programming (Site Management, UDOC, civilian self-protection, humanitarian mediation, case management; and/or individual protection assistance)
• Excellent understanding of key cross-cutting technical standards (IASC, protection mainstreaming, IHL, gender and humanitarian principles, donor markers on gender and disability etc.) and a demonstrated ability to integrate them into programming.
• Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile; ability to think strategically with documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
• Solid understanding and experience of refugee and IDP crisis contexts
• Flexible, with the ability to adapt to the programmatic needs of the specific deployment
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal. French, Spanish or Arabic languages skills is preferable

Behavioural competencies

• Handling insecure environments
• Strategic thinking
• Empowering and building trust
• Influencing
• Initiate action and change
• Analysing

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: 24 Months.

Grade 9 in NRC's grading structure

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

Reports to (during deployments): Head of Programme

Technical reporting line to: Global Protection from Violence Lead

Provides supervision to: Defined per deployment

We invite applications from all qualified and interested candidates to be sent on or before July 9, 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 Protection from Violence Specialist” as the subject line.