Governance Specialist Adviser Norway

Contract

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Position open to internal candidates only!

Background

The External Relations Department (ExRel) is responsible for engaging with private individuals and organisations to build awareness about NRC and raise funds for the organisations work for people forced to flee. To achieve this, ExRel operate across four main areas; Public Engagement ensuring that the voice of NRC and the people we serve is being heard; Global Fundraising raising unearmarked funds from private individuals for NRCs mission; Donor Management securing our income from regular donors; Corporate Relations collaborating with the private corporate sector to attract and maintain grants and pro bono resources for the organisation; and Governance ensuring that department activities are aligned in a way that supports the department overall goals and are operated in a way that meets the laws and regulations within each country of operation.

Governance, HR and Finance section (GF)

The Governance and Finance section (GF) is accountable for developing robust governance, compliance, finance, HR and admin support for the department. The section manages the financial processes across the department, and provides frameworks for and support to financial planning, monitoring and reporting for the organisation.

Further, the section is responsible for developing the department’s monitoring and evaluation framework to ensure accountability and learning to continuously improve the quality, efficiency and impact of ExRels operations.

Finally, the section is responsible for providing advice and support to the Donor Management, Governance and Finance Director and Department Executive Director in matters related to governance, compliance, finance and HR.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain governance framework related to NRC Private Sector Fundraising and Public Engagement (e.g. policies, manuals, architecture framework and guidelines)
• Overall responsibility for planning and executing governance and internal control meetings and reporting to External Relations management team
• Monitoring implementation of relevant principles within and across the sections and units of External Relations
• Develop and maintain a global risk picture for External Relations
• Advising sections and units to ensure that governance is sufficiently managed across the department
• Share knowledge and best practices, willing to learn and understand governance in a broad definition, establishing a cross departmental governance culture
• Build relations and align with relevant stakeholders to develop internal capabilities and tools to combat existing, future, and emerging threats
• Empower the department, sections and units to take responsibility for governance and internal control within their own domain and advocate governance mindset across the whole organisation
• Follow up on external regulatory and authority requirements and developments within External Relations and take lead on operational authority dialogue

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

Qualifications and experience

• Relevant higher education within governance or/and law
• Documented experience from working with governance and compliance
• A strong communicator with excellent oral, presentation and written communication skills with the ability to engage and motivate
• Able to balance policy and compliance-based governance with collaborative problem solving
• Have a strategic mindset and ability to transform that into concrete actions
• Quickly acquire and utilize knowledge on new technologies and solutions and emerging threats and vulnerabilities
• Ability to use tools from Microsoft e.g Word, Excel, Power Point, etc.
• Have leadership capabilities and ability to drive cross functional and organisational cooperation with focus on delivery and impact
• Strong written and oral communication skills in English, other languages are an advantage
• Strong ability to motivate colleagues

We can offer

• A strongly committed, challenging and international work environment in a large, world-renowned humanitarian organisation.
• The position is a fixed 9 months 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 Sean Nicholson, Executive Director, External Relations / [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.

Position open to internal candidates only!