Information, Counselling, & Legal Assistance Specialist Bangladesh

Contract

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

NRC is looking for an Information, Counselling, and Legal Assistance (ICLA) Specialist to join the Bangladesh mission. The role holder will provide technical development of the Information, Counselling, and Legal Assistance thematic area, strategic direction, and quality assurance and control. The Information, Counselling, and Legal Assistance Specialist is responsible for mentoring, training, and capacity building of staff on the Information, Counselling, and Legal Assistance technical capacity.

If you are an influential leader; with strong communications, networking, collaborative, and stakeholder management skills; and strong analytical expertise; who has a passion for capacity building and leading and inspiring large and diverse teams, then this is the role for you!

What You Will Do

• Information, Counselling, and Legal Assistance strategy, technical guidance, and Macro Logical Framework Approach developments.
• Donor engagement on funding for programming.
• Fundraising and proposal/budget/donor report development.
• Trends, technical standards, and donor priority identification.
• Technical quality and project implementation synergies.
• Technical direction and project implementation support.
• People leadership by identifying and recruiting staff; as well as providing mentorship and support; and capacity building and training.
• Stakeholder relations, networking, and partnership development.
• Forums/cluster/working groups participation and representation.

What You Will Bring

• Legal assistance expertise experience in a humanitarian/recovery context.
• Protection principles and technical legal advocacy knowledge.
• Community-Based Dispute Resolution and Housing Land & Property programming implementation experience.
• Complex and volatile context exposure.
• South East Asia, context exposure and knowledge, pertaining to displacement and humanitarian needs will be an added advantage.
• English fluency, both written and verbal.

What Makes This Position Attractive?

• The opportunity to work in the steadily growing NRC mission of Bangladesh that has scaled up since inception in 2018 to respond to the Rohingya influx, and that has an increasingly growing portfolio and funding. NRC interventions are used to increase the acceptance of humanitarian assistance amongst Rohingya and Bangladeshi populations.
• As of 2022, NRC is also working to respond to severe floods in Sylhet. Bangladesh is one of the world’s most disaster-prone countries while also hosting nearly 1 million Rohingya refugees. This is considered a protracted emergency in which displacement and recurrent climate disasters combine.
• Meaningful work that responds to the diverse needs, priorities, and concerns raised by beneficiary communities. The current context is set against a backdrop of continued conflict in Rakhine State, steady attenuation of humanitarian access, and political pressure to repatriate refugees. This is characterised by multiple localised emergencies adversely affecting communities and populations with low levels of resilience, high vulnerability, and acute poverty.
• Female candidates are strongly encouraged to join our work culture that empowers every employee to share ideas and take responsibility.

What We Offer

• Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh duty station.
• 24-month contract duration.
• 50% travel, approximately.
• Grade 9 in NRC’s Salary Scale. NRC offers a competitive compensation and benefits package.
• NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality, and physical ability.
• We think outside the box, encourage ideas, and give responsibility to all employees at all levels. You will have many opportunities to be heard and take the initiative.

Key Information - Please Take Note When Applying

• We highly encourage you to learn more about the role: please review the full Job Description here.
• Learn more about NRC’s operation in Bangladesh here.
• Apply by completing all the system-required fields of your experience, employment history, and education in your application.
• Ensure to attach your latest CV.
• Submit your application and CV in English.
• When creating your profile, include your full name as per your passport.
• To apply as an internal candidate, click on the suitcase icon “I am an employee” on the top right of the page to be redirected to NRC’s internal career site.
• Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. NRC is dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role and you meet most, but not all the requirements, we encourage you to apply anyway.
• Applications that do not meet the minimum standards in terms of experience or qualifications will generally not be considered.
• Unsolicited applications not related to this specific job advertisement will not be considered.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. We receive many applicants for each vacant position. Unfortunately, we do not have the resources to give detailed feedback to applicants who have not been shortlisted.
• For any queries, please email us at aela.recruitment@nrc.no with “Information, Counselling, and Legal Assistance Specialist Bangladesh” as the subject line.