Peacebuilding Thematic Manager (African Union) - NORCAP

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

NORCAP aims at solving challenges in the humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding sectors to better protect vulnerable people’s lives and rights. We build partnerships, promote more effective ways of working and provide skilled experts to strengthen capacity. NORCAP’s mission is to improve aid to better protect and empower people affected by crisis and climate change. NORCAP is a part of the Norwegian Refugee Council.

For over a decade, NORCAP and the African Union have worked in partnership to strengthen the capacity of the continental organisation. The NORCAP-AU Programme has supported the AU Commission with both recruitment and secondment of high-level experts. This has strengthened the AU’s capacity for policy development, peace support, mediation, advocacy, and democratic governance. A key principle of NORCAP’s support is that the experts strengthen the organization’s ability to deliver on the objectives of the AU Agenda 2063 of peace, prosperity, and integration.

We are looking for someone with solid experience and understanding from working with capacity building, partnership development, and donor relations (in particular institutional donors such as the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), and the European Union).

The Thematic Manager will work in the Section for Protection, Peace, and Democracy at NORCAP’s Head Office in Oslo. The position is responsible for developing and delivering results within this thematic area, in accordance with the new NORCAP strategy 2022-2025.

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What makes this position attractive?

• A challenging and exciting opportunity with an international team dedicated to advocating for the rights of people forced to flee;
• A chance to develop and deliver results within the African Union programme, in accordance with the NORCAP strategy and relevant thematic strategic plans, to ensure that NORCAP is a relevant and leading actor with the African Union.
• A 1 - year full-time contract with Oslo, Norway as your main duty station.
• Salary and benefits according to NRC’s salary scale and terms and conditions in Oslo, Norway.

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 beneficiaries that we exist to serve; and to each other… the members of our NRC family.

We will be assessing candidates on an ongoing basis; therefore, early applications are recommended.

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