Project Manager NORCAP

Contract

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

Are you a senior project manager ready to apply your skills where it matters the most?

As part of the Norwegian Refugee Council, NORCAP solves challenges in the humanitarian, development and peacebuilding sectors in order to better protect lives and rights of people in vulnerable situations. We build partnerships, promote more effective ways of working and provide skilled experts to develop capacity. Since 1991 NORCAP has provided expertise to approximately 10,000 missions across the globe.

We work with and through our partners to address challenges via three core activities:

• We develop partnerships with regional and global organisations and national stakeholders. We believe working together in a coordinated and sustainable manner is the best way to reduce needs, risks and vulnerability over time.
• We seek and promote more effective ways of working at the global level and in the field. Our aim is not only to reduce needs, but also to create choice and opportunity for vulnerable people.
• We deploy skilled experts to develop our partner's capacity. Given their independence from agendas and interests of the organisations they are deployed to, our experts are well placed to identify and address challenges, improve collaboration and encourage new and innovative approaches.

In NORCAP, we have a wide range of ongoing projects and programmes within various areas in the humanitarian, development and peacebuilding sectors.

As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for delivering project(s) within the approved project mandate to achieve the objectives in a timely, cost-efficient, quality focused manner.

You will work within the team structure in the department. This includes being part of and/or coordinate relevant teams with collective responsibilities for delivering on projects, as defined in team mandates and social contracts.

We are searching for two candidates with:

• Relevant higher education
• Have extensive experience and competency within project management as well as in general and financial reporting.
• Is strong on compliance and understanding of legal agreements and aspects.
• Leadership abilities including the ability to take on a mentor role and capacity building role of the other PMs.
• Demonstrated experience in organisational development, project management, planning and budget processes
• Professional knowledge of management and leadership
• Demonstrated ability and experience representing at executive levels internally and externally
• God knowledge of standard ICT systems and tools
• Knowledge and expertise in both the humanitarian and development sector is an advantage
• Strong written and oral communication skills in both Norwegian and English, other languages are an advantage

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

The Project manager (NORCAP) is accountable for:

• Accountable for planning, delegating, monitoring and control of the project to achieve the objectives within the following parameters: time, cost, quality, scope, benefits, and risk. More specifically, this involves i.e.:
• Overseeing and quality assure donor compliance
• Accountable for the monthly financial forecast for selected projects
• Responsible for appropriate archiving of agreements and other project documentation following NORCAP standard operating procedures.
• Ensure that the selected projects are following the NORCAP Project Playbook and Cycles, and all other relevant NORCAP/NRC policies.
• Manage the project, taking responsibility for overall progress and use of resources and initiating corrective action when necessary.
• Ensure effective communication to the donor of progress, results, and impact, in close collaboration with the Thematic Manager.
• Ensure coordination and follow-up of project activities in relation to other ongoing activities relevant to the project.

We can offer:

• We can offer a strongly committed, challenging and international work environment in a large, world-renowned humanitarian organisation.
• The position is a full-time, permanent 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 Trude Bruun Thorstensen, Head of Organisational Development Unit NORCAP / [email protected]
• Please submit all relevant documents when applying