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Contract

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

Background

The Norwegian Refugee Council has been present in Ukraine since 2014, helping more than 700,000 people with food, shelter, water, sanitation, and legal assistance. Rapid change of situation in February 2022 during which whole Ukraine became affected by the conflict required significant scale-up of emergency programmes.

Today NRC is providing support to people affected by armed conflict and those fleeing in search of safety.

Prior to the escalation in armed conflict in February, NRC’s operations focused on government-controlled areas (GCA) of the Donbas Region (Luhansk and Donetsk Oblasts). With the temporary relocation of NRC’s staff and operations to Central and Western Ukraine, NRC will continue to support populations in the East with emergency, life-saving food, NFI and emergency shelter assistance to people trapped in hot zones. In the West, NRC established a temporary national HUB in the Ivano-Frankivska region and is establishing area offices in Ternopil and Dnipro. Additionally, NRC is planning to establish field offices in Lviv and Mokachevo. The Western response will focus on assisting people on the move with cash and ICLA services and provide multi-sectoral support to key transit points. The Eastern response will initially focus on procurement and delivery of food and key relief items to Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv regions.

We are seeking highly qualified, resilient, dynamic professionals to respond to Ukraine crisis and support people in Ukraine and refugees in the neighbouring host countries.

Your passion, skills, and experience can make a big difference.

Duties & Responsibilities

The Programme manager is responsible for implementing integrated programmers and represent NRC at coordination forums, as delegated from Area Manager. Member of the Area Management Group.

Below is a list of the general responsibilities, please download Job Description for further details.

1. Line management for CC project managers
2. Compliance and adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures
3. Responsible for ensuring programme support to integrated programme, coordination and technical quality in Area office
4. Provide area specific input relevant for CC strategies
5. Compliance to donor standards, and grant management and regular reporting to donor in Area
6. Identify funding opportunities and develop funding strategy and forecasts
7. Responsible for grants management and BPO allocations in Area
8. Ensure compliance with contractual commitments and extracting and implementing key learnings from project implementation
9. Coordinate new emergency response in Area, and approve existing
10. Ensure capacity building of all technical programme staff

Skills & Experience

• Minimum 4 years’ experience from a management position in a humanitarian/ recovery context
• Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
• Core competency expertise
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
• Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal
• Valid driver’s license

• Knowledge of the context in Ukraine

• Knowledge of the local language would be preferable

• Experience from advocacy work
• Experience with start-up, exit or similar

Access to a Schengen visa is required for positions in Ukraine

What We Offer

• Duty Station: kyiv, Ukraine
• Unaccompanied contract

• Travel: 25%

• Contract length: 12 months

• Salary: Grade 8 -According to NRC’s Salary Scale. NRC offers a competitive compensation and benefits package, including R&R.

NRC is very grateful to those who have responded thus far and continue to heed to our calls for support. This is going a long way in addressing the diverse needs, priorities, and concerns currently affecting the people of Ukraine.

Applications will be reviewed on ongoing basis. Due to large response, NRC will not provide feedback to those candidates who do not meet criteria and/or not follow the application process.