Recruitment and Development Adviser NORCAP

Human Resources

Overview

Recruit and develop top talent for international humanitarian missions

You have:

• Relevant higher education
• More than five years of relevant Adviser experience within recruitment and/or HR
• Experience leading and coordinating your own recruitment processes from A-Z
• A demonstrated track record of applying technology and implementing new tools/approaches to established recruitment processes
• Experience with international recruitments
• Certification and experience using psychometric tests, we use AON
• Fluency in English, both written and orally
• Experience from humanitarian work in the field is an advantage
• Comfortable communicating virtually and learning new office tools
• Knowledge of UN agencies and their procedures
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to influence and gain buy-in for new ideas

Contract

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

Would you like to recruit world-leading experts to international missions?

Background

NORCAP is part of the Norwegian Refugee Council, and works to solve 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 develop capacity.

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.

NORCAP Recruitment and Development Unit

In order to deliver on our core activity of deploying highly skilled Experts, NORCAP needs to attract and hire top talent and Experts from all over the world. The Recruitment and Development Unit plays a pivotal role in achieving this and acts as both a service provider and strategic partner in the implementation of our projects. To support the department with high quality and timely recruitments, we have developed an advanced digital assessment centre. We have high ambitions with regards to applying cutting-edge technology in combination with best-practice procedures and work according to a philosophy that encourages continuous improvement.

The Recruitment and Development Unit (RDU) is based in the Head Office in Oslo and has the operational responsibility for all recruitments to specialised positions upon need and requests from our partner organisations. We are looking to strengthen our team with a Recruitment and Development Adviser. You will be joining a team of 6 awesome Advisers each aligned to specific project areas and reporting to the Head of RDU.

Working as a Recruitment and Development Adviser in NORCAP gives you the opportunity to work with highly competent colleagues, develop your own skills in an international context, contribute to further professionalise our procedures, and at the same time ensure that the people we deploy have the right experience and skills to make a positive contribution to the people who needs it the most.

What you will bring

In 2021, we recruited approximately 200 senior Experts representing more than 50 different nationalities, and to succeed and thrive together with us, we believe you should have:

• Relevant higher education;
• More than five years of relevant Adviser experience within recruitment and/or HR;
• Experience leading and coordinating your own recruitment processes from A-Z;
• A demonstrated track record of applying technology and implementing new tools/approaches to established recruitment processes;
• Experience with international recruitments;
• Certification and experience using psychometric tests, we use AON;
• A team player with the ability to form strong working relationships;
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills;
• Ability to influence and gain buy-in for new ideas;
• Ability to work in a structured, proactive, and independent way;
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively under highly stressful and changing contexts;
• A good sense of humour;
• Goal and quality-oriented;
• English is our working language so you need to be fluent, both written and orally. Norwegian is an advantage.

Specific Skills, Knowledge And Experience

• Experience with various recruitment and selection tools
• Understanding of the importance of a strong employer brand in recruitment and ideally experience in employer branding
• Tech savvy, comfortable communicating virtually and learning new office tools, keeping abreast of advances in technology and social media
• A demonstrated track record of applying technology and implementing new tools/approaches to established recruitment processes
• Experience from humanitarian work in the field is an advantage
• Knowledge of UN agencies and their procedures
• It is desirable that the candidate has a broad network in their field

What you will do

You will need to apply this background to deliver on some of the key tasks as listed below, but be aware that NORCAP is not a static organisation and how we operate tends to evolve quite rapidly:

• Manage the end-to-end recruitment process and deliver outstanding service to hiring managers, external partners, and candidates;
• Proactively advise hiring managers, team members, and external partners on how to plan and develop the recruitment process in order to achieve desired outcomes;
• Apply and refine the NORCAP assessment centre to ensure consistency and the highest recruiting efficiency across all processes;
• Analyse background information and develop an understanding of the needs in order to effectively translate job requirements into a tailor-made recruitment process;
• Actively engage, manage and communicate with candidates to ensure they are treated with the utmost care and respect;
• Contribute to the strategic development of innovative approaches and mechanisms to attract new talent and promote NORCAP’s employer brand;
• Build capacity, acquire and share knowledge with the members of the unit and NORCAP and contribute to the building of a strong supportive culture;
• Provide input and support for reporting and analysis.

We can offer

• A strongly committed, challenging, and international work environment in a large, world-renowned humanitarian organisation;
• Dedicated and competent colleagues with a strong sense of humour (no joke);
• Space for personal and professional development;
• The position is a permanent position, located at our our Head Office in modern locations in central Oslo;
• Salary and benefits according to NRC’s salary scale and terms and conditions.

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.

  Eligibility

• The location for this position is Oslo, Norway. Candidates, therefore, need to either be Norwegian nationals or have the legal right to work in Norway;

• 12 months must have passed before re-applying to the same role;

For more information about the role, please contact Rachel Atkinson, Head of Recruitment and Development Unit: email: [email protected] or Leonoux Wando, Global Recruitment Adviser: email: leonoux.wando@nrc.no.

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