NCA Emergency Roster is seeking a Humanitarian Coordinator / Team Leader At Norwegian Church Aid

NCA is seeking additional members to the NCA Emergency Roster with competencies and experience as Humanitarian Coordinator/Team leader for our Humanitarian responses.

NCA’s Emergency Roster contains the various profiles of personnel needed in emergency and humanitarian situations. In the event of an emergency or humanitarian crisis, candidates who are on the roster will be deployed to the affected country (or countries) within 48-72 hours. As a Humanitarian Coordinator/Team Leader you can be called upon to carry out shorter and longer missions in humanitarian settings where NCA is responding to an emergency. The NCA roster also provides support capacity to NCA field offices and to partners within the ACT alliance. Members of the roster sign a two-year Letter of Intent with NCA which states that within a two-year period roster members will be available to be deployed when called upon.

The position will be based where the need has been identified. This often includes high-risk countries.

When considering candidates for the roster, NCA emphasizes experience, professional background, availability, language skills, and personal suitability.

Roles and responsibilities

• Deploy within 48-72 hours to support humanitarian response in sudden onset emergencies or deploy to existing humanitarian responses implemented by NCA Country Offices.
• Plan, lead and manage humanitarian responses, depending on where the response is conducted from (NCA’s head office or country offices), including responsibility for budget, personnel, planning, implementation and exit strategies (depending on context).
• Build strategic alliances and represent NCA in the humanitarian sector (UN, ACT Alliance and other global humanitarian actors and donors).
• Write and/or contribute to new proposals and reports for donors.
• Ensure high quality of financial and narrative reports related to the Humanitarian activities.
• Ensure that programme implementation is according to project plans and donor requirements and adheres to NCA’s routines, guidelines, and donor regulations.
• Build the capacity of NCA and partner staff as needed.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Political and Social Sciences, Economy or any other relevant field.
• More than 5 years work experience in the humanitarian sector, specifically humanitarian programming and project management.
• Experience managing large donor funded programs and grants, including staff management, budget oversight, monitoring and evaluation systems, and technical input to proposal-budget development and donor reports.
• Experience with working with local partners and capacity building programs.
• Relevant M&E experience in a professional environment, preferably in emergency or post-conflict settings.
• Other technical qualifications connected to humanitarian field work, familiarity with cash-based programming, nexus, environmental programming, GBV, WASH, Food Security are an asset.
• Fluency in English, both oral and written. Fluency other languages, especially French and/or Arabic, is an advantage.
• Proven ability and willingness to work and live in diverse, challenging and potentially unstable environments/emergency settings.

Personal Qualities

• Experienced humanitarian worker with ability to motivate and empower others.
• Resilient, flexible, and demonstrated competency to work independently with minimum supervision.
• Strategic thinker, analytical, with ability to identify creative and appropriate solutions.
• Strong commitment to human rights, gender equality, and understanding of issues surrounding violence against women and girls.
• Ability to work effectively in a culturally diverse organization and communicate ideas in a culturally sensitive manner.
• Ability to maintain positive relationships and composure in stressful situations.
• Exceptional cooperative skills, seeing strengths as well as opportunities in colleagues and partners.

We offer

• Opportunity to play a key role in emergency response for one of Norway’s largest humanitarian organisations.
• Competitive terms and conditions and a comprehensive insurance policy.
• Short-term contracts, from 3 months to 11 months.

Applications will be assessed on an ongoing basis.

Before you apply:

We kindly ask you to carefully read the ACT Code of Conduct for the prevention of misconduct, including corruption, fraud, exploitation and abuse, including sexual; and to ensure child safeguarding and the Protection from Sexual Harassment, Exploitation and Abuse and Child Safeguarding policy before you submit your application. If you are the selected candidate for this position you will be asked to complete and sign our Code of Conduct and Protection from Sexual Harassment, Exploitation and Abuse, and Child Safeguarding Policy.