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Regional Programme Advisor

Amman

  • Organization: NRC - Norwegian Refugee Council
  • Location: Amman
  • Grade: Senior level - Senior
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Project management
    • Project and Programme Management
  • Closing Date: Closed





The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for refugees and internally displaced people. NRC advocates for the rights of displaced populations and offers assistance within the shelter, education, emergency food security, legal assistance, and water,sanitation and hygiene sectors.



The Norwegian Refugee Council has approximately 5000 committed and competent employees involved in projects across four continents. In addition, NRC runs one of the world’s largest standby rosters -NORCAP, with 650 professionals, ready to be deployed on 72 hours notice when a crisis occurs




Background

The Middle East Regional Office (MERO) was created in January 2014 as part of NRC’s reorganisation process. The Programme Support Unit (PSU) as part of MERO is crucial for supporting the application and development of systems, structures and tools that bolster programme management and delivery in Middle East Country Offices (COs) in the following domains:

  • Programme technical development, information-sharing & synergies between COs
  • Grant compliance and quality control
  • Capacity building and training of NRC staff
  • Donor relations structured and developed 

Currently the PSU is comprised of a Head of Unit and three Regional Programme Advisors. 

Role and responsibilities

The Regional Programme Advisor is responsible for providing specialist advice and guidance to supporting the Heads of Programme (HoP) and/or Country Directors (CD) in their daily work in ensuring that optimal programme structures, systems and resources are in place; and for ensuring that donor obligations and requirements for programme funding are met.

This position will replace the current Regional Programme Advisor for Iraq & Jordan. The PA role gives the possibility for someone who is proactive, creative and energetic to make a visible imprint on NRC by improving the PSU’s ways of working, with the goal of enhancing and ensuring value-added service delivery to country offices. Patience and flexibility is required for this position given the size, complexity and changing pace of programming within the Middle East. 

Responsibilities for this position include:

  1. Contribute to programme development and strategic planning in country programmes.
  2. Responsible for quality control of content of donor applications, reports, macro logframes, and tri-annual country programme reports, including coordination of inputs from relevant Institutional Partnership Advisors, Core Competency Advisors and Thematic Advisors in MERO and Head Office.
  3. Contribute to project/programme assessments and evaluations as required.
  4. Responsible for follow-up on a monthly basis with the Country Office’s Head of Programmes (HoP) on programmatic issues.
  5. Lead and/or actively participate in MERO country-focused meetings for designated countries.
  6. Contribute to tri-annual country review meetings for designated countries in line with standard operating procedures.
  7. Ensure relevant programme documentation for designated countries is up-to-date and accessible to relevant stakeholders
  8. Maintain proposal development & reporting calendars
  9. Represent NRC in relevant meetings and forums as appointed by line manager.
  10. Carry out other duties of temporary character appointed by line manager.
  11. Responsible to stay updated and maintain institutional knowledge on Iraq & Jordan
  12. Contribute to the PSU ‘ways of working’ by documenting tools, approaches or other ways that define how we work in relation to the Country Offices or in the PSU.
  13. Provide support, guidance and training if required to in-country grant officers/coordinators in coordination with the Head of Programmes for that country.
  14. Support the roll-out of PCM & VfM training, as requested, and the utilisation of new PCM tools

We welcome applications from qualified and interested candidates.  Candidates are encouraged to apply early, as applications may be screened prior to the vacancy deadline

We offer up to a 24 month contract.

Salary/benefits: According to NRC’s salary scale and terms and conditions

Duty station: Amman, Jordan

Approved health certificate will be requested before contract start



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