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Food Security Technical Officer-National - Syria

Amman

  • Organization: NRC - Norwegian Refugee Council
  • Location: Amman
  • Grade: Mid/Senior level - Mid/Senior - Internationally recruited position
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Security and Safety
    • Nutrition
    • Emergency Aid and Response
    • Food Security
  • 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

Our Ideal Candidate:

We are seeking a motivated professional individual to join our Syria Response Office’s operations. The ideal candidate will have an university graduate with previous experience in food security and livelihoods projects for an international organization in an emergency or recovery setting.

We are particularly looking for an individual with strong skills in food security and livelihoods projects to ensure high quality and cost effective implementation. He/she is to ensure technical quality during the day to day implementation of the NRC’s Food Security and Livelihoods programmes

Experience in the Middle East is highly desirable, specifically knowledge of the Syria context.

Generic responsibilities

  • Ensure compliance with NRC policies, guidelines and standards
  • FSL specific technical responsibility for implementation of technical activities of FSL projects
  • FSL specific technical responsibility for project documentation of technical activities of FSL projects
  • Provide specific technical support and capacity building towards project staff
  • Assess, promote and document ideas for technical improvement and further program development options
  • Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need, and explore and asses new and better ways to assist
  • Monitor and document the implementation of project activities done by implementing partners and/or contractors (plan of action activities, contracts, financial expenditures and project documentation)

Specific responsibilities

  • Support the Program Manager and FSL Coordinator throughout all phases of the project cycle
  • Ensure that necessary needs assessments and markets assessments are carried out properly
  • Assist partners in carrying out beneficiary selection and communications
  • Contribute to the design and implementation of appropriate M&E mechanisms
  • Build a relation of trust and mutual respect with field teams
  • Elicit regular follow-up on project implementation
  • Build a detailed knowledge of the context in the areas of intervention
  • Flag implementation challenges, and propose solutions to overcome them
  • Collaborate with other CCs to promote integrated and comprehensive response packages

Additional Information:

Candidates are encouraged to apply early, as applications may be screened prior to the vacancy deadline

Contract period: 12 months

Duty Station: This position will be based in SRO office

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

for more information, please see attached Job Description

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