Program and Communication Coordinator - South Sudan

Juba

Organization: NRC - Norwegian Refugee Council
Location: Juba
Grade: Advisor
Occupational Groups:
- Communication and Public Information
- Emergency Aid and Response
- Project 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

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has been operational in South Sudan since 2004 providing assistance to IDPs, returnees, refugees and host communities in areas affected by displacement. NRC currently operates an integrated programme focused on six sectors (core competencies): Education, Shelter, Food Security, WASH, Camp Coordination/Camp Management (CCCM) and Information, Counselling and Legal Assistance (ICLA).
NRC programmes are designed to provide protection and durable solutions for IDPs, refugees and returnees. In South Sudan NRC focuses both on emergency humanitarian responses and early recovery work.
The purpose of the Program & Communications Coordinator position is to provide essential grant management support to HoP in delivering quality programs in line with the NRC CO strategy and PoA.
This same advert may be used to deployment to other Country offices other than one initial published for.

Job description

Generic Responsibilities
Adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures
Develop and maintain overview of all grants, donor requirements, rules and regulations, and internal and external deadlines, including filing of grant documents (including through the grants database - forthcoming)
Coordinate the development of donor applications and reports, as well as ensuring donor compliance and quality control
Contribute to the development and revision of funding proposals, budgets and donor reports
Be updated on donor priorities and track and share relevant calls for proposals
Document, analyze, and share learning from proposal and reporting process, and compliance with donor rules and regulations
Contribute to continuously improving internal grant management systems
Provide an internal help-desk on donor related issues, including organize and deliver trainings in donor rules and regulations, as well as proposal and report writing
Coordinate the development and distribution of internal reports
Contribute to PCM trainings and usage of the NRC PCM frame work in the CO as delegated by the Head of Programme
Support external donor audits
Represent with relevant partners and donors as delegated the HoP
Promote the rights of IDPs/returnees in line with the advocacy strategy
Specific responsibilities
Responsible for timely communication with CC Specialists (and Project Managers/Project Coordinators), Area Managers and other relevant staff in the field offices on deadlines and supporting in the writing of reports and donor proposals.
Support the effective communications and visibility within NRC team and to external audience
Assist in developing, implementing and monitoring communication plans as per donor guidelines
Undertake field visits to collect communication information such as case studies, success stories and photos
Support in preparing visibility material such as banners, signs, monthly newsletter, share stories for special events.
To act as an information resource on South Sudan and provide informative and varied articles from several sources regarding the current political, socio-economic, humanitarian situation.
Provide briefing papers and support development of external communication tools as relevant for donor visits/meetings
Keep the relevant country management team members informed about all programmatic issues of relevance to the management and coordination of the country program.
Prepare country fact sheets and other relevant information pieces for the country program in collaboration with the HoP
In cooperation with AM and HoP responsible for timely grants opening and closure
Assist with any other duties assigned by the line manager, as and when required.
In coordination with HoP develop communication paper on ICLA programing and on post recovery programing opportunities

Qualifications

Between 3-5 years of relevant experience within field of expertise
Relevant experience from the project management in the humanitarian sector
Experience from working with humanitarian and development donors
Good understanding of donor rules and regulations
Skills and experience in report and proposal writing
Strong communication, coordination and interpersonal skills
Strong analytical skills (data and financial)
Ability to mediate in high-stress scenarios with competing interest
Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
Above average computer skills

Education field

Social sciense

Education level

College / University, Bachelor's degree

Personal qualities

Handling insecure environments
Strategic thinking
Influencing
Initiate action and change
Analyzing

We offer

Commencement: March, 2017
Contract period: 12 months, with possibility of extension
Salary/benefits: According to NRC’s general directions
Duty station: Juba
Approved health certificate will be requested before contract start.
Application procedures and CV registration: Please note that you are required to enter the geographical location for all your previous positions while registering your CV. There is no specific field for this information in our CV form, but you can use the "Company name" field for both company and location