Roving Protection Adviser

Oslo

Organization: NRC - Norwegian Refugee Council
Location: Oslo
Grade: Mid/Senior level - Mid/Senior
Occupational Groups:
- Emergency Aid and Response
- Protection / Human Rights
- Protection Officer (Refugee)
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

NRC is looking to increase its protection programming via integrated and stand alone protection projects. We are now recruiting a Roving Protection Adviser, with the purpose to strengthen protection in NRC’s programmes and response, with the main focus on Central - and West Africa. The Roving Protection Adviser is responsible for / leads on identifying priority protection issues, developing project proposals and concept notes, and representing NRC to donors for protection programming when in country

The position reports to the Global Protection Adviser.

Job description

Ensure compliance with NRC policies and procedures, handbooks and guidelines and/or propose new initiatives to bridge gaps and implement these.
Responsible for providing specialist expertise, strategic advice and programme development on protection.
Responsible for supporting country offices in conducting protection analysis to identify gaps in programmes and policy.
Responsible for the development of concept notes and proposals to respond to the identified protection gaps
Ensure buy in and ownership from the country programmes for the proposed protection programme approach.
Responsibility for representing NRC to donors for protection programming.
Conduct field mission to 2-3 NRC country operations in Central and West Africa
Establish strong working relationships with NRC field, programme and management teams and external protection actors.

Qualifications

Minimum 7 years of relevant professional experience within the humanitarian field – minimum 3 in a highly insecure context.
Significant experience in protection programming including protection analysis and project design.
Demonstrate success in proposal writing for protection interventions, preferably for ECHO, USAid, UNHCR and DFID.
Able to represent organisation at a strategic level
Knowledge of the situation in Central and West Africa an asset
Fluency in English and French both written and verbal

Personal qualities

Handling insecure environments
Planning and delivering results
Communicating with impact and respect
Strategic thinking
Ability to work independently in a results oriented multi-tasking and multi-cultural environment
Willingness to undertake shorter missions to the field on short notice

Language

French
English

We offer

Commencement: April 2018
Duration: 6 months
Salary/benefits: According to NRC’s general directions and free housing of moderate standard.
Grade: 8
Duty station: Roving
Approved health certficate 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

This vacancy is now closed.