Global Roving HR Manager

Founded in 1946, today the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) works in both new and protracted crises across 31 countries. Our 6,000 employees provide life-saving and long-term assistance to millions of people every year. NRC specialises in six areas: food security, education, shelter, legal assistance, camp management, and water, sanitation and hygiene. NRC is a determined advocate for displaced people. We promote and defend their rights and dignity in local communities, with national governments and in the international arena.

NRC’s expert deployment capacity, NORCAP, boasts around 1,000 experts from all over the world who can be deployed within 72 hours. NORCAP experts help improve international and local ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from crises. 

NRC also runs the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva, a global leader in reporting on and advocating for people displaced within their own country.

Do you want to be NRC's Global Roving HR Manager?

NRC - and the Emergency Response Section at the Head Office – is increasing its capacity to support its operations with human resources when needed. As part of this process, its pool of Global Roving staff is being strengthened. The position as Global Roving HR Manager offers experienced humanitarians the opportunity to be deployed to any of NRC’s operations, filling critical staffing gaps or providing support when needs occur. 

The Global Roving HR Manager will undertake short-term deployments, up to 6 months, to different NRC country operations during the contract period. The main purpose of the Global Roving HR Manager position iss, to function as interim HR Manager in an existing NRC country programme. In addition, the post holder may be requested to function in a HR advisory capacity to a Country or Regional Office, e.g. to develop national staff capacity within HR, to review and audit existing HR work in an operation, or to develop and improve the HR provision in an operation, including support with implementation of global strategic initiatives.

The Global Roving HR Manager  will be deployed up to 75% of the year. The remaining approximately 25% is breaks between deployments and annual leave.

For more details about the overall responsibilities as interim HR Manager in a country programme, please see the full Job Description attached.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of experience from working as a senior HR Manager in a variety of humanitarian/recovery contexts
• Advanced knowledge and expertise in all aspects of HR
• Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
• Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal.
• Ability to use French as a working language is a strong asset
• Valid driver’s license

Personal qualities

• Handling insecure environments
• Initiating action and change
• Managing performance and development
• Empowering and building trust
• All employees of the Norwegian Refugee Council must adhere to our Code of Conduct and the four organizational values: Dedicated, innovative, inclusive and accountable.
• Willingness and interest to work in emergency situations and insecure contexts.
• Need to be highly flexible in tasks.
• Health Certificate will be requested before signing of Employment Contract.

We offer

Commencement: June 2018

Contract period: 24 months with possibility of extension

Salary/benefits: NRC offers a competitive compensation and benefits package. Please note that tax fees may occur for some countries.

The deployments are always non-family postings.

Application procedures and CV registration: Please note that you are required to fill in the online Webcruiter CV, and 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.