Livelihoods Project Assistant, (National Position)

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 in Iraq

The unfolding crisis in Iraq is one of the most complex humanitarian emergencies in the world today, with millions of uprooted Iraqis, and hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees. For the past several years, millions of people have been displaced from and within Iraq as a result of military operations. At the end of 2015, the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) began a military operation to enter and retake control of parts of the country under the control of armed opposition groups, especially in the Anbar governorate. Civilians have been caught in the crossfire. 

NRC has been present in Iraq since 2010, with offices located in Baghdad, Erbil, Dohuk, Kirkuk, and Mosul.  We have scaled up our response across Iraq to meet the large-scale crisis facing the country, reaching Iraqis with emergency assistance and supporting Syrian refugees as they live in exile.  Our goal is to always be prepared to work in new settings, so we are establishing more local partnerships in Iraq.  Additionally, NRC is part of the UNICEF and WFP-led Rapid response mechanism (RRM), which enables us to reach newly displaced populations with the most urgent life-saving assistance.

Today, NRC is one of the biggest cash providers in Iraq. Our emergency assistance also includes distributing food rations, hygiene kits, water and basic non-food items (NFIs). In the winter months, we also provide blankets and heaters.  We pay particular attention to gender equality and ending gender-based violence (GBV).

Livelihoods Project Assistant -Dohuk

The purpose of the assistant position is to assist in the day to day implementation of the Livelihoods projects, conducting community-based activities, ensuring community-involvement and assisting with open dialogue/communications between NRC and targeted communities.

Role Specific Information

• Establish a strong working relationship with targeted communities, including local leaders and identification of local focal points.
• Implement beneficiary targeting and verification process for various activity streams.
• Implement/support beneficiary registrations.
• Support partners/contractors/trainers to implement the business-focused training programme.
• Implement or support partner implementation of the community-based soft-skills training programme.
• Implement the NRC Community Engagement Approach.
• Conduct Focus Group Discussions, household surveys, and Key Informant Interviews, with assistants and enumerators.
• Work directly with enumerators and community focal points.
• Support with referrals to other NRC sectors or through external referral mechanisms.

Our Ideal Candidate:

A university graduate in a relevant field(s) with Previous experience as an assistant in a humanitarian/recovery programme and especially in complex and volatile environments. Fluency in Arabic, Kurdish and some knowledge of English is required. Knowledge of humanitarian principles and code of conduct is essential.

Additional Information:

Contract period: 12 months

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

Duty station: Dohuk

Approved health certificate will be requested before contract start

For more information, please find the attached job description.