Overview
Seeking an experienced Global Shelter & Settlements Adviser to provide strategic and technical leadership to NRC's programmes across the MENA region, ensuring high-quality strategies, systems, policies, tools, and practices are developed and implemented.
Key Responsibilities
- Responsible for ensuring compliance and adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures in relation to the S&S area while contributing to the development of policies, strategies, tools and new approaches with a focus on innovation and piloting.
- Responsible for supporting the development of country/regional core competence strategies and implementation plans in line with global policies and global and regional strategies.
- Work within the Global Programme Section to contribute to specific areas of innovation and development, including piloting and learning from experiences at the country office and regional level.
- Contribute to the resource mobilization and fundraising for country, multi-country and regional programme development related to S&S.
- Technical supervision of Country and Regional Office Specialists and Programme Development Managers, including providing strategic advice, technical support, capacity building, staff training, and contributing to recruitment.
- Ensure that S&S based programming approaches contribute to integrated response and analysis.
- Contribute to the NRC global development of the S&S, through collaborative working with and contribution to the NRC Global S&S development, and by sharing learning and expertise with the Global level and Regional and Country Offices.
- Facilitate and stimulate an environment conducive to innovation.
- Keep informed on innovation insights and analysis of relevance to S&S. Ensure this knowledge is integrated into the systems and culture of the organisation at country and regional levels.
- Provide strategic advice, technical support, and capacity building to Country and Regional Offices to ensure quality programming of core competencies, including Safe and Inclusive Programming.
- Lead the institutionalization, roll-out, and capacity building of sector-specific MEL tools at Country Offices, ensuring effective planning, implementation, and data utilization.
- Support and monitor compliance with the Response Policy and ensure quality oversight of core competency-related MEL, including data quality checks, Theory of Change reviews, and sign-off on evaluations and research.
- Promote and document learning activities, contributing to strategic evaluations and research, and disseminating sector-specific learning and good practices at all levels, including direct support to Country Offices.
- Responsible for identification, development and maintenance of relationships with relevant stakeholders (e.g., donors, Clusters/Working Groups, UN agencies, NGOs, research- and educational institutions, private sector) related to programmes in general and more specifically as related to NRC’s Core Competencies.
- Work in partnership with the regional and country office advocacy leads to identify and develop regional advocacy issues related to the core competence.
Required Experience
Minimum 6 years of relevant professional experience in a similar position within the humanitarian field or similar. In-depth knowledge of and experience with NRC’s specialised areas of expertise. Proven experience in programme quality and strategic approaches to programme development. Experience of developing practical tools and resources. Experience of programme quality assessments, programme development and delivery. Experience of delivering learning and development as part of quality improvement and capacity building. Experience from different countries from across more than one NRC region. Extensive experience in programming in complex and volatile contexts.
