Emergency Response Manager NORCAP

Are you an experienced emergency response professional with experience in the humanitarian sector? NORCAP is looking to hire two Emergency Response Managers. One of the emergency response managers is to specifically manage the NORCAP response to the crisis in Ukraine and neighbouring countries. The second will be a global role focusing on crisis worldwide and driving and managing NORCAP’s emergency response initiatives.

When applying, please specify which of the two roles you apply for.

What you will do

Specific Responsibilities for the Emergency Response Manager:

• Develop, maintain, and revise team mandate and action plans for emergency response
• In coordination with internal and external stakeholders, ensure overview and understanding of crisis situations and developments, and plan, prioritise needs, initiate action, and ensure implementation accordingly
• Lead the drafting of the strategic response plan, ensuring an inclusive process with all relevant stakeholders
• Represent NORCAP in meetings with UN agencies, international organisations, local authorities, embassies, and donors, and establish and maintain partner relations
• Ensure timely submission of projects proposals to donors and adequate reporting
• Conduct necessary missions and travels to gain insight and understanding of contexts for planning, guiding, and following up on initiatives, together with relevant colleagues
• Assist in managing a transparent, consultative, and responsible process for the approval of emergency budgets and the allocation of resources
• Manage a consultative process to ensure a consistent approach while planning for multi-sectoral emergency response.
• Provide briefings for internal and external stakeholders with the communication team.

Specific Responsibilities for the Ukraine Emergency Response Manager:

• Develop, maintain, and revise team mandate and action plans based on the changing dynamic of the Ukraine crisis
• Conduct necessary scoping missions and travels to gain insight and understanding of context and to follow up on initiatives
• Represent NORCAP in meetings with UN agencies, international organisations, local authorities, embassies, and donors, and establish and maintain partner relations
• Establish relations with NORCAP experts on missions to deepen synergies and impact
• Explore possibilities to broadening collaboration with local actors and national and local authorities in neighboring countries and inside Ukraine
• Responsible for fundraising activities for the Ukraine humanitarian crisis and reporting
• Ensure high technical quality of project implementation by the project team
• Provide briefings for internal and external stakeholders with the communication team.

What you will bring

• Knowledge and understanding of humanitarian, emergency relief assistance and related humanitarian issues.
• Ability to identify issues, analyze and participate in the resolution of issues/problems.
• Ability to develop sources for data collection. Conceptual analytical and evaluative skills to conduct independent research and analysis, including familiarity with and experience in the use of various research sources, including electronic sources on the internet, intranet and other databases.
• Ability to apply judgment in the context of assignments given, work under pressure, on occasion in a highly stressful environment (e.g., civil strife, natural disasters, and human misery).
• Shows pride in work and in achievements; demonstrates professional competence and mastery of subject matter; is conscientious and efficient in meeting commitments, observing deadlines, and achieving results; is motivated by professional rather than personal concerns; shows persistence when faced with difficult problems or challenges; remains calm in stressful situations.

We know that you are curious and would like to learn more about this role; please click here to access the full Job Description.

What makes this position attractive?

• A challenging and exciting opportunity to lead NORCAP’s emergency response initiatives.
• A full-time, 1-year contract with Oslo, Norway as the primary duty station. Other duty stations can also be considered in regions where NRC has an office
• Salary and benefits according to NRC’s salary scale and terms and conditions in the country of employment.

We are also looking for people who share our values:

• To be dedicated in what we do;
• To be innovative with our solutions;
• To act as one unified and inclusive team;
• To be accountable to the donors that make our work possible; the beneficiaries that we exist to serve; and to each other… the members of our NRC family.

For any questions, please write to [email protected] with “Job Title” as a subject.

ABOUT US

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. We work in crises across more than 31 countries, providing emergencies and long-term assistance to millions of people every year. We stand up for people forced to flee, advocating their rights. NORCAP, our global provider of expertise, helps 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.

Employment with NRC may lead to employment in or deployment to Regions, Countries, Areas or Offices that may be host to considerable health, safety and security risks. NRC takes this very seriously and we have procedures in place to reduce known risks, but will never be able to take away all risks.

NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality and physical ability.