Regional Grants and Partnership Adviser Latin America

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What we are looking for

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is looking for an experienced, dynamic, and highly strategical individual to take up the role of Regional Grants and Partnerships Adviser for Latin America who will have the responsibility for the effective grants management of multi-country and/or regional grants. This includes internal and donor compliance requirements, timely and quality grant reporting, revision and review, proposal development, acting as the focal point for the key mandatory activities under NRC’s Project Cycle Management (PCM), and internal and external communications. The post holder provides strategic support to and liaison with country offices who are recipients of the multi-country/regional grants, ensuring they are informed of relevant donor compliance regulations and NRC procedures, working with them on managing donor and other external reporting, and coordinating all multi-CO/regional grant proposal development and reporting.

The Grants and Partnerships Adviser will also function as the partnership focal point for LARO, providing strategic leadership and technical support on partnerships to the COs in the region. This includes a help-desk function to COs, liaising with the Global Lead on Partnerships, ensuring coherence with NRCs strategic direction on partnerships across the region, and sharing experience and learning across country offices in the region. The function will also engage beyond the region by sharing practical experience and guidance to ensure that NRC policy, systems and approaches meet the needs of the country operations.

What you will do

1. Responsible for ensuring compliance and adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures in relation to Grants and Partnerships while contributing to the development of policies, strategies, tools and new approaches with a focus on innovation and piloting.
2. Maintain an overview of regional and multi-country grants management, donor requirements, rules and regulations, and internal and external deadlines, including filing of grant documents.
3. Lead the process of developing concept notes, proposals and reports (donors and internal reports) for multi country and regional based grants to ensure accurate, transparent and timely delivery of narrative and financial documents, in line with NRC PCM framework.
4. Responsible for providing technical support and capacity building to CO teams to enable them to deliver effectively with, and through local actors and sharing experience and learning within the region.
5. Lead strategic thinking and engagement at regional level and with HO on Grants and Partnerships.
6. Facilitate regular liaison and coordination with other functions where there are interdependencies in LARO and with the other NRC regional offices for experience sharing and learning.

Please download the detailed job description to learn more about the position.

What you will bring

• Minimum 4 years of experience of donor relations and grants management within a relevant context (e.g., with institutional humanitarian and development donors)
• Knowledge of institutional donors’ rules, regulations, priorities, and compliance requirements – NMFA, UNHCR, FCDO, ECHO, INTPA etc.
• Track record of report and proposal development, or similar in funding or partnerships, working with multiple donors and consortia
• Evidenced experience of working with a wide range of partners, from local authorities, local NGOs and private sector.
• Good understanding of governance and systems within complex international organizations.
• High level of understanding of organizational learning, and the role and contribution of M&E to evidencing impact.
• Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts, with preference for previous experience working with displaced populations
• Strong planning and organisational skills, including ability to coordinate the inputs of self and others to meet a variety of deadlines for different proposal, budgetary and reporting requirements.
• Good interpersonal skills, and ability to build collaborative working relationships with a wide range of colleagues internally and externally.
• Good cultural awareness and sensitivity
• Highly proficient computing skills, including all Microsoft office (word, excel, ppt), online/cloud-based information management and sharing systems, and databases
• Ability to build staff capacity in grants management in country offices.
• Fluency in English and Spanish, both written and verbal.
• International experience in, and knowledge about the regional context is highly desirable.

What we offer

• Duty station: Bogotá, Colombia
• Contract: national or international, 12 months, extendable
• Travel: up to 25%
• Salary/benefits: grade 9 on NRC’s regional salary scale, with accompanying terms and conditions for international contracts
• NRC is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to diversity without distinction to age, gender, religion, ethnicity, nationality, and physical ability.
• We think outside the box, encourage ideas, and give responsibility to all employees at all levels. You will have many opportunities to be heard and take the initiative.

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Why NRC?

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organization helping people forced to flee. Our 15,000 staff work in crises across 40 countries, providing life-saving and long-term assistance to millions of people every year.

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The Latin American (LA) region faces multiple complex emergencies, including the internal and regional impact of the crisis in Venezuela, the humanitarian consequences of the armed conflict in Colombia, and the pervasive high levels of generalised violence in the North of Central America and in Mexico. These conditions produce some of the highest forced displacement numbers in the world. According to UNHCR, there are over 15 million displacement-affected people, including some 7,4 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) across NRC country programme coverage in Latin America. The LA region also witnesses record numbers of transcontinental population movements generating significant protection risks as people are obliged to cross borders often through routes where conditions are dramatic. Restrictive asylum and migration policies also create flows of deportees and returnees, who struggle to re-integrate in their communities and often face violence, retaliation, discrimination, and exclusion. Those phenomena are accelerating across the region.

NRC has been operating in Latin America in a total of 8 countries: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico with an overall regional budget of approximately 60 million USD and 1,100 dedicated colleagues across the continent. Given the increasing number of displaced people in need of humanitarian assistance in the region, NRC decided to establish a Regional Office in Latin America from early 2024 to oversee the country programmes in the region, and provides strategic guidance and oversight across core programme, advocacy, and support functions.

We are looking for people who are passionate about helping refugees and people forced to flee. Are you one of those people? If you are, NRC offers you the opportunity to:

• do demanding and professional work, often in challenging contexts.
• join a work culture that empowers every employee to share ideas and take responsibility.
• be part of a welcoming and supportive community committed to human dignity.

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