All NRC employees are expected to work in accordance with the organization’s values. To be dedicated, innovative, inclusive and accountable are attitudes and believes that shall guide our actions and relationships.
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 provides 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 Ethiopia
The humanitarian landscape of Ethiopia is facing multiple crisis with a number of hotspots where the deterioration is already causing significant humanitarian impact, and other where violence and fragility threatens to cause further displacements, human and livelihood losses and instability. This is against a well-known backdrop of chronic vulnerabilities, recurring shocks, and poverty, in particular in the Gedeo-West Guji, Wollega and Kemashi in SNNP, Oromia and Benishangul Gumuz regions. In May 2019, Government launched a return plan that saw the return of 2.1 million IDPs from major areas of displacement, which presented new recovery and rehabilitation challenges to the humanitarian community.
To meet these challenges, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is strengthening its Emergency Preparedness and Response team with field level support capabilities, deployable from Addis Ababa. In support to this, Ethiopia country programme is hiring a cadre of / deployable emergency response personnel to ensure adequate support to field level assessments, analysis, planning, and monitoring to better anticipate requirements and respond to the needs of vulnerable people in Ethiopia, in a timely, efficient and effective manner.
All NRC employees are expected to work in accordance with the organization’s core values: dedication, innovation, inclusivity and accountability. These attitudes and believes shall guide our actions and relationships.
Roles & Responsibilities:
The Emergency Response Team Leader will provide and surge capabilities to support the overall planning and implementation of the emergency response and disaster risk reduction ambitions of the Ethiopia Country Programme. She/he will contribute to the delivery of the emergency preparedness and response ambitions of Ethiopia country programme in a timely, efficient, effective and coherent manner. She/he will be required to support the implementation of the emergency response project at field level, including providing advice, analytics and contributions to multi-sectoral emergency response operations at Area Office level to ensure effective response.
Generic Responsibilities:
· Strengthen current and establish new emergency response activities and rapid response in Ethiopia
· Initiate rapid responses with a strong protection lens and ensuring beneficiary feedback mechanisms is set up
· Ensure the adoption of humanitarian standards and cluster guidelines
· Contribute to emergency project proposals, reports and technical and financial documentation for submission to donors, internal and other external requirements
· Maintain an overview of the national context with a view to the strategic development of new projects.
· Continuously monitor and analyze potential emergency situations and lead RRT in conducting assessments of hard to reach areas with a view to implement emergency response
· Ensure that regular monitoring and evaluation assessments against project objectives are conducted
Specific Responsibilities:
Representation
Qualifications
Generic professional competencies for this position:
Context related skills, knowledge and experience
· Knowledge of at least one local language is an added advantage.
Behavioral competencies:
· Handling insecure environments
· Managing resources to optimize results
· Empowering and building trust
· Managing performance and development
· Planning and delivering results