Job description
Generic Responsibilities
Provide strategic, technical guidance and standardization of technical approaches, tools, guidelines, assessments, monitoring and evaluation of cash-based emergency response within the BRICS-IRF consortium.
Support BRCiS members to ensure emergency activities are carried out in accordance with the Sphere Minimum Standards and Humanitarian Charter in disaster response.
Support BRCiS members to ensure adequate compliance with contractual commitments, monitoring, reporting and acquittal of emergency activities in accordance with humanitarian accountability framework, relevant humanitarian standards and essential environmental mitigation measures.
Ensure deadline requirements for the donor are met.
Networking and representing BRCiS at relevant coordination meetings, including cash working group.
Facilitate learning through reviews of progress against bench marks, collecting lessons learnt and best practices and facilitating dissemination of the same.
Ensure compliance and adherence to NRC BRCiS programme policy, tools and handbooks , for example with the development of IRF cash guidelines in close collaboration with the M&E advisor.
Specific Roles and Responsibilities are
Coordinate and consolidate BRCiS member reports including bi-weekly narrative reports, bi-weekly drought situation reports, etc
Follow-up and monitor the implementation of the programme; contribute to the consolidation of programme revisions as appropriate
Work with the Communicatoins & Advocacy Manager to coordinate collection of stories, case studies, pictures etc for raising the profile of the humanitarian crisis in Somalia
Maintain a constant and high level of communication with the consortium members
Respond and follow-up to ad-hoc donor requests
Attend drought advocacy and communication meetings and calls as appropriate
Coordinate and contribute to drought response proposals as appropriate.
Coordinate all cash responses closely with the ECHO supported CASH (Cash Alliance for Somalia HH Affected by Drought response) emergency programme, managed by NRC Somalia.
Coordinate together with other partners upcoming innovative approaches in hard to reach locations.
Emergency Drought response representation
Represent BRCiS at Somalia Cash Working Group Meetings, and other relevant coordination fora, in coordination with the BRCiS members and the Somalia Emergency Response Manager.
Coordinate with ECHO and DFID (and other potential donors) on specific drought emergency response actions.
Support members to collect, analyse and keep updated relevant market and other relevant socio-economic information to inform the cash programme design of the emergency response programme. Recommend and support the implementation of any adjustments needed based on contextual changes
Qualifications
Minimum 3 years of relevant leadership/ management experience in disaster prevention, preparedness and humanitarian response
University Graduate qualification in a relevant discipline (development studies, rural development, economics, community development, agriculture, public health, disaster risk manager)
Post graduate qualification and experience in managing slow onset disasters, disaster risk reduction; conflict analysis; humanitarian response, climate adaptation; and program management including result-based monitoring and evaluation
Training in humanitarian frameworks (Sphere, HAP, People in AID and Good Enough Guide)
Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile
Ability to work closely with field based national staff and experience in various staff training and development approaches
High level of communication, interpersonal, representation and negotiation skills
Strong planning, monitoring and organizational skills with good knowledge of the use of logical and result-based monitoring and evaluation frameworks;
Ability to write high quality concept notes and technical sections for donor proposals
Fluency in English, both written and verbal, proficiency Somali language is an asset
Education level
College / University, Bachelor’s degree
Personal qualities
Knowledge of the context in the Greater Horn of Africa Region
Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts, multi-country disaster preparedness, response and recovery programming.
Experience with project development, especially from an emergency and post-emergency phases
Experience in resource mobilisation and working with various donors and conversant with their technical frameworks and strategies (eg. DFID, ECHO, EU etc.)
Experience with coordination mechanisms (cluster and sectorial)
Experience in advocacy work
Safety and security awareness training
We offer
Duty station: Nairobi with frequent travels to Somalia
Contract period is 5 months.
Salary/benefits: According to NRC’s general directions.
The candidate will observe NRC’s code of conduct and working hours for the NRC Office in Nairobi.
Approved health certificate will be requested before contract start
NRC may be required to verify the identity of its partners/employees and to check that its partners/employees have not been involved in illegal activities. NRC reserves the right to use electronic screening tools for this purpose.
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