About NRC
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a prominent humanitarian organization based in Norway. It provides aid and assistance to refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in various crisis-affected regions worldwide. The NRC focuses on providing shelter, education, food security, and other essential services to those affected by conflicts, natural disasters, and displacement. With a presence in numerous countries, the NRC is committed to protecting and supporting vulnerable populations and advocating for their rights.
Responsibilities
- Support in the development of a multi-year funding strategy, programme forecasts and identify funding opportunities, taking particular account of changing donor priorities
- Accountable for compliance in relation to grant management and project cycle management processes, for all pre-awarding stages
- Manages the development of submissions to donors, including project proposals
- Responsible for quality control of donor applications
- Responsible for the development of any consortia applications
- Ensure a robust M&E system is in place, to be analysed and factored into future programme design and development
- Ensure all programme staff are trained in NRC’s project cycle management ‘Formulation’ and ‘Identification’ stages
Specific Responsibilities:
- Lead donor engagement meetings in collaboration with the Country Director, Head of Programmes, Area Managers and relevant CC Specialists/Managers.
- Be updated on donor, government and cluster priorities and track and share relevant calls for proposals
- Lead engagement within NRC regional and HO infrastructure for program development (IPAs, Regional Advisors, etc)
- Responsible for drafting fundraising strategy and gap analysis
- Responsible for developing grant proposals in collaboration with Core Competency (CC) Specialists Advisers.
- Lead non-technical writing of concept notes and donor proposal sections
- Coordinate and seek input on generic concept notes, briefing notes, SITREPS and programme factsheets to be used in donor meetings and visits.
Qualification
- Higher education certificate in a useful subject relating to the role or the sector
- Minimum 4 years experience from a senior grant management position, with responsibility for programme, in a humanitarian/recovery context
- Experience in working on, coordinating or leading consortia or other forms of partnership implementation
- Experience in M&E systems and approaches, and accountability mechanisms and frameworks
- Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
- Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
- Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile
- Fluency in English, both written and verbal
How to Apply
Interested and qualified applicants can send their applications and a copy of non returnable CV with the necessary documents to the following link below
