NRC’s Emergency Response Section (ERS) leads the organisation’s overall capacity to respond to new and emerging humanitarian crises, including through active monitoring, innovation and system development, crisis activation and emergency deployments. Working across all organisational levels, the ERS provides guidance and capacity to enable established country offices to respond to emerging crises and leads on the establishment of new country start-ups responding to critical humanitarian situations. The ERS’ multi-disciplinary team of roving emergency experts is backed by a small team of technical leads at head office, focused on ensuring that NRC’s emergency responses are principled, timely, agile and relevant to the priorities of people affected by crises.”
The position will play a crucial role for ensuring that the HR set-up is according to NRC’s standards and procedures, and to support programme/project implementation in a start-up.
The purpose of the HR Manager position in a Country Office, is to have responsibility for ensuring that the HR system is according to NRC’s standards, and to support programme/project implementation.
Generic responsibilities
The HR Manager is overall responsible for:
Implement NRC’s HR and admin systems and procedures Ensure that country set up adhere to Employment standards, HR policy and other NRC policies Ensure compliance with the local labour law Training, support, control, and development of HR teams Support and train all staff with HR responsibilities/personnel management Management of the HR team Provide regular HR analysis and reports Ensure safe and standardized filing of personnel documents in all offices Promote the rights of IDPs/returnees in line with the advocacy strategySpecific responsibilities
These responsibilities shall be adapted to the particularities of the job location and context, phase of operation, strategic focus and type of intervention.
Reference to specific responsibilities is outlined in a separate Terms of Reference (TOR) which will be developed for each assignment.Generic professional competencies:
Minimum 5 years of experience from working as a senior HR Manager in a humanitarian/recovery context Advanced knowledge and expertise in HR 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 and French, both written and verbal Valid driver’s license second language (preferably French, but Spanish or Arabic could be considered; Emergency response experience2. Behavioural competencies
These are personal qualities that influence how successful people are in their job. NRC’s Competency Framework states 12 behavioural competencies, and the following are essential for this position:
Initiating action and change Managing performance and development Empowering and building trust Coping with change Communicating with impact and respect Handling insecure environmentsFor more detailed information see the attached Job Description
Additional information:
Grade: Grade 9
Reports to (overall reporting): Head of Emergency HR
Reports to (during deployment): Global Roving CD Start-up during start-ups and Head of Support
during regular deployments
Supervision of: Defined per deployment
Duty station: Global Roving
Travel: Up to 75%
Duration and type of contract: Fixed term, 2 years
Salary: Based Upon NRC salary Scale.
We invite applications from all qualified and interested candidates. Send in your application by latest February 23, 2023.
Please ensure you attach copies of your academic and professional certificates.
This advert is open to all nationals.
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.
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