Context
The impacts of climate change, extreme weather events and climate variabilities disrupt peoples' livelihoods, causing important human and livelihood loss, food insecurity and displacing entire communities.
NORCAP has an ambitious goal to support increased climate resilience and environmental sustainability for people. Since 2015, we have worked to improve climate services in East and West Africa, to improve the quality and usage of weather information to increase climate resilience for people. We are now expanding our work within climate action and will over the coming years be developing expertise on climate adaptation programming and approaches for the humanitarian and development sector.
We are looking for someone with solid experience and understanding from working with climate adaptation and mitigation from the humanitarian and development sector, to lead NORCAP’s work on climate action.
NORCAP is part of the Norwegian Refugee Council, and work solve challenges in the humanitarian, development and peacebuilding sectors to better protect vulnerable people’s lives and rights. We build partnerships, promote more effective ways of working and provide skilled experts to develop capacity. NORCAP’s mission is to improve aid to better protect and empower people affected by crisis and climate change.
The Head of Climate Action will work in the Section for Innovation. Business Development and Analysis in NORCAP’s Head Office in Oslo. The position is responsible for implementing our strategic objective to promote climate action and will have line management responsibilities for the key staff in the climate services and climate adaptation teams.
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What you will do
Your role will be to operationalize and implement NORCAP’s strategy, with three main tasks: Resource allocation to reach goals; Follow up strategic; and project teams and performance management of staff. You will have at all times, the full overview over workload for staff, teams and project pipeline.
Some of your specific responsibilities will include:
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What you will bring
You will be successful in this role is you have the following;
What makes this position attractive?
We are also looking for people who share our values:
We are happy about early applicants. 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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