NCA is now seeking an advisor working with our Climate Smart Economic Empowerment (CSEE) Strategic Initiative.

The aim of CSEE is to contribute to sustainable development by helping empower marginalised people lift themselves out of poverty while building a resilience towards climate change. This strategic initiative is therefore focusing on creating opportunities for a supportable income in agriculture, livestock and fishery while absorbing work forces into activities contributing to food security. It also supports job and entrepreneurship creation outside the food sector. In urban areas or IDP or refugee settings, we will support action such as vocational training, short-term skills training, and through cultivation and acceleration of entrepreneurship ideas.

In this role, you will help develop and quality assure of the initiative within the NCA’s Global Program Framework for 2020 – 2030. You must build strong partnerships across all areas of the organization and with colleagues at all levels, domestically and internationally. You are inclusive and bring the out best in those working around you.

The position is based at NCAs Office in Oslo in the Department for International programmes, Division for Eastern Africa. You will also be a part of the thematic team and work closely with several of our country offices. This is a temporary contract for 10 months.

Duties and responsibilities

  • Ensure quality for NCA’s global strategic initiative on CSEE
  • Support county offices’ work on thematic programme quality, development and capacity
  • Mobilise funding, including contributing to proposals development, in cooperation with country offices and country advisors
  • Promote and facilitate innovation, strategic development, political analyses and learning
  • Ensure global results reporting on CSEE
  • Contribute to active learning from work processes in the interface between head office and country office and contribute proactively to digitalization processes in NCA

Qualifications

  • Master’s Degree in Economics, International Development, Entrepreneurship and Innovation or in other related Social Sciences
  • Minimum 5 years' relevant work experience preferably with partnership work and capacity building
  • Report writing and presentation skills
  • Excellent English communication skills, both verbal and written. Norwegian and French is an advantage
  • Willingness to travel

Personal qualities

  • Structured, well organized and self-driven
  • Exceptional cooperative skills, seeing strengths as well as opportunities in colleagues and partners
  • Ability to listen and build trust while at the same time establish a clear direction and motivate others
  • Excellent organisational and teamwork skills, including prioritization, planning and project coordination skills
  • The person employed must be loyal to Norwegian Church Aid´s Christian values

We can offer

  • Opportunity to play a key role in overseeing and coordinating significant and meaningful work for one of Norway's largest development organizations
  • A work culture that empowers every employee to share ideas and take responsibility
  • An exciting, global organization with a pleasant work environment
  • Flexible working hours and training opportunities during working hours
  • Contractual salary, good pension and insurance schemes, IA company

This vacancy is archived.

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