The Norwegian Refugee
Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 67 years of
experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for refugees
and internally displaced people.
The Norwegian Refugee
Council has approximately 3000 committed and competent employees involved in
projects across four continents.
In addition, NRC runs
one of the world’s largest standby rosters -NORCAP, with 850 professionals,
ready to be deployed on 72 hours’ notice when a crisis occurs
Norwegian Refugee
Council (NRC) Horn of Africa is expanding its operations and are seeking new
staff
Norwegian Refugee
Council (NRC) is been present in Somalia since early 2004 and has since
expanded its Horn of Africa Programme to Kenya in 2006 and to Ethiopia in
2011.
Since 2004, the NRC
has demonstrated a regional competence and expertise in working with displaced
populations.
NRC has mainly
focused on Somalis who are displaced by the ongoing conflict and more recently
by the drought and famine.
The Regional Office
is based in Nairobi, Kenya with offices and operations in Somalia (Puntland,
Somaliland and Mogadishu), Kenya (Dadaab, Kakuma and Molo), Ethiopia (Addis
Ababa, Dolo Ado, Shire and Asosa) and Yemen (Sana’a and Aden).
The NRC Horn of Africa mission is an expanding programme.
NRC started its
operations in Kenya in the refugee camps in Dadaab in February 2007 and
initiated shelter activities targeting Post-Election Violence IDPs in the Rift
Valley region of Kenya in 2011.
NRC then expanded its
refugee programme in Kenya to Kakuma camps where it initiated sanitation and
hygiene activities in the first half of 2012.
Prioritized activities focus on shelter and infrastructure construction; water, hygiene and sanitation; emergency education including youth education; protection; food security and livelihoods. Programmes target both emergency responses to acute crises as well as the capacity to address recurring protection needs of refugee or IDP populations through durable solutions.
Obtaining and
maintaining access to the displaced populations remains the main operational
challenge in the Horn of Africa region and in particular in Somalia.
We are looking for
committed and skilled staff in various fields that would like to contribute to
NRC’s work in Kenya.
Are
you interested in joining NRC?
Please go to www.nrc.no
for an overview of all vacant positions and online application
