Norwegian Refugee Council
Information Counselling and Legal Assistance Specialist - Kenya
Information Counselling and Legal Assistance Specialist - Kenya
Ref. No: 2958382636
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for refugees and internally displaced people.
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 60 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 4000 committed and competent employees involved in projects across four continents.
In addition, NRC runs one of the
world’s largest standby rosters -NORCAP, with 650 professionals, ready to be
deployed on 72 hours notice when a crisis occurs
The NRC in Kenya has its country office in Nairobi and has refugees and IDP operations in Dadaab, Kakuma and Mandera respectively
The purpose of the Core Competency Specialist position is technical development of the specific core competency, strategic direction and quality assurance, the core competency strategy and quality control.
The Core Competency Specialist is
responsible for mentoring, training, and building the capacity of staff in the
core competency.
The Information Counselling and Legal Assistance Specialist will report to the Head of Programme for Kenya.
The Information Counselling and Legal Assistance Specialist will report to the Head of Programme for Kenya.
Job Description
- Develop Core Competence strategy, technical
guidance and Macro LFAs
- Compliance with and adherence to NRC policies,
guidance and procedures
- Contribute to fundraising, develop and revise
funding proposal, budgets and donor reports
- Identify trends technical standards and donor
priorities
- Follow up on compliance with contractual
commitments within Core Competence, ensure high technical quality and
synergies in project implementation
- Provide technical direction and project
implementation support
- Ensure that key learnings are extracted from
Core Competence implementation, and incorporate them in Core Competence
and staff development processes
- Provide systematic training and build capacity
of technical staff
- Represent NRC in relevant forums/clusters,
including with national authorities and donors
- Promote the rights of IDPs/returnees in line
with the advocacy strategy
- Provide hands-on technical assistance to
Collaborative Dispute Resolution (CDR), Housing Land and Property (HLP)
and Legal identity and Civil Documentation (LCD) programming in Mandera
- Travel regularly to Dadaab, to assist the
Information Counselling and Legal Assistance team in the development of
programming associated with the Voluntary Returns (Volrep).
- Represent the Kenya Country Programme in
relevant fora and meetings.
- Act as the main gender advisor to the Kenya
Country Programme
- Assist in the development of cross-border
programming (principally with Somalia) and fundraising
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Management and any other
related field
- Minimum 4 years of experience within technical
expertise area in a humanitarian/ recovery context
- Experience from working in complex and
volatile contexts
- Core competency expertise
- Documented results related to the position’s
responsibilities
- Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile
- Fluency in English, both written and verbal
Education field
1.
Political science
2.
Law
Education level
- Academy college / University
Personal qualities
- Legal background and experience managing legal
assistance projects
- Experience and knowledge on HLP, CDR, LCD
programming
- Experience in engaging with both statutory and
customary justice systems
- Knowledge of the context in Northern Kenya an
advantage
- Previous experience from long-term refugee
contexts
- Experience from advocacy work
- Understanding of gender mainstreaming
- Handling insecure environments
- Strategic thinking
- Empowering and building trust
- Influencing
- Initiate action and change
- Analysing
Language: English
We offer
Duty station: Kenya
We offer
Duty station: Kenya
Contract period is
up to December 2016 with possibility of extension.
Salary / benefits: According to NRC’s general directions, The
candidate will observe NRC’s code of conduct and working hours for the NRC Kenya.
Miscellaneous info
Travel: Some travelling must be expected
Candidates should apply on line by going through www.nrc.no.
Miscellaneous info
Travel: Some travelling must be expected
Candidates should apply on line by going through www.nrc.no.
Email and paper applications will not
be considered.
WASH Assistant - Kenyan Nationals Only - Kenya
Ref. No: 2958371640
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has 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.
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has 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 Norwegian Refugee
Council (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.
NRC offers a comprehensive response
for Refugees, returnees and IDPs of high need, addressing their food security,
livelihood, shelter, education, ICLA, and water, hygiene and sanitation needs
and also responding to emergencies through NRC’s five core competences;
Shelter, Education, Food Security and Livelihoods, WASH and Information,
Counselling and Legal Assistance (ICLA).
NRC’s Horn of Africa operation comprises of large-scale multi-country humanitarian and early recovery interventions spread across eight countries (Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Yemen), and most recently Eritrea, Uganda and South Sudan.
NRC’s Horn of Africa operation comprises of large-scale multi-country humanitarian and early recovery interventions spread across eight countries (Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Yemen), and most recently Eritrea, Uganda and South Sudan.
NRC’s overall strategy in the region
is to ensure a greater number of vulnerable people in hard to reach areas get
access to humanitarian assistance, become resilient to future disasters and
find durable solution.
The regional office is based in
Nairobi and works with country programmes to ensure standardisation of
programmatic and operational approaches, promote multi country programming and
ensuring quality and coordination.
Main purpose of the position is to ensure effective planning and quality implementation of the WASH activities in KAKUMA.
Main purpose of the position is to ensure effective planning and quality implementation of the WASH activities in KAKUMA.
The WASH Assistant will assist the
WASH Officer in providing technical support in the development of NRC’s WASH
programming for Sanitation and hygiene promotion activities.
He/she will also work closely with
the other project officers and assistants in the field to ensure timely
delivery of quality WASH facilities, and will assist the WASH Coordinator in
overall planning and design of (future) projects.
The position holder reports to the WASH Officer- Sanitation and Hygiene– Kakuma.
Job Description
The position holder reports to the WASH Officer- Sanitation and Hygiene– Kakuma.
Job Description
- Supervise the construction and rehabilitation
of latrines, drainage and other relevant Sanitation facilities ensuring
that the constructions are of the highest quality and as per specified
technical drawings.
- Promote safe WASH practices, including
appropriate use and maintenance of WASH facilities and services
specifically Latrines and Hand washing facilities.
- Prepare material estimates for construction
and repair of WASH facilities.
- Coordinate and supervise construction of
assigned WASH infrastructures by providing instructions and site
supervision to contractors and consultants.
- Facilitate appropriate community involvement
in the design and delivery of essential WASH services and facilities.
- Conduct hygiene promotion activities in the
assigned refugee camps under guidance of the WASH Officer.
- Supervision of all sanitary installations
including latrines, pits, drainage systems and dome slab/lid
constructions.
- Ensure quality control of all Sanitation
activities – travel regularly to all the NRC construction sites assessing
construction and M&E procedures.
- Carry out informal and formal training
sessions (according to identified needs) and evaluate the impacts of this
training.
- To carry out community mobilization of all
WASH activities.
- Enable effective dialogue with the affected
community to allow the agency to be held to account for the quality of the
WASH programme.
- Identify needs for non-food items relevant to
hygiene, participate in the choice of items, targeting strategy, promotion
of effective use, and post-distribution monitoring.
Qualifications
- Technical background in Public Health or
Community Development, Bachelors degree in environmental health or Diploma
from recognized intuition in Kenya, Extensive experience may substitute
for specific qualifications but not vice versa.
- Proven practical experience in the planning
and execution of WASH Programmes of at least 2 year’s experience in a
humanitarian and development programme.
- Experience in construction of latrines and
concrete works is essential.
- Experience in participatory sanitation and
hygiene approaches or methodologies
- Proven ability of MS packages and other
technical software will be an added advantage.
- Excellent communication (spoken and written)
skills, including the ability to explain and present technical information
- Experience in capacity building and training
of staff and target groups
- Political and cultural awareness and
experience of working where insecurity is a major issue
- Language: Fluency in written and spoken
English is essential; fluency in Turkana or Kiswahili is highly desirable.
Education field
- Medicine / Healthcare / Social
Education level
- College / University, Bachelor's degree
Personal qualities
- Ability to work independently in a result
oriented multi-tasking and multi-cultural environment and manage
conflicting priorities.
- Sensitivity to the needs and priorities of
disadvantaged populations (minority groups etc)
- Demonstrated experience of integrating gender
and diversity issues into WASH Programming
We offer
Commencement: As soon as possible
Commencement: As soon as possible
Duty Station: Kakuma
Duration of Contract: 1
year contract with possible extension
Salary / Benefits: According to NRC's general directions. The
candidate will observe NRC's code of conduct and working hours for the NRC
office in Kakuma.
Candidates should apply on line by
going through www.nrc.no. Email and paper applications will not be
considered.
