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About Norwegian Church Aid (NCA)

NCA is one of the largest aid organisations in the Nordic region. NCA have 21 country offices across Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East, including four joint country offices and other partner organisations. Our mandate is to save lives and seek justice. We do this by working with long-term development programmes, humanitarian interventions and advocacy toward decision-makers to address the root causes of injustice, poverty and power imbalance. Our work is undertaken closely with local civil society partners and other NGOs. NCA Afghanistan is currently working on Climate Resilient WASH, Climate Smart Economic Empowerment, Humanitarian Response, Learning and Social Development, Integrated Community Resilience Action (ICRA) project and Civil Society capacity building.

Job Description

List of the main tasks and responsibilities for this position (supervisory responsibilities, etc.):

Project Management and Delivery

• Ensure the project activities are aligned and adhering to the project outcomes and outputs, ensuring that project implementation plans are in place and required measures to effectively deliver project activities are reflected in the plan.
• Ensure that project delivery issues are identified and effective coordination and implementation of projects within the NCA programes department, NCA partners, and other stakeholders are taken.
• Ensure that cross-cutting issues such as gender, climate change, environment and disaster risk reduction are considered by respective CSO partners
• Ensure that partners coordinate and collaborate with their respective provincial and local counterparts, stakeholders and national, provincial and local government line agencies and authorities
• Ensure Humanitarian Program CSO partners project proposal adhere with NCA’s Humanitarian program strategy and technical approaches

Technical Support

• Provide technical support to CSO partners in working with community elders, WASH committees, and the inclusion of women and youth in Emergency WASH programming including various WASH initiatives; cash programming either in cash for work and unconditional cash transfer
• Lead in building the knowledge, skills and technical capacity of CSO partners in Emergency WASH, Emergency Shelter and NFI, and implementation of water supply projects in targeted provinces.
• Lead in developing Humanitarian training materials, and technical manuals that can be used by CSO partners as reference material.
• Collaborate with partners in organizing advocacy platforms and provide oversight in advocacy initiatives.
• Provide technical guidance to CSO partners in responding to evolving needs; enable partners to manage challenges brought about by changing needs; ensure that programe is contextually relevant and take timely and appropriate actions to address issues
• Support partners in record keeping and conducting risk analysis as well as in developing mitigation measures. 

Monitoring

• Contribute to developing a project monitoring plan and conduct regular monitoring visits of project sites to ensure project activities are on track.
• Conduct joint monitoring visit with partners and create a learning opportunity for respective partners.
• Communicate and follow-up findings of monitoring visit with CSO partners.
• Conduct regular field monitoring visit

Reporting and Communication

• Write high-quality narrative reports capturing results and projects accomplishments
• Review reports and ensure that information and data reflected in the reports are correct; the reports are of high quality; accomplishments, challenges, lesson learns, and all required data are reflected.
• Review, edit and produce high-quality case/change stories  
• Ensure CSO partners are communicating and sharing information promptly.

OTHER DUTIES / FUNCTIONS ASSIGNED TO THE POSITION

• Support the Humanitarian Programs Coordinator in fundraising initiatives by contributing to concept notes development, writing good quality change stories and documenting project achievements.
• Contribute to developing an organizational culture that reflects NCA’s mission, vision and core values, promotes accountability and high-quality performance; encourages a culture of learning, creativity and innovation.
• Support Humanitarian Program Team in effective implementation of all Humanitarian  Projects, and ensure timely follow up of project activities, and support implementing partners during project implementation.  
• Take up other tasks that may be assigned by the line manager or by management to support organizational goals and needs.   

Skills Required

• English Fluency
• Flexible and can work under pressure.
• Managerial skills
• Excellent analytical ability
• Excellent report-writing skills
• Must be able to travel to the project sites
• High attention to detail

Submission Guideline:

All qualified candidates are requested to open the given link and follow the instructions:

Applications will only be accepted via the following link:

https://ncaco.recman.no/job.php?job_id=304759 

NCA does not charge or have any registered agents for job application or any form of paid priority listing. Application through the supplied web link is completely free.

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