Emergency Response Officer at Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)

Webcruiter ID: 4265594817
Location: Borno
Duration: 8 months
Percentage of full-time: 100
Reports to: The Emergence Response Officer reports to Emergency Response Coordinator

Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure that procurement, development, and distribution of materials and equipment are timely and according to procedures
• Ensure that procurement, development and distribution of materials and equipment are timely and according to procedures
• Coordinate with relevant partners in Maiduguri
• Lead the distribution process and ensure beneficiaries receive entitlements.
• Actively lead and participate in emergency assessments.
• Ensure timely reports, such as assessment, distribution, PDM reports
• Supervise, train and develop Technical Assistants reporting to the Officer
• Prepare periodic progress reports and other documents as required
• Ensure and support M&E activities in your field location
• Support the RRM Emergency Coordinator in the documentation and lessons learned to capture program performance
• In coordination with the RRM Emergency Coordinator, represent NRC in coordination meetings with local authorities and NGOs in Maiduguri
• Monitor displacement trends and give flash updates

Qualifications

• Experience from working as a Project Officer in a humanitarian/recovery context
• Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
• Excellent communication skills - written and spoken - in English required.
• Fluency in one or more of the national/regional languages (Hausa and Kanuri preferred)
• Must be willing to work as a team member, take direction, and share technical skills with colleagues and counterparts
• Computer literacy in word processing and spreadsheets is required,
• Familiarity with GPS, GIS and Google Earth is strongly desirable Must be able to work under pressure

Personal Qualities:

• Planning and delivering results
• Empowering and building trust
• Communicating with impact and respect
• Handling insecure environment
• A good sense of humour is an asset
• All employees of the Norwegian Refugee Council should be able to adhere to our Code of Conduct and the four organizational values: Dedicated, innovative, inclusive and accountable.
• Must have experience in conducting assessments and writing clear assessment reports
• Knowledge of the context in the North-East of Nigeria

We Can Offer

• Commencement: August 2020
• Duration: 8 months
• Salary/benefits: According to NRC’s general direction of grade level 5 step 1
• Duty Station: Maiduguri, with frequent travels. Travel outside Maiduguri is dependent on changing security conditions, especially for certain roads in the area.
• An approved health certificate will be requested before the contract start.