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Role and responsibilities

• Identify country programme priorities, problems and challenges from an ICLA perspective and adopt a problem solving approach, solving them in collaboration with other core competencies, support department, and senior management
• Lead on assessment design and analysis for ICLA
• Support and contribute to multi sector assessments and response designs
• Assess and analyse context, identify constraints, opportunities, and priorities of the ICLA core competency
• Identify, monitor and evaluate risks, constraints, technical issues related to ICLA implementation for timely action by relevant management authority
• Enable and guide the mainstreaming of gender, protection and environment into the ICLA strategies and operational practices
• Lead on ICLA concept note and proposal developments
• Support and contribute to multi sector donor reports, both narrative and financial
• Liaise with relevant donors and representatives
• Support in the recruitment of ICLA staff and development of their work roles and responsibilities
• Promote culture of shared learning within the ICLA core competency and across core competencies
• Contribute to the strengthening of the position of NRC in Nigeria; liaising with relevant authorities, UN agencies, donors, other NGOs and partners, and social cohesion and protection sector actors
• Support the area teams with advice on ICLA project implementation challenges
• Ensure the coordination of Housing, Land and Property (HLP) working group under the national protection sector

What we look for

• Minimum 4 years of experience within human rights / legal assistance / displacement area of expertise in a humanitarian/recovery context
• Strong understanding of relevant human rights frameworks, including refugee rights, IDP rights and humanitarian law
• Solid knowledge of and experience applying protection principles within humanitarian responses
• Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
• Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile
• Professional Fluency in English, both written and verbal

Context/specific skills, knowledge and experience:

• Knowledge of the context in Nigeria and/or the region
• Experience engaging in/related to legal reform processes
• Experience in gender issues and programming
• Experience from protection and advocacy work within ICLA/legal assistance sector
• Solid experience from managing and implementing ICLA-type of responses
• High level of experience in programming associated to legal assistance, HLP rights, and civil documentation
• Strong capacity in leading proposal development
• Documented experience working with donors and conversant with their technical frameworks, strategic priorities and reporting requirements (e.g. EU, AFD, NMFA, SIDA)
• Experience from leading multi sector assessments and analysis
• Ability to work closely together with other field staff and across sectors
• High level of communication, representation, analysis, drafting and negotiation skills

Behavioural competencies

• Working with people
• Handling insecure environments
• Strategic thinking
• Empowering and building trust
• Initiate action and change
• Analyzing

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Role and responsibilities

Some of the roles and responsibilities include:

Support the CMG and the Country Director (CD) by ensuring:

• That risks in the CO’s operations are identified, assessed and controlled effectively; and

CO’s compliance within high-risk areas/issues, by:

• identifying such high-risk areas/issues;
• conducting regular compliance checks on the said areas/issues (e.g. spot checks);
• reporting regularly to the CD and the CMG on compliance issues; and
• leading the implementation of compliance improvement measures throughout the CO.

• Ensure that risk management and compliance related CO registers, namely the CO Risk Register, Waiver Register, Recommendations Tracker and Standards Operating Procedures (SOPs) Register are complete and up to date.
• Support Management to oversee internal controls in place, effectively work and ensure NRCs policies and donor regulations are being followed across the country program, including by all program departments, support functions, partners etc.;
• Support Management in the Risk Management process, including regular trainings, updating the Risk Register, working with Risk Owners to develop and track mitigation measures, escalating ‘high’ risks, as necessary.
• Work as a focal person for Securing Supporting Document Initiatives (SSDI) in the country programme, which includes supporting archiving electronic documentation and supporting the reconciliation of finance reports and programmatic deliverables;
• Work, when assigned, as Audit focal point – which includes creating timeline and filing structure, communication with auditors, and liaising with departmental focal points;
• Work in collaboration with Support function managers on follow up of compliance to local laws e.g local Tax law, labor law both at federal and state level for different offices.
• Complete spot checks on high risk issues under R&C function (ex: COTER, data protection, anti-corruption and PSEA, etc.), as well as supporting on spot checks on high risk issues within other departments, in coordination with the department heads. Reports outlining high risk issues will be provided to CMG, including providing recommendations related to NRC policies and procedures;
• Develop and roll out a Recommendations Tracker of internal and external recommendations (ex: from audit reports, investigations, evaluations, missions, etc.) and work with department heads to monitor follow up of recommendations;
• Serve as a support function to both Support Departments and Programme Department to ensure compliance across high risk areas to NRC policies and procedures to ensure delivery of project activities.
• In coordination with line manager, carry out trainings & refreshers for staff, Partners etc. about different NRC policies for example NRC Anti-Corruption policy, Securing Supporting Documentation Initiatives (SSDI), Compliance Awareness etc.

Professional Competencies

• Minimum 3 years of experience from working as a manager in compliance, auditing or risk management functions or from working as senior manager in the humanitarian sector. Relevant experience could include work in programme delivery, grants management, partnerships, audits, etc.
• Knowledge and skills in the international regulatory context applicable for INGOs
• Knowledge and skills in any of the following: safeguarding, accountability to affected populations or Code of Conduct related matters
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal
• Valid driver’s license
• Strong understanding of humanitarian operations especially in North East Nigeria
• Excellent analytical & negotiation skills
• Fluency in local working language (if necessary)
• Knowledge and experience to work on web based accounting & other system e.g Unit4, MS Office including word, excel, office 365 etc