Senior Humanitarian Program Advisor – Norwegian Church Aid

Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) is an international non-profit organization mandated to work with people around the world to eradicate poverty and injustice. Guided by its vision of ‘Together for a Just World’, NCA provides humanitarian assistance and supports long-term development. NCA is affiliated with the World Council of Churches and is a member of the ACT Alliance with a presence in 31 countries worldwide. 

In Ethiopia, NCA has been operating since 1974, marking 50 years of service in the country this year. NCA’s programs are implemented together with local faith-based partners. NCA is a member of various civil society networks, coordination mechanisms, and clusters in Ethiopia. In its current strategic period (2025-2029), NCA Ethiopia implements programs focused on Climate Resilient Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (CRWASH); Climate and Environment Stewardship/Economic Development and Food Security; Peacebuilding; Gender-Based Violence/Sexual/ Reproductive Health; and Humanitarian Emergency Response.

NCA is a member of the ACT Alliance, a coalition of organizations working together in over 140 countries to create positive and sustainable change in people’s lives.

NCA would like to invite interested and qualified internal/external applicants for the below positions.

Position Title:                   Senior Humanitarian Program Advisor

Number Required            1 Position

Reports to:                       Humanitarian Program Manager

Duty Station:                    Addis Ababa 

Length of Contract:         One year with a possibility of extension based on fund availability and performance 

Basic Salary:                   ETB 195,000 

Job Summary:

This position is aimed at providing strategic support to the Humanitarian Program team in relation to expanding the humanitarian responses in refugee and IDP settings, Humanitarian Innovation, funding, donor relations, and partnership.

NCA prioritizes humanitarian response in areas identified as hotspots by the Ethiopian Government and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA). NCA also plans to scale up its response to refugee crises based on needs assessments issued by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and approved by the Refugee and Returnee Service (RRS).NCA Ethiopia has been responding to acute emergencies through partners, co-implementation, and direct humanitarian support by establishing field offices. 

This position will be based in the Ethiopia Country office in Addis Ababa under the Humanitarian program manager 50% of the position will be dedicated to developing programming and supporting NCA’s ambition to scale up its refugee /IDP response. The other 50% will be dedicated to, humanitarian innovation, HDP nexus, camp coordination, and management,   networking, and coordination. 

Major Duties & Responsibilities:

• Represent NCA in Refugee and IDP response-related clusters such as Refugee and camp coordination.

• Build a strong relationship with UNHCR, IOM, and other relevant donors supporting refugees and IDPs in Ethiopia. 

• Provide strategic support to the field offices in their overall operations – Gambella, Somali, and contested areas such as Zata mainly focusing on the program implementation and Monitoring of humanitarian projects.

• Contribute to humanitarian innovation, HDP Nexus, fundraising, donor relations, and partnership. 

• Assist the Humanitarian program team in developing innovative project designs, proposals, and concept note development.

• Contribute to the development and implementation of NCA’s emergency preparedness and response plans.

• Support the humanitarian team in innovation and documentation of learnings and good practices.

• Staying up-to-date on developments in the humanitarian sector and adapting programs in consultation with the humanitarian program manager. 

• Identifying and exploring innovative approaches to humanitarian response, and expanding existing pilots to other areas. Prepare and share learning documents out of successful innovative pilot projects that the CO office has carried out and share across NCA Ethiopia and beyond for future learnings.

• Support the Humanitarian Program team in consolidating monthly cluster 5 W matrix, Bi-Monthly situation updates, and submitting to the cluster as well as in Consolidating the quarterly, half-yearly, and annual reports, in liaising with the MEAL advisor. 

• Assist the humanitarian program team in the refugee response intervention designs,      conducting assessments, and presenting analysis.

• Represent NCA at UNHCR Lead Emergency response coordination, Refugee Interagency meetings, and other platforms.

• Assist the humanitarian program manager in scheduling and preparation of donor missions and meetings. 

• Promptly lease with Log, Finance, HR, and other support unit to smooth the emergency project implementation and timely response.

• Contributing to the development and implementation of emergency preparedness and response plans.

• Supportive Supervision and monitoring of Refugee and IDP responses.

• Participate in Capacity Assessment of NCA Eth  Humanitrain Partners as required.

• Identify, network with, design projects, and solicit funding from potential donors for humanitarian innovation, refugee response, and triple nexus interventions.

• Improved Humanitarian response mainly on refugees and IDPs assistance and NCAs engagement in the intervention areas.

• Increased NCA visibility, at the National level Refugee response clusters.

• Humanitarian response linked with long-term development and peace-building -triple nexus- increased resilience of communities.

Required qualifications:

Master’s Degree in project management, International Development Studies, Disaster Risk Management, and Humanitarian Action studies with a minimum of 7 years of experience; which 3 years in managing emergency response programs/projects in a refugee setting. 

Required skills & abilities:

• Skill in planning, monitoring, organizing, and networking.

• Proven experience in building donor relations.

• English writing and communication proficiency, and report writing.

• Prior expertise in humanitarian innovations, triple nexus as well as coaching and training as part of capacity building.

• Experience in humanitarian innovation learnings and HDP Nexus successes with other humanitarian coordination platforms.

• Strong organization skills, dynamic, flexible, proactive, coachable, disciplined, and excellent interpersonal skills.

• Excellent computer skills including MS Office including data collection tools like Kobo.

• Experience in attending/leading different coordination clusters.

How To Apply

Interested applicants should directly apply through Ethiojobs.net 

N.B.: 

• Registration date will be from 6th to 14th February 2025, CoB.

• Inquiry by phone is not accepted.

• Only short-listed applicants will be contacted via telephone & email.

• NCA is an equal-opportunity organization.

• Female applicants are highly encouraged to apply.

• We kindly ask you to carefully read the  ACT Code of Conduct for the prevention of misconduct, including corruption, fraud, exploitation, and abuse, including sexual; and to ensure child safeguarding and Protection from Sexual Harassment, Exploitation, and Abuse and Child Safeguarding policy before you submit your application. If you are the selected candidate for the above positions, you will be asked to complete and sign our Code of Conduct and Protection from Sexual Harassment, Exploitation and Abuse, and Child Safeguarding Policy. 

• In accordance with the core humanitarian principles, NCA implements a range of safeguards to prevent or reduce the possibility of humanitarian aid falling into the wrong hands. This includes those individuals and groups who are subject to sanctions by the United Nations Security Council. As part of this process, NCA will screen the details of the successful candidates for this post against the sanction lists maintained by the UN and by some of NCA’s governmental donors.