ICLA Specialist
Full time @Norwegian Refugee Council posted 3 weeks ago in Project Management Shortlist Email JobJob Detail
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Experience 4 Years
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Qualifications Degree Bachelor
Job Description
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What you will do:
Some of your generic responsibilities include:
- Develop ICLA strategy, technical guidance, and Macro Log frames (LFAs) s that are aligned with regional and global strategies and priorities.
- Compliance with and adherence to NRC (Norwegian Refugee Council) policies, guidance, and procedures.
- Contribute to fundraising, develop, and revise funding proposals, budgets, and donor reports.
- Identify trends, technical standards, and donor priorities.
- Follow up on compliance with contractual commitments within ICLA, ensure high technical quality and synergies in project implementation.
- Provide technical direction and project implementation support to partner organisations.
- Ensure that key learnings are extracted from ICLA implementation and incorporate them in ICLA and staff development processes.
- Provide systematic training and build capacity of technical staff in approaches including cash-based interventions and market-based programme.
- Represent NRC in relevant forums/clusters, including with national authorities, partners, and donors.
- Promote the rights of refugees in line with the advocacy strategy.
Some of your specific responsibilities include:
- Capacity Building
- Train partners in community engagement methodologies and support in rolling them out to ensure communities perspective in the way programmes are designed to respond to their needs and preferences.
- Ensure that NRC’s related activities are implemented by partners within NRC’s Safe and Inclusive Programming (SIP) guidelines and action plans.
- Provide capacity development initiatives to local partners on legal aid case management and on laws and obligations relevant to refugees.
- Identify hard to reach groups in our operational areas during context analysis, include them in programme design and advocate for the removal of barriers limiting or denying them access.
- Lead a transition from direct implementation to a local partnership implementation modality in support of the localization agenda
- Â Project/Program Cycle Management
- Lead in the development of concept notes and proposals for respective CCs (Core Competency).
- Help mainstream cross cutting themes into project designs and implementation.
- Ensure overall quality of the programme, including through beneficiary participation and continuous learning.
- Ensure programme is continuously up to date on the latest issues at local and national level.
- Ensure compliance with donors’ commitments and requirements
- Ensure drafting and eventual roll-out of the relevant guidance and tools related to CC.
- Produce regular evidenced-based policy briefing papers and analysis
- Carrying out regular analysis to ensure programme relevance, efficiency, and impact.
- Conducting field monitoring visits to assess the quality of implementation by partners
- Identify and build partnerships with non-traditional local partner organizations that will add value to the outcomes of ICLA CC.
- Â Representation and Coordination
- Maintain strong relationships with government counterparts and partners in Kenya
- Contribute to sectoral working group discussions and durable, specific thematic groups such as complementary pathways.
- Lead coordination and engagement with government entities) to influence national priorities and inform programmatic directions.
- Explore and develop strategic partnerships contributing to the quality of programmes.
What you will bring:
- Minimum 4 years of experience within a technical expertise area in a legal/humanitarian/ recovery/development context.
- Experience in human rights/access to justice programming.
- Previous experience of working in complex contexts.
- Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities.
- Experience working in coordination and liaising with external actors.
- Ability to multitask and work with short deadlines.
- Ability to work independently and proactively with limited daily support and supervision.
- Fluency in English, both written and verbal.
- Knowledge of the education sector in Kenya’s Humanitarian context
- Knowledge of international human rights law and refugee law
- Experience in advocacy work
