Area Support Manager (El Fashir) – NRC
Job Description
| Organization | The Norwegian Refugee Council |
| Position: | Area Support Manager |
| Duty station | El Fashir |
| Closing date | 03/05/2023, 10:59 PM |
NRC has been operational in North Darfur since October 2021, with an Area Office in El Fasher city. A Field Office was opened in Kutum Locality in February 2023. Programming covers the major core competencies of Camp Management, Education, Livelihoods and Food Security (LFS) and Information, Counselling and Legal Assistance (ICLA). Your purpose as the Area Support Manager will be to coordinate the support functions at the large Area Office and off-load the Area Manager on support functions.
As a member of the senior management team, the Support Manager shares the responsibility to establish and maintain work systems that ensure maximum impact for people affected by the conflict.
Specific responsibilities
Strategic Resource Management
- Contribute to the strategic direction of the area office for an efficient structure
- Ensure adequate and fit-for-purpose support strategy rooted in national staff capacity development
- Provide leadership of the Support Department and ensure all work as one team.
Compliance and Internal Control
- Ensure that all rules, regulations, routines, procedures, SOPs are accessible to and known by all staff.
- Perform regular spot-checks on supporting documentation to identify areas of improvement in regards of quality of documentation.
- Ensure the recommendations addresses to the Area Office Support Department are addressed and updated on regular basis.
- Responsible for corruption mapping and mitigation practices and procedures in the Programme
- Lead on the preparation of Area Office donor, internal and external audit processes.
Systems and Procedures
- Ensure that all rules, regulations, routines, procedures, SOPs are available, accessible to and known by all staff.
- Responsible for ensuring that HR, finance, logistics and administration systems provide relevant and adequate support to the area office’s programmes throughout the whole project cycle
- With the Area Manager, ensure that the area office’ work processes are in place, understood by all staff, and carefully followed.
- Lead on the implementation at Area Office level of new procedures and rollout of new systems such as NRC HR Management System, UNIT4 Procurement and other systems.
- Lead on the elaboration and regular update of the Master Support Budget at Area Office level.
- Ensure coverage of Master Budget at all time and ensure that efficient, sustainable and flexible HR structures are in place.
Emergency Response
- Provide support to the Area North Emergency response programme ensuring that support functions are working well to ensure the success of the response.
- Work with programme functions to ensure the reconciliation of all distributions with the reconciliation of deliverables.
Generic professional competencies:
- Minimum 4 years in middle management position in humanitarian/recovery context
- Previous experience working in a Finance, Logistics, HR managerial position (or at least one of them)
- Solid knowledge of HR, finance and logistics routines in a humanitarian context
- Previous experience from working in complex contexts
- Fluency in English, both written and verbal
Context/ Specific skills, knowledge and experience:
- Experience of remote management
- Knowledge of the Eastern Sudan Emergency Response crisis an asset
- Experience of partnership an asset
- Previous NRC experience in a similar role an asset
What we Offer
Female candidates are strongly encouraged to join our work culture that empowers every employee to share ideas and take responsibility: At NRC, we think outside the box. We encourage ideas and give responsibility to all employees at all levels, to help solve the complex issues that we face. You will have many opportunities to be heard and take the initiative
- This is a National Position open to Citizens of Sudan
- 12 months fixed term contract
- Senior grade 8 in NRC’s grade structure
- An opportunity to match your career to a compelling cause
- A chance to meet and work with people who are the best in their fields
Internal candidates are encouraged to apply but we are also open to external applicants who can show a commitment to NRC and being part of a challenging, but important mission to make a difference.
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ABOUT US
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. We work in crises across more than 31 countries, providing emergencies and long-term assistance to millions of people every year. We stand up for people forced to flee, advocating their rights. NORCAP, our global provider of expertise, helps improve international and local ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from crises. NRC also runs the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva, a global leader in reporting on and advocating for people displaced within their own country.
Employment with NRC may lead to employment in or deployment to Regions, Countries, Areas or Offices that may be host to considerable health, safety and security risks. NRC takes this very seriously and we have procedures in place to reduce known risks, but will never be able to take away all risks.
NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality and physical ability.
