Regional Grants and Partnership Specialist Adviser Asia At Norwegian Refugee Council

What we are looking for

NRC is looking for a Regional Grants and Partnerships Adviser to join the Asia Regional Office. The role holder will be responsible for grants management of multi-country and regional grants. He/she will provide strategic support to and liaison with country offices, ensuring they are informed of relevant regulations and procedures, working with them on reporting, and coordinating all grant proposal development.

The postholder will also function as the partnership focal point for the region, providing strategic leadership and technical support on partnerships to the country offices in the region, including help-desk function, liaising with the Global Lead on Partnerships, ensuring coherence with NRC’s strategic direction, and sharing experience and learning.

If you are an empathetic and culturally astute leader with good diplomacy, advisory, facilitation, coordination and communication skills; and strong interpersonal, networking, and stakeholder management skills; a passion for partnerships; and the ability collaborate with others while building sound, constructive relationships; then this is the role for you!

What you will do

• Funding Identification and Proposal Development (new funding opportunities, and proposal development and reporting).
• Grants Agreements (review donor contracts, guidance on reporting and compliance, budget management, and project milestones).
• Donor Reporting and Monitoring (donor reports, financial issues, and monitoring and budgets).
• Donor Compliance (donor portfolio compliance requirements, and training and capacity building).
• Partnerships (development of country-level strategies, communication channels, and capacity building approaches).
• Strategic Support and Engagement (regional level strategic thinking and alignment on partnerships).
• Sharing and Learning (focal point for information on regional partnerships).

What you will bring

• Donor relations and grants management experience with institutional humanitarian and development donors
• Donors’ rules, regulations, priorities, and compliance requirements expertise.
• Report and proposal development, or similar, in funding or partnerships, working with multiple donors and consortia track record.
• Diverse partners, from local authorities, local NGOs and private sector, exposure.
• Governance and systems, within complex international organisations, understanding.
• Complex, and volatile context exposure, with a preference for previous experience working with displaced populations
• English fluency, both written and verbal.

What makes this position attractive?

• NRC operates in Asia in a total of four countries: Iran, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar with an overall regional budget of above USD. 60 million, and 2,200 dedicated colleagues across the continent.
• The region is managed through an Oslo based Regional Office in Norway and has a number of staff located in several geographical areas, to oversee the country programmes in the region, and provides strategic guidance and oversight across core programme, advocacy, security, risk and compliance, and support functions.
• The operating environment across Asia is varied, comprising of a vast geographical area, and a diverse operating environment, encompassing a complex and multi-faceted set of humanitarian and recovery response needs in countries that are either fragile, environmentally vulnerable or both. NRC’s country offices comprise contexts where we are working with displacement-affected people across the whole displacement continuum.
• This is an opportunity to join the Regional Management Team and to work closely with the various functional units and sections to provide strategic direction to the Regional Management Team and Country Offices in the region.
• NRC has developed partnerships with a range of international and local actors in Asia with the objective to improve timely humanitarian response in areas affected by various crisis. NRC wants to remove barriers for local actors to provide assistance or services to displacement-affected populations; engage local knowledge and capacities by working with local actors; partner with local NGOs and institutions to extend and sustain the impact of our response; and engage with authorities to provide assistance and protection to people within their jurisdiction
• Meaningful work that responds to the diverse needs, priorities, and concerns raised by beneficiary communities.
• Female candidates are strongly encouraged to join our work culture that empowers every employee to share ideas and take responsibility.

The full Job Description can be found on our website.