Livelihoods and Food Security Programme Development Manager (PDM) At Norwegian Refugee Council

What we are looking for:

An experienced Livelihoods and Food Security (LFS) Programme Development Manager (PDM) who will lead the design, development, and quality implementation of the LFS programme in Palestine in close collaboration with the other technical program leads.

What you will do:

• Contribute to the review of NRC Palestine’s Country Programme Strategy.
• Lead the design of quality and appropriate Concept Notes and Proposals for fundraising to donors, for both emergency and medium/long term programming, ensuring integrated approaches where relevant.
• Write and review relevant reports, ensuring these are of high quality and technically accurate.
• Provision of technical advice at field level and advising the Country Director, Head of Programme, Area Managers and Project Managers on technical strategy, approaches and best practices on LFS.
• Proactively engage in processes with external stakeholders (incl. donors, working groups, consortia) and conduct external engagement to pre-position NRC for funding opportunities, to scale up high-impact interventions and pilot innovations and dissemination of best practice.
• Develop Programme SOPs for assessments, targeting, verification, distribution, and monitoring for LFS modalities.
• Adapt NRC climate change and environment strategy into LFS programming, ensuring contextual relevance and sustainability.
• Scoping, facilitating and encouraging innovative approaches to programming in the country office, including collaboration with other countries in the region where relevant.
• Working in close collaboration with the other Core Competencies Specialists / PDM and Thematic Advisers to identify synergies and/or integration through the NRC PCM cycle.
• In coordination with monitoring, evaluation and learning MEL staff, design and implement appropriate MEL system, methodologies and tools (including baseline, mid-and end evaluations) for livelihoods programming to measure quality programming and evaluate impact, cost-effectiveness and relevance of specific activities.
• Undertake reporting and documentation of relevant experiences and actively participate in MEL activities through the PCM, including a regular review of MEL data via the GORS platform.
• Lead all LFS assessments (i.e.., household vulnerability, food security, climate-impact, and market assessments) and response analyses, together with other CCs, and advise the Country Programme in appropriate and relevant actions required ensuring data-driven decisions.
• Develop and pilot tools and methodologies to support communication with participants and community engagement in the targeted areas.\
• Assist in recruitment of Livelihoods & Food Security CC staff together with HR and Area Managers and develop and implement a capacity development strategy for them.
• Contribute to implementation of Safe and Inclusive Programming Minimum Standards across your area of work.
• Any other relevant tasks as assigned by the line manager (Head of Programmes).

Please download the detailed job description to learn more about the position.

What you will bring:

• A bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (environmental, agriculture, or a science related). An advanced academic qualification will be an added advantage.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in Livelihood and Food Security area of work in a humanitarian/ recovery context, preferable with displacement affected communities. Knowledge of the Middle East context and understanding of the Palestinian humanitarian context and crisis is highly desirable.
• Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts.
• LFS Core competency expertise (Food assistance, food and agriculture systems, business, entrepreneurship and employment, social safety net, etc).
• Experience with start-up, scale-up projects, emergency and early recovery contexts.
• Experience of mainstreaming evidence-based approaches to programme quality throughout the project cycle.
• Experience establishing innovative partnerships with external actors.
• Experience of leading multi-sectoral market assessments and analysing the findings will be an asset.
• Experience in designing and implementing innovative market-driven income-generation activities in both urban and rural contexts.
• Strong experience in resilience programming including natural resource management and nutrition sensitive programming is required.
• Experience working in financial inclusion, including small business support, value chain analysis, private sector engagement, M4P approaches, and savings groups will be an asset
• Effective team building, cross-cultural communication and conflict resolution skills.
• Experience in the design and delivery of team capacity strengthening, including remote coaching, mentoring and training.
• Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile with documented results related to the position’s responsibilities.
• Advanced computer skills, especially in MS Office; Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook
• Fluency in English both written and verbal. Knowledge of Arabic is desirable.

What we offer:

• Duty station: Jerusalem, Palestine
• Contract: 12 months (Renewal is subject to performance and funds availability)
• Travel: 30% to Area Offices (NRC Operational Areas)
• Salary/benefits: grade 9 on NRC’s salary scale, with accompanying terms and conditions
• NRC is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to diversity without distinction to age, gender, religion, ethnicity, nationality, and physical ability.
• We think outside the box, encourage ideas, and give responsibility to all employees at all levels. You will have many opportunities to be heard and take the initiative.

Find out more about the benefits of working for NRC

Why NRC?

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. Our 15,000 staff work in crises across 40 countries, providing life-saving and long-term assistance to millions of people every year.

NRC currently has over 3,000 staff across the Middle East dedicated to assisting people affected by conflict in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Libya and Palestine. Its humanitarian interventions are based upon its programming expertise in the Core Competencies of Shelter, Education, WASH, Livelihoods and Food Security, and Information Counselling and Legal Assistance (ICLA) to vulnerable displaced people that were forced to flee.

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We are looking for people who are passionate about helping refugees and people forced to flee. Are you one of those people? If you are, NRC offers you the opportunity to:

• do demanding and professional work, often in challenging contexts.
• join a work culture that empowers every employee to share ideas and take responsibility.
• be part of a welcoming and supportive community committed to human dignity.

Learn more about NRC’s operations in Palestine here.

About Us

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a global humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee.

Join us in assisting millions of people in areas where others cannot, tackling some of the world’s most dangerous and difficult crises. Bring your skills and dedication to an organisation recognised for providing high quality aid and for defending the rights of refugees and internally displaced people.

At NRC, we give responsibility to employees at all levels and foster professional growth and innovative teams. You can expect a supportive culture and an open dialogue with management. We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion.

Together, we save lives and rebuild futures.

Safeguarding is central to NRC’s work. We expect all employees to:

• treat everyone with respect and dignity

• contribute to building a safe environment for all

• never engage in any form of exploitation, harassment and specifically sexual exploitation, abuse and sexual harassment (SEAH)

• always report. NRC has a zero-tolerance approach to inaction against exploitation, abuse and SEAH