Kenya: Regional Food Security Advisor - Kenya

Organization: Norwegian Refugee Council

Country: Kenya

Closing date: 12 Jun 2016

Regional Food Security Advisor – Kenya
Norwegian Refugee Council

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for refugees and internally displaced people. NRC advocates for the rights of displaced populations and offers assistance within the shelter, education, emergency food security, legal assistance, and water,sanitation and hygiene sectors.

The Norwegian Refugee Council has approximately 5000 committed and competent employees involved in projects across four continents. In addition, NRC runs one of the world’s largest standby rosters -NORCAP, with 650 professionals, ready to be deployed on 72 hours notice when a crisis occurs

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for refugees and internally displaced people. NRC advocates for the rights of displaced populations and offers assistance within Shelter, Education, and Food security, Legal Assistance, and water, sanitation and hygiene sectors.

The purpose of the Regional Food Security Core Competency Adviser position is to provide all rounded Food Security technical support in the region in planning, implementation, proposal development, monitoring and Evaluation, capturing impact evidences, introducing innovations and capacity building in line with the regional strategy and the respective country strategies. This will be fulfilled through the following:

Job description

• Provide guidance and capacity building across countries in the region to ensure that NRC delivers high quality, effective and relevant programming in line with Programme Policy and strategic Core Competence priorities in the region.


• Establishing and supervising technical lines, communication and knowledge sharing on relevant core competency or cross-cutting issue across countries in the region


• Conduct periodic field visits for problem solving and ensure that implementation of Food Security program is sustainable and in compliance with agreed donor’s requirements and NRC and government policies and global standards.


• Contribute to adapting NRC’s programme approaches through innovation and development in the relevant Core Competence or cross-cutting issues, in close cooperation with the Global Core Competence Adviser (Team Leader) and the field


• Support the consolidation of a learning culture – documentation, operational research, and capturing best practices to enable regional countries to achieve and/or surpass established targets and standards.


• Contribute to strategic development of Food Security Programme in the Region by supporting Countries in developing CC strategy, technical SOPs / guidelines and Macro LFAs


• Contribute to global programme development projects and manage regional programme development projects, including fundraising, budgets and reporting to partners according to deadlines and quality requirements


• Represent NRC in relevant humanitarian forums at both regional and global levels


• Scoping, facilitating and encouraging innovative approaches to programming in the region.


• Identify regional advocacy issues related to the relevant Core Competences and cross cutting issue


• Contribute with advice and technical inputs on recruitment of country level CC staff


• Specific responsibilities


• Provide technical oversight of Food Security activities and working as a focal point of Resilience programming in the region


• Assist Countries in evidence based programming, appropriate technology and tools/approaches, implementation and periodic appraisals of Food Security programme in the region.


• Review countries quarter, semi-annual and annual Food Security Programme implementation, progress/final reports, provide timely feedback and consolidate regional Food Security reports.


• Support in the development of Food Security emergency preparedness, contingency planning and response capacities and contribute to emergency Food Security response in the region on demand.


• Identify and monitor risks, constraints, technical issues and escalate issues related with Food Security based on evaluations, field visits and periodic reports for timely leadership action.


• Design multi county projects and identify various donor priorities and funding opportunities for the Food Security and resilience interventions in the region.


• Develop, appropriate technical training packages and modules for Food Security to enhance the capacity of NRC staff and partners

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of relevant leadership/management experience within the humanitarian field


• Solid expertise in implementing and managing food security related interventions (relief/ recovery/ resilience interventions etc.), especially in refugee/ IDP/ displacement contexts


• Senior level Food Security programme and/ or technical supervision experience (ideally in horn/ sub-Saharan Africa region)


• Advanced understanding and experience on programme monitoring and evaluation issues. Ability to design M & E tools relevant to the food security sector and roll it out to the technical and M & E teams


• Experience in working on resilience programming and Durable solutions for the displaced


• Experience in leading multisectoral assessment teams and providing technical guidance on food security interventions in response to emergencies


• High level of communication, interpersonal, representation and negotiation skills


• Experience working with various donors and conversant with their technical frameworks and strategies (e.g. UNHCR, DFID, SIDA, NMFA, ECHO, EU etc.)


• Good understanding and programmatic experience on various cross cutting issues such as gender, protection and environment


• Ability to write high quality concept notes and technical sections for donor proposals


• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities


• Ability to work closely with field based national staff and experience in various staff training and development approaches


• Experience with project development, especially from an emergency and post-emergency phases


• Experience in capacity building and community mobilization


• Experience in advocacy work


• Experience with coordination mechanisms (cluster and sectorial)


• Fluency in English, both written and verbal

Education level

• College / University, Bachelor"s degree

Personal qualities

• Handling insecure environments/Managing resources to optimize results


• Communicating with impact and respect


• Strategic thinking and diplomatic


• Empowering and building trust


• Initiating action and coping with change


• Knowledge of the context in the Greater Horn of Africa Region

We offer

• Commencement: ASAP


• Contract period: 1 Year


• Salary/benefits: According to NRC’s general directions


• Duty station: Nairobi


• Approved health certificate will be requested before contract start.


• Application procedures and CV registration: Please note that you are required to enter the geographical location for all your previous positions while registering your CV. There is no specific field for this information in our CV form, but you can use the "Company name" field for both company and location

Miscellaneous info

• Travel: Some travelling must be expected

How to apply:

Please, apply through www.nrc.no, then vacancies