What we are looking for
NRC is looking for an INGO Forum Director to join the Myanmar mission. The role holder will beย responsible for overall leadership, strategic direction, and facilitation of coordination between international members of the forum, the Steering Committee, and external stakeholders. The coordination entails ensuring effective information exchange and analysis, representation, and advocacy on common positions and agreed interests.
If you are anย influential, interpersonal, and strategic leader, with extensive negotiation and problem-solving skills, who enjoysย advocating and engaging with high level actors, facilitating information sharing, and influencing advocacy and coordination, then this is the role for you!
What you will do
INGO Forum Strategyย development and implementation. Joint advocacy initiatives leadership. Partnerships, localisation, and capacity sharing support. Representation of INGO Forum members at external meetings and fora. Stakeholder relations. Member engagement promotion, ensuring the Forum meets the membersโ priority needs. Financial resource management, including overseeingย proposals, budgets, and reports. Policy analysis on key issues affecting INGOs in Myanmar. Risk mitigationย measures. Information sharingย facilitation.What you will bring
Senior management experienceย in a humanitarian/recovery/development context. INGO management experience. Policy change and practice influencing track record. Advocating and engagingย with high level actors experience. Inter-agency coordinationย familiarity. Global humanitarian and developmentย coordination infrastructure and systems familiarity. Donor and diplomatic missions representational and diplomatic experience. Multiple donor grants/contractsย involvement. Resource mobilization strategiesย development and implementation. Complex, and volatile context exposure. Englishย fluency, both written and verbal.What makes this position attractive?
Active since 2007, the INGO Forum is an independent membership body and coordination forum. It supports and strengthens the work of the INGO community in order to better respond to the needs and protect the rights of the people of Myanmar. This is achieved by improving coordination and representation, amplifying the collective voice of members, and representing their interests to key decision-makers, as well as by coordinating and facilitating information exchange, learning, and resource-sharing among the NGO community. The INGO Forum provides a platform for organisations to share experiences, identify challenges, and find ways to support the work of its members to serve better the people for whom it works. Myanmar has seen a radical change in context the last three years, with internal borders being created due to increased conflict, and multiple stakeholders are needed for engagement, while a variety of modalities to the increasing humanitarian needs are required. The members are the drive behind INGO Forum, and their active participation is essential to the INGO Forumโs continued dynamism. The opportunity to join one of the most respected, largest, and best resourced INGO Forums. The chance to network with a diverse portfolio of stakeholders in a challenging and complex environment. Meaningful work, with a high-quality integrated programme that responds to the diverse needs, priorities, and concerns raised by beneficiary communities.ย Female candidates are strongly encouraged to join our work culture that empowers every employee to share ideas and take responsibility. Learn more about NRCโs operation in Myanmar here.What we offer
Yangon, Myanmarย duty station, subject to receiving appropriate documentation. Currently, international visas and work permits are subject to considerable delays. The successful candidate will be expected to work from home/remotely for extended periods of time. 24-monthย contract duration (renewable, subjecting to funding, performance, and requirements). Grade 10ย in NRCโs Salary Scale, with accompanying terms and conditions. NRC offers a competitive compensation and benefits package. NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, 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.Important information about the application process
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.
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NRC responds to the diverse needs faced by populations in Myanmar through the delivery of integrated programming and advocacy to ensure that conflict and displacement-affected communities can meet their needs and exercise their rights. NRC works with a range of different local and international partners to deliver a multi-faceted response that includes emergency response to rapid onset needs, providing essential services to internally displaced people in protracted displacement, and contributing to pathways to durable solutions.
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 here. 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.