Are you our new GBV Capacity Development Advisor in Syria?

The Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) is working in Syria with the main office located in Damascus. The programme portfolio includes WASH, earthquake response and GBV programming.  NCA works in collaboration with national partners.
NCA Syria is seeking a dedicated GBV Capacity Development Advisor to join the program team. We are looking for a candidate with extensive experience in managing GBV programs in complex crisis or post-conflict settings. The candidate must be motivated by achieving results through national staff, build capacity to scale up programming, and be a skilled manager that can transfer management skills to the national team while maintaining global GBV standards. Experience with implementation of GBV programs in similar settings is a requirement.

The contract is for twelve months. This is a non-family duty station. NCA will provide you with accommodation in shared NCA guesthouse, salary, living and security allowance, comprehensive insurance and a Rest and Recuperation scheme. The position is an expat position, and it is required to have experience from multiple country contexts.

We offer

- The opportunity to work with local Syrian partners, international donors, and people of concern to prevent and respond to GBV in a complex crisis setting
- The opportunity to work with highly competent national and international colleagues
- Competitive terms and conditions and a comprehensive insurance and pension plan

Duty Station: Damascus, Syria
Start date: As soon as possible
Applications will be assessed on an ongoing basis

Job description

• Work with the GBV team to strategically support planning skills with regards to human resource planning for projects, recruitements, activity-based budget planning, financial forecasting, procurement planning, project cycle management, workplans at individual and team level
• Support the GBV coordinator to plan for growth and develop management skills of managing programs as larger scale while maintaining international GBV quality standards
• Support to the GBV Coordinator in effective partner cooperation, partner negotiations and partner dialogue
• On-the job support to GBV coordinator in budget management, finance forecasts, and grant management and compliance overviews
• On-the-Job support to the GBV program team, MEAL team and NCA Head of Program in effective monitoring, result harvesting, and identification of lessons learned and evaluations
• On-the-job support to the GBV coordination in preparing and following up on communication- and visibility plan as defined in donor-agreements
• Support GBV team in providing technical support in mainstreaming protection in WASH-, cash- and other programming

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in social science, psychology, medical education, social work or other relevant management education with the necessary GBV programmatic experience from field programming
• Solid experience from implementation of GBV programming at scale, or scaling up GBV programming
• Experience with working with local partners as this is new for some of our national staff
• Strong planning skills, including experience with managing budgets and expenditures of own programme implementation
• Experience from multiple country contexts, including one country in the Middle East region
• Fluency in verbal and written English is required

Personal qualities

• Exceptional cooperative skills, seeing strengths as well as opportunities in colleagues and partners
• Demonstrate flexibility, reflection, and the ability to maintain positive relationships and composure in stressful situations
• Excellent at communicating and engaging partners and staff
• Ability to listen, build trust with staff and partners
• Have negotiation skills, build confidence in others while providing clear direction 
• A team builder who likes to create results through others 

We encourage all qualified persons to apply for a job with us, regardless of gender, age, disability, or cultural background. Through our recruitment portal, you can register and submit your CV, write an application / cover letter and attach relevant certificates. Only applicants using this electronic portal will be considered for the position.  

Before you apply:

We kindly ask you to carefully read the  ACT Code of Conduct for the prevention of misconduct, including corruption, fraud, exploitation and abuse, including sexual; and to ensure child safeguarding and the  Protection from Sexual Harassment, Exploitation and Abuse and Child Safeguarding policy before you submit your application. If you are the selected candidate for this position you will be asked to complete and sign our Code of Conduct and Protection from Sexual Harassment, Exploitation and Abuse, and Child Safeguarding Policy.

In accordance with core humanitarian principles, NCA implements a range of safeguards to prevent or reduce the possibility of humanitarian aid falling into the wrong hands. This includes those individuals and groups who are subject to sanctions by the United Nations Security Council. As part of this process, NCA will screen the details of the successful candidates for this post against the sanctions lists maintained by the UN and by some of NCAs governmental donors.