Advisor Mine Action and Disarmament

Employer: Norwegian People’s Aid
Location: Oslo , Norway
Closing date 7 Jun 2020

As an advisor, you will join the Head Office team in Oslo with frequent travels to programmes and operations. You will be met with high expectations in a dynamic work environment. You will be working in teams to support and develop the programmes in an assigned region. Your main responsibility will be to ensure that strategies and plans are implemented with quality, effectiveness, relevance and impact.

In this position your main responsibilities will be:

Fulfilling a desk function for DMAD programmes organised within a geographically related portfolio

Coordination between HO and DMAD programmes on issues related to HR, recruitments, finance and logistics

Maintaining a thematic specialisation within Mine Action and Humanitarian Disarmament topics

Providing support related to management and delivery of operations

Continuous monitoring of DMAD programmes performance and delivery of operations

Facilitating coordination and implementation synergies between DMAD programmes within assigned portfolio and the global portfolio

Providing DMAD management with regular updates on relevant issues pertaining to the assigned portfolio

Coordinating, when relevant, DMAD programmes activities with other NPA HO departments

To be succesfull in this role you must have:

Recent experience and proven results as advisor / desk officer in a humanitarian mine action NGO;

Relevant higher education and/or relevant military experience;

Ability and willingness to travel to countries with a challenging security situation;

Good written and verbal English language skills;

Experience from working in an international environment;

Experience from working in the humanitarian sector;

Experience from the Mine Action sector;

Experience and knowlegde about NPA and Mine Action;

Ability to perform in an organised and structured manner within a dynamic and fast-paced working environment;

To be successful in this role you need to have good communication and cooperation skills and you should be able to represent NPA and our values our humanitarian sector and international forums. The ideal candidate will also have strong analytical skills and have the ability to implement plans and strategies in our programmes.

We consider it an advantage if you also have:

Programme/project management experience;

Operational or technical Mine Action skills and experience;

Experience working with safeguarding

Ability to take initiative and work independently when required;

Norwegian language skills;

Knowledge of a third language is an advantage;

One of NPA's overall objectives are to promote gender equality in our organization, and female candidates are encouraged to apply.

In return we offer:

One year temporary appointment with possibility for extension in an interesting, challenging work environment. You will be covered by our comprehensive insurance scheme. We offer five weeks annual holiday and flexible work hours. The position are based centrally in Oslo.

Salary: 423.522-566.034 NOK depending on your education and relevant experience.

Start-date as soon as possible.

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