Regional Head of Operational Support Central and West Africa
NRC NORCAP
Job Description
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We need to preserve all original content word-for-word, meaning we cannot omit any text, but we can strip tags and reformat. Must not add or remove content. So we need to output the same textual content, just wrapped in appropriate tags.
We must not add any extra text like explanation. Just HTML.
We need to convert lists: The original has with - containing
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inside a - for behavioural competencies. We'll need to preserve that structure: outer
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We must not keep any inline styles or classes. So we strip all attributes.
We must not use or
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We need to ensure we preserve line breaks? Not needed.
We need to output the HTML as a string.
Let's extract the textual content.
I'll go through the original text and extract visible text.
Original snippet:
Background
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation dedicated to protecting the rights of displaced and affected people during crises. NRC delivers high-quality programmes to support people forced to flee, helping them rebuild their lives and establish a new future. NRC provides immediate humanitarian assistance, prevents further displacement, and contributes to durable solutions. It operates across both new and protracted crises across 40 countries.
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation dedicated to protecting the rights of displaced and affected people during crises. NRC delivers high-quality programmes to support people forced to flee, helping them rebuild their lives and establish a new future. NRC provides immediate humanitarian assistance, prevents further displacement, and contributes to durable solutions. It operates across both new and protracted crises across 40 countries. NRC has a simplified organisational structure with leaner Head Office and Representation Offices and smaller Regional Teams.
Global support structures are established for functions previously managed by the Regional Offices, including Finance, Risk&Compliance, People&Organisation, Media and Communication, PCM&Grants Management, Programme Core Competency and thematics and MEAL. The regional teams will access support capacity from the Global Resource pools.
Resource Pools (hereafter pool) gather staff in one common team which is organised and managed (but not necessarily physically located) at Head Office. The purpose of pooling is to improve efficiency, equity, access and flexibility. The teams should ensure that all regional staff and country offices have predictable access to the same services and deliver them in an efficient way.
Find out more about NRC https://www.nrc.no/ and Watch this short video to see NRC in action https://vimeo.com/736782633
What we are looking for
The Regional Head of Operational Support will ensure an integrated approach to operational management, supporting the quality and timeliness of NRC's response in the region.
The role is responsible for enabling support needs in countries across HR, Risk and Compliance, Humanitarian Access and Safety (HAS), Finance, ICT, Logistics and Administration, ensuring compliance with NRC policies.
The Regional Head of Operational Support plays a crucial role in ensuring that the region is accountable for the performance of country offices, ensuring they meet operational standards and deliver on strategic objectives.
This role is a member of the Regional Management Team.
What you will do
Ensure that support functions within the regional team operate efficiently, fostering a collaborative and effective working environment.
Hold country offices accountable for progress on their operations by leveraging reports, analyses, and compliance data from NRC’s global resource and pools.
Support country directors and heads of supports, HAS Managers with capacity building and problem-solving related to operational challenges.
Provide advice and mentorship to country office operational support teams, fostering capacity building and skills development.
Participate in global discussions on planning and strategy relating to support functions.
Review of finance, HR and logistics requirements related to regional grants in collaboration with the Global PCM and Grants Management facility.
The postholder, upon request, can act on behalf of the Regional Director including leading relevant Crisis Management Teams.
Other tasks as assigned by the Regional Director.
Please download the detailed job description to learn more about the Job Description _Regional Head of Operational Support CWA.pdf
What you will bring
1.Professional Competencies
Minimum 10 years of relevant leadership/management experience within the humanitarian field
Relevant higher education in a related field such as business administration, management, finance or other suitable education.
Background and experience in managing support functions: finance, HR and logistics. It is an added value to have experience from working with security and safety.
Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
Documented/proven results related to the position’s responsibilities.
Relevant experience with overseeing Finance, Logistics or other support functions will be an asset.
Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile
Fluency in English, both written and verbal
Context related skills, knowledge and experience
Specifics to be included per region
Essential: Fluency in English and French both written and verbal
Knowledge of the context in Central and West Africa is an asset.
Experience with start-ups, exit and organisational change processes
Good knowledge of (local language if different from English) is an advantage
Ability to collaborate effectively with remote teams and stakeholders
2. Behavioural competencies
Build meaningful relations
I communicate clearly and transparently
I treat all people with respect
I work collaboratively with partners and internal stakeholders
Act with integrity
I base my action and good judgement assuring necessary change
I act as a role model for our principles and values
Empower people
I delegate and give feedback that allows people to grow
. Must preserve all original content word-for-word, but we need to strip out formatting tags and keep text. Also need to convert headings like Background etc to
. The instruction: Use for section headers (e.g. Responsibilities, Qualifications, Requirements, Education, Experience, Skills, How to Apply, Key Duties, About the Role). So we need to identify section headers in the text: "Background", "What we are looking for", "What you will do", "What you will bring", "Context related skills, knowledge and experience", "2. Behavioural competencies", "What we offer". Also maybe "Find out more about NRC" is not a section header? It's more like a paragraph with links. We'll treat as normal paragraph.
We need to preserve all original content word-for-word, meaning we cannot omit any text, but we can strip tags and reformat. Must not add or remove content. So we need to output the same textual content, just wrapped in appropriate tags.
We must not add any extra text like explanation. Just HTML.
We need to convert lists: The original has with - containing
. We'll need to output
- text
where the text is the inner content (without tags). Also nested lists: there is a nested
inside a - for behavioural competencies. We'll need to preserve that structure: outer
- ...
- ... etc.
We must not keep any inline styles or classes. So we strip all attributes.
We must not use or
. Use only ,
, , - .
We need to ensure we preserve line breaks? Not needed.
We need to output the HTML as a string.
Let's extract the textual content.
I'll go through the original text and extract visible text.
Original snippet:
Background
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation dedicated to protecting the rights of displaced and affected people during crises. NRC delivers high-quality programmes to support people forced to flee, helping them rebuild their lives and establish a new future. NRC provides immediate humanitarian assistance, prevents further displacement, and contributes to durable solutions. It operates across both new and protracted crises across 40 countries.
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation dedicated to protecting the rights of displaced and affected people during crises. NRC delivers high-quality programmes to support people forced to flee, helping them rebuild their lives and establish a new future. NRC provides immediate humanitarian assistance, prevents further displacement, and contributes to durable solutions. It operates across both new and protracted crises across 40 countries. NRC has a simplified organisational structure with leaner Head Office and Representation Offices and smaller Regional Teams.
Global support structures are established for functions previously managed by the Regional Offices, including Finance, Risk&Compliance, People&Organisation, Media and Communication, PCM&Grants Management, Programme Core Competency and thematics and MEAL. The regional teams will access support capacity from the Global Resource pools.
Resource Pools (hereafter pool) gather staff in one common team which is organised and managed (but not necessarily physically located) at Head Office. The purpose of pooling is to improve efficiency, equity, access and flexibility. The teams should ensure that all regional staff and country offices have predictable access to the same services and deliver them in an efficient way.
Find out more about NRC https://www.nrc.no/ and Watch this short video to see NRC in action https://vimeo.com/736782633
What we are looking for
The Regional Head of Operational Support will ensure an integrated approach to operational management, supporting the quality and timeliness of NRC's response in the region.
The role is responsible for enabling support needs in countries across HR, Risk and Compliance, Humanitarian Access and Safety (HAS), Finance, ICT, Logistics and Administration, ensuring compliance with NRC policies.
The Regional Head of Operational Support plays a crucial role in ensuring that the region is accountable for the performance of country offices, ensuring they meet operational standards and deliver on strategic objectives.
This role is a member of the Regional Management Team.
What you will do
Ensure that support functions within the regional team operate efficiently, fostering a collaborative and effective working environment.
Hold country offices accountable for progress on their operations by leveraging reports, analyses, and compliance data from NRC’s global resource and pools.
Support country directors and heads of supports, HAS Managers with capacity building and problem-solving related to operational challenges.
Provide advice and mentorship to country office operational support teams, fostering capacity building and skills development.
Participate in global discussions on planning and strategy relating to support functions.
Review of finance, HR and logistics requirements related to regional grants in collaboration with the Global PCM and Grants Management facility.
The postholder, upon request, can act on behalf of the Regional Director including leading relevant Crisis Management Teams.
Other tasks as assigned by the Regional Director.
Please download the detailed job description to learn more about the Job Description _Regional Head of Operational Support CWA.pdf
What you will bring
1.Professional Competencies
Minimum 10 years of relevant leadership/management experience within the humanitarian field
Relevant higher education in a related field such as business administration, management, finance or other suitable education.
Background and experience in managing support functions: finance, HR and logistics. It is an added value to have experience from working with security and safety.
Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
Documented/proven results related to the position’s responsibilities.
Relevant experience with overseeing Finance, Logistics or other support functions will be an asset.
Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile
Fluency in English, both written and verbal
Context related skills, knowledge and experience
Specifics to be included per region
Essential: Fluency in English and French both written and verbal
Knowledge of the context in Central and West Africa is an asset.
Experience with start-ups, exit and organisational change processes
Good knowledge of (local language if different from English) is an advantage
Ability to collaborate effectively with remote teams and stakeholders
2. Behavioural competencies
Build meaningful relations
I communicate clearly and transparently
I treat all people with respect
I work collaboratively with partners and internal stakeholders
Act with integrity
I base my action and good judgement assuring necessary change
I act as a role model for our principles and values
Empower people
I delegate and give feedback that allows people to grow
- with
- containing
. We'll need to output
- text
tags). Also nested lists: there is a nested
- inside a
- for behavioural competencies. We'll need to preserve that structure: outer
- ...
- ... etc.
We must not keep any inline styles or classes. So we strip all attributes.
We must not use or
. Use only,
,
- ,
- .
We need to ensure we preserve line breaks? Not needed.
We need to output the HTML as a string.
Let's extract the textual content.
I'll go through the original text and extract visible text.
Original snippet:
Background
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation dedicated to protecting the rights of displaced and affected people during crises. NRC delivers high-quality programmes to support people forced to flee, helping them rebuild their lives and establish a new future. NRC provides immediate humanitarian assistance, prevents further displacement, and contributes to durable solutions. It operates across both new and protracted crises across 40 countries.
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation dedicated to protecting the rights of displaced and affected people during crises. NRC delivers high-quality programmes to support people forced to flee, helping them rebuild their lives and establish a new future. NRC provides immediate humanitarian assistance, prevents further displacement, and contributes to durable solutions. It operates across both new and protracted crises across 40 countries. NRC has a simplified organisational structure with leaner Head Office and Representation Offices and smaller Regional Teams.
Global support structures are established for functions previously managed by the Regional Offices, including Finance, Risk&Compliance, People&Organisation, Media and Communication, PCM&Grants Management, Programme Core Competency and thematics and MEAL. The regional teams will access support capacity from the Global Resource pools.
Resource Pools (hereafter pool) gather staff in one common team which is organised and managed (but not necessarily physically located) at Head Office. The purpose of pooling is to improve efficiency, equity, access and flexibility. The teams should ensure that all regional staff and country offices have predictable access to the same services and deliver them in an efficient way.
Find out more about NRC https://www.nrc.no/ and Watch this short video to see NRC in action https://vimeo.com/736782633
What we are looking for
The Regional Head of Operational Support will ensure an integrated approach to operational management, supporting the quality and timeliness of NRC's response in the region.
The role is responsible for enabling support needs in countries across HR, Risk and Compliance, Humanitarian Access and Safety (HAS), Finance, ICT, Logistics and Administration, ensuring compliance with NRC policies.
The Regional Head of Operational Support plays a crucial role in ensuring that the region is accountable for the performance of country offices, ensuring they meet operational standards and deliver on strategic objectives.
This role is a member of the Regional Management Team.
What you will do
Ensure that support functions within the regional team operate efficiently, fostering a collaborative and effective working environment.
Hold country offices accountable for progress on their operations by leveraging reports, analyses, and compliance data from NRC’s global resource and pools.
Support country directors and heads of supports, HAS Managers with capacity building and problem-solving related to operational challenges.
Provide advice and mentorship to country office operational support teams, fostering capacity building and skills development.
Participate in global discussions on planning and strategy relating to support functions.
Review of finance, HR and logistics requirements related to regional grants in collaboration with the Global PCM and Grants Management facility.
The postholder, upon request, can act on behalf of the Regional Director including leading relevant Crisis Management Teams.
Other tasks as assigned by the Regional Director.
Please download the detailed job description to learn more about the Job Description _Regional Head of Operational Support CWA.pdf
What you will bring
1.Professional Competencies
Minimum 10 years of relevant leadership/management experience within the humanitarian field
Relevant higher education in a related field such as business administration, management, finance or other suitable education.
Background and experience in managing support functions: finance, HR and logistics. It is an added value to have experience from working with security and safety.
Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
Documented/proven results related to the position’s responsibilities.
Relevant experience with overseeing Finance, Logistics or other support functions will be an asset.
Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile
Fluency in English, both written and verbal
Context related skills, knowledge and experience
Specifics to be included per region
Essential: Fluency in English and French both written and verbal
Knowledge of the context in Central and West Africa is an asset.
Experience with start-ups, exit and organisational change processes
Good knowledge of (local language if different from English) is an advantage
Ability to collaborate effectively with remote teams and stakeholders
2. Behavioural competencies
Build meaningful relations
I communicate clearly and transparently
I treat all people with respect
I work collaboratively with partners and internal stakeholders
Act with integrity
I base my action and good judgement assuring necessary change
I act as a role model for our principles and values
Empower people
I delegate and give feedback that allows people to grow
- .
We need to ensure we preserve line breaks? Not needed.
We need to output the HTML as a string.
Let's extract the textual content.
I'll go through the original text and extract visible text.
Original snippet:
- ... etc.
We must not keep any inline styles or classes. So we strip all attributes.
We must not use
- ...
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