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.

Generic Responsibilities:

• Adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures taking into account global and regional strategies
• Develop and maintain overview of all grants, donor requirements, rules and regulations, and internal and external deadlines, including filing of grant documents and updating of tools, including the Grants Tracker and the Major Projects Tracker
•  Lead the process of developing concept notes, proposals and reports (donors and internal reports) in close collaboration with Programme Specialists, Programme and Monitoring and Evaluation teams, and Finance to ensure accurate, transparent and timely delivery of narrative and financial documents, in line with NRC PCM framework.
• Be updated on donor priorities, track and share relevant calls for proposals
• Document, analyse and share learning on proposal development and reporting processes, as well as on compliance with donor rules and regulations
• Contribute to continuously improving internal grant management systems and partnership systems, including through the development and/or updating of relevant SOPs and tools
• Ensure a harmonised approach to partnerships among NRC Afghanistan programme response and NRC partners in line with NRC policy, guidance notes and toolkits, including learning across units and areas.
• Provide an internal help-desk on donor related issues, including donor rules and regulations and in the application of the Implementing Partnerships Handbook and Consortium Guide.
• Coordinate the drafting and distribution of internal reports.
• Contribute to PCM trainings and usage of the NRC PCM framework in the CO as delegated by the Head of Programme Support Unit
• Line management of Grants coordinator, including development of the staff member.
• Represent with relevant partners and donors as delegated
• Promote the rights of IDPs/returnees in line with the advocacy strategy

Specific Responsibilities:

Grants

• Lead on the development of high-quality proposals using relevant NRC tools (Go/ No-go checklist, proposal development meeting, internal calendar, proposal formats and instructions, internal budgeting tool). Assess and foster the inclusion of partnerships into proposals in a strategic manner;
• Review donor contracts, flag any points that might challenge NRC’s procedures, and support contract negotiations;
• Supervise the drafting of donor reports ensuring consistency between narrative and financial reports and that they meet quality standards; 
• Coordinate PCM meetings (Grants Opening Meeting, Project Review Meetings and Grants Closure meetings) as relevant;
• Work on improving Grants Management processes across the operation, notably by updating the Grants Management SOP and organizing Grants Workshops and trainings;
• Together with the Head of Programme Support Unit, develop a donor mapping exercise to foster more strategic decisions in proposal submission.
• In collaboration with the Communications and Advocacy team, contribute to the development of country factsheets and other relevant information pieces for donor visits/meetings
• Support external donor audit processes

Partnerships:

• Provide oversight to and manage the operations’ partnership portfolio, ensuring that NRC’s Implementing Partnerships Handbook and Consortium Guide is used across the project cycle. Lead and facilitate the continued updating and improvement of NRC Afghanistan partnership Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and tools, based on lessons learnt and feedback.
• Update and improve on NRC’s partner mapping exercise across area offices to facilitate decision-making relating to partnerships;
• Support programme teams to identify partners, assess their capacity, develop capacity building plans, conduct and document due diligence, and transfer of relevant NRC experience and tools;
• Together with the Head of Programme Support Unit, develop a partnerships strategy for the operation to contribute to NRC’s localization agenda;
• Support learning within NRC on the operation’s partnerships SOP as well as across partner organisations to improve grant effectiveness and better respond to the needs of project participants;
• Support effective coordination and communication with partner organisations as relevant.

Generic Professional Competencies:

• Minimum 4 years of experience from a grants management position in Afghanistan
• Experience working with humanitarian and development donors
• Experience working with implementing partners and consortia
• Good knowledge of humanitarian donor guidelines and procedures
• Documented skills in formulation of project proposals and reports
• Detail oriented and strong organizational skills
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal;
• Strong communication, coordination and interpersonal skills

Context-specific skills, knowledge and experience:

• Knowledge of the context in Afghanistan
• Post-Graduate Degree in Social Sciences, Business Administration, Finance and Accounting;
• Previous experience coordinating/managing teams;
• Experience working with local actors (civil society, community-based, academia, private sector)
• Strong analytical skills (data and financial);
• Proficiency in the use of Word and Excel;
• Ability to mediate in high-stress scenarios with competing interest

Behavioral competencies

These are personal qualities that influence how successful people are in their job. NRC’s Competency Framework states 12 behavioural competencies and the following are essential for this position:

• Planning and delivering results
• Managing resources to optimize results
• Influencing

• Ability to work under pressure and with limited supervision
• Culturally sensitive and coping with a changing environment
• Handling insecure environments

We Offer:

• Monthly Salary based on NRC Afghanistan Salary Scale.
• NRC has medical coverage for staff plus 4 dependents. 
• Leave and Holidays accordingly Afghanistan Labour Law.
• Top up Credit card on monthly basis. 
• Pension

For applying and more information, please copy below link and paste in the web address.

Grants and Partnership Manager Afghanistan - NRC NORCAP Careers Careers

Note: All applicants are supposed to create and properly fill online CV profile in the system, example (personal, education, experience background etc..) and only attaching CV won’t be enough.