What we are looking for:
We're seeking an experienced Hub Engagement Manager to join NRC Switzerland on a 50% basis. This is an exciting opportunity for an energetic, highly organised and relationship-focused professional who thrives at the intersection of project delivery, donor engagement, and strategic partnerships.
In this role, you will lead the planning, coordination, monitoring, and reporting of the FAGI grant, ensuring full compliance with donor requirements while advancing NRC's strategic objectives. You will oversee project implementation from inception through close-out, manage budgets and deliverables, coordinate across internal teams, and produce high-quality, data-driven reporting that supports informed decision-making and continuous improvement.
Beyond project management, you will play a central role in strengthening collaboration across the humanitarian ecosystem. Working closely with NGOs, UN agencies, academia, and private sector partners, you will foster meaningful engagement, facilitate timely information sharing, identify opportunities for collaboration, and help streamline processes to maximise impact and reduce duplication.
Please note: This is an urgent, part-time (50%) position based in Geneva. Applicants must have the legal right to live and work in Switzerland and be available to start immediately.
What you will do:
Here are some of your specific responsibilities:
Hub engagement and Coordination
- Identify opportunities at the heart of the FAGI project to help build an engaging and collaborative Hub space.
- Promote the Humanitarian Hub Initiative across Geneva based actors.
- Proactively engage with other NGOs, networks, UN agencies and other relevant Geneva based actors to communicate about the project and look for synergies.
- Contribute to external fundraising efforts.
- Develop an effective communication strategy for the Humanitarian Hub and FAGI project.
Grants and Project Management
- Coordinate the implementation of the grant to ensure timely delivery in line with workplans and budget.
- Anticipate implementation challenges and advise management on adjustments or solutions.
- Maintain effective grant tracking tools and organized documentation for reporting and audit purposes.
- Act as a liaison between programme, operations, and finance teams to support smooth delivery.
- Organise project kick-off, review, and close-out meetings to align teams and track progress.
- Provide guidance to colleagues to strengthen overall grant management capacity.
- Coordinate engagement with external actors involved or interested in the grant implementation
Budget Monitoring
- Monitor project budgets (non-staff costs) in coordination with budget holders and finance.
- Ensure financial reporting is accurate and aligned with programme progress and donor requirements.
Donor Communication and Reporting
- Serve as the main contact for day-to-day donor communication.
- Coordinate and quality assure donor reports, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and consistency.
- Support donor briefings, strategic communications, and additional fundraising efforts.
Please download the detailed job description to learn more about this position.
What you will bring:
- Advanced university degree or equivalent qualification
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience with solid experience working in the humanitarian and/or development sector.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English; fluency in French an advantage.
- Strong organisational and project coordination skills, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent deadlines and maintain high attention to detail.
- Excellent organisational and computer skills; experience with software such as Salesforce a plus.
- Well documented professional experience with institutional and/or private donors in grants management, reporting, budgets monitoring and monitoring donor commitments and compliance.
- Experience in monitoring and evaluation, including developing and reporting against logical frameworks.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a proactive and solutions-oriented approach.
- In-depth understanding of the Geneva-based humanitarian and policy landscape, including key UN agencies, NGOs, donors, and coordination fora.
- Strong networking and representational skills, with demonstrated ability to proactively engage and influence a wide range of stakeholders to advance strategic objectives and partnerships.
- Proven experience in developing and implementing strategic communication and outreach approaches, including positioning initiatives for visibility, relevance, and fundraising.
- Ability to identify and leverage opportunities for collaboration, synergies, and streamlining across actors, translating engagement into concrete outcomes.
- Solid understanding of humanitarian policy, financing, and reform processes, including experience supporting external resource mobilisation efforts.
- Highly developed communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to tailor messaging to different audiences and represent the organisation effectively in external forums.
- Demonstrated capacity for strategic thinking and initiative, including identifying opportunities, anticipating risks, and driving engagement independently.
- Experience producing high-quality external communications, including briefs, concept notes, talking points, and partnership materials.
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt to evolving operational and strategic demands.
What we offer:
- Duty station: Geneva, Switzerland.
- Contract: Permanent (50%)
- Travel: Up to 10%
- Salary/benefits: Grade 8 on NRC’s Resident salary scale, with accompanying terms and conditions.
- NRC is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to diversity without distinction to age, gender, religion, 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
- For Internal candidates: To apply as an internal candidate, log in with your official email or click on Opportunity Market Place.
- When creating your profile, include your full name as given on your passport. Complete all the system-required fields for experience, employment history and education.
- Submit your application and CV in English, taking care to attach your latest CV.
- Applications that do not meet the minimum standards in terms of experience or qualifications will generally not be considered. Unsolicited applications not related to this specific job advertisement will not be considered.
- We receive many applications for each vacant position and so only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
If you have any questions about this role, please email ho.recruitment@nrc.no with the job title as the subject line.
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.
Watch this short video to see NRC in action.
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.
Organization context
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a global humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee.
Join us in assisting millions of people in areas where others cannot, tackling some of the world's most dangerous and difficult crises. Bring your skills and dedication to an organisation recognised for providing high quality aid and for defending the rights of refugees and internally displaced people.
At NRC, we give responsibility to employees at all levels and foster professional growth and innovative teams. You can expect a supportive culture and an open dialogue with management. We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion.
Together, we save lives and rebuild futures.
Safeguarding is central to NRC’s work. We expect all employees to:
• treat everyone with respect and dignity
• contribute to building a safe environment for all
• never engage in any form of exploitation, harassment and specifically sexual exploitation, abuse and sexual harassment (SEAH)
• always report. NRC has a zero-tolerance approach to inaction against exploitation, abuse and SEAH
