What we are looking for:
NRC is seeking an experienced Project Coordinator – Climate and Environment to coordinate two global initiatives that are advancing climate and environmental integration across our humanitarian response.
Reporting to the Global Lead for Climate and Environment, you will serve as the key coordination point between NRC Country Offices, partners, and donors, ensuring effective project delivery, strong collaboration, timely reporting, and visibility of project results. You will play a central role in driving implementation, monitoring progress, and supporting NRC's commitment to more environmentally responsible humanitarian programming.
This is an exciting opportunity for a highly organised project professional who is passionate about climate action and wants to help shape more sustainable humanitarian responses worldwide.
What you will do:
Here are some of your generic responsibilities
- Provide communication, briefings and presentations on the climate and environment strategy, projects, activities within NRC when required.
- Coordinate with NRC country offices to establish a schedule for the delivery of capacity building missions on environmental and climate mainstreaming.
- Support country offices in the planning and execution of climate and environment capacity building missions
- Ensure that information about capacity building on climate and environment opportunities is shared in a timely manner within NRC and with partner organizations at global, regional and country levels
- Prepare and provide regular updates on global project progresses and achievements; coordinate inputs gathering for donors’ reporting in collaboration with the Global Roving Experts from NORCAP, NRC Country Offices and consortium partners
- Ensure that the reports documenting the learning and recommendations from global projects will be shared with external partners
- Carry out other duties of temporary character appointed by Global Lead on Climate and Environment
Here are some of your specific responsibilities
- Follow-up and disseminate through appropriate tools (including Kaya) the process of registration and liaise with humanitarian organisations interested in taking part in the climate &environmental screening/mainstreaming capacity building from NRC and consortium partners.
- Ensure the monitoring of the global projects, particularly:
- The number and locations of the capacity building sessions
- Support provided to organizations on how to make changes to their programmes to make them less harmful to the environment
- Number of organisational focal points that have been given trainings to be able to apply the tools and approaches for climate and environment mainstreaming in their own organisations
- Number of reports presenting the findings and recommendations from screenings applied during the trainings.
- Gather and compile inputs from participants through a post-training survey, and summarize the feedback
- Responsibility to ensure that the reports produced as a result of the capacity building sessions are published on NRC's SharePoint.
- Support project budget review and follow-up, including BvA checking, with the finance coordinator.
- In coordination with the NORCAP Global Roving Experts, consortium partners and the support from NRC’s Country Offices, ensure that NRC delivers its commitments in the project related to visibility requirements of DG-ECHO
Please download the detailed job description to learn more about this position.
What you will bring:
- University degree in environmental or political science or other social studies
- Documented experience from managing or providing support to large projects or events
- Ability to communicate effectively with other departments, sections and units
- Excellent analytical skills
- Fluency in English, both written and verbal, working knowledge of other NRC languages (Spanish, French, Arabic) is an asset
- Relevant work experience in Humanitarian/ Development Sector (desirable)
- Experience in environmental management is an advantage
- Competent ICT user, including word, excel, outlook, teams, ppt etc
- Knowledge of international humanitarian work and donor procedures (desirable)
What we offer:
- Duty station: NRC HO in Oslo, Norway.
- Contract: 10 Months.
- Travel: up to 20%
- Salary/benefits: Grade 7 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.
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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
