Context

Since 2017, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has been working in Cameroon to support people who have been forced to flee their homes. NRC helps protect displaced communities and supports them as they rebuild their lives.

Operations are ongoing in all crisis-affected regions, including the Far North, Northwest, Southwest, East, and Adamawa. NRC’s work focuses on four main areas: legal assistance (ICLA), Water and Sanitation (WASH), Shelter, and Education. These programmes are designed to respond to urgent needs while also supporting long-term recovery.

Across its offices, NRC promotes an integrated approach, aiming to provide coordinated support that helps communities move from emergencies to stability.

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 WASH & Shelter Specialist will provide technical oversight and strategic direction to Country and Area offices to advance the WASH & Shelter Core Competency (CC).

The Specialist will lead strategy and enhance the technical quality of NRC’s Shelter and WASH programme in Cameroon.

They will support project implementation at field level, travel within the country to ensure quality assurance, develop a collaborative country strategy, build staff capacity through mentoring and training, and design a donor strategy to grow the programme.

What you will do

• Responsible for technical innovative development and quality of WASH and Shelter CC in country, holistic programming (with other CCs) and to ensure harmonization and consistency across CC projects in line with NRC Programme Policy.
• Contribute to developing context analyses and outline strategic directions for emergency, recovery and development integrated WASH and Shelter programs.
• Take the lead on quality project deliverables to ensure high technical outputs.
• Provide strategic leadership on the development of programming that recognizes the WASH and Shelter challenges faced by displacement affected population.
• Lead the process on proposals, budgets, modifications, project reviews and reporting and ensure high technical quality.
• Support programmatic M&E and indicator tracking in conjunction with project teams and M&E department.
• Develop and lead on conducting needs assessments (in collaboration with Area Program teams, Protection team and M&E team), baseline, mid-and end-evaluations.
• Represent NRC with relevant donors, government ministries, and in relevant humanitarian coordination meetings in country.
• Actively promote and operationalize synergies between WASH and Shelter and other NRC programmes and CCs to move toward integrated programming (focus on Education protection and ICLA)
• Provide support and input to the recruitment processes for all WASH and Shelter staff
• Accountable for organizational learning from programme implementation, sharing of best practice and capacity building.
• Lead the implementation of Safe and Inclusive Programming Minimum Standards throughout programmes, with capacity building, guidance and interdepartmental engagement.
• Integrate SIP Elements into technical documents (e.g assessments, guidance notes, tools etc)

Please download the detailed job description to learn more about the position JD Shelter &WASH Specialist Cameroon.docx

What you will bring

1. Professional competencies

• Minimum 5 years of experience within technical expertise area in a humanitarian/ recovery context

• Minimum 2 years of WASH and/or Shelter expertise (as Specialist/PDM or Project Manager)

• Master’s degree or similar in relevant fields

• Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts.

• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities.

• Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile

• Fluency in French and English, both written and verbal

• This position requires 60% travel in field offices.

Context related skills, knowledge and experience:

• Knowledge of the Central African region

• Experience in team capacity building, and promotion of localized programming through support to partners

• Technical knowledge and experience of behaviour change process in a humanitarian context

• Technical knowledge and experience of the community engagement process and integration of gender and diversity in program design.

• Experience implanting cash and market project approaches especially cash for rent.

• Knowledge of house, land and property rights applied to shelter and WASH responses

• Experience with management of technical design and implementation of programs is desired

• Experience with innovative WASH solutions in a humanitarian context an asset

• Understanding of SPHERE and INEE Minimum Standards is required

• Candidates with an advanced degree preferred; significant experience in the field of WASH, or Shelter considered in lieu

• Understanding of environmental and climate tools like NEAT+ is an asset

2. Behavioural competencies

• Handling insecure environments

• Strategic thinking

• Empowering and building trust

• Influencing

• Initiate action and change

• Analyzing

What we offer

• Duty station: Yaoundé, Cameroon
• Contract: National Contract with 12 months renewable on funding availability
• Salary&Benefits: grade 9 on NRC’s Cameroon National Salary Scale
• NRC is an equal opportunity employer—female applicants highly encouraged, with diversity embraced across 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 https://www.nrc.no/career/what-we-offer/   
• Kindly send any questions about the application process to: [email protected]. Applications sent via email will not be accepted. Please check your application status on your NRC application profile.

About Norwegian Refugee Council

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