Introduction
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is looking for a full-time consultant to serve in the role of INGO Forum Humanitarian Advisor in Myanmar. The Humanitarian Advisor will facilitate and strengthen humanitarian coordination amongst its 120+ INGO members, in accordance with the Forum’s strategic framework and member priorities.
The Humanitarian Advisor is a senior position and reports to the INGO Forum Director. S/He is responsible for strategic direction, and facilitation of coordination among humanitarian INGO members as well as with key external stakeholders such as local and national NGOs, United Nations and donors.
The coordination entails ensuring effective information exchange and analysis, representation, strengthening inter-agency coordination and response and support to humanitarian advocacy on common positions and agreed interests.
Key responsibilities:
- Support the INGO Forum’s humanitarian work, encompassing facilitation of meetings and processes to agree common messages, drafting policy briefs and reports, and engagement with external stakeholders (including the UN/OCHA), amongst other areas. This includes review and strengthening of the Forum’s Humanitarian Work-stream and leading the roll out of new changes proposed and adopted.
- Together with the Forum Director, Policy Manager and sub-national programme managers, strengthen the Forum's work on humanitarian access and bureaucratic and administrative impediments (BAI) with members and across relevant stakeholders and working groups.
- Retain an overview of, and suggest ways to proactively respond to, key developments in Myanmar such as significant political, humanitarian or development issues, with a particular focus on the areas identified within the INGO Forum’s strategic priorities and sub-national contexts.
- Work alongside the Director and Policy Manager, to ensure that key learnings around the Humanitarian response are extracted from different INGO Forum processes and incorporated into policy briefs, reports and key messages.
- Support and advise INGO Forum members at the national and sub-national level on strengthening their collective humanitarian response capacity across locations by facilitating open information sharing, build shared contextual understanding, identify appropriate response strategies and workarounds to key operational challenges including humanitarian access, operational response, funding gaps, safety and security support, engagement with diverse stakeholders etc.
- Together with the Forum Director and Policy Manager and with support from the three sub-national programme managers, ensure that the INGO representatives on key humanitarian coordination and decision-making bodies like Humanitarian Country Team, Area Humanitarian Country Team (HCT,AHCT) etc are fully oriented on their roles and responsibilities and prepared to optimally use these spaces to raise key issues and advocacy messages on behalf of INGOs, including through trainings, information sessions, preparatory meetings etc.
- Regularly participate in ICCG and key cluster/ working group meetings (protection, cash working group etc) and ensure that key information is channeled to Forum members and Secretariat staff to enhance their collective response capacity.
- Along with the Forum’s Director and Policy Manager and with support from other Secretariat staff, organise regular/ ad-hoc meetings with key humanitarian stakeholders including INGOs, local partners, UN, donors, other humanitarian networks such as ICVA, Interaction, APRRN, ADSP and others, to facilitate information exchange, share good practices and lessons learnt and disseminate advocacy messages on key humanitarian priorities.
- In collaboration with the Forum’s Localisation Advisor and sub-national Programme Managers, support and enhance outreach, coordination and capacity sharing with local humanitarian responders and networks, including HCT and AHCT representatives and AHCT Co-Chairs.
Application process and requirements
Application must include the following:
- Cover Letter
- CV with three professional references.
- For further queries on the ToR, please email to: director@ingoforum.org
Application closing Date: 18 December 2024
Application shall be submitted to: mm.tender.general@nrc.no and CC director@ingoforum.org.
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