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The Norwegian Refugee Council is looking for a Communication officer
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The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organization helping people forced to flee.
Vacancy: Not specified
Vacancy Type: Full-time
Role: Communication officer
Job Responsibilities:
Generic responsibilities :
- Ensure adherence to NRC policies, tools, handbooks, and guidelines.
- Implement delegated communications responsibilities.
- Prepare and develop reports and other written material as required by the Advocacy Manager.
- Help ensure that NRC's advocacy and communications activities ultimately promote the well-being of vulnerable displaced people.
- Write blogs and other communications material to promote the work and communications priorities of NRC.
- As needed, support the fundraising and perform other reasonably related duties as assigned.
Specific responsibilities :
- Support the provision of high-quality analysis on the humanitarian situation about displacement-affected, contributing to improved NRC programmatic response and informing internal and external advocacy products. Including products: briefings, donor-focused messages, and other written materials for internal and external use, ensuring strong evidence-based messaging and following agreed sign-off procedures (minimum one per month).
- Support drafting of NRC Bangladesh messages, information sharing, and development of advocacy products for the Asian Displacement Solutions Platform (ADSP).
- Participate in the NRC Country Office advocacy strategy as necessary, and support delivering necessary reports, documents, and other key messages.
- Support the administration and facilitation of briefing sessions, workshops, and presentations within Bangladesh
- Critical interfaces.
- By interfaces, NRC means processes and projects that are interlinked with other departments/units or persons. Relevant interfaces for this position are:
- Country Office: Advocacy Manager, Head of Programme, Area Manager(s), Programme Development Managers.
- Regional Office: Regional Advocacy, Regional Communications, Regional Programme Director, Senior Regional Adviser.
- External: NGO Platform and other NGO groups in Bangladesh.
Requirements:
- University degree with a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience.
Additional Requirements:
- Competencies are important for the employee and the organization to deliver desired results. They are relevant for all staff and are divided into the following three categories:
- Professional competencies :
- These are skills, knowledge, and experience that are important for effective performance.
- Generic professional competencies for this position:
- Strong knowledge and understanding of issues related to forced displacement and protection
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Documented results related to the position's responsibilities.
- Fluency in English, both written and verbal.
- Context/specific skills, knowledge, and experience:
- Understanding of the international humanitarian system.
- Documented/proven results related to the position's responsibilities, particularly in the drafting of messages, coordination, and networking.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Understanding of refugee and internal displacement relevant to the Bangladesh context.
- Behavioral competencies:
- These are personal qualities that influence how successful people are in their jobs. NRC's Competency Framework states 12 behavioral competencies, the following are essential for this position:
- Planning and delivering results
- Working with people.
- Communicating with impact and respect.
Job Location: Cox's Bazar.
Salary: Not specified.
Benefits: As per the company policy.
Application Deadline: 16 December,2023.
Application link: https://tinyurl.com/mt9ezhjh