ICLA Technical Coordinator Humanitarian Partnerships Hub Middle East Office

The Humanitarian Partnership Hub (HPH) is an NRC initiative launched in January 2023 as an innovative platform that aims to address the protection and assistance needs of people on the move in the context of North Africa. HPHs approach relies on the collaboration and partnership with local organisations host communities and people on the move themselves. By co-designing and co-implementing with people on the move and local partners the HPH aims to provide a tailored localised and multi-disciplinary response focussed on legal education and emergency response programming.

The ICLA Technical Coordinator supports legal aid partners throughout the project cycle by providing technical oversight strengthening programme quality and compliance and supporting partner capacity. The role contributes to legal research and analysis monitoring evaluation and learning donor reporting risk management and coordination with internal teams and external stakeholders to ensure effective and high-quality legal aid programming.

The purpose of the ICLA Technical Coordinator position is to provide support on specific technical competences related to programme development. The position has no line management responsibility.

The following is a brief description of the role.

Generic responsibilities

1. Adherence to NRC policies guidance and procedures
2. Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need of protection explore and asses new and better ways to assist
3. Promote the rights of IDPs/returnees in line with the advocacy strategy
4. Contribute with ICLA specific technical competence to the development of ICLA strategy Micro LogFrame and Plan of Action
5. Conduct ICLA specific technical research and document findings and recommendations
6. Provide ICLA specific technical input to coordination mechanism (e.g. cluster coordination) and working groups
7. Develop ICLA specific technical indicators and mechanism for M&E
8. Develop ICLA specific technical guidance tools and mechanism
9. Contribute to organisational learning through the provision specific technical analysis lessons learned and reports
10. Develop training modules and provide specific technical learning or/and training for partners.

Specific responsibilities

1. Partners PCM:Lead and coordinate technical support to partners across all PCM phases including proposal development implementation monitoring and reporting in alignment with HPH strategy and grant management workflows - in close coordination with grants partnerships and finance focal points.

2. Partner technical support:Providetimelyand relevant legal and technical support to partnerson issues related to civil documentation legalstatus and housing rights affecting refugeesand host communities.
3. Partner technical quality assurance:Support the development and implementation of technical quality standards guidance SOPs and tools for legal aid partners; conduct regular technical reviews of partner case management systems legal aid methodologies and service delivery approaches and support partners to address identified quality gapsand development areas.
4. Legal research and analysis:assistin conducting legal research and producing analysis of lawsregulationsand policies in coordination with the Head of Legal Unit and partners.
5. Partnerorganisationaldevelopment:Contribute to the identification of partner technical capacity needs and support the design delivery and follow-up of partner capacity sharing plans in coordination with the Head of Legal Unit.
6. Technical reporting and donor compliance:Review partner narrative reports case studiesassessmentsand technical deliverables to feed into donor reporting and ensure quality consistency and alignment with donor commitments andprogrammeobjectives - in close coordination with grants team.
7. Learning and evidence generation:Support the documentation of promising practices lessons learned legal trends and partner innovations and contribute to regional learning products guidancenotesand external representation opportunities in coordination with the Head of Legal Unitand MEL team.
8. Monitoring Evaluation and Learning:Work closely with the MEL team and partners to ensure legal aid indicators methodologies and data collection tools are technically sound; support interpretation of legal aid outcomes and contribute toprogrammelearning and adaptive management.
9. Risk management:Support partners inidentifyingand mitigating legal aid protectionconfidentialityand data protection risks related toprogrammeimplementation and case management in coordination with the Head of Legal Unitand Risk and ComplianceCoordinator.
10. Representation and coordination:Represent the HPH in relevant legal aid protection and displacement coordination forumsnetworksand technical working groups as delegated by the Head of Legal Aid Unit.

Critical interfaces

By interfaces NRC means processes and projects that are interlinked with other departments/units or persons. Relevant interfaces for this position are:

• Legal aid partners

• Head of Legal Aid Unit

• HoPSU

• Country Manager

• Grants Manager

• Partnerships Coordinator

• MELManagerand Coordinator

• Finance Manager

• Digital Coordinator

• LegalCoordinator

• Risk andComplianceCoordinator

• ICLA teams incountries of origin.

TheLegalCoordinatorwill have no directlinemanagement responsibilities.

Scale and scope of position

• Staff:N/A
• Stakeholders:Legal aid partners INGOs local NGOs and civil society.
• Budgets:ICLA budget lines: budgeting engaging and monitoring budget lines allocated to ICLA activities that fall under the responsibility of the position ensuring proper use and accountability of resources.
• Information:GORS DCH CORE NRC People (People and Organisation Management System) Unit 4 (Finance)
• Legal or compliance:N/A

1. Professional competencies

Generic professional competencies for this position:

• Bachelors degree in law

• Minimum 3 years of relevant experience within the legal aid field of expertise
• Legal aid technical specific knowledge from the humanitarian sector
• Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
• Documented technical competences related to the positions responsibilities
• Documented results related to the positions responsibilities
• Fluency in Arabic and English both written and verbal
• Familiar with the North Africa context.
• Experience working with local civil society.
• Experience working in managing PCM.
• Experience providing technical accompaniment mentoring or capacity sharing support to local civil societyorganisations.

Context-related skills knowledge and experience:

2. Behavioural competencies

• Strategic thinking

• Planning and delivering results

• Working with people

• Communicating with impact and respect

• Analysing

• Handling insecure environments

Performance Management

The employee will be accountable for the responsibilities and the competencies in accordance with the NRC Performance Management Manual. The following documents will be used for performance reviews:

• The Job Description

• The individual Work- and Professional Development Plan

• The Competency Framework

What we offer:

• Duty station:Amman Jordan.

• Contract: Fixed-term contract 12 months with possibility of renewalbased on performance and funding.

• Travel: 40%

• Salary/benefits: Grade7 according to NRCs Jordan salary scale and terms and conditions.

• Please refer to theJob Descriptionfor additional details.

• 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.

Important information about the application process

• Internal candidates: To apply as an internal candidate log in with your official email or click on Opportunity Marketplace. Use your official email address when applying.

• Submit your application and CV in English taking care to attach your latest CV.

• We receive many applications for each vacant position and so only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

• 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.

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