The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a humanitarian, non-governmental organization with six decades of experience supporting refugees and internally displaced people.
NRC champions the rights of those who have been uprooted and delivers aid in shelter, emergency food security, and water, sanitation, and hygiene.
ICLA Technical Assistant
Job Identification: 18464
Location: Mubi, Yola – Adamawa
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Category: Coordination
Job Summary
NRC’s strategic placement in the North-East and North Central regions enhances our ability to bridge humanitarian assistance and development aid. Alongside the Country Office, we have sub-offices in Dikwa, Monguno, Biu, Mubi, Pulka, and Gwoza. We seek a committed ICLA Technical Assistant for our Area South office in Mubi, Adamawa State, to help advance refugees’ civil and legal identity, housing, land, property rights, and dispute resolution work.
Generic Responsibilities
- Comply with NRC’s policies, tools, handbooks, and guidelines.
- Support delivery of civil and legal identity, HLP, and CDR activities.
- Produce status reports as directed by the supervisor.
- Maintain organized and accurate documentation.
- Suggest improvements for the support function.
- Keep communities and leaders informed about NRC activities.
- Break annual operational plans into weekly, monthly, and quarterly action plans.
- Assist with timely procurement and distribution of materials.
- Perform other duties as assigned by officers, coordinators, or the ICLA PM.
- Advocate for IDPs and returnees following NRC’s strategy.
Specific Responsibilities
- Help implement legal/civil identity sessions, HLP activities, and CDR initiatives, including counselling, legal aid, and trainings.
- Document project deliverables and compile periodic reports.
- Contribute to developing context-appropriate training and information materials.
- Engage in community mobilization and beneficiary outreach.
- Update and support the country’s M&E system.
- Integrate gender, protection, and advocacy into ICLA projects.
- Carry out additional tasks as requested by line or technical managers.
Qualifications
- University degree in Law or Social Sciences from a recognized Nigerian institution, with strong knowledge of Nigerian law in displacement settings.
- Experience in legal fields (courts, law firms, aid agencies) and humanitarian protection; preference for those with exposure to displaced communities.
- Proven track record in complex, volatile contexts.
- Demonstrated leadership and resource management skills.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications.
- Fluent in English (written and verbal), Hausa, and at least one other regional language.
Application Closing Date: 3rd July, 2025; 13:59.
How to Apply: Click here to apply online
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Coordinator – Nigeria Area Northeast
Job Identification: 18454
Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Category: Monitoring and Evaluation
Generic Responsibilities
- Strengthen partners’ MEL systems and capacities, and facilitate joint data collection and learning.
- Oversee an inclusive Community Feedback Mechanism (CFM) and ensure community engagement throughout the Project Cycle Management, adhering to ‘Do No Harm’ and NRC accountability standards.
- Line-manage direct reports, handling performance management, workforce planning, recruitment, induction, development, and Duty of Care.
- Develop and implement MEL SOPs, guidance documents, and tools.
- Participate in programme design, theory of change development, logframe creation, and MEL budgeting.
- Support programme teams with MEL planning, including tool design, data management, analysis, and utilization.
- Facilitate dissemination and use of evaluation and monitoring data in programme development.
- Contribute to organizational learning via analysis, lessons learned, and reporting.
- Train programme and MEL staff on technical and conceptual MEL aspects.
- Advise on MEL staffing structure and resource planning.
- Ensure adherence to NRC MEL policies and procedures.
Specific Responsibilities
- Coordinate with partners’ MEL teams for data collection and documentation of lessons learned.
- Collaborate on post-distribution monitoring, baseline, midline, and endline surveys.
- Build capacity of partner MEL teams in area offices.
- Support programme leads with data assessment and interpretation.
- Lead need assessments, PDMs, and surveys for NRC programmes.
- Guide project matrix development.
- Mentor and train enumerators and staff on MEL methods.
- Coordinate and consolidate project data updates with government partners.
- Integrate project matrices across sectors and partners.
- Ensure CFM responsiveness and accessibility to vulnerable groups.
Qualifications
- Minimum 4 years’ experience in an international NGO, ideally in emergency or post-conflict contexts, with MEL systems development experience.
- Skilled in Theory of Change, logical frameworks, MEL plans, and learning frameworks.
- Proven ability to strengthen local partner MEL capacities in diverse contexts.
- Expertise in both quantitative and qualitative M&E methods.
- Strong data analysis, information management, and decision-making skills.
- Experience with capacity-building of diverse colleagues.
- High proficiency in English.
- Competent in MS Office and SPSS; Power BI experience preferred.
Application Closing Date: 9th July, 2025; 10:29.
How to Apply: Click here to apply online
Gender Project Manager, Nigeria
Job Identification: 18344
Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Job Type: Contract (12 months)
Grade Level: Grade 8 on NRC’s national salary scale
Reporting To: HR Coordinator
Role Overview
NRC Nigeria seeks a Gender Project Manager to lead gender integration for a GIZ-funded initiative, acting as the focal point for Safe and Inclusive Programming. Based in Borno State, this role promotes women’s and youth participation in green economy projects—agriculture, renewable energy, waste management, and eco-technologies—while collaborating with local leaders and women-led groups.
Key Responsibilities
- Implement all gender-related activities per project proposals, ensuring quality.
- Develop and conduct gender assessments in collaboration with partners.
- Create or improve gender tools, SOPs, training materials, and guidance documents.
- Lead gender assessments and strengthen gender-sensitive referral systems alongside protection actors.
- Provide training and coaching on gender-transformative approaches.
- Support partners’ outreach to ensure inclusive participation of all gender and age groups.
- Assist with grants management tasks, including proposal amendments, reporting, and donor meetings.
- Collaborate with MEL to develop gender-specific monitoring tools and reports.
- Lead implementation of NRC’s Safe and Inclusive Programming action plan across offices.
- Coordinate with programme teams and partners to integrate protection mainstreaming in design, monitoring, and evaluation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Humanitarian, or related field.
- Minimum three years’ experience in gender equity, programme management, policy development, and transformative approaches.
- Demonstrated skill in delivering training and capacity building on gender issues.
- Strong data presentation, trend identification, and concise communication skills.
- Fluent in English and at least one major Northeast Nigerian language.
- Proficient in MS Office.
- Proven track record designing and implementing gender-responsive programmes, especially in livelihoods and advocacy.
- Deep understanding of gender principles in the Nigerian context.
- Excellent analytical, organizational, and project management skills.
- Ability to engage sensitively with diverse communities and stakeholders.
Benefits
- Duty station: Maiduguri, Nigeria.
- Contract: 12 months.
- Travel: Up to 50% within Borno and Adamawa States.
- Salary/Benefits: Grade 8 on NRC’s national salary scale.
- NRC is an equal-opportunity employer. We value diversity and encourage women to apply. Applicants must have legal right to work in Nigeria.
Application Closing Date: 2nd July, 2025; 12:59 AM.
How to Apply: Click here to apply online
Note: This recruitment is urgent and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.