Housing, Land & Property (HLP) Sub-Cluster Coordinator based in Erbil

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for refugees and internally displaced people. NRC advocates for the rights of displaced populations and offers assistance within the shelter, education, emergency food security, legal assistance, and water,sanitation and hygiene sectors.

The Norwegian Refugee Council has approximately 5000 committed and competent employees involved in projects across four continents. In addition, NRC runs one of the world’s largest standby rosters -NORCAP, with 650 professionals, ready to be deployed on 72 hours notice when a crisis occurs

Do you have Minimum 4 years of experience within humanitarian coordination and representation in a humanitarian/ recovery context? Do you have a university degree, preferably in law or social studies and interested working in a challenging and complex context with one of world most effective and respected Humanitarian Organizations? 

NRC is looking to recruit an experienced Housing, Land & Property (HLP) Sub-Cluster Coordinator for our Country Office in Iraq. This position will be placed in Erbil with some travelling to Area Offices in Dohuk, Baghdad & Kirkuk. The Housing, Land & Property (HLP) Sub-Cluster Coordinator reports to the Head of Programmes.  

Our Ideal Candidate is someone who has strong representation skills and technical experience with housing and property issues. This person should be a strategic thinker and have experience in working with developing strategic plans. The Housing, Land & Property (HLP) Sub-Cluster Coordinator position will be working closely with Donors, partners, and Government agencies and the ideal candidate he should have a very strong communication, interpersonal, analytical and negotiation skills.
In this position you will join highly motivated and expert staff who are making a difference to the most vulnerable people in the world's biggest displacement crisis. 
 

Responsibilities include:

• Develop/update the HLP Sub-Cluster’s annual strategy and work plan, and monitor progress against the work plan;

• Contribute HLP technical inputs in the development of Protection and/or Shelter Cluster/sector’s annual Humanitarian Response Plan, Regional Refugee & Resilience Plan (3RP), contingency planning and advocacy messages;

• Represent the HLP Sub-Cluster in relevant humanitarian forums, including the Protection Cluster’s Strategic Advisory Group (SAG), Inter-Cluster Coordination Group (ICCG), Returns Working Group, as well as humanitarian pooled funding mechanisms for the Protection and/or Shelter Clusters;

• Identify and liaise with HLP focal points across Iraq, and ensure timely response to ongoing and emerging HLP needs through regular coordination with HLP Sub-Cluster members;

• Provide bilateral technical guidance on HLP to humanitarian partners, government authorities and early recovery stakeholders, as requested, and in accordance with international standards;

• Provide support to HLP Sub-Cluster members with reporting on their activities to Activity Info, and contribute HLP reporting and analysis to OCHA’s Situation Reports;

• Contribute to the development of HLP-related tools and technical/operational guidance materials for the benefit of humanitarian partners;

• Promote HLP-related capacity building opportunities for HLP Sub-Cluster members;

• Ensure that key learnings related to HLP are extracted from implementation of humanitarian response plans, and reflected in future planning;

  
We encourage you to apply now!
 
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For further details please see the Job Description below.