Senior Advisor Donors and Grants

Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) was founded in 1939 as the labour movement’s humanitarian solidarity organisation. Our vision is Solidarity in Action, and we aim to improve people’s living conditions and to create societies that are more just and more democratic. In Norway, we have around 17000 members, and in total 3000 employees working in 36 countries around the world. NPA’s core areas are International Development, Humanitarian Assistance, Humanitarian Mine Action and Disarmament, First Aid and Rescue Services and International Solidarity, Anti-Racism & Inclusion. In all our interventions, we continuously work to reduce our climate- and environmental impact.

Wars and armed conflicts come to an end; however, the remnants of war continue to impact millions of people for decades to follow. NPA’s vision is a world where people and communities are safe, resilient and protected before, during and after armed conflict. Together with national authorities and other stakeholders, we are working to resolve problems faced by local communities caused by explosive ordnance (EO). Currently, NPA has more than 20 mine action programmes ongoing in Africa, Asia, Latin America, South East Europe and the Middle East.

Do you have experience with grant management and/or donor relations? Do you have great communication skills, a structured mindset and an eye for details? Are you curious to develop your skills further and want to be responsible for our most important donors? Then you might be the candidate that we are looking for!

Location: Oslo (Head Office)

We offer:

• Interesting, varied and positively challenging tasks. You get the chance to work with our most important donors and be responsible for large processes that will develop your skills further.
• The possibility to travel, for field visits and international events.
• Insight into the work of a vast extent of the Department of Mine Action and Disarmament’s programmes and the possibility to cooperate with experienced colleagues at the Head Office and in the field.
• Be covered by our comprehensive insurance and pension scheme, which includes travel insurance for you and your family, group life insurance, accident insurance, and critical illness.
• Five weeks annual holiday, flexible working hours and the possibility for two days of home office per week.
• Salary per year for Senior Advisor is between 603 988 and 684 820 (NOK) depending on your education and relevant experience.

The ideal start-date is in September, but we will be flexible for the right candidate.

What you will do:

• Acting as Department’s primary source of information on assigned donors (such as Germany, EU, ECHO, France, Switzerland, and Sweden) including maintaining oversight and providing advice and support on donor requirements and key timelines, upcoming opportunities, and ensuring quality of deliveries to donors.
• Having a continuous dialogue with institutional donors on programmes/projects.
• Reviewing and quality controlling DMAD’s agreements.
• Maintaining an overview and detailed knowledge of rules, regulations and requirements from assigned donors and authorities, and communicating any changes to programmes and DMAD Head Office staff.
• Managing and ensuring high-quality reporting and/or proposals to donors in close coordination with country programmes, programme advisors, financial controllers, and other department staff.
• Alerting and advising DMAD management of opportunities, risks and challenges associated with donors/grant management for assigned donors/grants.
• Participating in the Strategic Resource Management (SRM) section’s work on wider donor-related processes, such as fundraising, grant management, compliance and the development, implementation and improvement of systems to support donor-related work and processes.
• Participating in and representing NPA at relevant internal and external meetings, when required.

Requirement:

• Relevant higher education (e.g. economics, political science, business management, development management, finance,) or equivalent qualifications (mine action, overseas relief and development programmes or civil service).
• Relevant training and certification (e.g. project management, grant management);
• Minimum 5 years of relevant and documented experience on grant management and/or donor relations (focal point for donors, work experience in an NGO, and of liaising and networking with the UN, national authorities, other NGOs), fundraising experience.
• Compliance experience (quality assurance of contracts). It is an advantage but not a requirement that you have experience and knowledge in compliance work in development countries, with humanitarian aid and/or humanitarian disarmament/in the mine action sector.
• Written and verbal proficiency in English. Other language skills (specifically German or French) are an advantage but not a requirement.
• Legal background is an advantage but not a requirement.

You have excellent written and verbal communication skills; and you are great at collaborating with others, both internally and externally. Since this is a role with a broad spectre of responsibilities it is important that you are great at structuring your work. You are passionate about what you do and strive to deliver high quality results in the projects that you lead.