Innovation and Digital Coordinator NGO Jobs – Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)

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Job Title:  Innovation and Digital Coordinator

Organisation: Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

 

About US:

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. We work in crises across 31 countries, providing emergencies and long-term assistance to millions of people every year. We stand up for people forced to flee, advocating their rights. NORCAP, our global provider of expertise, helps improve international and local ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from crises. NRC also runs the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva, a global leader in reporting on and advocating for people displaced within their own country.

 

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Generic responsibilities

  • Line management of assigned any project digital project staff
  • Adherence to NRC policies, guidance, and procedures
  • Actively contribute to innovation and digital strategy development, project proposals and provide input on needs and gaps
  • Manage and implement delegated portfolio of innovation and digital projects (activities, budget, and project documentation) as delegated from HOP in line with proposals, strategies and donor requirements, and ensure high technical quality
  • Provide regular progress reports to HOP
  • Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need of protection, explore and assess new and better ways to assist
  • Promote and share ideas for improvement and necessary changes in the activities
  • Ensure capacity building of project staff and transfer key skills
  • Liaise and collaborate with relevant local authorities and other key stakeholders
  • Promote the rights of IDPs/returnees in line with the advocacy strategy

Specific responsibilities

  • Develop, coordinate, market and deliver an integrated Digital Innovation Programme by operationalizing NRC’s digital innovation hub for urban refugee populations to support digital innovation and learning.
  • Lead the implementation of NRC’s 2-way communication and interactive mechanism with beneficiaries.
  • Manage, maintain, and improve the flow and script for information provision via calls or messages (including bulk messaging), and other forms of automated access to information.
  • Establish and monitor service provision through key performance indicators (e.g. response time, satisfaction)
  • Support the implementation of NRC Uganda Education digital innovation pilot in the urban refugee communities.
  • Lead the scoping, thematic, mapping, and other research pieces related to digital literacy, online safety, and digital wellness as it applies to displacement and conflict affected youth
  • Facilitate Design thinking sessions with Youth to discover, design, validate and deliver appropriate programmes that respond to their digital citizenship needs
  • Ensure high quality, timely, and relevant data collection, analysis, visualization, and dissemination of findings with relevant stakeholders
  • Quality assure outputs commissioned for the hub such as research reports
  • Document innovation case studies from across the hub as part of the education digital innovation pilot and share lessons from hub stakeholders widely across the sector.
  • Support the partnerships development process from various digital and innovation spaces
  • Supervise and improve existing procedures for remote engagement with people in need
  • Provide weekly, monthly, and triannual reports
  • Promote the rights of IDPs/returnees in line with the advocacy strategy.





Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

  • Five years of experience from working a digital innovation project implementation position in a humanitarian/recovery context
  • High level of familiarity with innovation processes, agile development, technology, digital transformation, and digital platforms
  • Familiarity and experience in adopting human-centred design, system thinking and design thinking methodologies
  • Good knowledge of innovation and technology including their opportunities and risks, ideally through the lens of ICT4D

 

Behavioural competencies

  • Handling sensitive environments
  • Managing resources to optimize results
  • Empowering and building trust
  • Planning and delivering results
  • Analyzing
  • Communicating with impact and respect, including with vulnerable groups of people

 

How to Apply:

All candidates should send their applications online at the link below.

 

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Deadline: 4th May 2022

 

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