occupied Palestinian territory: AIDA Director - NRC Palestine

AIDA Director .

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee.
We protect displaced people and support them as they build a new future. We started our relief efforts after World War Two. Today, we work in both new and protracted crises across more than 30 countries. We specialise in six areas: food security, education, shelter, legal assistance, camp management, and water, sanitation and hygiene.
We stand up for people forced to flee. NRC is a determined advocate for displaced people. We promote and defend displaced people's rights and dignity in local communities, with national governments and in the international arena. NRC’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva is a global leader in monitoring, reporting on and advocating for people displaced within their own country.

We respond quickly to emergencies. Our expert deployment capacity, NORCAP, boasts around 1,000 experts from all over the world who can be deployed within 72 hours. Our experts help improve international and local ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from crises.

Around 6,000 men and women work for the Norwegian Refugee Council. Most of us are hired locally to work in the field, and a small number are based at our head office in Oslo. Many of our colleagues were once themselves fleeing their homes.

The Association of International Development Agencies (AIDA) is a membership body and coordination forum, comprised of more than 80 international non-governmental and non-profit organizations working in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). Active since 1967, AIDA is one of the longest-standing INGO coordination mechanisms in one of the world’s most protracted conflict and humanitarian context. AIDA supports and strengthens the work of the INGO community in the oPt in order to better respond to the needs and protect the rights of the Palestinian people. AIDA achieves this by amplifying the collective voice of its members and representing their interests to key decision-makers, as well as by coordinating and facilitating exchange, learning, and resource-sharing among the NGO community. AIDA provides a forum for organisations to share experiences, identify challenges, and find solutions to support the humanitarian and development work of its members to better serve the people for whom we work.

The purpose of the AIDA Director position is to lead AIDA and to manage its Secretariat, to deliver impact in accordance with AIDA’s annual plan, mobilise appropriate resources for AIDA’s work and oversee expenditure, and implement the decisions of the Executive Committee (ExCom).
NRC currently hosts AIDA.

Specific Responsibilities Related to this Role includes:

• Represent AIDA at all relevant external meetings and fora, including in country-based UN coordination mechanisms;
  Maintain and build effective working relationships with key external stakeholders, including UN officials, local authorities, including donors, diplomats, UN officials, external experts
• Lead effective engagement with key national and international external coordination networks (PNGO, ICVA, Interaction, etc);
• Work closely with the ExCom and support the Chair to prepare for ExCom meetings, share feedback and implement decisions;
• Ensure active engagement with AIDA members, transparent coordination mechanisms and regular information-sharing between AIDA members;
• Facilitate monthly AIDA General Assembly meetings and support the coordination of regular sub-committee and ad hoc meetings;
• Responsible for implementation and regular monitoring of annual planning and expenditure against budget;
• Lead development and dissemination of AIDA policy, advocacy, and external communications materials;
• Act as the focal point for AIDA members on emergency issues.

Candidates are encouraged to apply early, as applications may be screened prior to the vacancy deadline

Duty Station: Jerusalem, with regular travel to Gaza and international travel as required

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