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 14000 members, and in total 2500 employees working in more than 30 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.

Norwegian People’s Aid is looking for an energetic and experienced Senior Institutional Partnership Advisor to advance our work in international development and humanitarian assistance. This is a critical role in building and managing NPA’s relationships with institutional donors and supporting our Country Offices with timely and strategic donor engagement, positioning and partnerships and with key institutional actors. The role will have a particular focus on NPA’s cooperation with EU/ECHO

Your main responsibilities:

• Contribute to further development and professionalisation of NPA’s work with institutional donors.
• Monitor and identify funding opportunities applicable to NPA country offices and programs, with a particular focus on EU donors.
• Keep abreast of trends and priorities and advise colleagues on communication lines with designated donors and their annual funding cycles.
• Responsibility for organising and coordinating NPA’s relationships with institutional donors, as well as further developing collaboration and communication through direct dialogue, personal meetings and participation in conferences.
• Lead the development of regional/global applications pursued by NPA and support and provide guidance to country programmes in strategic proposal processes.
• Advise country programmes and Head Office on donor strategies, policies, priorities, procedures and rules, and keep them updated on relevant funding opportunities and calls.

To be successful in this role you must have:

• Relevant higher education.
• Minimum of five years of experience working with institutional donors in a development and/or humanitarian organisation.
• In depth knowledge of EU/ECHO’s priorities and processes.
• Experience in developing donor strategies, plans, proposals and reporting to institutional donors.
• Documented experience in developing funding proposals, reporting and budgeting.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English. Proficiency in Norwegian is an advantage.
• You must be proactive, independent and systematic.
• Ability to travel up to 30%.

We can offer:

An interesting, challenging work environment. You will be covered by our comprehensive insurance scheme which includes travel insurance, group life insurance, accident insurance, worker’s compensation insruance and critical illness. The position is based centrally in Oslo.

We continuously strive for more diversity and inclusion across the organisation. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply.

Salary: 569.988 – 649.180 NOK depending on relevant education and work experience.

• Flexible working hours
• Pension: 2,5 percent of salary is deducted to savings in the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund (SPK)
• Leave: We offer five weeks annual holiday
• Contract: Permanent

Start-date: as soon as possible.

Please note we do not provide relocation assistance for this position.

Terms for annual leave follow the Norwegian Annual Holidays Act

For more information about NPA, please see our website at https://www.npaid.org/Our-Work/Development-Cooperation or visit us on Facebook or Twitter.