Are you a strategic leader driven by the opportunity to develop innovative solutions?

Director Innovation, Business Development and Analysis Section

NORCAP, part of the Norwegian Refugee Council, solves challenges in the humanitarian, development and peacebuilding sectors in order to better protect vulnerable people's lives and rights. We build partnerships, promote more effective ways of working and provide skilled experts to develop capacity. Since 1991 NORCAP has provided expertise to approximately 10,000 missions across the globe.

We work with and through our partners to address challenges via three core activities:

• We develop partnerships with regional and global organisations and national stakeholders. We believe working together in a coordinated and sustainable manner is the best way to reduce needs, risks and vulnerability over time.
• We seek and promote more effective ways of working at the global level and in the field. Our aim is not only to reduce needs, but also to create choice and opportunity for vulnerable people.
• We deploy skilled experts to develop our partner's capacity. Given their independence from agendas and interests of the organisations they are deployed to, our experts are well placed to identify and address challenges, improve collaboration and encourage new and innovative approaches.

In order to deliver even more effectively on our core activities, NORCAP has just gone through a major restructuring process. One of the outcomes is the establishment of the Innovation, Business Development and Analysis Section. The section's main responsibilities include:

• developing strategic partnerships and to ensure business development of selected areas outlined in NORCAP's strategy
• develop internal know-how and methodologies to ensure effective project implementation across the department
• identify business trends for innovation and development in collaboration with the two operative sections
• initiate and implement projects, often in collaboration with strategic partners
• developing an overall fundraising strategy for NORCAP and to provide fundraising and policy analysis
• in close collaboration with the communications team, coordinate and support of cross-sectional advocacy

Your role

The Director of Innovation, Business Development, and Analysis will assume overall accountability for the strategic leadership and delivery within NORCAP's strategic ambitions. If selected for the role, you will also lead our work on fundraising, analysis, and advocacy. The role offers a unique opportunity to apply your most creative and structured skills and abilities. Your responsibility covers everything from the identification of potential new ways of addressing major challenges in the aid sector, to the implementation of these into sustainable working modalities. To achieve this, you will be backed up by highly skilled staff and an organisation with an established track record as an enabler for improved collaboration across the humanitarian, development and peace nexus. You are an ambitious professional with the ability to see how NORCAP can realise untapped potential in the system to the benefit of people in need.

As the Director of the Innovation, Business Development, and Analysis Section you report to the Executive Director and are a permanent member of the NORCAP Management Team.

Your Profile:

• Relevant higher education
• More than five years of relevant senior management/leadership experience within the field of operation
• Extensive knowledge and expertise across the humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding sector
• Significant experience in project management, planning, budget processes and organisational development
• A strong track record working with fundraising, donor relations and external advocacy/communications
• Professional credibility to represent NRC/NORCAP with senior stakeholders
• Knowledge and insight about own leadership skills/profile
• Excellent communication skills and fluency in English is a requirement, Norwegian and/or other UN languages are an advantage
• Highly developed interpersonal skills with the ability to engage and motivate
• Ability to adapt and thrive under changing circumstances

We can offer:

• A strongly committed, challenging and international work environment in a large, world-renowned humanitarian organisation
• A full-time, permanent position at our Head Office in modern locations in central Oslo
• Salary by agreement, good pension and insurance schemes

The deadline to apply is 25.05.2021, but applications will be assessed consecutively and relevant candidates may be invited for interviews prior to the closing of the advertisement

For more information about the role, please contact Benedicte Giæver, Executive Director NORCAP: phone +47 905 50 121, email: or Peder Apall-Olsen, Head of Recruitment and Development Unit: phone +47 995 20 503, email:

All NRC employees are expected to work in accordance with the organisation's values; To be dedicated, innovative, inclusive and accountable are attitudes and beliefs that shall guide our actions and relationships.