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.

Employment with NRC may lead to employment in or deployment to Regions, Countries, Areas or Offices that may be host to considerable health, safety and security risks. NRC takes this very seriously and we have procedures in place to reduce known risks, but will never be able to take away all risks.

Role and responsibilities

The purpose of the assistant position is to assist in the day to day implementation of the support functions and responsibilities. Use actions words such as conduct or assist for the position relevant responsibilities.

Generic responsibilities:

• Adhere to NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
• Assist with the implementation of the communication function portfolio according to plan of action
• Prepare and develop status reports as required by management
• Ensure proper filing of documents
• Promote and share ideas for improvement of the support function
• Conduct translation, proofreading of texts and documents of various kinds (which may include legal texts, legislature, administrative decisions and outgoing official and informal communications) as assigned
• Contribute to identification of protection risks and needs in the context of the program implementation
• Any other duties that will be assigned by Communication officer

Specific responsibilities:

• Provide consecutive interpretation from Ukrainian and/or Russian into English Language and vice versa during meetings
• Assist Communication officer in implementing external communication through social media.
• Gather content and photos of NRC activities and people in need in the field for public information materials and SmugMug photo platform
• Ensure the language accuracy of information products of NRC (booklets, brochures, leaflets, infographics etc.)
• Provide translation/interpretation whenever needed
• Submit regular activity reports to NRC management
• Perform any other tasks as requested by Communication and liaison technical officer

Competencies

Professional competencies

Generic professional competencies:

• Min 4 years of experience from working as a translator/interpreter
• Advanced knowledge of English
• Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts

Context/ Specific skills, knowledge and experience:

• Proficient knowledge of Ukrainian and Russian languages
• Higher education in Translation/Languages
• Good knowledge of the software programs (MS Word, Excel, Power Point)
• Able to work independently

Behavioral competencies

• Communicating with impact and respect
• Coping with change
• Analyzing
• Handling insecure environment

We offer:

• Type of contract: local employment contract till 31.12.2021, with the possibility of extension.
• Salary/benefits: According to NRC salary scale, terms and conditions.
• Duty station: Severodonetsk, Ukraine.

Please note that we will contact only shortlisted candidates.

NRC retains the discretion to cancel the recruitment.

For submitting CVs please follow the link - https://ekum.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/requisitions/job/1270/?keyword=Communication+assistant+Ukraine+Severodonetsk