ICLA Coordinator at the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for refugees and internally displaced people. NRC advocates for the rights of displaced populations and offers assistance within the shelter, emergency food security, and water, sanitation and hygiene sectors.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: ICLA Coordinator

Job Identification: 20258
Location: Maiduguri, Borno 
Duration of contract: 12 Months (Renewable).
Grade Level: Grade 7 in NRC's grading structure. 
Reporting line:  ICLA Project Manager
Travel: 65%

Job Description

• The ICLA/PfV Partnership Coordinator position is based in Maiduguri, Borno State, with responsibility for supporting and overseeing ICLA and PfV partnership projects across NRC’s areas of operation in Nigeria.
• The role operates within a complex, volatile, and high-risk environment, with frequent field engagement required to support partners, monitor implementation, and ensure compliance with NRC standards, donor requirements, and protection principles.
• The position plays a critical role in strengthening partner performance, promoting learning and accountability, and contributing to the effective delivery of integrated protection and legal assistance services for conflict affected populations.
• We are looking for people who are passionate about helping refugees and people forced to flee. 
• If you are those people, the Norwegian Refugee Council in Nigeria is looking for an enthusiastic and passionate ICLA Coordinator (Protection from Violence Partnership) Nigeria Maiduguri to join our team.
•  The ICLA Coordinator (Protection from Violence Partnership) will be responsible for overseeing the effective implementation of ICLA and PfV activities through partner organizations.
• The role focuses on partner monitoring, provision of technical guidance, financial oversight of partner spending, capacity building, coordination, and quality assurance to ensure compliance with NRC standards, donor requirements, and ICLA/PfV best practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead regular monitoring of implementing partners to ensure quality, timeliness, and compliance of ICLA/PfV activities.
• Conduct routine and ad hoc field visits to partners’ areas of implementation to observe activities such as group information sessions, individual counselling, legal assistance, community forums, protection monitoring, civilian self-protection and specialized protection responses.
• Review partner workplans, activity reports, and supporting documentation to ensure alignment with approved project objectives and TORs.
• Identify implementation gaps, risks, overlaps, and best practices, and provide timely feedback to partners.
• Provide ongoing technical guidance to partners on ICLA/PfV programming, including HLP-Due Diligence, Legal Identity and Civil Documentation (LID), Collaborative Dispute Resolution (CDR), and legal awareness activities, protection monitoring, civilian self-protection, specialized protection responses, and other community-based protection activities.
• Support partners to apply NRC ICLA/PfV tools, SOPs, learning materials, and implementation standards.
• Ensure activities are delivered in accordance with protection principles, safe and inclusive programming (SIP), and accountability to affected populations (AAP).
• Monitor partner expenditure against approved budgets and spending plans to ensure efficiency and value for money.
• Support partners in reviewing and updating spending plans and other financial transactions.
• Flag financial risks, delays, or under-spending to the ICLA/PfV Project Manager and support corrective actions.

Capacity Building and Coordination:

• Identify capacity gaps among partners and design targeted capacity-building interventions.
• Facilitate training, coaching, and mentorship sessions for partner staff on ICLA/PfV technical areas, reporting, M&E, and compliance requirements.
• Promote learning, best practices, and experience sharing among partners and NRC teams.
• Organize and facilitate quarterly partner review meetings to assess progress, challenges, lessons learned, and corrective actions.
• Support coordination with relevant government institutions, clusters/AoRs, and stakeholders in collaboration with partners.
• Contribute to strengthening referral pathways and coordination mechanisms related to ICLA/PfV services.

Reporting & Documentation:

• Prepare monitoring visit reports, partner performance assessments, and technical feedback notes.
• Contribute to donor reporting by providing partner-related updates, achievements, challenges, and lessons learned.
• Ensure proper documentation, filing, and tracking of MoVs, reconciliation of Documents, partner monitoring reports, and follow-up actions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Law, Social Sciences, Development Studies, or a related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in ICLA, protection, legal assistance, or partnership management.
• Proven experience working with implementing partners and monitoring partner-led projects.
• Strong understanding of HLP, legal identity, civil documentation, community-based protection and dispute resolution mechanisms, specialized protection response (protection case management and individual protection assistance).
• Experience in financial monitoring and budget tracking is an asset.
• Proven experience working in complex and volatile environments.
• Strong reporting, analytical, and data interpretation skills.
• Demonstrated results aligned with the responsibilities of this position.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent coordination, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to provide constructive technical feedback and mentorship.
• Good understanding of humanitarian principles, AAP, and safeguarding.
• Willingness and ability to travel frequently to field locations.
• Fluency in English is required. Hausa, Kanuri, Fulani, and other local languages are an added advantage.

Context/ Specific skills, knowledge, and experience: 

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent coordination, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to provide constructive technical feedback and mentorship.
• Good understanding of humanitarian principles, AAP, and safeguarding.
• Willingness and ability to travel frequently to field locations.
• Fluency in English is required. Hausa, Kanuri, Fulani, and other local languages are an added advantage.

Application Closing Date
4th March, 2026; 01:00 AM.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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