Head of Support

**This position is specifically tailored for individuals who hold Iraqi citizenship or permanent residency status**

NRC Iraq is looking for a Head of Support to join the mission. The role holder will be responsible to lead the Support Unit having overall responsibility for ensuring that NRC’s HR, finance, logistics, administration, and ICT systems provide relevant and adequate support to NRC’s Iraq programmes. The HoS will also be responsible for designing, planning and roll out of key strategic initiatives and to monitor the implementation to measure the improvement of systems and structures. This role also includes working closely with the Country Director and Head of Programmes to support and provide recommendations for critical change management processes to ensure that NRC’s structure stays fit for purpose and value for money, in terms of having the right resources and structures to reach the objectives in our strategy. Additionally, they will play a key leadership role in the strategic planning processes, including the annual budget process, workforce planning and talent management.

**Please note for this role, applicants must be legally eligible to work in Iraq. We are unable to provide work permits or visa sponsorships for this position. **

What You Will Do

• Line management of support managers including Finance, HR & Admin, Logistics, and ICT
• Member of the Country Management Group (CMG)
• Ensuring compliance with and adherence to NRCs support focused policies, guidance, handbooks and donor/auditor requirements. 
• Facilitate support functions input to the development of the Country Strategy and Plan of Action 
• Provide input on operational support in proposal development, and coordinate and align operational support with programme plans. 
• Responsible for ensuring quality and timely support to project implementation. 
• Facilitate the Master Budget, and country-level budgets including assessing and monitoring costs and resource allocation needs. 
• Responsible for the strategic development of support structures both at the Country and Area Office level in collaboration with the CMG especially the Area Managers. Providing training on technical systems, human resource capacity and allocation enabling decentralization where appropriate
• Responsible for the development of new and update country-specific technical SOPs, guidelines, and tools.
• Responsible for organisational learning related to programme support.
• Responsible for technical capacity building of support staff   

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