How do I apply for Project Coordinator at Norwegian Refugee Council?

You can view the full description and apply for Project Coordinator at Norwegian Refugee Council on EchoJobs: https://echojobs.io/job/norwegian-refugee-council-project-coordinator-nyota-kenya-kakuma-ybre5.

Norwegian Refugee Council is hiring a Project Coordinator — a full-time, based in Kenya role. Apply directly on Norwegian Refugee Council's careers page below.

Project Coordinator (NYOTA) Kenya Kakuma

Location: Turkana County, Kenya

Background
The NYOTA Business Development Services (BDS) package provides tailored entrepreneurship support to refugee and host-community youth in Kakuma/Kalobeyei and Dadaab. Mentorship is a structured post-training component designed to reinforce BDS learning, support business development and problem-solving, facilitate market and service linkages, and strengthen the confidence and resilience of young entrepreneurs. The BDS ToR requires at least four mentorship sessions over four months, beginning after the first grant disbursement and continuing across the two grant tranches.

What you will do:

The Project Coordinator (Master Trainer) will provide technical leadership for the delivery of the NYOTA Business Development Services (BDS) package to refugee youths. The Coordinator will ensure that BDS training is practical, inclusive, contextually appropriate and delivered to the required quality standards.

The Coordinator will lead and support the Training of Trainers (ToT), support coaching and technical supervision of BDS trainers to ensure consistent and effective delivery. The Coordinator will contribute to programme quality assurance, monitoring, learning, and reporting, ensuring that training outcomes are effectively tracked and continuously improved.

The role will support youth participants to establish, strengthen, and sustain viable businesses, enhancing their employability, entrepreneurship, and economic resilience responding to realities in refugee set ups.

Working under the overall supervision of the Task Team Leader and in close coordination with MSEA and other relevant stakeholders, the Coordinator will help ensure the achievement of project objectives, the quality of service delivery, and the attainment of measurable results.

Coordinate the delivery of training and capacity-building activities within the assigned area of responsibility, ensuring quality and consistency with approved programme standards and methodologies.
Provide technical support and guidance to trainers, facilitators and other relevant programme staff to strengthen the quality of programme delivery.
Lead or support training of trainers, coaching and capacity-building activities, including assessing training needs, observing delivery and providing structured feedback.
Conduct routine quality assurance of training activities, methodologies, materials and delivery approaches, and follow up on identified quality gaps.
Promote practical, inclusive and participant-centred learning approaches that are responsive to participant needs and the operational context.
Contribute to programme monitoring, learning and quality improvement through collection and analysis of feedback, documentation of lessons learned and identification of recommendations for programme adaptation.
Ensure accurate and timely documentation, monitoring and reporting of training and related programme activities in accordance with NRC requirements.
Promote safeguarding, protection, PSEA, accountability and Safe and Inclusive Programming principles throughout programme delivery.
Coordinate and collaborate effectively with relevant NRC teams, partners and stakeholders to support quality programme implementation.
Compliance and adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures, and a specific responsibility for the functions policies and procedures

About Us

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a global humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee.

Join us in assisting millions of people in areas where others cannot, tackling some of the world's most dangerous and difficult crises. Bring your skills and dedication to an organisation recognised for providing high quality aid and for defending the rights of refugees and internally displaced people.

At NRC, we give responsibility to employees at all levels and foster professional growth and innovative teams. You can expect a supportive culture and an open dialogue with management. We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion.

Together, we save lives and rebuild futures.

Safeguarding is central to NRC’s work. We expect all employees to:

• treat everyone with respect and dignity

• contribute to building a safe environment for all

• never engage in any form of exploitation, harassment and specifically sexual exploitation, abuse and sexual harassment (SEAH)

• always report. NRC has a zero-tolerance approach to inaction against exploitation, abuse and SEAH

The NYOTA Business Development Services (BDS) package provides tailored entrepreneurship support to refugee and host-community youth in Kakuma/Kalobeyei and Dadaab. Mentorship is a structured post-training component designed to reinforce BDS learning, support business development and problem-solving, facilitate market and service linkages, and strengthen the confidence and resilience of young entrepreneurs. The BDS ToR requires at least four mentorship sessions over four months, beginning after the first grant disbursement and continuing across the two grant tranches.

Project Coordinator

Project Coordinator (NYOTA) Kenya Kakuma

About Us

Get Project Manager jobs like this→

Marketing Project Manager

Manager, Technical Project Management

Project Manager / Scrum Master Co-op

Project Manager – Flow Management Data & Services (FMDS)

Frequently asked questions