Job Responsibilities

• Ensure adherence with NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines 
• Liaison and follow up with relevant Government officials and authorities for activity-related approvals, government reporting as well as administrative requests (visa, vettings, missions) 
• Ensure the development and implementation of internal systems and procedures. In particular, develop a Government liaison SOP and regularly update to maintain relevance 
• Plan and facilitate meetings with relevant government officials as per mission requirements 
• Supervise NRC’s Government Liaison consultant, organise his workload and tasks 
• Monitor legal and policy developments relevant to NRC, internally share summaries and brief the Country Management Group upon request 
• Prepare and develop status reports as required by the Country Director 
• Promote and share ideas for improvement of the Government Liaison function in NRC 
• Ensure capacity building of staff in skills related to Government Liaison purposes 
• Promote the rights of displacement affected populations in line with the advocacy strategy 
• Develop and update stakeholder analysis related to Iranian Government structures 
• Draft, submit, centralize follow up and record physical and electronic archives of all communications with national level government authorities, including but not limited to: programme inquiries and authorization requests, mission requests, validations, reporting, visas, permits (office, work, residence, exit-re-entry), staff vetting, meeting request, etc. 
• Ensure proper archiving and filing of all incoming and outgoing documents and statistics 
• Ensure timely submission of Government required reporting, in particular quarterly and annual report to CAFIA 
• Ensure that communications and translations across NRC are harmonized, factually and grammatically correct. If necessary, develop a network of translators that are approved by NRC in terms of quality 
• Support and accompany NRC management for meetings with Government authorities and facilitate translation 
• Maintain a Government Liaison calendar for senior management to be able to plan meetings as much as possible 
• Capture lessons learned with regards to collaboration with different levels of the Goal
• Other duties as assigned by his/ her supervisor