The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is reinforcing its presence in North-East Ukraine and establishes an Area Office based in Kyiv Kharkiv. The Area Office North-East (AONE) will become a new area office, scaled up from the current Kharkiv Field Office, and will start being operational in the first half of 2026. 
AONE will cover regions of Kharkiv and Sumy where current Field Office (FO) in Shostka will, in first half of 2026, structurally move to be under new Kharkiv AONE.
The key sectors of intervention covered by the North-East area office will include Shelter, Information Counselling and Legal Assistance (ICLA), Protection from Violence, Education, Livelihoods & Food Security and emergency response through cash assistance.


This role requires a diverse set of skills, including an understanding of partnership programming in protracted crises, strategic thinking, the ability to operationalise strategies, and the capacity to collaboratively develop practical, field-oriented partnership tools and guidance. The successful candidate will be a strong networker with the ability to communicate and share knowledge effectively with a wide range of stakeholders.

Start date for this position is March 2026.