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Compensation and Benefits

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) provides international staff with temporary contracts, competitive salaries aligned with the humanitarian sector, and a comprehensive benefits package including paid leave, pension plans, and insurance. Employees receive allowances for home travel, housing, and cost of living adjustments, with additional compensation for hardship in challenging duty stations. Family duty stations offer educational incentives and support for accompanying family members, enhancing the overall employment experience for international staff.

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Compensation and Benefits

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) provides international staff with temporary contracts, competitive salaries aligned with the humanitarian sector, and a comprehensive benefits package including paid leave, pension plans, and insurance. Employees receive allowances for home travel, housing, and cost of living adjustments, with additional compensation for hardship in challenging duty stations. Family duty stations offer educational incentives and support for accompanying family members, enhancing the overall employment experience for international staff.

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Compensation and benefits for international field staff

at the Norwegian Refugee Council


An employee on an international contract is someone who is sent on a fixed-term
assignment to a country in which they do not have citizenship nor are registered as a
national. International staff will leave their home, their social protection system, and in
most cases, their family.

Employment All international contracts are temporary, lasting usually 12 or 24


contract months but subject to extension in certain cases.

NRC terms of employment for international staff are the same


whatever the duty station.
Competitive salary
All jobs within NRC are evaluated and graded using the NRC
and taxation
Grade Profiling Structure.

For each job grade, we offer salaries in line with the international
market – but in the spirit of humanitarian work we do, not at the
top of the market.

To ensure fair and same tax payment of our international staff


across countries of deployment and to ensure NRC is tax
compliant, all our international staff pay a contribution to the
NRC Unity Fund. NRC then takes the full responsibility in paying
government required international staff income taxes in the
different host countries

Benefits and Paid leave


allowances – will
vary according to • Holidays: full-time employees are entitled to 30 days per
the duty station year. In addition, employees get time off on public
holidays.
• Sick leave and sick pay: NRC has its own standard of
terms and procedures regarding sick leave and sick pay
for international staff.

Pension plan: NRC offers a competitive pension plan. The


contribution by NRC is 6 per cent of the base salary and the
contribution by the employee is 2 per cent of the base salary.

Insurance: international staff are covered by medical, travel, death


and disability insurance.
Home travel: In addition to the initial round trip ticket,
unaccompanied employees are entitled to a complimentary
ticket home once every six months of completed service, or
every 12 months if the employee is accompanied.

Housing: NRC offers moderately furnished accommodation. Often


guesthouses and other kinds of shared housing are used.

Cost of living: A flat monthly allocation is provided to help


maintain a level of purchasing power in the area of duty.

Hardship: In some duty stations, we offer a monthly


compensation which recognises the difficulties of working and
living under a certain level of physical threat, discomfort and
inconvenience.

Rest and recuperation (R&R): in country offices or areas with very


stressful and difficult working conditions, employees are entitled
to R&R, in the form of five days’ additional leave for every six
months of duty. In the most challenging duty stations, employees
may get up to 2 R&R of 5 days per six-month period of duty.

Family duty stations: a small number of our duty stations are


designated as family duty stations. In these, school and nursery
expenses are paid (up to a maximum annual amount). The
employee and accompanying family members are entitled to one
complimentary ticket home for each 12-month period of
completed service.

Educational incentives/ school and nursery expenses: A benefit


provided for approved accompanied children up to and including
18 years of age. Maximum per child is 12000 USD per year and
maximum per family is 40000 USD per year

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