JIRA Issue not created when jenkins build fails

I am using JIRA Plugin 3.0.12 , having issue with "Create jira issue" upon job failure. 

Please find below error from console output

java.lang.NullPointerException
	at hudson.plugins.jira.JiraSession.createIssue(JiraSession.java:413)
	at hudson.plugins.jira.JiraCreateIssueNotifier.createJiraIssue(JiraCreateIssueNotifier.java:202)
	at hudson.plugins.jira.JiraCreateIssueNotifier.currentBuildResultFailure(JiraCreateIssueNotifier.java:357)
	at hudson.plugins.jira.JiraCreateIssueNotifier.perform(JiraCreateIssueNotifier.java:157)
	at hudson.tasks.BuildStepMonitor$1.perform(BuildStepMonitor.java:20)
	at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.perform(AbstractBuild.java:741)
	at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.performAllBuildSteps(AbstractBuild.java:690)
	at hudson.model.Build$BuildExecution.post2(Build.java:186)
	at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.post(AbstractBuild.java:635)
	at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1881)
	at com.tikal.jenkins.plugins.multijob.MultiJobBuild.run(MultiJobBuild.java:76)
	at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:97)
	at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:428)
Build step 'JIRA: Create issue' marked build as failure