Humanitarian Shelter Adviser

Introduction

Immediately after a disaster people are confronted by damaged homes or displacement. This can have a devastating impact on a family’s health, livelihoods and protection. Save the Children run Emergency Shelter programmes that provide shelter materials or household items for those in desperate need. Shelter provision is essential to maintaining people’s dignity and privacy, ensuring families can stay together, protecting children from the ill-health and disease and supporting coping strategies for livelihoods and early recovery. It is therefore critical to Child Survival and Protection.

The successful post holder will manage Shelter Emergency Response Personnel (ERPs) and together they will form our new Humanitarian Shelter Team.



Job Purpose

To manage the development of humanitarian shelter programming and capacity, ensuring the delivery of high quality, timely and accountable humanitarian responses.

Selection Criteria

Essential

• Significant experience and a track record of success in delivering high quality, operational emergency response programmes; especially Shelter or NFI distribution, transitional housing programmes, temporary reconstruction or construction responses for family or community structures, at a senior strategic level in a range of different contexts, including first-phase responses.
• An academic qualification in a relevant humanitarian field, especially Disaster Management, Engineering, Architecture, Public Shelter or another related subject.
• Sound understanding of and commitment to SC generic programme approaches and core standards in humanitarian response
• Ability to travel at short notice, occasionally to remote and insecure locations for up to 30% of work time
• Experience of team management.
• Significant experience of organisational level thought leadership in a technical sector.
• Experience of capacity building and mentoring.
• Experience of working within budget constraints.
• Highly developed writing skills (e.g. at level for producing an assessment report or proposal during a short time period)
• Strong communications skills (both written and verbal) at a level appropriate for high level external representation (lobbying, presentations) and ability to tailor communications to different audiences
• Understanding and practical experience of the cluster approach at country and global level.
• Ability to work effectively across teams and departments
• Ability to analyse diverse information and develop recommendations for an appropriate response
• Commitment to SC UK’s mission, values and approach (includes child protection, equal opportunities and shelter and safety).
• A commitment to support for cross organisational initiatives
• Commitment to team working and understanding of how to contribute
• Ability to operate within a predominantly administratively self-servicing environment.
• Computer literate.

Desirable

• Previous experience of school construction programmes
• Broad understanding of rights and development issues, international relations and the international humanitarian systems.
• Existing networks of contacts in shelter
• Working knowledge of French and Spanish.

Additional Information

Please be aware that applications may be viewed and applicants contacted prior to the close date.

For more information, please see the attached job description.

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We work with children, communities and governments all over the world and we believe in the right person for the job regardless of where you come from and how you identify yourself. We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.