Overview
Provide specialized technical support to national SLSC Clusters and emergency and protracted operations in shelter programming, EHIs, and SSPD. Analyze settlement options and proposed sites, ensuring rights-based and protection-centred approaches.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as a technical focal point for shelter, EHI, and settlement planning and development interventions.
- Assess capacity needs and contribute to the development of training resources, guidance notes, and technical standards.
- Support the harmonization of tools and approaches to settlement planning and development.
- Develop and maintain an overview of humanitarian settlement interventions.
- Contribute to strengthening the Cluster's capacity to engage in settlement development activities.
- Manage or contribute to relevant Technical Communities of Practice.
- Promote and facilitate the integration of cross-cutting issues in shelter and settlement programming.
- Provide remote assistance and deploy to national clusters as required.
- Support country-level clusters during emergency surge.
- Conduct analysis and adaptation plans of settlements in support of durable solutions.
- Provide preparedness support and work with others to ensure exit/transition and closure strategies include environmental considerations.
- Liaise internally and externally to ensure coordinated, coherent, and complementary interventions.
- Participate in and represent the Cluster at technical working groups and relevant interagency meetings.
- Promote, develop, and maintain interagency collaboration and operational partnerships.
- Develop mechanisms to capture good practices, lessons learned and evidence of quality programming.
- Prepare progress and donor reports and provide advice and support for content development.
Required Experience
- Demonstrated experience in humanitarian shelter programming, settlement planning, and infrastructure development in emergency contexts is essential.
- Experience in designing, coordinating, managing and implementing shelter and settlement programs required.
- Experience working with international organizations specialized in humanitarian or development assistance required.
- Experience in settlement planning, site assessment, and site development works, including management of construction activities directly or through contractors.
- Experience in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH), flood modelling, drainage and road design, or camp management operations is advantageous.
- Experience in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), urban infrastructure, and market-based interventions is an asset.
- Extensive knowledge of current humanitarian issues with a particular focus on climate and disaster-related emergencies, post-conflict interventions, DRR and Rehabilitation/Recovery.
- Experience in the development or management of knowledge management systems/resources, including communities of practice, knowledge hubs, etc. is an asset.
- Experience in coordinating inter-agency initiatives, working collaboratively to deliver tangible outputs, and cluster coordination is an asset.
- Previous experience in program reviews and evaluations is an asset.
Qualifications
- Master's degree in Architecture, Urban Planning, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, or a related built environment field from an accredited academic institution with five years of relevant professional experience; or
- University degree in the above fields with seven years of relevant professional experience.
