Plan International a not for profit non governmental humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. Applications are invited from qualified candidates for the below position :
POSITION : Shelter Specialist - Deployment Roster
Description
- The Emergency Roster is a database of pre-selected deployable internal and external candidates who have the appropriate skills and experience to support emergency preparedness and response. It also stores information on these candidates.
- The purpose of the roster is to ensure that we have the right people in the right place and the right time with the right skills.
- Roster Members are expected to deploy to an emergency response within 72 hours or once an entry visa is received.
- A Roster Member is selected from the Emergency Roster as and when a roster request is received from one of our country offices.
Job Purpose
- Deploy, often at short notice, to support a CO respond to a particular emergency.
- Responsible for designing the shelter strategy and overseeing all shelter programmes.
- Responsible for external representation, in particular with the shelter cluster and any associated working groups.
Responsibilities
- Develop shelter programme strategy and oversee its implementation ensuring alignment with SPHERE and CHS.
- Represent Plan International with key external stakeholders (Government, Donors, UN agencies and peers).
- Represent Plan International in the shelter cluster, ensuring 3Ws info submitted as required.
- Ensure all emergency shelter programmes have a clear focus on addressing the specific needs of young girls, adolescent girls and young women.
- Oversight of assessments as required, in line with Plan International’s standard tools.
- Support the development of shelter funding submissions, and donor reporting.
Qualifications
- Degree in either Civil/Structural Engineering or Architecture.
- Knowledge and understanding of the Humanitarian Programme Cycle
- Experience in conducting needs assessments
- Experience in the design, implementation and evaluation of emergency shelter programmes
- Experience of representation with a wide range of external stakeholders
- Experience of managing programmes in insecure locations.
Skills:
- Good knowledge of SPHERE and the CHS.
- Team management, staff capacity building and motivation skills in teamwork and networking.
- Excellent skills in donor proposal / report writing
- May be required, to work during late hours, weekends and holidays in order to ensure timely delivery of programmes.
- Language skills desirable ( for example English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic)
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