Job Details:
Organisation: Save the Children UK
Deadline Tue, 30 Aug 2016
Job type: Contract
Location:
We are looking for a Shelter and Construction Coordinator to be a roving technical specialist travelling to country programmes to provide support to construction and emergency shelter programming. You will carry out short-term assessment, programme design, capacity analysis, monitoring and evaluation activities.
Working in more than 120 countries, we do whatever it takes to create breakthroughs in the way the world treats children. Our Humanitarian department integrates emergency and development work, through our country programmes. It increases our capacity to meet the assistance and protection needs of children and their families affected by crises. Together, we save children’s lives, fight for their rights and help them fulfil their potential.
Save the Children’s origins lie in emergency response, and this has remained central to our work ever since. Our approach integrates our emergency and development work, through the medium of our country programmes. With the increasing frequency and severity of emergencies world-wide, the organisation is increasing its’ capacity to support programmes in both sudden onset and chronic emergency situations.
As Shelter and Construction Coordinator, you will provide technical support to Country Offices in emergency shelter responses and carrying out construction work for both development and humanitarian contexts. This role includes:
- Be deployment regularly to country programmes to support the delivery of appropriate shelter programming in emergency responses around the world
- Dissemination and capacity building on policies, guidelines and tools for improving construction processes
- Design and planning support on simple building constructions to meet challenging programmatic deadlines
- Mentor and/or build capacity of technical colleagues in our programmes of operation
- Work with procurement to ensure construction plans/procurement plans are completed collaboratively, so that high quality materials, assets and organisations can be sourced and vetted in a timely manner and follow the principles of procurement
- Participate, contribute to global level technical working groups, including Save the Children’s Humanitarian Technical Working Groups (HTWG) to develop the organisation as a leading advocate of construction quality and shelter in emergencies, particularly as these relate to children.
To be successful you will have prior experience of managing, designing and implementing extensive shelter programmes and construction works within a complex country programme in an emergency response or fragile state (including in first phase). You will also have:
- Strong understanding of public health issues in emergency shelter and settlements, with attention to specific needs of women and children
- Sound knowledge of emergency, recovery or settlement shelter programme options including strategies such as owner driven reconstruction, host family support, collective centres and camps settings
- Degree level qualifications and professional experience in architecture, engineering or a related field with experience including technical design and construction management experience
- Previous demonstrable experience in running NFI and/or Cash distribution programmes
- Demonstrated ability to set up learning and development processes for a large team, to mentor and coach
- Excellent communication skills and a proven record of developing and drafting project proposals and reports for institutional donors (specifically DFID and ECHO).
Fluency in French and/or Arabic will be an advantage as will experience of living and working within a relevant region/context.
In return we offer a competitive salary and benefits. It is a very exciting time to join Save the Children and a standing team of frontline experts.
At Save the Children we are committed to the safeguarding and protection of children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work with children are recruited to work for us. This post is subject to a range of vetting checks including a criminal records disclosure.
At Save the Children our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. If you share our mission, are passionate about making it happen and strongly believe you can contribute then join us and we'll give you every opportunity to succeed. We look forward to hearing from you.
Closing date: 30th August 2016
To apply please visit our website.
Shelter and Construction Coordinator
Job posted by: Save the Children UK - Tue, 23 Aug 2016Job Details:
Organisation: Save the Children UK
Deadline Tue, 30 Aug 2016
Job type: Contract
Location:
We are looking for a Shelter and Construction Coordinator to be a roving technical specialist travelling to country programmes to provide support to construction and emergency shelter programming. You will carry out short-term assessment, programme design, capacity analysis, monitoring and evaluation activities.
Working in more than 120 countries, we do whatever it takes to create breakthroughs in the way the world treats children. Our Humanitarian department integrates emergency and development work, through our country programmes. It increases our capacity to meet the assistance and protection needs of children and their families affected by crises. Together, we save children’s lives, fight for their rights and help them fulfil their potential.
Save the Children’s origins lie in emergency response, and this has remained central to our work ever since. Our approach integrates our emergency and development work, through the medium of our country programmes. With the increasing frequency and severity of emergencies world-wide, the organisation is increasing its’ capacity to support programmes in both sudden onset and chronic emergency situations.
As Shelter and Construction Coordinator, you will provide technical support to Country Offices in emergency shelter responses and carrying out construction work for both development and humanitarian contexts. This role includes:
To be successful you will have prior experience of managing, designing and implementing extensive shelter programmes and construction works within a complex country programme in an emergency response or fragile state (including in first phase). You will also have:
Fluency in French and/or Arabic will be an advantage as will experience of living and working within a relevant region/context.
In return we offer a competitive salary and benefits. It is a very exciting time to join Save the Children and a standing team of frontline experts.
At Save the Children we are committed to the safeguarding and protection of children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work with children are recruited to work for us. This post is subject to a range of vetting checks including a criminal records disclosure.
At Save the Children our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. If you share our mission, are passionate about making it happen and strongly believe you can contribute then join us and we'll give you every opportunity to succeed. We look forward to hearing from you.
Closing date: 30th August 2016
To apply please visit our website.