Job Details:
Organisation: Save the Children UK
Deadline Wed, 31 Aug 2016
Job type: Contract
Location:
Home based– with 75 -80% international travel required
2 year fixed term contract
We are looking for a Shelter and Construction Advisor to be a lead Technical Advisor supporting global shelter and construction activities from a home base with up to 80% travel to the field. You will also 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 Advisor, you will provide leadership and technical support to Country Offices in emergency shelter responses and carrying out construction work for both development tand humanitarian contexts. You will also:
- Work remotely or deploy to country programmes for the development and delivery of appropriate shelter strategies and programming in emergency responses around the world
- Develop and disseminate policies, guidelines and tools for improving construction processes
- Mentor and/or build capacity of both international and national staff colleagues
- 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 and mobilize 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 transitional, 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.
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.
To apply please visit our website.
Closing date: 31st August 2016
Shelter and Construction Advisor
Job posted by: Save the Children UK - Fri, 26 Aug 2016Job Details:
Organisation: Save the Children UK
Deadline Wed, 31 Aug 2016
Job type: Contract
Location:
Home based– with 75 -80% international travel required
2 year fixed term contract
We are looking for a Shelter and Construction Advisor to be a lead Technical Advisor supporting global shelter and construction activities from a home base with up to 80% travel to the field. You will also 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 Advisor, you will provide leadership and technical support to Country Offices in emergency shelter responses and carrying out construction work for both development tand humanitarian contexts. You will also:
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.
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.
To apply please visit our website.
Closing date: 31st August 2016