Technical Lead – Transitional and Durable Shelter

Earlier Candidates needn’t apply.

Position Objective

To fulfil its Programme Technique 2022-2027, ShelterBox’s programming shall be guided by two Shelter Technical leads, one with a better deal with emergency response and one with a better deal with transitional and sturdy shelters and WASH. The 2 positions – working in shut coordination and collaboration – will collaborate with the Programme High quality and Programme Supply groups, to maximise the standard of ShelterBox’s programming in alignment with our renewed mission, imaginative and prescient, and technique, beneath the management of the Head of Programme High quality.

Duties will embrace however not be restricted to:

• Present technical enter into shelter and WASH mission design and improvement, guaranteeing that shelter technical requirements are documented in mission sheltering methods and instruments, and that these requirements are adhered to all through the mission cycle.
• Frequently assess ShelterBox’s technical strengths and areas for enchancment, establish approaches to addressing areas for enchancment and work with related colleagues to place these into motion.
• Present technical recommendation and help to wants evaluation, mission design and supply, together with by means of collaborating in mission design, reviewing idea notes/proposals and presence in-country the place that is essential to help the standard of excessive precedence actions.
• Help companions technical shelter information and capability improvement, guaranteeing that their actions are aligned with organisational and international humanitarian requirements.
• Be certain that shelter initiatives contemplate precedence cross-cutting points reminiscent of, setting, housing land and property rights, safety, gender and inclusion, and security; and that website actions adjust to applicable native, nationwide, and worldwide requirements and laws.
• Help to market assessments to establish present capacities and assets that may be leveraged to help self-recovery in shelter programming.
• Present technical help and recommendation to emergency preparedness planning.
• Work with Heads of Division in Worldwide Programmes to establish technical capability constructing/coaching wants of programme workers and ShelterBox Response Workforce volunteers, and work with the Studying & Improvement workforce to develop approaches to assembly these wants.
• Help the Programme Supply workforce (Emergencies and Regional Programmes) to evaluate technical capability of companions. Develop and ship and/or facilitate entry to shelter and WASH technical capability constructing alternatives for our companions as applicable and work with the Studying & Improvement workforce to develop approaches to assembly coaching wants.
• Symbolize ShelterBox within the World Shelter Cluster and different related international shelter technical fora, networks, and coordination mechanisms. Facilitate participation of different representatives of ShelterBox in technical/sector fora as applicable.
• Construct and keep efficient working relationships with technical shelter leads in peer organisations.
• Act as technical focus for present strategic international/regional partnerships and help the Director and Deputy Director of Worldwide Programmes and the Partnerships Supervisor to construct and keep new strategic relationships with different shelter actors (not together with Rotary).
• Have interaction with sector networks and assets to keep up relationships and consciousness of sector developments, studying and really helpful apply. Establish potential alternatives and important enhancements in the best way we work.
• Proactively analyse and make suggestions on how rising international and sector developments, developments and analysis may probably have an effect on present coverage and practices.
• Help improvement of a Analysis Technique and guarantee accompanying work plans to profit from alternative for enchancment, innovation, and improvement. Embrace consideration of support objects, approaches, and agreed organisational learnings.
• Construct hyperlinks and collaborate with related sector organisations, communities of apply and educational establishments to construct strategically applicable analysis agenda.
• Have interaction skilled companions (organisations, people, and communities of apply) to each get hold of and cascade studying alternatives.
• Promote and actively help an organisational studying tradition. Talk information and studying associated to product, course of, and method. Work with the Affect & Accountability Lead to make sure that ShelterBox has sturdy methods in place for technical information administration and information sharing. Guarantee related programme and wider workers are conscious of key sector developments and really helpful apply as applicable.
• Work in collaboration with the Sustainability Supervisor to make sure that mission design and implementation considers sustainability, together with, however not restricted to, utilising native assets the place this is sensible and in lowering plastic and emissions in our programming.
• Work in collaboration with Sustainability Supervisor and Provide Chain to analysis, check, develop and implement extra sustainable options to our shelter providing.
• Help the event of a analysis technique and guarantee accompanying work plans to profit from alternative for enchancment, innovation, and improvement. Embrace consideration of support objects, approaches, and agreed organisational learnings.
• Precisely and accessibly current concepts, findings, suggestions, and adjustments as applicable to the viewers to help organisational consciousness, choice making, sector voice, and earnings technology.
• Work away from residence, this can be UK or abroad coaching or deployment to catastrophe affected areas. While you’re unlikely to reply for greater than six weeks at anyone time, you could be required to deploy for as much as 40% of your time in any calendar 12 months.

Different duties

• Some other duties as required that are deemed applicable to the extent and grade of the put up.