Overview
The Associate Shelter Officer contributes to sectoral needs assessments and oversees construction and infrastructure projects within the Area of Responsibility to ensure compliance with standards and procedures.
Key Responsibilities
- - Develop and update shelter approaches considering local resources, age, gender, culture, climate, and environment.
- - Conduct sectoral needs assessments in liaison with other sectors.
- - Provide support in developing and reviewing shelter strategies.
- - Oversee construction and infrastructure projects, ensuring compliance with UNHCR and national standards.
- - Monitor and follow up on the design and construction of infrastructure.
- - Coordinate UNHCR's shelter and infrastructure interventions.
- - Participate in coordination meetings with stakeholders.
- - Review technical components of Project Partnership Agreements.
- - Advise on procurement of construction and infrastructure works.
- - Carry out technical evaluation of bids and review quality of products/works.
Required Experience
- - A minimum of 5 - 7 years of relevant experience in shelter or infrastructure, construction supervision and humanitarian or developmental contexts.
- - Experience in refugee operations, emergency response contexts.
- - Prior work experience with the UN or international Organizations is an advantage.
- - Prior experience of implementing shelter and infrastructure projects in humanitarian context and large scale emergencies coordinating with operational partners governmental technical departments.
- - Prior experience in designing and implementing a shelter strategy, including host family situations, collective shelter and camp settings, in emergency while considering the transition to more sustainable solutions.
- - Project formulation, planning, supervision and management skills.
- - Previous involvement in implementation processes (including development of bill of quantities, analysis of local capacity and local markets, cost estimations, etc.).
- - Experience of construction management (including site supervision, monitoring, quality control, evaluation etc.) including application of participatory approaches to facilitate active participation of communities into the project cycle and into the construction process.
- - Experience in developing shelter and settlement need assessments and undertaking gap analysis for development of shelter programmes.
- - Experience in building on existing local capacity and transfer knowledge as appropriate.
- - Familiarity with and considerable Field exposure to UNHCR programme planning and implementation and on humanitarian operations.
Qualifications
- - Degree in civil engineering, architecture or related fields
- - Bachelor of Arts: Architecture, Bachelor of Arts: Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Arts: Construction Management
- - Shelter Coordination Training
