United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Interim Emergency Shelter Advisor

Whilst we recruit to this role on a permanent basis, we are looking for an experienced Interim Emergency Shelter Advisor for a 3 months fixed term contract.

Salary: circa £32 – £36k per annum
Ref: C785
Duration: 3 months fixed term contract
Location: Vauxhall, SE London

Why work for us?

This role is an opportunity to join CARE International’s Emergency Shelter Team and further grow the capacity of CARE and further improve the quality of its work, ultimately ensuring people in need after disasters receive the support and assistance they require. The role gives the opportunity to get experience of and contribute directly to emergency responses around the world, but also to ensure that lessons from those responses are learnt and disseminated widely. The workload is varied, interesting and challenging, and includes assessment, analysis, programme design and implementation of projects in country as well as giving the opportunity to contribute to policy development, research and development of tools and advocacy materials in the UK.

About you

As an Interim Emergency Shelter Advisor, you will have a good understanding of humanitarianism, strong vision for what can be achieved with emergency shelter programmes and the passion and ability to ensure it is delivered. We are looking for someone who can work well in a team for the minimum of 3 months, someone who is eager and quick to learn and who can provide authoritative advice yet have the humility to know they might be wrong.

You should have a relevant combination of experience and qualifications in the build environment, preferably at postgraduate level. It’s essential that you have experience of working overseas in different cultures, and you should have experience of working in humanitarian response. We are particularly interested in Spanish speakers and professionally qualified structural engineers.

About the role

The roles main objectives are:

• Ensuring that CARE offices receive effective technical assistance in the shelter sector for emergency preparedness and during emergency response, so that they can undertake high quality emergency response programmes and deliver appropriate support to those in need.

• Making sure that that learning and evaluation of CARE’s work in the shelter sector is taking place and is of high quality and developing sectoral policies, strategies, best practices and guidelines for CARE’s global work in the shelter sector to continually improve CARE’s and the shelter sectors practices and outcomes.

• Representing CARE International in the external emergency shelter sector community.

• Contributing to CARE International’s overall humanitarian policy, advocacy and strategy.

You will be working with CARE’s programme teams around the world to develop and deliver shelter programming. Those you’ll have the opportunity to work with include other sectoral experts in WASH, food security, sexual & reproductive health, gender and protection, as well as country office programme and support teams, CARE’s global secretariat and partner NGOs.

About CARE CARE International is one of the world’s leading humanitarian and development charities. We fight poverty and injustice in the world’s most vulnerable places. We save lives in disasters and conflicts. We stand with women, girls and their communities to achieve lasting change for a better future.

Closing date: Applications will be reviewed upon receipt, so the post will close once an appointment is made.