Shelter and Settlements Specialist -Kyiv Ukraine

This position will provide support, technical and operational advice, and guidance with emphasis on ensuring quality. A core contribution will be the development or contextualizing of technical SOPs / technical guidelines providing the team with implementing tools. The Shelter PDM is also responsible for implementing the strategy and the management of specific Shelter and Settlement grants. This role is required to work collaboratively with colleagues in both the technical and the operational management structures in the country office, as well as with members or staff of local implementing partners and coordinating with other colleagues engaged in the regional response.

Your passion, skills, and experience can make a big difference.

Duties & Responsibilities

The Shelter Specialist position will provide support, technical and operational advice, and guidance with emphasis on ensuring quality. A core contribution will be the development or contextualizing of technical SOPs / technical guidelines providing the team with implementing tools. The Shelter PDM is also responsible for implementing the strategy and the management of specific Shelter and Settlement grants. 

Below is a list of the general responsibilities, please download Job Description for further details.

1. Promote the rights of IDPs/returnees in line with the advocacy strategy
2. Identify trends, relevant modalities, and donor priorities. Contribute to the development and revision of funding proposals, budgets and donor reports
3. Ensure high technical quality and synergies in project implementation
4. Support the consideration and inclusion of cash-based interventions and market-based approaches within (and across) NRC core competency responses, where appropriate
5. Promote the housing rights of people affected by displacement in line with the advocacy strategy
6. Contribute to the identification of the needs of affected population at different stage of displacement
7. Support the incremental integration of NRC Minimum Environmental Requirements
8. Oversee and be responsible of mainstreaming Safe and Inclusive Programming (SIP) guidelines and ensure that all breaches/concerns reported are properly resolved
9. Support the due diligence process to take place to address Housing Land and Property (HLP) considerations and improve security of tenure
10. Contribute to promoting integrated programming with other Core Competencies – ICLA, Education, WASH, LFS, and Protection

Skills & Experience

• Minimum 4 years of experience within technical expertise area in a humanitarian/recovery context
• Higher education, preferably within architecture or engineering or related fields of study
• Technical Shelter and Settlements expertise
• Solid understanding and experience of crisis contexts, as well as in the transition/recovery phase
• Solid experience with project cycle management (PCM)
• Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal
• Applied knowledge of HLP rights, in practice and as integrated with shelter upgrade or construction programming
• Knowledge of the context in Ukraine is an asset
• Experience with programme development and direct implementation in high-risk environments
• Experience working with implementing partners, and with both, direct and remote management
• Experience in market-based programming approaches
• Experience with Technical Working Groups (TWiG) of the Shelter cluster/working groups
• Experience in community-based approaches, and understanding of Housing Policies is a plus
• Knowledge of Ukranian language is a plus

Access to a Schengen visa is required for positions in Ukraine 

What We Offer 

• Duty Station: Ukraine
• Unaccompanied contract 
• Travel: 30%
• Contract length: 12 months
• Salary: Grade 9-According to NRC’s Salary Scale. NRC offers a competitive compensation and benefits package, including R&R. 

NRC is very grateful to those who have responded thus far and continue to heed to our calls for support. This is going a long way in addressing the diverse needs, priorities, and concerns currently affecting the people of Ukraine.

Applications will be reviewed on ongoing basis. Due to large response, NRC will not provide feedback to those candidates who do not meet criteria and/or not follow the application process.