Shelter Officer (Geneina) – NRC
Job Description
| Organization | The Norwegian Refugee Council |
| Salary/benefits | According to NRC’s salary scale and terms and conditions |
| Duty station | Geneina |
| Travel | Within the State |
| Closing date | 19th October 2022 |
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NRC resumed operations in Sudan in 2020, providing humanitarian assistance, protection, and durable solutions. Our country programme integrates all of NRC’s six core competencies (camp management, education, ICLA, livelihoods, shelter, and WASH), and provides a rapid response capacity (including for the recent refugee emergency in eastern Sudan), and thematic capacities for cash and markets-based approaches, advocacy, digital modes of assistance, and co-leading various technical and strategic coordination platforms.
Role Specific Information
The purpose of the Shelter officer position is to oversight under the supervision of the Programme Specialist/Shelter Manager/coordinator the implementation of NRC’s Shelter and Setlement response and related project portfolio in West Darfur, covering Geneina, Kereniek and Jebel Moon. The following is a brief description of the role.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Line management of shelter assistants (engineering-social) project staff
- Adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures;
- Contribute to Shelter and Settlement strategy development, project proposals and provide input on needs and gaps;
- Responsible to implement delegated technical portfolio of Shelter projects (activities, budget and project documentation) as delegated from Manager or Project Coordinator in line with proposals, strategies and donor requirements, and ensure high technical quality;
- Provide regular progress reports to Programme Development Manager/Coordinator;
- Prepare and ensure that all technical Bill of quantities and scope of works are in line with quality NRC standards;
- Promote and share ideas for improvement and necessary changes in the activities;
- Ensure capacity building of project staff and transfer key skills to engineering officers and assistants.
- Liaise and collaborate with relevant local authorities and other key stakeholders;
- Promote the rights of IDPs/refugees in line with the advocacy strategy;
- Line Management. Responsible for the direct line management of assistants engineering team in Khartoum (assistants and site supervisors), including RRM team staff.
- Strategy Development. Support the Shelter Managers in developing and/or revising the Core Competency Strategies for Shelter and Settlement by providing Area-level analysis and recommendations for needs and response options.
- Technical Support. Providing technical support and leadership to partners and communities implementing Shelter related activities. This includes ensuring compliance with relevant minimum standards and collaborative engagement with the technical team in developing minimum technical standards, SOPs and guidance.
- Partnerships/Contractors. Work in collaboration with the shelter team to identify and develop strategic partnerships (including contractors), monitor the implementation and assess the performance.
- Assessments. In collaboration with the Shelter overseeing all technical/engineering assessments undertaken by NRC or partners for Shelter or related activities in both Khartoum and other states. Assessments may be emergency-focused, Sector-Specific, Multi-Sector Assessments, Market Assessments, etc.
- Accountability. Responsibility for ensuring adequate accountability for shelter technical documentation, including Bill of quantities, SoWs, monitoring reports…, as per NRC policies and the requirements of management for Shelter or related activities.
Job Specification
- Desirable minimum 2 years of experience of project implementation, managing and supervising construction/rehabilitation projects with private/humanitarian sectors with proven experience on technical and managerial skills.
- Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts;
- Technical engineering expertise;
- Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities;
- Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile;
- Fluency in English, both written and verbal;
- Knowledge of the context in West Darfur;
- Fluent Spoken Arabic and English essential, local language is an advantage
- Strong knowledge of MS package (Word, Excel…) and Autocad (or similar).
- Preparedness to travel up to 40%
Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply!
Salary/benefits: According to NRC’s salary scale and terms and conditions
Duty station: Geneina
Travel: Within the State
NRC may be required to verify the identity of its partners and to check that its partners have not been involved in illegal activities. NRC reserves the right to use electronic screening tools for this purpose.
NB: All employees of the Norwegian Refugee Council should be able to adhere to our Code of Conduct and the four organizational values: Dedicated, innovative, inclusive and accountable.
To apply please visit www.nrc.no careers
Closing date: 19th October 2022
