Shelter Officer

The Shelter Officer is responsible for the day-to-day implementation of the CC Project in Ulang-Upper Nile, managing shelter activities, reporting progress, and ensuring adherence to NRC policies and project plans. The role involves supervision of casual workers, beneficiary selection, and coordination with other departments and external actors.

Responsibilities

• Ensure adherence with NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
• Implement delegated CC project portfolio according to plan of action
• Prepare and develop status reports as required by management
• Ensure proper filing of documents
• Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need and explore and assess new and better ways to assist
• Develop work plan and schedule for the monitoring of activities with line manager
• Supervision of assistants
• Support the selection of beneficiaries per the agreed criteria
• Manage Shelter activities and report on progress in Renk
• Schedule and participate in training, implementation, running and follow-up of projects including monitoring and evaluation, technical methodologies, supervision and field missions
• Lead on Shelter activities with Shelter Coordinator, include design of activities, BoQs, monitoring of any construction or rehabilitation in accordance with government regulations and standards
• For monitoring and evaluation liaise with M&E Officer on tracking Outcomes/Outputs and targets, along with issues such as base lines, end lines and evaluations
• Ensure that all administrative and logistical tasks are promptly and correctly completed
• Represent NRC in community/local and state-level meetings, when requested and promote exchange of information with relevant external actors
• Undertake any other duties assigned by Shelter Coordinator as and when required

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from a recognized University (Civil Engineering or similar)
• Proven practical experience in the planning and execution of Shelter programmes of at least 3 years’ experience in a humanitarian and development program.
• Experience from working as a Project Officer in a humanitarian/recovery context
• Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
• Knowledge of English and Arabic language
• Experience in working in Upper Nile
• Experience in capacity building and training of targeted group.
• Ability to work independently in a result-oriented multi-tasking and multi-cultural environment and manage conflicting priorities

Skills

• Shelter Programme Planning
• Shelter Programme Execution
• Humanitarian Programme Management
• Project Officer Experience
• Work in Complex Contexts
• Capacity Building
• Training Delivery
• Beneficiary Selection
• Multi-tasking in Humanitarian Settings
• Coordination with external actors
• Supervision of Casual Workers
• Documentation and Reporting
• Civil Engineering
• Working in Upper Nile
• Result-oriented Implementation

Languages

English, Arabic