The purpose of the Shelter Coordinator position is to support the Shelter, Settlements, cash and WASH program technical overview and strategy at country level, working closely with implementation teams across different area offices where NRC has Shelter and Settlements, Cash and WASH interventions, to ensure technical quality of projects, harmonized approach across projects and adherence to national and international cluster standards. The Shelter Coordinator, with the Shelter Specialist, are responsible for the strategic direction of the Shelter and Settlement department, championing Safe and Inclusive Programming (SIP), building and maintaining principled humanitarian access for hard-to-reach and underserved populations, strengthening collaboration with other actors (partnerships), ensuring fulfillment of rights through evidence-based advocacy, and developing our staff’s capacity.
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Provide the required technical guidance to the field teams on shelter, settlements, cash, and WASH for implementation at local language, by reviewing, adapting, and translating SOPs, developing guidance notes, and documenting the implementation.Work with the Shelter Specialist, Area Program Managers, Project Managers, Project Coordinators, Team Leaders, Officers, and Assistants to implement the most appropriate shelter, settlements, cash, and WASH modalities, following the agreed donor requirements, within the existing context. Fully collaborate with the national partners and NRC field teams to enhance ways of working and developing technical trainings.Represent NRC in coordination mechanisms related to shelter, WASH, and cash, at different levels, as requested.Responsible for monitoring the quality and delivery of the program across the area offices: supporting project managers to ensure SOP implementation, information management for targets achieved per project and per area, dashboard management of Shelter and Settlements, WASH, and cash activities.Develop research and recommendations to improve the Shelter and Settlements, WASH, and cash programs, based on field observations, documentation, and project outcomes.With support from the Shelter team and M&E, ensure the following activities analysed at area office level, country level, in a recurrent basis: large scale beneficiary assessments; PDM surveys; and end-line surveys, case studies, evaluations. Ensuring reporting tools are in place and understood by field teams for daily/recurrent tracking.Elaborating reports and documents, and conducting field visits to project implementation as requested by the line manager and according to security protocols.Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need in line with vulnerability criteria and context situations, analyzing data gathered (RNAs, registrations, MIRA, HH assessments) from the different area offices to ensure monthly trends tracking. Minimum 4 years of experience from a senior level project implementation position in a humanitarian context.Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts.Project Management experience, including management of staff, team building/motivation.Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities.Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile.Fluency in English and Myanmar language, both written and verbal.Excellent communication skills in English and Myanmar language.Proven experience in projects related to cash-based interventions, shelter and settlements modalities and WASH interventions with a national/local NGO or INGO.Proven experience working in Myanmar, in at least two different States/Regions.Proven experience developing reports for donors, guidance notes and SOPs.Experience of M&E procedures and reporting, including developing questions for baseline, PDMs and end-line surveys, but also desirable in lessons learned analysis and after-action review.Experience of market assessments and price monitoring, desirable but not essential.Experience in technical training elaboration and workshop facilitation.Desirable experience in data analysis and management.Desirable experience in strategy development.Desirable experience in cluster coordination representation and engagement. The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. We work in crises across more than 31 countries, providing emergencies and long-term assistance to millions of people every year. We stand up for people forced to flee, advocating their rights. NORCAP, our global provider of expertise, helps improve international and local ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from crises. NRC also runs the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva, a global leader in reporting on and advocating for people displaced within their own country. Employment with NRC may lead to employment in or deployment to Regions, Countries, Areas or Offices that may be host to considerable health, safety and security risks. NRC takes this very seriously and we have procedures in place to reduce known risks, but will never be able to take away all risks. NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality and physical ability.