Shelter and Settlement Assistant

Danish Refugee Council, one of the world’s leading humanitarian NGOs, we are excited to invite you to join our team as a Shelter and Settlement Assistant. If you are a skilled and motivated professional ready to make a difference, we want you on board! Together, we’ll work to deliver impactful humanitarian solutions in challenging environments.

About the job

Reporting to the WASH Shelter and Settlement manager; This position will provide day-to-day supervision of Construction activities, SNFI assessment, distribution, and Other relevant duties as directed by the Shelter & Settlement Manager/Team Leader.Your main duties and responsibilities will be:

• Continuously quality check and material utilization control in the field.
• Participate in technical assessments.
• Supervise ongoing construction and rehabilitation projects on the sites.
• Quality control of material and the implemented activities.
• Participate in construction activities including S/NFIs distribution when required.
• Participate in technical and rapid needs assessments of the situation in the event of an emergency in collaboration with other stakeholders to address construction problems
• Submits reports to the immediate supervisor every Friday and as required.
• Participate in relevant meetings with community leaders, block leaders, RRC, UNHCR, and other stakeholders.
• Directly supervises casual Craftsperson Team as agreed with the Shelter and Settlement Manager
• Ensure the observance of the DRC Code of Conduct throughout activity implementation
• Planning and organizing work schedules, casual member monitoring, and guidance.
• Quality control and site monitoring ensuring that services are in accordance with SPHERE standards
• Beneficiaries’ list data collection, field verification, handover documentation GPS data collection, and maintaining a record.

About you

To be successful in this role we expect you to Proven ability to prioritize tasks, Good personnel management skills, including communication, negotiating skills, and working with different groups, partners, and nationalities. And have experience in working in complex, contexts, under tight deadlines, hardship location  

Required

• Vocational training in a technical field with a certificate or diploma alternatively hold a diploma/ degree in non-technical field with additional one-year experience in supervision of technical works.
• Conversant with all basic MS Office software applications
• Mobilization, and Preparing paperwork for daily casual workers (Attendance sheets and daily contracts). 
• Good planning, organizational and problem-solving skills with the ability to work both independently and within a team in a demanding work environment.  
• Good personnel management skills, including communication, negotiating skills, and working with different groups, partners, and nationalities.  
• Experience in working in complex, contexts, under tight deadlines, hardship location