GRADE: 6
LOCATION: Dolakha District Office
TEAM/PROGRAMME: Program Operations
CONTRACT LENGTH: March 2016
CHILD SAFEGUARDING: Level 3- the responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have regular contact with or access to children or young people.

BRIEF POSITION DESCRIPTION
The Shelter Coordinator will coordinate the Shelter programme in Dolakha District. S/he will manage the district level Shelter team and will be expected to mentor and build the capacity of Save the Children and partner staff involved in shelter programming. The post holder will be expected to lead on sectoral assessment and implementation, project planning and budgeting, coordination with stakeholders, managing partnership agreements  and supporting fundraising, recruitment and procurement, at a district level.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead technical assessments at field level in coordination with other SC thematic areas and/or other external sector agencies, ensuring assessment findings are documented and that all assessments include a specific analysis of children’s needs.
• With support from the lead Shelter Adviser and/or other senior programme staff, develop project plans and budgets, contributing towards an overall thematic programme plan and master budget.
• With support from the Shelter Advisor, the District Manager and/or other senior programme staff, develop and manage shelter partnership agreements. 
• With support from the lead Shelter Adviser and/or other senior programme staff, support fundraising for your area, including contributing to the development of high quality concept notes and proposals.
• Prepare and oversee project implementation to ensure timely delivery of project activities (for example, monitoring against log frames, individual performance management work plans).
• With support from the Lead Shelter Adviser and/or other senior programme staff, prepare timely programme and donor reports on project activities in compliance with internal SC requirements and any relevant external donor requirements. 
• With support from the lead Shelter Adviser and/or other senior programme staff, with the HR team, identify technical staffing needs for emergency programmes, and support rapid recruitment, induction and training of new staff.
• With support from the lead Shelter Adviser and/or other senior programme staff, identify programme supplies needs and coordinate with the logistics team to put in place a sensible phased procurement plan.
• With support from the Monitoring & Evaluation team put in place an M & E plan for your project, ensuring this links to reporting requirements, and capacity build technical field staff in carrying out the work.
• With support from the Accountability lead put in place accountability activities for your project, ensuring that feedback from children and their families is considered in project design.
• To ensure that the minimum standards of humanitarian relief are maintained in accordance with the Sphere Charter and Red Cross Code of Conduct.

Capacity Building:

• Identify learning and training opportunities for project staff and work as a mentor and role model for less experienced staff. 
• Through the development and management of partnership agreements, ensure continual capacity building and mentoring processes are in place to support partner staff in gaining key skills and experience required for shelter programming

Representation & Advocacy & Organisational Learning:

• Ensure that Save the Children's work is coordinated with efforts of other agencies and Government, and support Interagency Coordination forums, advocating for the specific needs of children. This may involve supporting coordination working groups.
• With support from the lead Shelter Adviser and/or other senior programme staff, assist in advocacy activities that target decision-makers in-country.
• Contribute to communications and media work as required.

General:

• Deliver high quality results in line with the terms of reference agreed in advance – to do this in a way which maintains the reputation of the Humanitarian Department.
• Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.
• Help be responsible for the security of all staff. Ensure that the security, health and wellbeing of staff are ensured and staff management and other processes and policies and systems reflect SC 's principles of equity and fairness.
• To perform such other responsibilities as agreed with your line management.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• Minimum Bachelor's degree in Civil or Structural or Architectural Engineering or related discipline and 2 years of relevant experience
• Awareness of public health issues in emergency shelter or settlements, with attention to specific needs of women and children. 
• Awareness of transitional shelter and settlements options including technical design, host family support, collective centres and camps 
• Previous experience in running NFI distribution programmes 
• Previous experience of project management