Overview
The Shelter and Settlement Team Leader is responsible for coordinating, planning, implementing, supervising, and assuring the quality of Shelter and Settlement activities in Rakhine State, ensuring interventions meet DRC standards, donor requirements, SPHERE standards, and technical best practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead implementation of shelter and settlement project activities.
- Coordinate technical assessments for shelter construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, repair, settlement planning, and related infrastructure works.
- Ensure quality implementation of shelter assistance through in-kind and cash-based modalities.
- Review and approve technical designs, drawings, Bills of Quantities (BoQs), specifications, and construction methodologies.
- Conduct regular field monitoring visits and provide technical supervision.
- Support identification of beneficiary needs and prioritize vulnerable households.
- Ensure shelter activities are integrated and coordinated with other sectors.
- Lead the development and delivery of shelter-related awareness sessions, technical training, and community engagement activities.
- Ensure all shelter activities comply with DRC SOPs, SPHERE standards, and national regulations.
- Support technical innovation, pilot initiatives, and evidence-based programming.
- Oversee implementation of shelter cash programming activities.
- Ensure beneficiary verification, technical eligibility assessments, and compliance monitoring for cash interventions.
- Supervise shelter kit, NFI, and WASH-related distributions.
- Monitor construction and rehabilitation activities completed through cash assistance mechanisms.
- Ensure proper tracking and reporting of cash and in-kind assistance activities.
- Provide day-to-day technical support and guidance to implementing partners.
- Strengthen partner capacity through coaching, mentoring, training, and field-based support.
- Conduct technical trainings on shelter construction, carpentry, shelter in emergencies, monitoring, assessment methodologies, and quality assurance.
- Build the capacity of officers, assistants, incentive workers, volunteers, community groups, CSOs, and CBOs.
- Ensure knowledge sharing and continuous learning across project teams and partners.
- Involvement in the project design for proposal and strategy.
- Provide direct supervision and technical leadership to Shelter Officers and Assistants.
- Develop and monitor daily, weekly, and monthly work plans for all shelter field staff.
- Conduct regular performance management, coaching, and capacity building of supervised staff.
- Ensure staff objectives and performance reviews are completed in accordance with DRC policies.
- Manage leave planning and workload distribution among teams.
- Initiate procurements and ensure the standard specification.
- Provide technical input to construction contracts and bid/Tender process.
- Support both in-kind and cash-based shelter interventions.
- Lead technical related training of basic carpentry, shelter in emergencies, monitoring and assessment.
- Facilitate shelter cash programming activities.
- Provide technical input for Purchase Requisitions (PRs).
- Maintain systematic filing and database management for shelter and cash activities.
- Organize and supervise shelter kits / WASH distributions.
- Supervise contractors, skilled laborers, and incentive workers.
- Provide technical guidance and on-the-job training to assistants, incentive workers, and community volunteers.
- Support shelter kit distribution and ensure proper beneficiary verification, documentation, and handover.
- Facilitate carpentry and other technical training for beneficiaries.
- Coordinate with Camp Management Committees (CMCs), Village Administrators, and beneficiaries.
- Provide technical support to implementing partners and contribute to joint monitoring, assessments, and capacity development.
- Report daily/weekly on the progress of shelter, rehabilitation, WASH and cash activities.
- Liaise and cooperate with local authorities and other humanitarian organizations.
- Act as DRC’s technical focal point at field level for shelter and settlement interventions.
- Perform other tasks as assigned by the Shelter and Settlement Manager.
- Contribute to capacity building of partner staff.
- Represent DRC as field level during community meeting and coordination activities.
- Develop and monitor daily /weekly workplans for IWs and field teams.
- Maintain accurate project records, beneficiary databases, distribution records and activity documentation.
- Perform any other duties assigned by the line manger.
Required Experience
- Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience in shelter/infrastructure/community construction, repair and community – based programming, humanitarian response, or related field.
- Experience in cash-based interventions, such as cash-for-repair or conditional cash assistance.
- Demonstrated experience in supervising construction activities, including those implemented through contractors, direct labor, and community-led processes.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification in Engineering, Social Sciences, Community Development, other relevant fields.
