Emergency Shelter Tech Lead — Global Deployments

ShelterBox; Truro; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

ShelterBox is seeking a Shelter Technical Lead to provide technical leadership across emergency responses, guiding assessment, design, implementation and quality assurance of shelter programming. You will collaborate with response teams, partners and communities to ensure shelter solutions are evidence-based, contextually appropriate and aligned with Shelter Position Paper and humanitarian standards.

The role requires flexibility to deploy, work across contexts and promote safe, inclusive and

Qualifications

• Extensive understanding of the humanitarian sector with an emergency shelter focus.
• Excellent relationship builder and collaborator; able to adapt and embed new ideas.
• Experience joining ongoing humanitarian responses and providing shelter leadership under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical input into shelter project design and development with documented standards.
• Integrate into emergency response structures to offer immediate leadership to objectives.
• Advise on needs assessments to feed into design and delivery.
• Develop shelter designs, specifications and calculations per standards.
• Support partners' technical shelter knowledge and capacity development.
• Lead integration of technical assistance and capacity building for safer construction.
• Ensure environments include cross-cutting issues like gender, inclusion and safety.
• Support market and needs assessments to enable self-recovery in shelter.
• Provide technical support to emergency preparedness planning.
• Represent ShelterBox in national Shelter Cluster meetings and networks.
• Build relationships with peer organisations' shelter leads and promote learning.
• Communicate knowledge and learning across programmes and staff.
• Perform other duties as required.

Job description

ShelterBox is seeking a Shelter Technical Lead to provide technical leadership across emergency responses, guiding assessment, design, implementation and quality assurance of shelter programming. You will collaborate with response teams, partners and communities to ensure shelter solutions are evidence-based, contextually appropriate and aligned with Shelter Position Paper and humanitarian standards.

The role requires flexibility to deploy, work across contexts and promote safe, inclusive and