Terms of Reference
 
Division         : Programs.
Location        : Marib.
Reports to     : Project Manager.
 
Organization & Background:
YFCA is a leading, Humanitarian, non-Governmental, non-Profit, non-denominational and impartial Organization established in 1976 to improve woman and child health.  Dramatic changes in YFCA mandate were introduced gradually to accommodate the emerging needs of women, children, youth and vulnerable groups.  From that Health perspective, YFCA programs incorporate wider thematic interventions including WASH, Shelter, and Nutrition, Food Security, Agriculture and Livelihood, Education, Early Recovery and Protection. To pursue its unchanging humanitarian mission, YFCA will thoughtfully continue its expansion process to respond to the ever-changing needs of affected communities and vulnerable groups.
 
Job Purpose:
 
The Shelter Specialist will be providing support in the implementation of Shelter activities as guided by the Shelter strategies and context and will assist the Project Manager in overall planning implementation of the on-going projects and future ones. The Shelter Specialist role is the primary community entry and community engagement role. The Shelter Specialist has to ensure that approved shelter guidelines are followed and adopted, and that work is carried out in close cooperation with local authorities and local communities and through integration with other NGO sectorial intervention.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide the technical support, guidance, management and implementation of the Shelter/NFI’s activities.
• Effectively manage the Shelter/NFI’s interventions using appropriate tools to ensure projects are delivered on-time, on-budget and to the expected quality.
• Ensure proper documentation of the project documents, collect and archive photos received from the field.
• Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need, and explore and asses new and better ways to assist.
• Help plan and take part in need assessments, baseline studies and periodic studies and feedback findings to the stakeholders.
• Draft success stories of the beneficiaries receiving assistance.
• Prepare lessons learned from the project activities.
• Participate in the preliminary survey and the definition of the region as well as the final survey of the target areas.
• Participate in field assessments, and surveys including need assessments, baselines, end lines,
• Participate in the verification, and registration, of beneficiaries of Shelter assistance including the distribution of different Shelter/NFIs kits.
• Provide technical support, and orientation for the community committees,
• Coordinate and Work with the camp management to promote safe shelter techniques and provide support in shelter maintenance, repairs, upgrades, or replacement.
• Prepare all finalized beneficiaries distribution lists.
• Liaise with community committees, stakeholders, and other partners agencies working locally in order to coordinate within the shelter sector and between sectors such as WASH, RRM, CCCM.
• Prepare activity implementation monitoring and progress reports.
• Planning of all Shelter activities setting high quality performance targets and ensuring adherence to technical standards, best practices, donor guidelines and SHPERE standards.
• Ensure protection issues are fully considered throughout the projects’ cycle with women, elderly, disabled and most vulnerable being included in decision making for Shelter issues.
• Ensure strong gender and human rights analysis in all our humanitarian policy work.
• Conduct routine field support visits for the purposes of supporting program management.
• Cluster meeting participation and other related meetings.
• Performs other duties in accordance with instructions assigned by supervisors.

Qualifications, Experience & Competencies:

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Architecture, or another relevant field.
• At least 1 year of increasingly responsible professional experience in developmental and humanitarian response programming and cluster approach.
• Self-management/Emotional intelligence, Confidence and ability in speaking in public forums and events.
• Fluent written and spoken English and Arabic with the ability to translate complex material and data into clear and concise materials and reports.
• Knowledge of computer applications i.e., Microsoft word, Excel, communications systems.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Maintains confidentiality and uses a high degree of discretion.  
• Proven ability to work as part of a team under pressure.
• Proven ability to deliver against targets and meeting deadlines within a short time frame.
• Analytical and strategic thinking and results orientation/Commitment to excellence.
• Experience managing or advising teams to mainstream protection principles (Do No Harm, Accountability to Affected Populations, Participation & Empowerment, and Meaningful Access) and/or implementing protection programming (Child Protection, Gender-Based Violence, Psychosocial Support).
• Experience conducing Protection Risk Analyses (PRA), conflict analyses, and/or gender analyses.
• Demonstrated, strong writing and oral presentation skills in English and Arabic are required.

HOW TO APPLY:
Interested candidates are invited to submit their updated CVs to hr@yfca.ngo, by 18 Dec 2022 at the latest, mentioning the job title in the subject line. Emails without such indication will not be considered.
 
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.