Specialist, Housing Disaster Resilience and Recovery (HDRR)
This position will be based in any of the particular countries of Metro Manila, Philippines; Jakarta, Indonesia; Kathmandu, Nepal; and Chennai, India. Candidates must be currently eligible to work in the country without sponsorship. The successful candidate will be offered an initial contract of 2 years that is subject to renewal depending on the availability of the funds, and a local country-based compensation package.
The work arrangement for this position is hybrid, and flex-time schedule.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
I. Housing Disaster Resilience and Recovery
Support Habitat National / Branch Offices in responding to humanitarian or emergency situations
- Create Climate Resilience framework and guidance for the Asia Pacific (AP) region aligning with Habitat’s global strategy in Housing Disaster Resilience and Recovery (HDRR).
- Facilitates the communications, conduct assessments, supports conceptualization and design of disaster response interventions in collaboration with Headquarters (HQ), other Area Offices (AOs), National Organizations (NOs), Branch Offices and Partners on disaster response program developments and monitoring.
- Support the NOs and branch offices in ensuring climate action is integrated into their HDRR initiatives, by providing direction, leadership and backstop support for the development, oversight, and management of disaster response interventions.
- Establish, and strengthen Habitat’s systems on Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation (CCAM) through the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of disaster response programs and climate resilience.
- Assist NOs and Branch offices in designing homes with climate smart housing features in their regular and recovery housing projects.
- Represent Habitat in National, Regional, and national Conferences and Platforms to share learnings and achievements of Habitat’s interventions in climate resilience.
II. Interventions in Disaster Response, Recovery and Construction
Support the capacity building of Habitat for Humanity (HFH) affiliated entities to implement disaster response programs
- Ensure effective, practical, field operations plan which will facilitate country specific disaster responses are integrated and addressed according to country’s strategic, HDRR plans and management plans.
- Design, promote, facilitate, and participate in disaster rapid response training activities to increase the capacity of staff from NOs, Branch Offices, Partners, volunteers, and Habitat active communities
- Provide technical advice on resilience-building in disaster prone contexts.
- Design and improve the guidelines on the use of cash voucher assistance (CVA) in program interventions and provide capacity strengthening initiatives.
- Be readily available for deployments in the event of an emergency to respond to disasters at a branch or national office in the region within 24 hours.
Engage and connect HFHI to peer agencies and networks (internal and external), authorities and the HDRR donor communities
- Engage in partnership cultivation and development for activation in response to disasters within Asia Pacific (AP).
- Facilitate the development of disaster resilience and response (DRR) and mitigation intervention in collaboration with program team in line with AP and country strategic business plan ensuring that it is within external standards in community resilience programming, with emphasis on international standards, such as SPHERE, IASC, Core Humanitarian Standards, ALNAP etc.
- Ensure that DRR and mitigation intervention are integrated and addressed in country’s HDRR and strategic plans.
- Support collaborative resource development for disaster response initiatives within AP particularly those related to the AP HDRR Reserve Fund
- Engage and support in the development of industry-wide position papers, best practice documents and standards on behalf of HFHI-AP and HFHI in relation to disaster response and HDRR
- Ensure to contribute to the AP HDRR Portal appropriately and timely
Advance the development of HFHI AP HDRR Community of Practice
- Manage the Rapid Response Roster (member recruitment, database maintenance, members’ capacity building monitoring) and collaborate with AP HR.
- Supports the development of systems, standard operation procedures (SOPs), terms of reference (TOR) and guidelines to enhance HFH’s readiness to respond to disasters and contribute in the HFHI Global HDRR Community of Practice.
- Participate in creating opportunities for on-going interactions between HDRR Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) throughout AP region.
To be an HFH employee, you have a responsibility to learn significant awareness on safeguarding in order to recognize and be alert for the signs of potential safeguarding misconduct, and to make a timely report about any incident related to it.
Minimum Requirements:
- Education:
- Bachelor’s or equivalent degree or in development related studies - Years of Related Experience:
- Minimum of 5 years of direct experience in managing Humanitarian emergency response, preparedness and HDRR initiatives in the AP region
- Must have been deployed in at least 2 emergencies and or must have had experience working in hardship areas in shelter/housing interventions
- Direct work experience in community development projects
Qualifications:
- Effective communication and coordination skills
- Demonstrated experience in providing training and development of training materials
- Excellent interpersonal skills, cross-cultural communication skills and ability to work with other cultures and nationalities
- Ability to work independently; and interdependently within a team, and with other HFH entities or partners
- Fluent in written and spoken English
- Ready and willing to be deployed in humanitarian response as advised by the Line Manager
Preferred:
- Graduate studies in the relevant field or equivalent experience
- Experience in designing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating an interdisciplinary emergency response
- Experience in knowledge management
- Experience in developing HDRR framework that is appropriate to the context of Asia Pacific region
- Experience in writing project proposals, design, and management, including budgets – aligned with the requirements of the donors
- Experience working in a non-profit organization is preferred
- Knowledge on CVA preferred
- International experience in managing emergency response / preparedness initiatives.
About Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity, founded in 1976, is a global, Christian-based nonprofit organization that grew out of an intentionally multi-racial community in rural Georgia. Seeking to put God’s love into action, Habitat brings together people of all faiths and people of no faith to build homes, communities and hope. Working alongside each other, we help families and individuals build and improve places to call home and achieve the strength, stability and self-reliance they need to build better lives for themselves. Habitat seeks individuals who have a willingness to affirm these principles and values.
At Habitat for Humanity International, we embrace a history rooted in creating equity and take our mission seriously by courageously committing to a culture and workplace where all staff feel safe, welcome, visible, respected, supported and valued. As an equal opportunity employer, we realize that our success depends upon building an inclusive workforce of diverse perspectives and encourage people of varied races (which is inclusive of traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, protective hairstyles and hair texture), ethnicities, national origins, tribes, religions, ages, gender identities and expressions, genders, sexual orientations, marital statuses, disabilities, veteran/reserve national guard statuses, socio-economic statuses, thinking and communication styles to work with us.
We also require that all staff take seriously their ethical responsibilities to safeguarding our intended beneficiaries, their communities (especially children), and all those with whom we work. In line with the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse, all staff must pass a thorough background screening and will be held accountable to upholding our policies around ethical behavior, including safeguarding and whistleblowing.