Job Description
Description Technical excellence · Provide technical backstopping to relevant CORE shelter, housing, and rebuild programs domestically and internationally. · Develop, roll out, and maintain shelter and housing technical guidelines, tools, and SOPs. · Build out and maintain full spectrum of shelter and housing options for rapid response. · Build the capacity of staff and partners in shelter and housing, through training, mentoring, and guidance materials. · Represent CORE externally in working groups and technical forums, increasing CORE’s visibility in the shelter and climate space. · Capture lessons learned and promote best practices across programs and markets, supporting continuous improvement to the quality and impact of CORE’s shelter and housing work · Contribute to relevant evaluations, needs assessments, learning reviews, and innovation initiatives · Advance CORE’s technical reputation as a leading voice in shelter and climate by advancing the production of technical documents, manuals, articles. · Be up to date with domestic and international minimum standards, best practices, and innovations in shelter and climate. New business development · In close coordination with the partnership and development teams, develop and implement a growth strategy for the shelter and housing technical areas. · Support new business development efforts, including program design and technical writing · Cultivate relationships with institutional donors, peer organizations, corporate and private sector partnerships. Other · Deploy to support emergency responses as needed · Other tasks as assigned Requirements · Bachelor’s Degree in International Development, Engineering, Construction Management or related field · Significant experience in humanitarian response or disaster recovery. · Demonstrated experience engaging institutional donors and strategic partners. · Experience working with U.S. Federal, State and County governments. · 5-10 years of experience working on shelter and/or climate work internationally and/or domestically · Experience working with institutional donors such USDoS, ARC, and CDP · Experience in US domestic construction standards, including Fortified Construction Method is highly desired · Familiarity with financial products and construction loans highly desirable · Ability to travel to respond to emergencies at a moment’s notice Ability to represent CORE externally to a wide variety of donors and partners.