Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

What we are looking for: We are seeking an experienced Global Shelter & Settlements (S&S) Adviser to support NRC's programmes across the MENA region . In this role, you will provide strategic and technical leadership to Country Offices and Regional Offices, ensuring that high-quality Shelter & Settlements strategies, systems, policies, tools, and practices are effectively developed and implemented. You will work closely with S&S Specialists, Programme Development Managers, and Heads of Programme to strengthen programme quality, drive technical excellence, and support the delivery of impactful humanitarian responses. As the Global S&S Adviser, you will play a key role in programme development by contributing to regional and country-level proposal design, identifying funding opportunities, and ensuring compliance with donor requirements. You will provide technical oversight, advisory support, and capacity strengthening to Country Office teams within your area of expertise. In addition, you may serve as the focal point for a specific region and/or technical area within the global S&S team, providing guidance and support to fellow advisers while contributing to broader global initiatives and organisational learning. The Global S&S team operates within NRC's technical matrix structure, collaborating closely with technical and operational colleagues across Country Offices, Regional Offices, and the Global Programme function. As part of a team of global advisers, you will maintain a technical relationship with country-based S&S specialists and regional programme teams, helping to shape global policy, strategy, and technical direction. Success in this role requires a collaborative approach, strong stakeholder engagement, and a commitment to fostering innovation and shared learning across NRC. What you will do: Policy, Strategy and programme development • Responsible for ensuring compliance and adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures in relation to the S&S area while contributing to the development of policies, strategies, tools and new approaches with a focus on innovation and piloting. • Responsible for supporting the development of country/regional core competence strategies and implementation plans in line with global policies and global and regional strategies. • Work within the Global Programme Section to contribute to specific areas of innovation and development, including piloting and learning from experiences at the country office and regional level. • Contribute to the resource mobilization and fundraising for country, multi-country and regional programme development related to S&S. Technical development, support, and capacity building • Technical supervision of Country and Regional Office Specialists and Programme Development Managers, including providing strategic advice, technical support, capacity building, staff training, and contributing to recruitment. • Ensure that S&S based programming approaches contribute to integrated response and analysis. • Contribute to the NRC global development of the S&S, through collaborative working with and contribution to the NRC Global S&S development, and by sharing learning and expertise with the Global level and Regional and Country Offices. • Facilitate and stimulate an environment conducive to innovation. Keep informed on innovation insights and analysis of relevance to S&S. Ensure this knowledge is integrated into the systems and culture of the organisation at country and regional levels. Quality standards, data analysis and MEL • Provide strategic advice, technical support, and capacity building to Country and Regional Offices to ensure quality programming of core competencies, including Safe and Inclusive Programming. • Lead the institutionalization, roll-out, and capacity building of sector-specific MEL tools at Country Offices, ensuring effective planning, implementation, and data utilization. • Support and monitor compliance with the Response Policy and ensure quality oversight of core competency-related MEL, including data quality checks, Theory of Change reviews, and sign-off on evaluations and research. • Promote and document learning activities, contributing to strategic evaluations and research, and disseminating sector-specific learning and good practices at all levels, including direct support to Country Offices. Networking, representation and relationships • Responsible for identification, development and maintenance of relationships with relevant stakeholders (e.g., donors, Clusters/Working Groups, UN agencies, NGOs, research- and educational institutions, private sector) related to programmes in general and more specifically as related to NRC s Core Competencies. • Work in partnership with the regional and country office advocacy leads to identify and develop regional advocacy issues related to the core competence. Please download the detailed job description to learn more about this position.

Desired Candidate Profile

What you will bring: • Minimum 6 years of relevant professional experience in a similar position within the humanitarian field or similar. • In-depth knowledge of and experience with NRC s specialised areas of expertise • Proven experience in programme quality and strategic approaches to programme development. • Experience of developing practical tools and resources. • Experience of programme quality assessments, programme development and delivery. • Experience of delivering learning and development as part of quality improvement and capacity building. • Experience from different countries from across more than one NRC region. • Extensive experience in programming in complex and volatile contexts. • Willingness to travel to high-risk COs (including area offices and field offices). • Willingness to keep HEAT training valid. • Fluency in English, both written and verbal. Knowledge of French, Spanish or Arabic is considered an advantage. • Understanding of and commitment to organisational learning, and the role and contribution of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning to quality management and development. • Understanding of, and commitment to working collaboratively with technical and operational colleagues within a matrix structure, including capacity building. • Understanding and experience of the specific demands of S&S within (named Region, Country) contexts. • Understanding of and commitment to integrated response approaches.