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
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.
