Indonesia: National Shelter Sub-cluster Recovery Coordinator (National Staff)

Organizational Context

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the world's largest humanitarian network, reaching 150 million people each year through its 190-member National Societies. The Organization acts before, during and after disasters, crises and health emergences to meet the needs and improve the lives of vulnerable people.

Our work is guided by seven fundamental principles (humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity and universality), policies and by Strategy 2020, which voices our collective vision and determination to move forward in tackling the major challenges that confront humanity in the present decade.

IFRC is supporting supporting the Ministry of Social Affairs (MoSA, “Kemensos”) in the coordination of shelter operations in Palu and Lombok, in response to the earthquake of 2018. In this function IFRC has set up a team and shelter cluster coordination structure in Indonesia This job description is subject to be reviewed and updated in consultation with the candidate in order to adapt to the changing needs.

Job Purpose

Identifying and Building Partnerships

• Identify and build relationships with key technical advisers and programme staff within the Shelter Cluster partners, respecting their respective mandates and programme priorities
• Identify and build relationships with other key partners, including relevant national authorities, local government and local urban planning authorities, and national academic institutions (planning, statistics, engineering, architecture);
• Identify and build cooperative relationships with relevant Clusters, particularly Health, WASH, and Early Recovery
• Identify and build cooperative relationships with other coordination forums, nationally-mandated or otherwise, which fall outside the Cluster system
• Advise the Shelter Cluster Coordinator on, and participate where necessary, in non-national (regional or local) coordination forums, where those forums inform the Recovery process
• Act as a representative of the Shelter Cluster in meetings or discussions with members of the private sector, or others who have a stake in the Recovery process, but who may not attend Cluster meetings
• Advise the Shelter Cluster National Coordinator on Civil-Military Cooperation (CIMIC) relationships, where they pertain to Shelter and Recovery.

Team Management

• Manage, where applicable, the group of other Shelter Cluster team members who have responsibilities particularly related to Recovery, or whose positions are designated as being bridge positions, to carry over into the successor of the Shelter Cluster.
• Represent the bridge-role team in discussions with other clusters or external coordination forums
• Ensure that the expertise and voices of those bridge-team members are incorporated into any Cluster strategic or technical discussions with relation to Recovery.
• Ensure that in the case there are multiple team members working within the Shelter Cluster on Recovery-related activities that the roles and responsibilities detailed in this document are adequately divided between team members, to ensure that there are no gaps.

Assessment

• Work with other members of the Shelter Cluster team, and with members of other relevant Clusters, to develop where necessary, indicators and assessment methodologies which will inform the coordination of the Recovery process within Shelter and related sectors
• Ensure that indicators relevant to settlements, neighbourhoods and urban reconstruction are included in shelter assessment tools
• Provide oversight of compliance of Shelter Cluster partner programmes with agreed technical guidelines, and advise the Shelter Cluster Coordinator accordingly
• Work with Governmental authorities and other partners to ensure application of consistent damage assessment methodologies, for both buildings and for community infrastructure
• Work with partners in the Shelter Cluster and other relevant Clusters to maintain an overview of market prices, market supply chains (international, national, regional, and with particular focus upon complex urban markets), quantity, and quality of building materials and other shelter-related non-food items available in the country
• Assess local capacities and available materials for subsequent phases and ensuring this is reflected in initial fundraising mechanisms.

Technical Working Groups

• Assist in the establishment and proper working of ad-hoc Technical Working Group coordination mechanisms, including Sub-Working Groups, at the national level as requested by the Shelter Cluster Coordinator. Likely Technical Working Groups and Sub-Working Groups which relate specifically to Recovery, may include:

• Site Selection and Physical Planning

• Rubble Removal

• Urban Planning

• Legal Issues, and HLP

• Housing Safety

• Education, Awareness, and Outreach

• Environment

• Other potential Technical Working Groups and Sub-Working Groups which may call upon the Shelter Recovery Coordinators expertise may include:

• Transitional / Temporary Shelter construction guidelines

• Fire Safety Promotion

• Protection and Rights-Based-Approaches

• Community participation

• Gender

• Assist in ensuring an appropriate distribution of responsibilities within the Technical Working Groups with clearly defined focal points for specific issues as required

Development and Planning of a Shelter Recovery Strategy

• Develop a Shelter Recovery Strategy with the collaboration of key Recovery agencies including the government, the Shelter Cluster Technical coordinator, and other Clusters such as Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Health, and Early Recovery.
• Ensure that the national context of the emergency and any existing information on successful methods of previous Recovery assistance are integrated into the strategy.
• As soon as appropriate, initiate preparatory work for the Recovery phase and the handover of technical competencies to the Early Recovery Cluster and national authorities

Guidance and Technical Assistance

• Promote, together with the government and Shelter agencies, the use of consistent methodologies for damage assess­ment.
• Ensure that Shelter Cluster partner responses are in line with existing international, national and IASC policy guidelines, technical standards, and relevant government obligations in terms of urban zoning, building code compliance, and the environment
• Liaise between Shelter Cluster Technical Working Groups and external sources of expertise (including local universities and professional associations) to ensure that appropriate technologies and designs, for housing and for settlements, are incorporated into the Shelter Recovery Strategy, and that all Shelter actors are aware of these technologies and designs

Monitoring

• Ensure that Recovery-related benchmarks, indicators, and data (disaggregated by age and gender) including those for settlements, communities and urban neighbourhoods, are integrated into all monitoring mechanisms used by the Shelter Cluster
• Promote use of participatory mechanisms for monitoring of Shelter programmes and outcomes
• Assist in ensuring the tracking of performance and humanitarian outcomes using benchmarks, indicators, and data (disaggregated by age and gender) as agreed through Cluster mechanisms

Training and Capacity Building

• Ensure that Recovery-related topics are included in trainings provided by, or facilitated by the Shelter Cluster
• Act as a focal point to develop and implement multi-sectoral trainings on recovery responses, particularly in urban areas
• Promote and support training of humanitarian personnel and capacity building of humanitarian partners, particularly with regards to recovery-related topics;
• Support efforts to strengthen the capacity of the national authorities and civil society;
• Support the development and implementation of a common strategy within the Shelter Cluster for capacity building and training.

Handover

• Initiate preparatory work for the handover of the Shelter Cluster, as soon as it is appropriate.
• Develop with the SCT, the Shelter Cluster Strategic Advisory Group and other relevant actors a list of trip-wires which will indicate when to initiate handover, and a timeline for the handover process
• Identify all handover partners, particularly if the activities of the shelter cluster are to be handed over to a number of different partners (humanitarian actors, national government ministries or task-forces, municipal urban-planning authorities, etc)
• Advocate for handover from the Shelter Cluster at the first appropriate moment.

Other roles

• The Shelter Cluster Recovery Advisor will advise the Shelter Cluster National Coordinator on the approach to and resources required to provide the required recovery coordination services to humanitarian agencies. This will include providing recommendations on how the cluster could/should relate to the other recovery mechanisms including the assessment processes, the Government lead on reconstruction, and the capacities/skillsets required in the SCT to support this (such as an urban planner, HLP advisor etc.).
• The Shelter Cluster Recovery Advisor will coach other staff as needed and train a staff to be identified to support the shelter cluster outside of disasters for preparedness and contingency planning to take on leadership of the shelter cluster for disasters in Indonesia.
• Contribute to the development of an exit strategy for shelter coordination and provision of adequate handover to relevant agencies.
• Prepare a short summary report at the conclusion of the assignment on lessons learned and recommendations for future deployments.
• Any other tasks that may be required to achieve the objective of this assignment.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree (Any discipline) / Master's Degree (Preferred)
• Minimum 10 years of experience in the Indonesian humanitarian sector, preferably with experience in Cluster Coordination
• Experience in conducting high level meetings
• Experience in high level real-time and written translation and interpretation in the disaster management sector
• Experience in the shelter sector in Indonesia and in the region
• Work or volunteering experience with the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (Preferred)
• Demonstrated administration and organisational skills
• Strong written and verbal literacy skills both in Bahasa Indonesia and English
• Advanced proficiency in Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Good working knowledge of IFRC and PMI (Preferred)
• Good working knowledge of Disaster Management in Indonesia and globally
• Proficient spoken and written English
• Strong interpersonal skills, demonstrated ability to work within or lead a small team, ability to communicate with different audiences
• Proven ability to communicate effectively with a broad range of stakeholders, including field workers and volunteers, senior UN and IFRC staff, government workers at all levels and NGO workers
• Flexibility with working hours and locations, excellent personal resilience and stamina, ability to adapt to unusual working hours and work locations if needed
• Sensitivity to cultural and religious diversity
• Commitment to the Fundamental Principles and values of the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement
• Understanding the local social-political environments in Indonesia

Please submit your application letter addressing the above qualifications and experience with your curriculum vitae to: Indonesia.hrd@ifrc.org

Please indicate on the subject heading: National Shelter Sub-cluster Recovery Coordinator