Technical Advisor Sr, Shelter & Settlements Team Lead

Catholic Relief Services | CRS

12h•Remote

About The Position

The Technical Advisor Sr, Shelter and Settlement (S&S) Team Lead provides strategic leadership and technical guidance for CRS’ Global Shelter & Settlements portfolio. This role ensures high-quality, scalable programming that advances CRS’ humanitarian and development objectives, strengthens local systems, and positions CRS as a sector leader while ensuring alignment with organization’s quality principles and standards, donor guidelines, and industry best-practices. The S&S Team Lead works closely with other CRS technical teams and external partners, including governments, local organizations, and global networks, to deliver holistic, people-centered solutions across the S&S Program.

Requirements

Required Languages: English; Any language from regional areas of focus (French, Spanish) is desired.
Travel: Position is remote telecommute with expected 50% field travel.
Supervisory Responsibilities: Yes

Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership
Lead design and implementation of agency-wide strategies, standards, tools, and best practices in S&S Programming that effectively engage partners, donors, and governments. This includes emergency shelter, transitional housing, and pathways to adequate housing, linking interventions to durable solutions for displaced populations and resilience to climate change.
Lead development and advancement of agency-wide standards, policies, innovative approaches, tools, measurement and evaluation as well as the application of partnership principles. Ensure a cross-sectoral approach that integrates gender, protection of mainstreaming, and disaster risk reduction.
Lead the Homes and Communities (H&C) initiative to integrate high standards of quality, innovation, and strategic scaling into S&S Program, driving systems-level change and influencing global housing agendas.
Lead and develop strategic approach for the S&S Program including infrastructure design, construction, and implementation. Ensure turned-over shelter, settlements, and infrastructure are delivered rapidly with contextually appropriate shelter solutions, adequate housing with integrated essential services, and climate resilient to withstand extreme unique conditions.
Business Development
Contribute to global, regional, and country program staff efforts in pre-positioning and capture planning for CRS’ strategic growth opportunities in S&S. Lead the design of large-scale proposals and project design with focus on complex projects to ensure innovative programming solutions and technical excellence, rigor and donor compliance. Support CPs to appropriately staff project teams.
Technical Excellence
Guide the team through technical oversight for emergency shelter, settlement planning, and housing programs, integrating DRR and climate resilience.
Promote innovative approaches, including cash-based modalities, market systems, and area-based programming and ensure proper implementation of identified actions.
Representation & Influence
Represent CRS in global forums (e.g., Global Shelter Cluster SAG, technical working groups) to shape policy and practice and influence technical partner approaches, future funding opportunities, and policies.
Build strategic partnerships with donors, peer agencies, and research institutions influencing technical partner approaches, future funding opportunities, and policies. Network with relevant organizations to increase CRS’ profile and influence in the global S&S community, and donor diversification.
Capacity Strengthening
Lead the agency knowledge management and learning agenda in S&S through setting conditions for collective learning that ensure the capturing, documenting, and sharing of key successes, promising practices, lessons learned, and evidence-based implementation research, internally and externally, including publications in peer reviewed journals. Support surge deployments and TDYs for emergency response and recovery.
Lead capacity strengthening initiatives in S&S programming for staff and partners through ensuring development of learning agendas/curriculums, organizing and/or facilitating trainings, workshops and conferences,
Team Coordination and Supervision
Effectively manage team members, including team dynamics and team member well-being. Provide performance coaching and assessment, strategically tailored to individual development plans.
Provide mentoring and coaching to Technical Advisors (TAs), as well as coaching CP and regional staff in innovative CRS approaches and tools.