Specialist, Housing Disaster Resilience and Recovery

Habitat for Humanity International is looking for an experienced individual to take on the role of Specialist in Housing Disaster Resilience and Recovery (HDRR). This position will report to the Associate Director, Program Operations at the Asia Pacific (AP) Regional office. The role will be responsible to support the capacity building and integrate disaster risk reduction, disaster response, preparedness, mitigation, and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) measures, as appropriate to the context of Branch and National Organizations (NOs) of Habitat for Humanity (HFH) in AP region.

The work arrangement for this position is hybrid, and flex-time schedule.

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**:
**I. Housing Disaster Resilience and Recovery**

**Support Habitat National / Branch Offices in responding to humanitarian or emergency situations**
- Create Climate Resilience framework and guidance for the Asia Pacific (AP) region aligning with Habitat’s global strategy in Housing Disaster Resilience and Recovery (HDRR).
- Facilitates the communications, conduct assessments, supports conceptualization and design of disaster response interventions in collaboration with Headquarters (HQ), other Area Offices (AOs), National Organizations (NOs), Branch Offices and Partners on disaster response program developments and monitoring.
- Support the NOs and branch offices in ensuring climate action is integrated into their HDRR initiatives, by providing direction, leadership and backstop support for the development, oversight, and management of disaster response interventions.
- Establish, and strengthen Habitat’s systems on Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation (CCAM) through the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of disaster response programs and climate resilience.
- Assist NOs and Branch offices in designing homes with climate smart housing features in their regular and recovery housing projects.
- Represent Habitat in National, Regional, and national Conferences and Platforms to share learnings and achievements of Habitat’s interventions in climate resilience.

**II. Interventions in Disaster Response, Recovery and Construction**
**Support the capacity building of Habitat for Humanity (HFH) affiliated entities to implement disaster response programs**
- Ensure effective, practical, field operations plan which will facilitate country specific disaster responses are integrated and addressed according to country’s strategic, HDRR plans and management plans.
- Design, promote, facilitate, and participate in disaster rapid response training activities to increase the capacity of staff from NOs, Branch Offices, Partners, volunteers, and Habitat active communities
- Provide technical advice on resilience-building in disaster prone contexts.
- Design and improve the guidelines on the use of cash voucher assistance (CVA) in program interventions and provide capacity strengthening initiatives.
- Be readily available for deployments in the event of an emergency to respond to disasters at a branch or national office in the region within 24 hours.

**Engage and connect HFHI to peer agencies and networks (internal and external), authorities and the HDRR donor communities**
- Engage in partnership cultivation and development for activation in response to disasters within Asia Pacific (AP).
- Facilitate the development of disaster resilience and response (DRR) and mitigation intervention in collaboration with program team in line with AP and country strategic business plan ensuring that it is within external standards in community resilience programming, with emphasis on international standards, such as SPHERE, IASC, Core Humanitarian Standards, ALNAP etc.
- Ensure that DRR and mitigation intervention are integrated and addressed in country’s HDRR and strategic plans.
- Support collaborative resource development for disaster response initiatives within AP particularly those related to the AP HDRR Reserve Fund
- Engage and support in the development of industry-wide position papers, best practice documents and standards on behalf of HFHI-AP and HFHI in relation to disaster response and HDRR
- Ensure to contribute to the AP HDRR Portal appropriately and timely

**Advance the development of HFHI AP HDRR Community of Practice**
- Manage the Rapid Response Roster (member recruitment, database maintenance, members’ capacity building monitoring) and collaborate with AP HR.
- Supports the development of systems, standard operation procedures (SOPs), terms of reference (TOR) and guidelines to enhance HFH’s readiness to respond to disasters and contribute in the HFHI Global HDRR Community of Practice.
- Participate in creating opportunities for on-going interactions between HDRR Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) throughout AP region.

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