Shelter & Settlements Advisor - Venezuela Earthquakes Home

Summary

CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort) is a crisis response organization that saves lives and strengthens communities impacted by or vulnerable to crisis.

The Shelter & Settlements Advisor provides technical leadership for CORE's shelter and settlements work in the June 2026 Venezuela earthquake response. The Advisor shapes and quality-assures the shelter approach — grounded in CORE's camp-decompression strategy and the official housing-habitability classification (Presidential Commission Green / Yellow / Red) — spanning engineer-led safety assessments, home repairs, partial and full demolition and site clearance, emergency shelter, host-family hosting, and cash-based / cash-for-rent housing support.

The role integrates build-back-safer and seismic considerations, protection, gender/GESI, and humanitarian minimum standards (Sphere), and contributes to response strategy, concept notes, and donor proposals (including IOM) — while building the capacity of CORE staff and local partners.

Based in Caracas, this is a full-time, fixed-term position for an initial three-month contract, with the possibility of extension based on response needs and funding. The position will require rapid mobilization and deployment to Caracas on short notice; candidates must be prepared to relocate for the duration of the contract.

Main Responsibilities

These tasks are illustrative, not exhaustive — the specific mix depends on how the response evolves.

Assessment

• Lead and advise engineer-led structural safety and habitability assessments, applying the official Green/Yellow/Red classification (Presidential Commission) to determine which homes are safe, repairable, or unrepairable.

• Determine shelter priorities, immediate activities, and required resources; identify hazards (e.g., asbestos) and mitigation measures.

Design & Strategy

• Shape and adapt CORE's shelter approach for the Venezuela context — repairs, partial and full demolition with site clearance, emergency shelter on cleared plots, host-family hosting, and cash-for-rent / CVA — aligned to the camp-decompression goal.

• Set technical standards (build-back-safer, seismic, Sphere) and integrate protection, gender/GESI, DRR, and environmental considerations.

• Contribute to response strategy and develop concept notes, ToRs, bills of quantities, budgets, and proposals to CORE and donor (including IOM) standards.

Implementation & Quality Assurance

• Provide technical oversight and quality assurance of repairs, demolition, and emergency shelter works; define scopes of work and verify standards.

• Ensure logistics, materials, and MEAL (including post-distribution monitoring) are in place; uphold land/tenure and legal requirements.

• Coordinate debris/rubble removal and site clearance to enable repair and rebuilding — mechanisms, heavy-equipment coordination, worker safety, hazardous-material (asbestos) awareness, and disposal.

Capacity Building

• Mentor, coach, and train CORE staff and local partners on shelter assessment, repair, build-back-safer techniques, and safe demolition.

Scope & Travel

Reports to: Deputy Response Lead (technical line to the Director of Global Humanitarian Response).

• Key internal

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