Technical Advisor I-Shelter & Settlements RAPID

**Position duration: Tentative September 2026 – December 31, 2027** **Note: this is a remote position, and relocation is not being offered.** **Project Overview:** Catholic Relief Services is implementing a global emergency response initiative designed to deliver timely, life ‑ saving humanitarian assistance in rapidly evolving crises worldwide. This program will enable fast, flexible action to address urgent needs arising from sudden shocks and protracted emergencies. It supports critical humanitarian sectors through context ‑ appropriate assistance while emphasizing operational readiness, rapid response activation, locally led implementation, accountability to affected communities, and safe, dignified programming. The initiative strengthens the organization’s ability to respond at speed and scale in complex and resource ‑ constrained environments, ensuring help reaches people most in need when it matters most. **Job Summary** You will provide technical advice and support to a range of program design and implementation issues in the area of Shelter and Settlements in line with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) program quality principles and standards, donor guidelines, and industry best practices to Country Program (CP) teams to advance the delivery of high\-quality programming to the poor and vulnerable . Your advice, knowledge, and support will contribute to determining how effective, adaptive and innovative CRS’ Shelter and Settlements programming is across the globe. **Roles and Key Responsibilities** * Support the development and contribute to the implementation of agency\-wide strategies, standards, tools and best practices in Shelter and Settlements that effectively engage partners, donors, and governments. Help ensure a cross\-sectoral approach integrating gender, protection mainstreaming, and disaster risk reduction. * Provide technical solutions to CP teams, remotely and on\-site, for strategic planning and how to best apply standards, best practices, partnership principles, tools and M\&E, helping to ensure high\-quality implementation. * Contribute to the development of the technical design for proposals. Support the process of preparation, design, submission and approval of project concepts and full\-fledged proposals. As needed, act as a technical writer on proposal development teams. Advise project teams on integrating donor strategies, priorities and technical requirements into CRS’ approach. * Support capacity strengthening initiatives in Shelter and Settlements programming for staff and partners through helping develop learning and training strategies and agendas/curriculums, conducting trainings and workshops, and coaching. * Collect and analyze program data, capture and share lessons learned and best practices for specific projects to facilitate improvements in decision\-making and contribute to the Shelter and Settlements learning agenda. Contribute to maintaining relationships with donors, peer organizations, re