Assistant Project Officer (Technical-Shelter) -Humanitarian Crisis Response

Job Description

Title: Assistant Project Officer (Technical-Shelter) -Humanitarian Crisis Response

Company Name: Islamic Relief Bangladesh

Vacancy: 1

Age: Na

Job Location: Cox`s Bazar (Ukhia)

Salary: Tk. 51659 - 51659 (Monthly)

Experience: --

Published: 2026-04-07

Application Deadline: 2026-04-11

Education:

Requirements: --

Skills Required:

Additional Requirements:

Responsibilities & Context:

Ensure quality construction and installation of Shelter facilities through effective planning, technical design, and supervision - 30%

• Develop work plans, hardware monitoring checklists, and supervision schedules for shelter construction/repair works.

• Prepare technical drawings, BoQs, cost estimates, and specifications for shelter (MTS, TSA), guide wall, slope stabilisation, bamboo bridge constructions.

• Use AutoCAD and other software tools to produce accurate design layouts and technical documents.

• Supervise construction and installation works at the field level, ensuring compliance with approved designs, sector standards, and safety protocols.

• Conduct regular monitoring and quality control of construction progress, providing technical guidance to field teams.

• Perform regular supervision of construction work and provide guidance to the vendors and field team.

• Review designs and practices of DRR work to ensure alignment with sector standards.

• Document construction progress and challenges and submit timely reports to the Project Coordinator.

Ensure quality and accountable Shelter services through effective monitoring and compliance with standards - 20%

• Monitor all stages of construction, installation, and operational shelter activities.

• Verify adherence to approved BOQs, designs, and technical specifications during implementation.

• Ensure compliance with shelter Sector guidelines, Sphere Standards.

• Identify gaps or risks in design/implementation and recommend corrective actions.

• Monitor the overall Shelter services quality in camps, including DRR activities.

Ensure appropriate beneficiary and site selection for Shelter interventions in line with IR principles and guidelines - 20%

• Assist in conducting FGDs with stakeholders and community members in Ukhiya Camp.

• Participate in demographic and Shelter assessments, including facilities, households, and surveys.

• Organize community meetings to identify sustainable, durable, and locally acceptable shelter infrastructure.

• Support site selection for shelter & site development activity implementation.

• Track and ensure daily attendance of casual laborers and volunteers engaged in shelter activities.

• Manage volunteers efficiently, ensuring fair workload distribution.

• Identify and prioritize the most affected and vulnerable rightsholders.

• Prepare environmental and social screening checklists for hardware installation.

• Develop effective work plans for volunteers and beneficiaries to manage construction activities.

• Assist in collecting eligible lists for NFI kit distribution.

• Support meetings with CBCs, Majhi, caretakers, and user groups.

• Facilitate formation of community-led volunteer groups, hygiene promotion groups, and Community Development Groups (CDGs).

• Conduct cross-check visits for door-to-door surveys to finalize beneficiaries.

• Supervise beneficiary identification according to IR methodology and selection criteria.

• Assist in finalizing beneficiaries with endorsement and validation from relevant authorities.

• Prepare and maintain beneficiary lists, muster rolls, and distribution/hand-over documentation.

Ensure effective stakeholder coordination to support timely and collaborative shelter project implementation - 15%

• Assist in organizing inception meetings at different levels.

• To Participate in various coordination meeting as shelter sector meetings, CiC coordination meetings

• Organize various working relationship-building orientations, and training.

• Linkages with government officials, CiCs, CMOs, UN agencies and NGOs.

• Formulation of the project implementation committee.

• Ensure the NOC after the selection of the scheme with relevant stakeholders.

• Involve project implementation teams in the implementation of the project

• Communication and collaboration with SMSD, CMO, focal agencies

• Coordination & networking with key stakeholders.

• Participate in various personal development training, orientation, and workshop.

Ensure transparent and accountable Shelter project implementation through timely reporting and documentation - 10%

• Provide monthly activity reports to SMSD, CMO, sector and other agencies.

• Collect completion reports according to requirements.

• Provide the necessary document to shelter focal points, agencies etc.

• Prepare and submit a plan of the weekly activities to the line manager:

• Report any problems and constraints encountered during the course of the activities and suggest operational solutions.

• Support for the Procurement of materials like requisition, quotation collection etc.

Others - 5%

• Willing and able to travel frequently for extended periods and to remote areas of the projects and able to travel frequently for extended periods and to remote areas of the projects.

• Perform any other duties assigned by the supervisor as per program needs and organizational rules. `

• Participate in sessional programs like winterization, Ramadhan, Qurbani etc. Ensure visibility of the project.

• Ensure the complaint response and feedback mechanism in field level.

• Perform any other duties assigned by Supervisor.

• Mobile bill,

• Tour allowance/Per-diem,

• Provident fund

• Weekly 2 holidays10 %

• High cost Allowance

• Insurance coverage (IPD, OPD, Life, DB, CIB),

• Festival Bonus

• Long Service Awards

• Leave (Annual, Casual, Sick, TOIL/CTO, Maternity, Paternity)Gratuity, etc.

• Other benefits will be provided as per the organizational HR Policy