Shelter & Settlement Manager

Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a leading protection agency with a mandate to protect, advocate and promote durable solutions for displacement affected populations.

DRC has been operating in Ukraine since 2014, currently DRC employs over 800 staff in Ukraine and implements emergency response in the Protection, Livelihoods, SWI and Humanitarian Disarmament and Peacebuilding (humanitarian mine action) sectors, using direct interventions, support to duty bearers and civil society organizations (CSOs), and partnerships with CSOs. DRC will continue and adapt its durable solutions portfolio to the evolving context.

DRC is currently looking for a Shelter & Settlement Manager in Dnipro.

About the job

Under the management of the Area Programme Manager, the Shelter & Settlement Manager will oversee the implementation of Shelter and Settlement emergency and recovery activities, including emergency repairs and rehabilitation of social and critical infrastructure and WASH activities in DRC's Southeast Area office. He/She will be responsible for managing, supervising, and providing technical guidance and support for the Shelter team. He/she will be responsible for the planning and follow-up of Shelter & Settlement activities, including coordinating with other departments in DRC. He/she will participate in coordination meetings and represent DRC in relevant forums. He/she will support field activities in Dnipropetrovska and Zaporizka oblasts. The Shelter & Settlement Manager is line managed by the Area Programme Manager in Dnipro, and he/she is technically supervised at country level by the DRC Shelter and Settlement Technical Lead.

Your main duties and responsibilities will be:

Programme management

• Project management and implementation for all shelter activities in the Southeast, in line with DRC's project cycle management standards.
• Coordinate, plan, and monitor all shelter related project activities including but not limited to emergency repairs, WASH, rehabilitation of social and critical infrastructure.
• Liaise and coordinate with relevant Clusters, DRC partner organizations implementing Shelter projects, and other actors in the intervention areas.
• Ensure the highest quality of the sectoral interventions, and the cohesion between projects, ongoing and proposed, according to the overall strategy.
• Take leadership in programming high quality and timely delivery of progress reporting, in synergy with other DRC interventions in the area.
• Formalize and develop project-related operational tools and training modules as required by the projects.
• Provide overall budget monitoring, financial management and expense control for program activities, including compliance with minimum DRC and donor requirements.

Accountability and reporting

• Provide inputs for monthly, quarterly, and annual donor reports.
• Ensure implementing partners' activities are monitored according to standards and review partners' reports for program and support.
• Oversee knowledge sharing across teams and implementing partners and ensure that monitoring and evaluation results are understood and used to improve project and program implementation.
• In line with DRC guidelines, monitor and recommend relevant accountability initiatives in projects and strengthen efforts to document the impact of activities.
• Ensure compliance with internal and external reporting requirements including procurement.

Program development and strategy

• Participate in the design and development of project proposals.
• Contribute to integrated project design and proposal development for both direct and partner led implementation, including budgeting, activity planning, partner engagement, and the definition of log frame targets, ensuring strategic coherence, operational feasibility, and alignment with sectoral and cross-cutting priorities.
• Use MEAL insights to recommend and develop evidence-based projects.
• Drive the development and growth of the relevant programs within the DRC program objectives and feed into country-wide strategy development.

People Management

• Provide line management and capacity building for sector teams by overseeing recruitment, induction, performance and well-being, managing staff allocations and workloads in line with project needs, and efficiency.
• Strengthen team's technical capacities to ensure efficient delivery and informed scaling decisions for both partner led and direct implementation.
• Provide regular constructive feedback to direct reports and support direct reports in performance management of their team members.
• Assess training and development needs within the Shelter team, develop and implement capacity-building plans.

Coordination and Representation

• Strengthen internal coordination and ways of working by promoting understanding of DRC's mandate and processes within the team. Ensure effective cross-sector, MEAL, and partnership collaboration throughout the project cycle. Support internal referral mechanisms and foster constructive communication to improve overall program quality and partner performance.
• Ensure positive working relations and coordination with relevant Shelter actors in intervention areas, and UN agencies.
• Cooperate with donors, Government counterparts, and other stakeholders.
• Represent DRC and actively participate in relevant sectoral and sub sectoral area coordination forums and working groups to represent DRC as a leading Shelter actor in the area of operation.

As Manager, the post-holder is responsible for the following:

• Accountable for achieving DRC's strategic goals and objectives within the area of responsibility.
• Accountable for making significant decisions on what the department does: its purpose, functions, and role, and for making commitments and decisions that require the expenditure of significant unit resources.
• Accountable for people management of direct reports. This includes objective setting, probation, performance appraisal, development of staff, managing performance, including poor performance.
• Accountable for making sound decisions based on DRC policies, SOPs, standards, and the advice of technical experts in DRC.
• Accountable for promoting safeguarding, Code of Conduct, and Safety operational compliance in own behavior and that of teams.

About you

To be successful in this role we expect you to have minimum 5 years of proven experience in humanitarian response in Shelter and/or emergency response programmes. Minimum 3 years of experience in team management and project management/implementation. Moreover, we also expect the following:

Required

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Civil Engineering, Architecture or related field.
• Proven experience in complex emergency and recovery contexts.
• Excellent reporting skills.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office (with focus on Excel and Word).
• Professional proficiency in English.

Desirable

• Experience in carrying out humanitarian interventions through and in coordination with implementing and local partner organizations is an asset.
• Excellent writing and editing skills for external audiences (including governments and donors).
• Experience in producing high-quality technical material (training material, program tools, proposals, strategic documents, etc.).
• Experience in working with Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning.

All DRC roles require the post-holder to master DRC's core competencies:

• Striving for excellence: You focus on reaching results while ensuring an efficient process.
• Collaborating: You involve relevant parties and encourage feedback.
• Taking the lead: You take ownership and initiative while aiming for innovation.
• Communicating: You listen and speak effectively and honestly.
• Demonstrating integrity: You uphold and promote the highest standards of ethical and professional conduct in relation to our values and Code of Conduct, including safeguarding against sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment.

We offer

• Contract length: 3-month-probation period with the possibility of extension upon good collaboration and available funding.
• Band: F - Manager.
• Designation of Duty Station: Dnipro.
• Start date: as soon as possible.

Salary and conditions will be in accordance with Danish Refugee Council's Terms of Employment for employees on national contracts; starting from EUR 3,276 EUR gross per month (depending on experience and qualifications).

Application process

All applicants must upload a cover letter and an updated CV (no longer than four pages) in English. A pplications sent by email will not be considered.

Closing date for applications: 20/09/2026.

We encourage candidates to apply as soon as possible, interviews might be conducted on a rolling basis. DRC reserves the right to select candidate before the vacancy сlose date once a suitable candidate has been identified.