Background

Founded in 2004, Shelter Centre is a Swiss humanitarian NGO dedicated to supporting organisations involved in providing shelter to populations affected by conflict and natural disasters. Shelter Centre emphasises collaboration, consensus, and capacity-building but does not directly implement operations. Shelter Centre runs the Humanitarian Library which is a knowledge management platform bringing together multi-sectoral strategic guidelines and technical training for field use, always involving broad consensus within the humanitarian community. The goal of the Humanitarian Library is to disseminate critical humanitarian knowledge to professionals of the humanitarian sector for free.

Internships Description and Requirements

Role and Objectives

These internships are designed to involve participants with an architecture and/or construction engineering background in a collaboration project bridging our Humanitarian Library to the Global Shelter Cluster Technical Working Group (GSC TWG) on construction in humanitarian settings. Our Humanitarian Library is currently supporting the GSC TWG informally in curating various resources. Therefore, we’re looking for interns possessing these technical skills to review our resources and ensure their (technical) compliance to the requirements of the GSC TWG. Other projects might also later require the involvement of interns with these technical skills.

Main Responsibilities and Tasks

The interns will contribute to the collaboration project of the Humanitarian Library and Global Shelter Cluster mentioned previously. This will involve activities including, but not limited to:

Research and review relevant literature and technical guidelines for the Humanitarian Library works on, and bringing the technical support needed.
Draft and revise content based on feedback from colleagues and partners.
Participate in internal Humanitarian Library and GSC TWG meetings.
Internship Opportunities

Shelter Centre invites young professionals with diverse skills to remotely contribute to humanitarian activities within a dynamic and global team. Both full-time (35 hours a week) and part-time (20 hours a week) internship positions are available. The internship opportunities offered are unpaid.

Volunteers are expected to contribute to one (or more) of our ongoing projects and missions in parallel. These include but are not limited to:

Coordinating the Human Resources team
Updating and improving the Humanitarian Library website (www.humanitarianlibrary.org) by adding new collections of resources and reviewing website functionalities.
Support the Weekly Coordination meetings, especially in organising the Weekly Meeting between all Shelter Centre volunteers
Education, Interests, Skills, and Experience

Required

Excellent communication skills in English (minimum Level C1 Proficiency), both verbal and written are essential. Fluency in other languages is highly desirable.
Commitment to humanitarian action.
University degree (or equivalent) in engineering (civil, structural) or architecture.
Experience in architecture and/or construction engineering
Excellent research and writing skills.
Strong organisational skills and demonstrated experience in project management.
Ability to multitask, prioritise and work accurately within set deadlines.
General computer literacy, including Microsoft Office.
Desired

Interest or experience in humanitarian construction.
Experience working with varied cultures around the world and in remote settings.
In-kind time contributions will be considered from engineering firms, universities and research bodies.

Please send your CV and a cover letter in English by email