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Catholic Relief Services

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Charity • Non-profit • Social Impact

Catholic Relief Services is a global humanitarian organization that eases the suffering of and provides development assistance to people in need in over 100 countries. As the official international relief organization of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, CRS focuses on emergency response, health, agriculture, education, and justice and peacebuilding. Their work is guided by Catholic values and the organization aims to serve the poor and vulnerable, regardless of race, religion, or nationality.

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1943

🤲 Charity

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

📋 Description

• Provide management, guidance, and technical oversight of all new and existing projects throughout the project cycle to ensure project design, start-up, implementation and close-out are in line with CRS quality principles and standards, donor guidelines, and industry best practices. • Provide technical solutions to EMPOWER partners in South America, remotely and on-site, for strategic planning and how to best apply program design and implementation standards, best practices, partnership principles, tools, and M&E, ensuring high-quality implementation. • Contribute to the proactive pursuit of opportunities for new funding to ensure growth of EMPOWER’s and partners’ portfolio in line with agency, regional, and partners’ strategic priorities. Serve as the technical lead and technical writer to ensure quality proposals in Program Area(s) per agency and donor standards. • Contribute to the identification and pursuit of innovative finance mechanisms to expand funding opportunities and support sustainable emergency response programs in South America. • Contribute to capacity strengthening initiatives in Emergency Preparedness and Response programming for partner staff as requested and prioritized by the partners through helping develop learning and training strategies and agendas/curriculums, conducting trainings and workshops, and mentoring and coaching to partner staff. • Contribute to knowledge management and learning through collecting and analyzing program data, evaluating strategic projects, assisting with measuring program impact, capturing and sharing lessons learned and best practices, and research and internal reports. • Contribute to the development and implementation of agency-wide strategies, standards, tools, and best practices in Emergency Preparedness and Response that effectively engage partners, donors and governments.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in international development, International Relations or in the field of Humanitarian Response required. Additional experience may substitute for some education. • Minimum of 8 years’ experience in relevant field-based project management experience required, with preferably at least 3 years working in the area of Emergency Preparedness and Response. • Experience in managing moderately complex projects preferably with an international NGO. • Previous experience providing technical assistance and developing successful proposals for external donor funding is required. • Master’s Degree preferred. • Experience in an international NGO an advantage. • Knowledge of Humanitarian principles, standards and system, with specific knowledge of CRS and Caritas Internationalis emergency programming and standards a plus. • Highly proficient in security protocols and management of emergency programs in insecure environments. • Ability to work with local partner organizations. • Required Languages – Spanish (required), English (required), Portuguese (encouraged).

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Professional development opportunities • Flexible working arrangements • Paid time off