Catholic Relief Services
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
Program Manager I
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November 25
Catholic Relief Services
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
• You will be seconded to Caritas Antilles in Jamaica to support the Hurricane Melissa Emergency Response implementing projects advancing Catholic Relief Services’ (CRS) work in localization and serving the poor and vulnerable. • Your management skills and knowledge will ensure that the local partner delivers high-quality programming and continuously works towards improving the impact of its programming. • The PM I will work closely with Caritas Antilles and the Dioceses in Jamaica’s emergency responders and their primary role will be to strengthen the emergency response capacity of local partners and support these partners in implementing high quality emergency projects in response to hurricane Melissa. • The seconded PM I will support Caritas Antilles in managing the Melissa response portfolio, ensuring timely, coordinated, safe, and quality program delivery. • The role will provide hands-on operational support while also strengthening systems, workflows, and implementation capacity of diocesan teams in Jamaica.
🎯 Requirements
• Bachelor’s Degree in International Development, International Relations or in the field of Project Management required. • Minimum of 2-3 years of relevant field-based experience in coordinating or managing light to moderately complex projects required, preferably with an international NGO. • Demonstrated knowledge of and ability to navigate the humanitarian coordination systems and platforms, including stakeholder engagement with local partners, UN bodies, and clusters. • Knowledge of humanitarian programming, Integral Human Development, SPHERE standards and Catholic Social Teaching principles preferred. • Demonstrated knowledge/experience of integrating cross-cutting themes such as capacity building, emergency response, early recovery, cash assistance, and systems strengthening. • Demonstrated knowledge/experience in monitoring, evaluation, and learning, particularly during proposal design, start-up, and close-out, as well as development of MEAL tools and methodologies for data collection and analysis. • Demonstrated experience of working with and building capacity of local partners. Experience with church partners a plus. • Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills. • Excellent professional communications skills, both oral and written, in English. • Ability to exercise sound judgment and make decisions independently. • Extremely flexible, and the ability to cope with stressful situations in emergency environments. • Strong computer skills (MS Word, Excel, Outlook, and Power Point) are necessary.
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