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Catholic Relief Services

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1943

🏥 Healthcare

🍽️ Food & Beverage

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Food & Beverage • Logistics

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.

📋 Description

• Lead all aspects of development, implementation, and consolidation of a complex multi-country child development, care, and protection project • Provide strategic leadership and ensure alignment, coordination, and accountability across countries, technical teams, and partners • Serve as primary contact with donors and public, private, and non-government stakeholders • Ensure timely, high-quality results, milestone completion, sustainability, and compliance with donor expectations • Monitor and verify milestone-based deliverables and donor reporting requirements • Lead senior programming and operations staff, manage team dynamics, coach and mentor staff, and oversee senior-staff recruitment • Manage and mitigate security and program risks and maintain staff safety and security policies • Oversee safeguarding and child protection standards across activities, partners, and countries • Ensure compliance with donor and CRS policies, including financial tracking, partner budgets, expenditures, and donor reporting • Represent CRS programming internationally, publish results, deliver presentations, and oversee communications materials • Manage consortium partner relationships and coordinate consortium member activities • Promote cross-country learning, knowledge management, evidence-based decision-making, and adaptive management • Identify performance gaps and oversee training and technical assistance • Provide strategic oversight of consortium partners, sub-awardees, and vendors

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in international development, International Relations, or a relevant technical area • Minimum 8 years of relevant management and technical experience • Minimum 7 years of experience managing donor funds, including multi-country grants • Excellent knowledge and experience in budget management • Minimum 5 years of staff management experience • Experience coaching and mentoring senior program staff • Successful management of complex, high-value, multi-activity projects with complicated logistics • Established sector leadership demonstrated by peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations, or similar accomplishments • Excellent knowledge of MS Office, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio • Knowledge of web conferencing applications and information and budget management systems • Strong strategic, analytical, systems-thinking, and problem-solving skills • Relationship management, team leadership, coaching, mentoring, communication, and presentation skills • Fluency in English required • Spanish or French fluency is a plus • Must be willing and able to travel up to 35% • Must be legally able to work where the position is performed • Pre-employment medical clearance required for positions requiring residence or frequent travel outside a home country • Must sign and adhere to CRS’ Code of Conduct

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Life insurance • Vision insurance • Generous retirement savings plan • Collaborative, mission-driven work culture • Salary and benefits packages based on country of employment/in-country office for candidates employed outside the U.S.