Director I, Emergency Program Response Team

🔥 14 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $112.8k - $137.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

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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

• Manage the HRD Emergency Program Response Team, including 15+ Technical Advisors • Provide strategic vision, organization, and action planning for emergency response and recovery programming • Oversee design and management of HRD-managed emergency response and recovery projects • Monitor emergency response support needs and coordinate EPRT deployments • Oversee EPRT activities, operational challenges, and departmental goals • Hire, train, appraise, and support career development for staff • Recommend salary, disciplinary, and termination actions • Mentor and strengthen team capacity and support staff wellbeing and care • Keep the team informed about humanitarian programming trends, best practices, and donor requirements • Ensure remote program-quality support for country programs and partners • Develop and update learning and guidance resources for program quality, information management, risk management, and capacity strengthening • Promote appropriate technology use and adaptation of CRS ICT4 platforms • Facilitate capacity-strengthening calls, webinars, and communities of practice • Coordinate with technical teams on program quality, management, and MEAL practices • Develop and disseminate learning, research, case studies, and publications • Represent CRS in humanitarian meetings with Interaction, USG emergency donors, and UN agencies • Prepare and deliver presentations to internal and external audiences • Convene the HQ Emergency Response Working Group during major emergencies when needed • Represent the EPRT on the HRD senior management team and support agency-wide initiatives • Directly supervise five EPRT unit leads and oversee the 15+ member EPRT • Potentially undertake temporary supervision or management roles during country-program deployments • Travel approximately 40%, with deployments generally lasting two weeks to two months

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field required • Minimum of eight-ten years of relevant work experience • Minimum of five years of management experience • Professional level in either French, Spanish, Arabic, or Portuguese required • Knowledge of humanitarian codes, principles and practice • Knowledge of major donor design requirements and regulations, including USG, Caritas, EU/ECHO, DfID and UN agencies • Strong proposal development and writing skills • Excellent technical and non-technical writing skills • Excellent representation and speaking skills • Strong negotiation and persuasion skills • Practical knowledge and experience in ICT and Information Management • Ability to work in diverse cultural contexts and psychologically and physically stressful environments • Capacity to live and work in difficult/stressful environments • Ability to legally work where the position is performed • Pre-employment medical clearance for positions requiring residence or frequent travel outside a home country • Experience leading teams in emergency response and recovery contexts • Experience working with local partner organizations and building their capacity • Experience in emergency multi-sector program design, proposal development, supply chain, administration, financial oversight, response coordination, information management, and MEAL • Proficiency in security protocols and management of emergency programs in insecure environments • Experience with coaching, mentoring, on-the-job training, and staff care in emergency settings • Adherence to CRS Code of Conduct

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Life insurance • Vision insurance • Generous retirement savings plan • Collaborative, mission-driven work culture

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