Global Awards and Project Support Director II

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🦀 Maryland – Remote

🦀 Maryland – Remote

💵 $135.9k - $166.1k / year

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Catholic Relief Services

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1943

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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

• Provide strategic leadership, direction, and oversight for the Global Awards and Project Support department • Set and implement the GAPS strategy through 2030, translating agency priorities into plans, performance measures, resource allocations, and accountabilities • Lead the GAPS Senior Management Team and integrate Global Awards, Project Support and Delivery, Project Management Unit, Field Management Response Team, Contracts, and World Bank Support Unit • Establish governance, decision rights, and cross-functional ways of working • Supervise Global Award Project Directors and GAPS unit leaders, including performance management, coaching, succession planning, staff wellbeing, workload management, and talent development • Oversee global award portfolio performance, expenditures, deliverables, risks, corrective actions, compliance, finance, and award lifecycle activities • Ensure high-quality support for US Government and non-US Government awards, including reporting, compliance, negotiation, modifications, close-out, donor relationship management, and audit response • Lead agency-wide project management standards, guidance, tools, training, coaching, and communities of practice • Oversee technical assistance, partner selection and management, due diligence, capacity strengthening, and organizational learning • Lead decision-making for complex global and multi-country opportunities, including intake, country consultation, capture, proposal governance, negotiation, and transition to start-up • Oversee World Bank Group-funded work and engagement with regional development banks • Maintain strategic relationships with donors, partners, research institutions, governments, faith actors, and private-sector organizations • Represent CRS in donor negotiations, award discussions, working groups, and senior governance bodies • Brief senior leadership on portfolio performance, opportunities, risks, and investment decisions • Exercise delegated signatory authority and make or escalate time-sensitive decisions affecting awards, financial exposure, delivery, and agency reputation

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in development, a related sector, or equivalent work experience • Minimum eight years of relevant international work experience, including a history of project management • Minimum five years of management experience • Experience with and knowledge of multiple donors, including their practices, preferences, and applicable regulations • Fluency in written and spoken English • Ability to travel internationally and domestically up to 15% • Legal ability to work where the position is performed • Pre-employment medical clearance for positions requiring residence or frequent travel outside a home country • Proficiency with Microsoft products and familiarity with enterprise project, award, finance, and information-management systems • Strong knowledge of U.S. Government grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts • Extensive knowledge of multiple donors and multilateral development banks • Excellent strategic, analytical, systems-thinking, problem-solving, relationship-management, negotiation, oral and written communication, people leadership, coaching, and mentoring skills • Master’s degree in international development, business administration, public administration, or a related field (preferred) • Ability to work effectively in French (preferred) • Minimum 10 years of relevant international work experience (preferred) • Minimum eight years of progressively responsible management experience (preferred) • Experience as a Chief of Party, Project Director, or senior portfolio leader for high-value public donor-funded programs (preferred) • Experience in business development, capture, proposal governance, donor negotiation, and transition from award to implementation (preferred) • Experience with U.S. Government awards and contracts and other donors and institutions (preferred) • Experience leading complex, geographically dispersed teams and managing diverse portfolios of grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts (preferred) • Oracle products experience is a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Life insurance • Vision insurance • Generous retirement savings plan • Collaborative, mission-driven work culture • CRS Code of Conduct and safeguarding-focused workplace

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