Program Manager I – El Niño Preparedness, EMPOWER/RAPID

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🦀 Maryland – Remote

🦀 Maryland – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

📋 Program Manager

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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

• Support implementation of El Niño preparedness workplans across assigned South America countries or hotspots • Maintain activity plans, deliverable trackers, meeting records, and follow-up actions across program and operational functions • Compile and synthesize hazard, vulnerability, exposure, seasonal, and scenario information into preparedness actions • Support stakeholder and service mapping with governments, Caritas structures, humanitarian coordination bodies, community actors, and other stakeholders • Facilitate partner sessions to develop contingency plans, response strategies, targeting approaches, geographic priorities, and scalable scenarios • Support documentation of program quality standards, intervention packages, eligibility criteria, referral pathways, transfer values, and adaptation rules • Coordinate with supply chain and operations colleagues on relief kits, in-kind assistance, and cash or voucher options • Support partner readiness for cash and voucher assistance, including data requirements, accountability, protection, monitoring, and payment follow-up • Prepare activation-ready materials including assessment tools, response concepts, implementation plans, budget inputs, procurement requests, risk registers, and donor inputs • Monitor preparedness and activated response tasks, flag delays or quality concerns, and support corrective action • Work with MEAL and information-management colleagues on indicators, data-collection tools, monitoring plans, feedback mechanisms, and learning questions • Integrate safeguarding, protection, gender, age, disability inclusion, accountability, conflict sensitivity, and disaster risk reduction • Assist with partner readiness assessments and action plans • Organize and co-facilitate coaching sessions, workshops, simulations, tabletop exercises, and readiness tests • Provide day-to-day technical support to partners and promote sustainable local ownership • Contribute to proposal development and resource mobilization • Document decisions, lessons, readiness gaps, good practices, recommendations, and knowledge-management materials • Compile the final El Niño preparedness package for assigned countries or workstreams

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in international development, international relations, humanitarian response, disaster risk management, food security, public health, social sciences, project management, or a related field • Minimum of three years of relevant experience in humanitarian program management, emergency preparedness and response, disaster risk reduction, or related programming, including field-based experience • Experience supporting moderately complex projects, preferably with an international NGO and activities implemented across dispersed geographic areas • Experience contributing to assessments, contingency planning, response design, implementation planning, budgeting, monitoring, or reporting • Demonstrated experience working with and strengthening the capacity of local partners • Professional fluency in English and Spanish is required • Willingness and ability to travel up to 50% within South America • Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, web-conferencing platforms, and common information-management systems • Good program management, analytical, problem-solving, planning, coordination, documentation, facilitation, presentation, organizational, communication, and relationship-management skills • Ability to work effectively across cultures, organizations, technical functions, time zones, and diverse operating environments • Must sign and adhere to CRS' Code of Conduct

🏖️ Benefits

• U.S. based staff comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, life insurance, vision, and a generous retirement savings plan • Collaborative, mission-driven work culture • Candidates employed outside the U.S. receive salary and benefits packages based on the country of employment/in-country office