Program Manager II – El Nino Preparedness

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🇺🇸 United States – 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

• Lead the El Niño preparedness process across South America priority countries with EMPOWER partners and CRS technical, MEAL, supply chain, and operations colleagues • Develop and maintain an integrated workplan and deliverable calendar covering program, MEAL, partnership, cash and voucher assistance, supply chain, finance, safeguarding, and operational readiness • Coordinate hazard, vulnerability, exposure, seasonal, and scenario analysis to identify priority countries, hotspots, population groups, likely needs, access constraints, and preparedness triggers • Lead stakeholder and service mapping with partners, government authorities, Caritas structures, humanitarian coordination bodies, community actors, and service providers • Support country- and hotspot-specific contingency plans, response strategies, sector and modality options, targeting approaches, geographic priorities, and scalable response scenarios • Define minimum program quality standards, intervention packages, eligibility criteria, transfer values or assistance quantities, referral pathways, and adaptation rules • Validate relief kits, in-kind assistance, and cash or voucher options against needs, market capacity, protection, delivery feasibility, lead times, and costs • Integrate market and logistics findings into program design, modality selection, delivery sequencing, contingency options, procurement, and implementation timelines • Support partner readiness for cash and voucher assistance, including participant data, accountability, complaints handling, protection, inclusion, reconciliation, monitoring, and failed-payment follow-up • Develop activation-ready program packages with assessment tools, rapid response concepts, targeting and registration approaches, implementation plans, staffing assumptions, budgets, procurement inputs, risk assessments, and donor-ready narratives • Provide management, guidance, and technical oversight during preparedness and activated response cycles • Collaborate with MEAL and information-management colleagues on indicators, baseline or reference data, data-collection tools, monitoring plans, feedback mechanisms, and learning questions • Integrate safeguarding, protection, gender, age, disability inclusion, accountability to affected populations, conflict sensitivity, and disaster risk reduction into preparedness work • Assess partner readiness and facilitate partner-specific action plans with responsibilities, deadlines, support needs, risks, contingencies, escalation points, and maintenance responsibilities • Design and facilitate coaching, working sessions, simulations, tabletop exercises, readiness tests, workshops, mentoring, and partner capacity-strengthening activities • Support donor engagement and resource mobilization through technical analysis, program design, proposal writing, budgeting, staffing plans, and donor discussions • Promote equitable partnerships in line with CRS and Caritas Internationalis principles and resolve programmatic or coordination challenges • Document decisions, lessons, tested approaches, readiness gaps, good practices, and recommendations • Consolidate and hand over the final El Niño program preparedness package and conduct an exit debrief

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in international development, international relations, humanitarian response, disaster risk management, food security, public health, social sciences, or a related field • Minimum of five years of progressively responsible experience in humanitarian program management, emergency preparedness and response, or related technical programming • Field-based experience and work on complex or rapid-onset emergencies • Experience managing moderately complex projects, preferably with an international NGO, across multiple countries or dispersed geographic areas • Experience translating assessments and scenario analysis into response strategies, quality program designs, implementation plans, and budgets • Experience providing technical assistance, strengthening local partner capacity, and developing successful proposals for external donor funding • Strong program management and technical skills across emergency preparedness, rapid needs assessment, response design, contingency planning, implementation, monitoring, adaptation, and close-out • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills • Grants management and budgeting experience • MEAL and information-management skills • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, web-conferencing platforms, and common information-management systems • Professional fluency in English and Spanish • Willingness and ability to travel up to 50 percent within South America • Ability to legally work where the position is performed • Ability to clear pre-employment medical clearance when applicable • Master's degree, humanitarian standards knowledge, relevant hazard and response programming, market-based programming, Caritas or faith-based partner experience, insecure-environment experience, and South America experience preferred or advantageous

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package for U.S.-based staff, including medical, dental, life insurance, and vision • Generous retirement savings plan • Benefits packages for candidates employed outside the U.S. based on the country of employment/in-country office • Collaborative, mission-driven work culture • Equal opportunity employer • CRS Code of Conduct and safeguarding-centered workplace