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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

• Provide technical advice, guidance, and support on program design and implementation, focusing on Emergency Response and Recovery. • Serve as the emergency focal point for country programs in the Latin America and Caribbean Region. • Provide rapid surge support for program quality, management, and leadership capacity during humanitarian responses. • Guide country programs and partners on humanitarian funding opportunities and support proposal design and development. • Support emergency program quality, management, knowledge management, capacity strengthening, and learning. • Contribute to region-wide and agency-wide Emergency Response and Recovery strategies, standards, tools, and best practices. • Provide technical solutions remotely and on-site for strategic planning, program design, implementation standards, partnerships, and monitoring and evaluation. • Take acting emergency leadership roles and support the setup or management of emergency field offices, teams, and relief operations during deployments. • Contribute to technical design of large or complex proposals, monitoring systems, indicators, and donor-aligned approaches. • Develop and deliver capacity strengthening, training, workshops, mentoring, and coaching for staff and partners. • Strengthen partnerships with local organizations. • Collect and analyze program data, evaluate projects, measure impact, and share lessons learned and best practices. • Maintain relationships with donors, peer organizations, research institutions, and other partners. • Represent CRS and partners at humanitarian cluster, donor, coordination, and international cluster meetings. • Promote the health and wellbeing of CRS and partner emergency staff. • Supervise staff.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in International Development, International Relations, or a related field required. • Minimum of eight years of relevant international working experience in an advisory or management role with progressive responsibilities. • Minimum of three years working on emergency response programming. • Previous experience providing technical assistance and developing successful proposals for external donor funding required. • Fluency in written and spoken English, Spanish, and French required. • Experience working in the LACRO region preferred. • Knowledge of humanitarian principles, standards, and systems. • Knowledge of major emergency donor design requirements and regulations, including U.S. Government, EU/ECHO, and UN agencies. • Proficiency in security protocols and management of emergency programs in insecure environments. • Ability to work with local partner organizations. • Ability to work in diverse cultural contexts and psychologically and physically stressful environments. • Knowledge of ICT, information management, data visualization, analysis, Power BI, SharePoint, and ICT4D applications. • Application of principles in risk management, accountability to affected populations, safe and dignified programming, and safeguarding. • Experience in high-risk disaster and conflict zones. • Experience starting up or managing large-scale asset transfer programs using cash, voucher, and in-kind modalities. • Familiarity with supply chain, HR, and finance operations management. • Proficiency in Microsoft Office, web conferencing applications, information and budget management systems, and knowledge-sharing networks. • Experience in business development, project design, proposal development, and technical writing. • Experience with mentoring, coaching, facilitation, and adult-learning training. • Experience with program monitoring and evaluation, data collection, data analysis, and data presentation. • Experience networking with donors, peer organizations, and faith-based civil society partners. • Strong strategic, analytical, problem-solving, and systems-thinking skills. • Strong written, oral, presentation, facilitation, training, mentoring, and coaching skills. • Must be willing and able to travel up to 50% of the time, up to six months per year. • Must be able to live and work in difficult and stressful environments and serve wherever agency needs dictate. • Must be legally able to work where the position is performed. • Required pre-employment medical clearance for positions requiring residence or frequent travel outside a home country.

🏖️ Benefits

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