Program Lead, Humanitarian Response

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🏛️ District of Columbia, Washington – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $90k - $104.5k / year

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World Relief

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1001 - 5000 employees

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Consulting • Logistics

World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization whose mission is to empower the local church to serve the most vulnerable. Founded in the aftermath of World War II, it has been addressing urgent humanitarian needs for over 75 years across 100 countries. The organization specializes in anti-human trafficking, HIV/AIDS prevention, disaster response, immigration services, maternal and child health, and various community development initiatives, partnering with local churches to create sustainable solutions.

📋 Description

• Provide strategic leadership, oversight, and technical guidance for sudden-onset disaster work led by World Relief in a multi-country humanitarian consortium project • Lead the design, implementation, monitoring, and accountability of a rapid response mechanism for sudden-onset humanitarian needs in fragile contexts • Coordinate context monitoring, needs assessments, response recommendations, concept development, and internal decision-making for rapid response activations • Mobilize crisis response funding opportunities and coordinate emergency submissions, response strategies, partner selection reviews, and internal inputs • Draft and contribute to concept notes, donor narratives, response strategies, assessment summaries, logframes, budget narratives, and emergency response materials • Coordinate collection, review, consolidation, and submission of project reports from country offices and implementing partners • Develop and maintain a project management framework for varied project implementers • Represent World Relief with consortium co-leads and the project Prime in planning, decision-making, reporting, learning, and problem-solving • Build partnerships with program partners, in-country stakeholders, government authorities, and implementing organizations • Oversee project sub-awardees and consulting relationships, including consultant recruitment, vetting, and contracting • Provide briefings and recommendations to World Relief International Programs leadership • Serve as a technical and program design resource for World Relief’s disaster response portfolio • Review emergency response designs and advise country, regional, and home office teams on response quality, assessments, monitoring, and adaptive management • Support organizational planning for public health emergencies, natural disasters, conflict-related displacement, and other acute crises • Directly supervise and coach an assigned Program Officer, including work planning and performance management • Lead staff in a manner consistent with World Relief’s Christian values, including praying with staff and leading devotionals

🎯 Requirements

• Mature and personal Christian faith • Commitment to World Relief’s mission, vision, and values • Ability to affirm and/or acknowledge World Relief’s Core Beliefs, Statement of Faith, Christian Identity, and National Association of Evangelicals’ For the Health of The Nation document • Master’s degree in management, humanitarian assistance, international development, or an advanced related field • At least 7 years’ experience in international humanitarian or development assistance implementation and/or leadership, including substantial complex emergency or rapid response experience • Excellent English oral and written communication skills • Extensive experience managing U.S. Government-funded projects and ensuring compliance with USG regulations and donor requirements • Ability to establish strong cross-cultural relationships • Familiarity with humanitarian quality and accountability standards such as CHS and Sphere, and ability to apply them to response design and monitoring • Demonstrated monitoring and evaluation experience, including indicators, logframes, assessment approaches, and qualitative and quantitative data use • Ability to manage competing priorities and work effectively under pressure • Solid analytical and problem-solving skills • Ability and willingness to travel extensively to fragile contexts with increased hardship or security risks • Preferred: project management, grant compliance, and donor reporting expertise • Preferred: experience managing remote and multi-location programs • Preferred: consortium-led project experience • Preferred: sudden-onset disaster, epidemic, outbreak, conflict-displacement, public-health-emergency, or rapid-response-financing experience • Preferred: emergency response concept notes, donor submissions, program design documents, DADDs, technical guidance, or decision-document experience • Preferred: partner capacity, subaward readiness, or emergency implementation quality experience • Preferred: partner mapping, partner selection, and locally led or partner-driven humanitarian response design experience • Additional language skills, especially French or Arabic, preferred • Previous supervisory experience preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive benefits package • Employee discount program for full-time, Regular employees • Cigna Healthy Workforce well-being program, including leadership and culture, program foundations and execution, and whole person health • Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities • EEO/AA employer • Drug-free workplace