Program Officer, Humanitarian Response

🕒 August 21

🏛️ District of Columbia, Washington – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $70k - $74k / year

⏰ Full Time

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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

• Serve as primary liaison between grants, assigned World Relief country offices, and home office departments • Coordinate communication among consortium Program Management Unit, country office, and home office stakeholders • Ensure assigned countries’ compliance with World Relief and US government policies, procedures, CHS standards, and organizational core beliefs • Review portfolio strategies and plans and identify collaboration, capacity development, and investment opportunities • Share portfolio management best practices with International Programs colleagues • Lead grant and program compliance with US government, consortium, and World Relief knowledge management standards • Set up project administration in World Relief systems, including ERP, payroll, and Metrics Portal • Maintain internal grant tracking systems, including Proposal Pipeline, Active Award, and Reporting Trackers • Schedule and lead grant/program review calls • Support crisis information management and needs assessments • Liaise with technical advisors and home office stakeholders on program operations, management, quality, and closeout • Support monthly grant budget and KPI reviews • Support annual and rapid activation grant budget creation • Oversee general funds and portfolio cash flow needs • Quality-control internal reports, fund codes, and award pipelines • Facilitate collection and approval of portfolio content for publication • Present portfolio strategy, updates, and status reports to internal and external stakeholders, donors, and partners • Provide information for website updates, social media, conferences, and external engagements • Support SharePoint documentation and filing systems • Coordinate quarterly programmatic and financial reporting for all funding sources • Ensure compliance with DMEAL guidance and donor expectations • Coordinate, review, and develop sudden-onset activation concept papers and proposals • Review opportunities and schedule kick-off meetings for approved opportunities • Ensure assigned personnel contribute to proposal development • Ensure proposals follow World Relief guidance, including budget and technical review guidance • Provide budgeting support and review • Ensure partnership management compliance, including vetting, due diligence, and agreement management • Support trip planning and logistics • Assist the Program Lead with assigned special projects and other duties

🎯 Requirements

• Mature and personal Christian faith • Commitment to World Relief’s mission, vision, and values • Desire to serve and empower the Church to impact vulnerable communities • 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 • Humanitarian program implementation experience in fragile, conflict-affected, disaster-affected, or complex emergency contexts • Demonstrated experience supporting rapid humanitarian responses, including needs assessment, response strategy, partner selection, program design, implementation monitoring, and learning • Ability to lead through influence across country teams, regional leadership, home office functions, and external partners • Excellent written communication skills, including drafting concept notes, program design documents, donor narratives, decision memos, technical guidance, and internal briefings under time pressure • Comfort representing World Relief at external events, technical working groups, and international forums • College degree in a related field required • 3–5 years of relevant experience in international development, nonprofit, or mission work • Ability and willingness to travel extensively to fragile contexts with increased hardship or security risks • Language skills in French • Ability to multitask and prioritize multiple projects • Ability to respond professionally and effectively to competing demands • Demonstrated task and project implementation aptitude • Strong record of completing tasks in a timely manner • Ability to handle basic financial procedures and spreadsheet functions • Excellent writing skills, preferably with proposal and project report writing experience • Commitment to serving international program needs expressed from the Country office • Proven ability to be a team player • Ability to facilitate system change/development with heavy team input • Self-starter, strongly motivated, and results-oriented • Strong interpersonal skills • Prior country office-based experience is a plus • Preferred: Master’s degree in management, humanitarian assistance, international development, or related field • Preferred: Experience managing remote and multi-location programs in complex humanitarian or fragile contexts • Preferred: Experience with consortium-led projects, lead agencies, partners, governance, and collaborative decision-making • Preferred: Direct experience with sudden-onset disaster, epidemic/outbreak, conflict-related displacement, public health emergency, or rapid response financing • Preferred: Experience developing emergency response concept notes, donor submissions, program design documents, DADDs, technical guidance, or internal decision/action documents

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive benefits package • Employee discount program for full-time, Regular employees • Cigna Healthy Workforce well-being program • Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities • EEO/AA employer • Drug-free workplace • Pre-employment substance abuse testing