Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Catholic Relief Services is implementing a global emergency response initiative designed to deliver timely, life-saving humanitarian assistance in rapidly evolving crises worldwide. The Program Manager II will manage and provide technical oversight for emergency readiness and response management, ensuring systems and processes support rapid activation and high-quality implementation across multiple contexts.
Responsibilities
- Provide management, guidance, and technical oversight of all new and existing projects with a specific focus on emergency preparedness, start-up readiness, and rapid response activation, throughout the project cycle to ensure project design, start-up, implementation and close-out are in line with CRS quality principles and standards, donor guidelines, and industry best practices
- Effectively manage Emergency PMs across multiple responses and readiness activities. Manage team dynamics and staff well-being. Provide coaching, strategically tailored individual development plans, and complete performance management for direct reports
- Lead the development of program learning - identify opportunities for learning, research and publications in the area of readiness and emergency response and implementation of MEAL policy. Facilitate the dissemination of promising practices and lessons learned to contribute to the agency's knowledge management agenda. Ensure integration of innovations and best practices
- Contribute to the proactive pursuit of funding opportunities, for new funding to ensure growth of readiness and emergency response in line with agency, regional, and Humanitarian Response Department strategic priorities. Serve as the technical lead and technical writer to ensure quality proposals in readiness and emergency response per agency and donor standards
- Oversee technical assistance and capacity strengthening activities for staff and partner organizations to enhance program quality and impact
- Oversee the identification, assessment and strengthening of partnerships relevant to emergency response and the appropriate application of partnership concepts, tools and approaches
- Ensure timely and appropriate project expenditures in line with financial plans and efficient use and stewardship of project material sources
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in international development, International required. Additional experience may substitute for some education
- Minimum of 5 years' experience in relevant field-based project management with experience in emergency preparedness and response
- Experience in managing moderately complex projects
- MEAL skills and experience required
- Staff management experience and abilities that are conducive to a learning environment, including remote oversight of multiple teams or projects
- Experience using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications, information management systems
- Good experience in project grants management, including project design, preferably for grants from multiple public donors, including USG
- Demonstrated ability to write and support high quality rapid technical proposals
- Experience engaging with partner organizations
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with ability to make sound judgment and decisions and offer innovative solutions
- Strong relations management abilities. Ability to relate to people at all levels internally and externally. Strategic in how you approach each relationship
- Good presentation and facilitation skills
- Proactive, resourceful, solutions-oriented and results-oriented
- English required, French/Spanish/Arabic preferred
- Must be willing and able to travel up to 30 %
- Master's Degree
- Experience in an international NGO an advantage
- Experience supporting or managing emergency or multi-country response operations preferred
Benefits
- CRS offers U.S. based staff a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, life insurance, vision, and a generous retirement savings plan.
- Salary and Benefits packages for successful candidates employed outside the U.S. are based on the country of employment/in-country office where the candidate will perform the role.
Company Overview
Catholic Relief Services is the international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. It was founded in 1943, and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is http://www.crs.org/.