Program Lead, Global Humanitarian Response Giving

TrustBridge Global Foundation; Philippines; On-site; PHP 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

TrustBridge Global Foundation seeks a strategic Program Lead to orchestrate the Standing Global Humanitarian Response Fund and related crisis‑response giving opportunities. You will own readiness, activation, ongoing management, and continuous improvement of prebuilt infrastructure, including fund mechanics, landing pages, and campaign assets to enable rapid live responses.

You will apply humanitarian‑response expertise to monitor crises, build a qualified partner network, steward donors, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in humanitarian studies, international development, disaster management, nonprofit management, philanthropy, business, or related field.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant humanitarian response experience.
• Direct experience with humanitarian‑response charity or crisis‑response grantmaking.
• Experience with rapid‑response activation and donor fundraising is preferred.
• Familiarity with humanitarian standards and safeguarding.

Responsibilities

• Own the operational readiness and activation of the Standing Global Humanitarian Response Fund.
• Lead launch, ongoing management, and continuous improvement of crisis response opportunities.
• Maintain prebuilt response infrastructure including fund mechanics and templates.
• Develop allocation recommendations and manage donor reporting.
• Ensure governance, performance reporting, and post-activation reviews.

Skills

Humanitarian response knowledge

Project management

Decision making under pressure

Stakeholder relationship management

Fundraising & donor stewardship

Communication skills

Data-driven mindset

Dignified representation

Education

Bachelor's degree in humanitarian studies or related field

Job description

Job Highlights

• Purposeful and meaningful work
• Great work culture and set of corporate values
• Be a part of a global team that enables charitable giving

RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Program Leadership, Readiness, and Activation: Own the operational readiness of the Standing Global Humanitarian Response Fund and related crisis-response giving opportunities, and lead their activation, launch, ongoing management, and continuous improvement. Maintain prebuilt response infrastructure—including fund mechanics, functioning giving pathways, GivingSpace readiness, landing page templates, campaign assets, approval pathways, activation budgets, and launch checklists—to enable an approved humanitarian response to go live on the day of activation.
2. Humanitarian Response Strategy, Partner Network, and Allocation Management: Apply humanitarian-response expertise to monitor emerging crises, assess potential activations, make timely response recommendations, maintain a response-ready network of qualified humanitarian partners, develop allocation recommendations, and lead grant-opportunity sourcing and review. Coordinate the implementation, monitoring, documentation, and reporting of approved allocations. Establish appropriate reporting expectations with recipient organizations at the time of grant approval while maintaining appropriate separation from formal grantmaking authority. Maintain a clear humanitarian funding methodology that explains how response partners are selected, allocations are recommended and approved, changing needs are addressed, and results are monitored and reported to donors.
3. Fund Growth, Campaign Execution, and Donor Stewardship: Maintain the approved fund positioning and donor proposition, and ensure both are used consistently across activations and channels. Lead the execution of approved fundraising initiatives, crisis-specific campaigns, donor‑acquisition activities, donor champion engagement, communications, and stewardship reporting in partnership with the Giving Solutions Product Portfolio Manager, Marketing, Outreach, and other relevant teams. Maintain ready‑to‑activate campaign infrastructure across TrustBridge and partner channels, including GivingSpace, digital fundraising platforms, Network Members, and strategic partners.
4. Performance, Governance, and Continuous Improvement: Own the program's day‑to‑day performance management, including operational readiness, activation speed, campaign performance, donation volume, resource deployment, partner readiness, donor engagement, financial sustainability, reporting, and post‑response improvement. Maintain clear governance records; provide timely recommendations and performance reports; lead post‑activation reviews; and ensure approved improvements are incorporated into the program.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES, AND PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS

• Strong understanding of humanitarian response, including how needs, actors, funding priorities, and coordination evolve during disasters and complex crises.
• Working knowledge of recognized humanitarian standards and relevant UN and international‑agency coordination practices.
• Understanding of the transition from immediate relief through recovery, resilience, and longer‑term development.
• Strong program and project management skills, with the ability to lead complex, time‑sensitive work across multiple teams.
• Sound judgment under pressure and ability to make evidence‑based recommendations using incomplete or rapidly changing information.
• Strong relationship‑management skills across humanitarian organizations, donors, partners, and internal stakeholders.
• Experience with fundraising, donor stewardship, campaign execution, or humanitarian public appeals.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Data‑informed mindset with the ability to define KPIs, interpret performance, and improve the program based on evidence.
• Commitment to respectful and dignified representation of crisis‑affected people and communities.

EDUCATION, TRAINING, AND EXPERIENCE

• A bachelor's degree in humanitarian studies, international development, disaster management, nonprofit management, philanthropy, business, communications, or a related field.
• A minimum of five (5) years of relevant experience, including significant responsibility in humanitarian response, emergency fundraising, crisis grantmaking, or a similar program.
• Direct experience with a humanitarian‑response charity, disaster‑relief organization, grantmaking institution, pooled humanitarian fund, or similar crisis‑response organization is required.
• Experience with rapid‑response activation, humanitarian partner management, grant or allocation recommendations, donor fundraising, and post‑response reporting is strongly preferred.
• Experience with digital fundraising, campaign analytics, crisis communication, or paid donor acquisition is an advantage.
• Familiarity with humanitarian standards, safeguarding, localization, cross‑border grantmaking, and relief‑to‑development approaches is strongly preferred.
• Experience working in an international or globally distributed organization is preferred.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Regular workdays run from roughly 1700 – 0200 (Philippines Time) or 1300 to 2200 (Kenya Time) to maximize the overlap with European and US Eastern Time work hours (time spent outside regular work hours for events and event preparations will be offset against regular workdays).