Director, Program Strategy and Partnerships * Work from home

American Red Cross; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The American Red Cross seeks a Director for Program Strategy and Partnership to lead international disaster management efforts. This role requires strategic vision to develop partnerships, enhance disaster response programs, and embodies a leadership style that promotes innovation and collective impact across the humanitarian landscape.

Benefits

Medical, Dental Vision plans

Health Spending Accounts & Flexible Spending Accounts

PTO starting at 15 days a year

401K with up to 6% match

Paid Family Leave

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of related experience or equivalent combination of education.
• 5 years of management experience.
• Experience working with and within the Red Cross/Red Crescent network preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic initiatives and partnerships for international disaster preparedness.
• Shape program strategies consistent with integrated crisis management.
• Engage in climate-smart disaster risk management and foster partnerships.

Skills

Leadership

Collaboration

Innovative problem-solving

Interpersonal skills

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Please use Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox when accessing Candidate Home. By joining the American Red Cross you will touch millions of lives every year and experience the greatness of the human spirit at its best. Are you ready to be part of the world's largest humanitarian network?

Join us—Where your Career is a Force for Good!

Job Description:

Joining The American Red Cross is like nothing else – it’s as much something you feel as something you do. You become a vital part of the world’s largest humanitarian network. Joining a team of welcoming individuals who are exceptional, yet unassuming. Diverse, yet uncompromising in unity. You grow your career within a movement that matters, where success is measured in people helped, communities made whole, and individuals equipped to never stop changing lives and situations for the better.

When you choose to be a force for good, you’ll have mentors who empower your growth along a purposeful career path. You align your life’s work with an ongoing mission that’s bigger than all of us. As you care for others, you’re cared for with competitive compensation and benefits. You join a community that respects who you are away from work as much as what you do while at work.

Where Your Career is a Force for Good!

The Director, Program Strategy and Partnership, leads American Red Cross strategic initiatives and planning on the Integrated Global Programs team for international disaster preparedness, response, and recovery through innovation, and the development and implementation of strategic partnerships with the IFRC Secretariat and National Societies. This role is responsible for developing forward-thinking strategies that advance integrated disaster risk management, anticipatory action, and community resilience, and work within the global RCRC Movement to ensure adoption and implementation. As a part of the Integrated Global Programs, the Director will help shape the vision for American Red Cross international disaster management programming. The Director will be responsible for shaping program strategies to be utilized in Priority Countries consistent with integrated crisis management and the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement principles and operational frameworks to design impactful, scalable, timely, equitable, and sustainable solutions meeting the evolving needs of vulnerable populations.

In this newly created position, the Director, Program Strategy and Partnership will embody visionary leadership, collaborative spirit and adaptability within ISD, across the American Red Cross and around the world with RCRC Movement partners, positioning the organization to proactively embrace and leverage global humanitarian trends. This position reports to the Sr Director.

Perform all duties and responsibilities in compliance with standard operating procedures and other applicable Federal, State and local regulations.

Driving Strategic Vision

• Engage actively in IFRC preparedness, mitigation and readiness forums, providing thought leadership in areas such as climate-smart disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, and anticipatory action.
• Support Division Directors to develop bilateral strategic partnership plans within Movement shared leadership framework and American Red Cross commitment to collective impact.
• Identify emerging trends and innovations in humanitarian assistance and disaster management for ISD to engage with, learn from and to apply to our work, and thereby to position American Red Cross as a forward-thinking leader in humanitarian global affairs.
• Lead development of and steward evolution of ISD unified programming doctrine reflecting integrated disaster management and relevant national society development components and framed by specific American Red Cross value-add and strengths and collective impact orientation.

Institutional Capacity Development

• Support Leadership of Integrated Global Programs in their management of ISDPartnership Engagement Strategy with the IFRC reflecting American Red Cross financial and human resource investment to steadily improve and strengthen RCRC Movement programming equity, relevance, effectiveness, and efficiency.
• Work closely with Division Directors and Sr. Director for Resource Mobilization, International Services VP, and Movement Transformation to manage and expand contributions of American Red Cross to RCRC Movement institutional strengthening, with the goal of accessing broader organizational expertise in areas such as risk management, financial management, and fundraising through identifying and connecting domestic experts across the enterprise with targeted requests for capacity building of IFRC Secretariat, regions and national societies.
• Support the continued development and learning in disaster risk management for roster, staff and partners with goals of depth, capacity and capability across the integrated global programs.

Partnership Development and Cultivation

• Support Sr. Director for Resource Mobilization and International Services VP, together with other ISD leadership (Division Directors and Movement Transformation) in their management and expansion of contributions to ISD for core support, programming in Priority Countries and within RCRC Movement.
• Support the Sr. Director for Resource Mobilization to identify and cultivate partnerships with donors, foundations, and other stakeholders including but not limited to generation of innovative funding proposals and partnership models to expand the impact of integrated disaster management programs.
• In coordination with and in support of Sr. Director of Resource Mobilization, represent American Red Cross in high-level discussions with current and potential partners
• Spearhead compelling communications and advocacy strategies to enhance American Red Cross visibility in international humanitarian contexts.
• Manage, coordinate and mobilize technical specialists focused on program design, innovation, strategic partnerships and proposal development
• Seek and maximize opportunities for close collaboration between Movement partners and American Red Cross to achieve collective impact.

Qualifications:
Education: Bachelor's degree required.
Experience: Minimum 7 years of related experience or equivalent combination of education and related experience required.
Management Experience: 5 years of management experience.
Skills & Abilities: Demonstrated experience integrating innovative approaches to solving humanitarian challenges. Must have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively with people from a wide range of backgrounds and cultures. Experience working and leading in a matrixed management structure. Experience working with and within the Red Cross/Red Crescent network is preferred. Experience working with local/national partners. Must be responsible and self-motivated. Candidate must have strong verbal and written communications skills and must demonstrate familiarity with evolving industry standards. Ability to work on a team.

PAY INFORMATION: The annual salary range for this position is $120,000 - $130,000. We do not offer an annual bonus for this role. Note that American Red Cross salaries are aligned to the specific geographic location in which the work is primarily performed. Other factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, how many years of experience you have and comparison to other employees already in this role. **We will review specific salary information at the time of phone screening based upon your location & experience.**

BENEFITS FOR YOU:

As a mission-based organization, we believe our team needs great support to do great work. Our comprehensive package includes:

· Medical, Dental Vision plans

· Health Spending Accounts & Flexible Spending Accounts

· PTO: Starting at 15 days a year; based on type of job and tenure

· Holidays: 11 paid holidays comprised of six core holidays and five floating holidays

· 401K with up to 6% match

· Paid Family Leave

· Employee Assistance

· Disability and Insurance: Short + Long Term

· Service Awards and recognition

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Apply now! Joining our team will provide you with the opportunity to make your career a force for good!

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