Program Lead, Humanitarian Response - 2025826

Socket.dev; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

World Relief is seeking a Program Lead, Humanitarian Response to oversee a rapid response mechanism for multi-country humanitarian work. The role requires close collaboration with country programs, regional directors and technical teams to drive design, implementation and accountability.

The position involves consortium coordination with co-leads and other partners, oversight of project activities, and supporting broader program quality, emergency response design, and disaster funding

Responsibilities

• Lead design, process, implementation, monitoring and accountability of the rapid response mechanism.
• Represent World Relief in consortium project management and coordination structures.
• Coordinate with Regional Directors, country leadership, technical teams, finance, security, safeguarding, and program staff across multiple countries.

Job description

ORGANIZATION SUMMARY

World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization whose mission is to boldly engage the world’s greatest crises in partnership with the church. The organization was founded in the aftermath of World War II to respond to the urgent humanitarian needs of war-torn Europe. Since then, for 80 years, across 100 countries, World Relief has partnered with local churches and communities to build a world where families thrive and communities flourish. Today, organizational programming focuses on humanitarian and disaster response, community strengthening and resilience, and refugee & immigrant services and advocacy.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Program Lead, Humanitarian Response will provide leadership for World Relief’s role as co-lead on an anticipated multi-country humanitarian consortium project. In this position the Project Lead will have primary responsibility for a rapid response mechanism that responds to sudden onset humanitarian needs in complex fragile contexts. This position will lead the design, process, implementation, monitoring and accountability of the rapid response mechanism; represent World Relief in consortium project management and coordination structures; and support effective implementation across World Relief country programs participating in the project. The Project Lead will support, monitor, troubleshoot, coordinate, and strengthen implementation through close collaboration with Regional Directors, country leadership, technical teams, finance, security, safeguarding, and program staff in multiple countries in World Relief. As the project is co-led by other organizations, the Project Lead will manage World Relief’s activities in close communication and collaboration with the other co-leads and with the project Prime. In addition to consortium responsibilities, this position will contribute to World Relief’s broader humanitarian response and Program Quality & Impact priorities. These include support to sudden-onset disaster response, emergency response design, crisis response funding mobilization, partner and program design review, and development of technical guidance and decision documents for disaster response opportunities. The program lead will have direct managerial supervision of a designated Program Officer.