GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN DIRECTOR

CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in 100 countries. We create local solutions to poverty and inequality and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis. These solutions have a broad range, from disaster response to food and nutrition to education and work for women and girls to healthy mothers and children. CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because when they have equal access to resources, they lift their families and communities out of poverty. Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face. We've been doing this for 75 years, since World War II. It started with the world's first CARE Package® of food for the post-war hungry in Europe. Our work today is as important as ever, we believe that poverty and inequality are historic injustices that we can end within a generation, for good. If you share our core beliefs: poverty is an injustice; poverty is solvable; and together, we have the power to end it, join us, and Fight with CARE.

Work Location : US - Atlanta, GA Type of Post : Not Applicable


Other Possible Location : Kenya - Nairobi Funding : APPROVED

Expected Travel : up to 30% Type of Contract :

Language Requirement : English Application Deadline :

Employee Duration : Full-Time

JOB SUMMARY:

The Global Humanitarian Director (GHD) is a globally recognized, transformational leader responsible for shaping CARE's humanitarian ambition, influence, and impact at scale. This role drives sector-leading humanitarian strategies, influences global policy and practice, and further positions CARE as a thought leader in addressing complex crises.

The GHD provides visionary leadership across CARE's federation, ensuring high-quality humanitarian delivery while advancing innovation, localization, and equality for women and girls. The role requires deep field credibility, global advocacy influence, and exceptional fundraising acumen to mobilize resources and partnerships.

As a key external voice, the GHD represents CARE at the highest levels globally, influencing humanitarian systems, policy, and funding landscapes, while fostering a dynamic, entrepreneurial, and collaborative culture internally.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Global Strategic Leadership & Sector Transformation

• Shape and drive a bold, future-facing humanitarian vision, positioning CARE as a global leader influencing sector-wide change
• Lead the evolution of CARE's humanitarian model to deliver large-scale, high-impact, -transformative responses as a member of the Humanitarian Governance Group (HGG)
• Actively influence global humanitarian architecture, reform agendas, and localization efforts
• Build alignment across the federation, enabling cohesive, high-performing global delivery through coordination and organization with the Humanitarian Working Group (HWG) meetings
• Champion innovation, adaptive management, and entrepreneurial thinking across humanitarian operations

Resource Mobilization, Partnerships and Growth

• Lead strategic efforts to diversify and expand CARE's humanitarian funding base, including institutional, private, and innovative financing
• Drive large-scale fundraising and donor engagement strategies aligned to global priorities including funds for the Humanitarian Surge Fund (HSF)
• Cultivate high-impact partnerships with donors, private sector, and global networks
• Ensure strong alignment between programmatic ambition and resource mobilization
• Promote an entrepreneurial approach to unlocking new funding and collaboration opportunities

Global Influence and External Representation

• Serve as a globally credible thought leader and spokesperson, influencing policymakers, donors, and multilateral actors
• Build strategic alliances to influence global humanitarian policy, standards, and funding frameworks
• Represent CARE at high-level global forums, media engagements, and international platforms
• Position CARE as a trusted and influential voice in humanitarian reform and innovation

Humanitarian Leadership, Delivery and Operational Excellence

• Provide strategic oversight of complex, large-scale humanitarian responses across multiple geographies including chairing the Crisis Coordination and Action (CCA) group.
• Ensure consistent delivery of high-quality, accountable, and principled humanitarian programming.
• Strengthen surge capacity, emergency preparedness, and rapid response mechanisms
• Enable effective cross-country collaboration and resource deployment
• Foster a culture of performance, learning, and continuous improvement
• Implement CARE Confederation Emergency Response Protocol (ERP)
  • Coordinates and organizes HWG meetings
  • Chairs the Crisis Coordination and Action (CCA) group
  • Manage allocation of funds from the Humanitarian Surge Fund (HSF)
  • Call upon and request all CI Members to mobilize the resources at their disposal to support CARE's response to Humanitarian crises
  • Be a key part of all operational and strategic decision-making that is related to the response
  • Monitors the quality of the response and takes part in its evaluation
  • Raise disputes or issues related to humanitarian response for the CI Secretary General or Humanitarian Governance Group to resolve after consultation with the Lead Member/Member/Candidate/Affiliate and CIS, as necessary
  • Can coordinate assessments where CARE does not have an Implementing Presence (in coordination with any Member that may have engagements in the given country/location)
  • Following consultations with the HWG, recommend to the CI Secretary General to declare a corporate emergency, thereby activating the specific duties and responsibilities of all CARE Members/Candidates/Affiliates regarding corporate emergencies
  • The Global Humanitarian Director/Chief Humanitarian Officer, along with other senior CARE leaders, will represent CARE in key strategic global humanitarian spaces and be a key media spokesperson for CARE, working with the CI Secretariat which coordinates CARE's global humanitarian advocacy and communication efforts.

Organizational Leadership, Culture & Collaboration

• Lead and inspire a globally distributed, high-performing team, fostering collaboration across the federation
• Grow a culture of trust, inclusion, accountability, and innovation
• Strengthen cross-functional and cross-country collaboration
• Enable dynamic decision-making and agile ways of working
• Serve as Chair of the Humanitarian Working Group, facilitating strategic alignment and collective decision-making

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