Program Lead, Humanitarian Response

Role Description

Are you a person of compassion? An advocate for justice? Someone who stands up for the rights of the vulnerable and speaks out for the marginalized, the exploited and the forgotten? Do you believe in our calling as Christians to welcome the least of these and love our neighbor? If you answered ‘yes’ to any of the above, World Relief, and millions of people around the world need you.

At this pivotal moment in time, we are rapidly expanding and growing our team to meet the increasing needs of our world. We are looking for people who want to use their gifts and talents to make a real and tangible difference in our world and the lives of the suffering. If you’re looking for a purpose-driven career in which you can grow your talents, while also standing up for the rights of the vulnerable, we want you to join us today.

Qualifications

• Mature and personal Christian faith
• Committed to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief
• Desire to serve and empower the Church to impact vulnerable communities
• Master’s Degree in management, humanitarian assistance, international development or an advanced degree in a related field
• At least 7 years' experience in implementing and/or leadership roles in international humanitarian or development assistance, including substantial experience in complex emergency or rapid response settings
• Excellent English oral and written communication skills
• Extensive experience managing U.S. Government (USG)-funded projects and ensuring compliance with USG regulations and donor requirements
• Must be able to establish strong relationships cross culturally
• Familiarity with humanitarian quality and accountability standards such as CHS and Sphere, and ability to apply relevant standards to response design and monitoring
• Demonstrated experience in monitoring and evaluation, including development of indicators, logframes, assessment approaches, and use of qualitative and quantitative data for decision-making
• Ability to manage competing priorities and work effectively under pressure
• Proven solid analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability and willingness to travel extensively to fragile context with increased hardship or security risks

Requirements

• Strong humanitarian program leadership experience in fragile, conflict-affected, disaster-affected, or complex emergency contexts.
• Demonstrated experience designing or supporting rapid humanitarian responses, including needs assessment, response strategy, partner selection, program design, implementation monitoring, and learning.
• Strong consortium coordination skills, including ability to represent an organization credibly in multi-agency governance or project management structures.
• Proven managerial experience, track record in strategy development, and staff oversight, with preference for previous experience with the US Government’s administrative, management and reporting procedures and systems.
• Excellent diplomacy skills and a proven ability to establish and maintain interpersonal and professional relationships with the co-leads of the program, donor representatives, host-country counterparts and representatives from other key stakeholders such as NGOs and UN agencies.
• Ability to lead through influence across country teams, regional leadership, home office functions, and external partners without relying on direct line authority.
• Excellent written communication skills, including ability to draft strong concept notes, program design documents, donor narratives, decision memos, technical guidance, and internal briefings under time pressure.
• Comfort and familiarity with representing World Relief at external events, technical working groups, and international forums.

Benefits

• $90,000 - $104,500 a year
• World Relief offers a competitive benefits package and employee discount program for full-time, Regular, employees.
• World Relief is honored to be recognized with the Gold-level Cigna Healthy Workforce Designation for exceeding the core components of our well-being program including leadership and culture, program foundations and execution, and whole person health.