[Hiring] Program Officer, Humanitarian Response @World Relief

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.

The Program Officer role at World Relief is a critical internal liaison function that helps to ensure the smooth operation of grants and programs in an assigned set of country offices. This role, at Humanitarian Response Program Officer will primarily support on US-government funded humanitarian and rapid response grant spanning implementation in at least 5 countries that sit within two existing World Relief Regional Departments. The PO will report to the Program Lead for Humanitarian Response and is expected to coordinate and support the effective functioning of the grant, including compliance, reporting, budget management and consortium management.

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
• Humanitarian program implementation experience in fragile, conflict-affected, disaster-affected, or complex emergency contexts
• Demonstrated experience supporting rapid humanitarian responses, including needs assessment, response strategy, partner selection, program design, implementation monitoring, and learning.
• 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.
• College degree in related field required
• 3-5 years of relevant experience in international development, non-profit or mission work.
• Language skills in French
• Prior country office-based experience a plus

Requirements

• Ability and willingness to travel extensively to fragile context with increased hardship or security risks
• Must be able to multi-task and work well on multiple projects, while being able to prioritize.
• Ability to respond professionally and effectively to multiple and often competing demands.
• Demonstrated task and project implementation aptitude.
• Strong track record of completing tasks in a timely manner.
• Demonstrated ability to handle basic financial procedures and spreadsheet functions.
• Excellent writing skills, preferably with experience in writing proposals and project reports.
• Proven ability to be a team-player.
• Must be a self-starter, strongly motivated and interested in producing results.
• Strong interpersonal skills.

Benefits

• $70,000 - $74,000 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.