Program Manager I, Emergency Response and Recovery, ESARO

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in international development, International Relations, Community Development, or in the field of WASH, shelter, livelihoods, or food security required.
  
• Minimum of 2 years' experience in relevant field-based project management experience.
  
• Experience in managing moderately complex projects.
  
• Experience in an international NGO.
  
• Experience working closely with local partner organizations.
  
• Located in or able to cover Easter and Southern Africa time zones.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in International Development, International Relations, Community Development, or in the field of WASH, shelter, livelihoods, or food security.
  
• At least 1 years working experience in the area of emergency programming, including WASH, shelter, livelihoods, and/or food security programming.
  
• Required Languages: Proficiency (verbal and written) in English is required; French and Portuguese is preferred.
  

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• MEAL skills and experience.
  
• Staff management experience and abilities that are conducive to a learning environment.
  
• Experience using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications, information management systems.
  
• Good experience in project grants management, including project design, preferably for grants from multiple public donors, including US government and UN.
  
• Demonstrated ability to write high quality technical proposals.
  
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with ability to make sound judgment and decisions and offer innovative solutions.
  
• Strong relations management abilities. Ability to relate to people at all levels internally and externally. Strategic in how you approach each relationship.
  
• Good presentation and facilitation skills.
  
• Proactive, resourceful, solutions-oriented and results-oriented.
  

• Provide management, guidance, and technical oversight of all new and existing emergency response and recovery projects throughout the project cycle to ensure project design, start-up, implementation and close-out are in line with CRS quality principles and standards, donor guidelines, and industry best practices.
  
• Effectively manage talent for emergency response and recovery programs and supervise. Manage team dynamics and staff well-being. Provide coaching, strategically tailored individual development plans, and complete performance management for direct reports.
  
• Oversee technical assistance and capacity strengthening activities in emergency response and recovery for staff and partner organizations to enhance program quality and impact.
  
• Lead the development of program learning - identify opportunities for learning, research and publications in emergency response and recovery and implementation of MEAL policy. Facilitate the dissemination of promising practices and lessons learned to contribute to the agency's knowledge management agenda. Ensure integration of innovations and best practices.
  
• Contribute to the proactive pursuit of opportunities for new funding to ensure growth of the program office (PO) emergency response and recovery portfolio in line with agency, regional, and PO strategic priorities. Serve as the technical lead and technical writer to ensure quality emergency response and recovery proposals per agency and donor standards. Contribute to budgeting and staffing plans and activities for proposals.
  
• Oversee the identification, assessment and strengthening of partnerships relevant to emergency response and recovery and the appropriate application of partnership concepts, tools and approaches.
  
• Ensure timely and appropriate project expenditures in line with financial plans and efficient use and stewardship of project material sources.
  
• Represent CRS in relevant working groups and clusters, with key donors, and other local stakeholders.