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Your knowledge and skills in emergency programming and your management abilities will ensure the delivery of high-quality emergency programming that applies best practices and constantly works towards improving the impact of its benefits to those we serve\nRoles and Key Responsibilities\nProvide 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 arein line with CRS quality principles and standards, donor guidelines, and industry best practices. \nLead technical assistance and capacity strengthening activities in emergency response and recovery for staff and partner organizations to enhance program quality and impact.\nLead the development of program learning - identify opportunities for learning, research and documentation 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.\nContribute to the proactive pursuit of opportunities for new funding to ensure growth of the PO emergency response and recovery portfolio in line with agency, regional, and PO strategic priorities. Contribute to and as appropriate 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.\nOversee the identification, assessment and strengthening of partnerships relevant to emergency response and recovery and the appropriate application of partnership concepts, tools and approaches.\nEnsure timely and appropriate project expenditures in line with financial plans and efficient use and stewardship of project material sources.\nRepresent CRS in relevant working groups and clusters, with key donors, and other local stakeholders.\n\nBasic Qualifications\nBachelor's Degree in International Development, International Relations; Community Development, or in the field of WASH, shelter, livelihoods and food security specially is required. \nMinimum of 8 years of field-based work experience in a program/project management position with an international NGO, with at least 2-3 years working in emergency response programming.\nDemonstrated ability to represent the organization at coordination meetings with donors, local government, UN, and other international NGOs\nMinimum of 2 years' experience inrelevant field-based project management experience. \nExperience in managing moderately complex projects.\nExperience in an international NGO. \nExperience working closely with local partner organizations.\nPreferred Qualifications\nMaster's Degree in International Development, International Relations, Community Development, or in the field of WASH, shelter, livelihoods; food security\nAt least 2 years working experience in the area of emergency programming o CVA, including WASH, shelter, livelihoods, and/or food security programming. \nKnowledge, Skills and Abilities\nMEAL skills and experience.\nStaff management experience and abilities that are conducive to a learning environment.\nExperience using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications, information management systems.\nGood experience in project grants management, including project design, preferably for grants from multiple public donors, including US government and UN.\nDemonstrated ability to write high quality technical proposals.\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills, with ability to make sound judgment and decisions and offer innovative solutions.\nStrong relations management abilities. Ability to relate to people at all levels internally and externally. Strategic in how you approach each relationship.\nGood presentation and facilitation skills.\nProactive, resourceful, solutions-oriented and results-oriented.\nRequired Languages: English and Portuguese required.\nTravel: Must be willing and able to travel up to 50%.\nSupervisory Responsibilities: No","description_format":"text","description_chars":4514,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":true},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"Portuguese","level":"All levels","optional":false},{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Nonprofits & Foundations"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-04T01:33:22Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":83,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.883,"p_room":0.945,"age_days":7,"expected_fill_days":13,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-11-11T05:49:22Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/catholic-relief-services-program-manager-i","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/catholic-relief-services-program-manager-i.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-12T00:04:39Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":182,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-13T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1773114},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1773114"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fcatholic-relief-services-program-manager-i"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fcatholic-relief-services-program-manager-i"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fcatholic-relief-services-program-manager-i"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/catholic-relief-services-program-manager-i\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fcatholic-relief-services-program-manager-i"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3718048}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"crs.org","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3718048},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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