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American Red Cross · 10 hours ago

Senior Lead, Strategic Partnerships and Program Design

Washington, DC

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$76K/yr - $110K/yr

7+ years exp

The American Red Cross is the world's largest humanitarian network, and they are seeking a Senior Lead, Strategic Partnerships and Program Design. This role will inform the design and quality of disaster management programs and support the cultivation of strategic partnerships while ensuring compliance with relevant regulations.

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Responsibilities

Support and socialize the new approaches from American Red Cross (AmCross) related to Localization, Climate Change Adaptation, Urbanization, Migration/Displacement, Community Engagement and Accountability and other relevant topics that pertain to disaster management

Identify and share cutting edge research, innovation, and good practices in priority sectors with the aim of improving and scaling ARC reach, influence, and impact

Identify new trends in Disaster Preparedness/ Disasters Risk Reduction, linking with other Red Cross Red Crescent/IFRC and humanitarian actors

Support the planning and technical design of disaster preparedness programs, working with ISD teams to strategically bridge various institutional preparedness themes

Lead the development of unified doctrine for the Integrated Global Programs division ensuring broad stakeholder engagement and consideration of future disaster management needs and trends

Further American Red Cross’s commitment to localization of humanitarian action, serving as a resource for community preparedness and national society development

Spearhead and facilitate coalition building around broader Movement disaster management initiatives in support of ISD’s goals, coordinating among relevant parties toward greater Collective Impact

Collaborate with the monitoring, evaluation and learning team and with the programs team to improve ARC guidance for community and institutional preparedness programs used to address gaps in technical assistance and other needs among national societies and key partners, including IFRC and ICRC

Collaborate and contribute across ISD teams in support of strategically aligned program design, programs, and other priorities, including for response and recovery teams and the Global Disaster Preparedness Center

Help ensure contextual analyses are integrated into implementation as part of adaptive management

Collaborate with programs team, country delegations, and other relevant stakeholders to support conception and design of programs through participatory planning and systems analyses

Keep country offices updated on relevant tools, resources, guidance documents, and trends, and support efforts to plan future programs and strategies

Support IGP, Divisions, and country offices in capacity-building, trainings, and the dissemination of the latest guidance and resources from AmCross

Support quality assurance and evaluation of institutional and community preparedness activities, including field visits if required

Develop and foster inclusion of measurement approaches working closely with ISD Design, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (DMERL) team to capture and share knowledge, identify and analyze impacts across projects and programs

Design, facilitate and participate in disaster management-related workshops/events

Represent AmCross at international and domestic forums and events as needed

Participate and represent AmCross in relevant disaster management and resilience-building networks

Assist as needed in fiscal and program reports for management review, including the identification of resource/budget priorities based on capacity gaps and mapping assessments

Prepare presentations, reports, and other program-related materials as needed

Contribute to Disaster and Preparedness/Disasters Risk Reduction related concept notes and proposals

Perform other duties as assigned in support of IGP needs

Qualification

Disaster managementStrategic partnershipsProgram designCommunity engagementMonitoringEvaluationInterpersonal skillsTeamworkCommunication skillsSelf-motivated

Required

Bachelor's degree required

Minimum 7 years of related experience or equivalent combination of education and related experience required

Demonstrated experience integrating innovative approaches to solving humanitarian challenges

Must have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively with people from a wide range of backgrounds and cultures

Must be responsible and self-motivated

Candidate must have strong verbal and written communications skills and must demonstrate familiarity with evolving industry standards

Ability to work on a team

Ability to execute highly complex or specialized projects; adapt precedent and may make significant departures from traditional approaches to develop solutions