DEPUTY DIRECTOR, PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT AND COORDINATION at CARE USA

CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in more than 90 countries. We create local solutions to poverty and inequality and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis. These solutions have a broad range, from clean water to access to education; from microfinance to ensuring that everyone has nutritious food; from agriculture and climate change to disaster response. CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because they have proven to be the best hope for creating lasting change in the world. Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face. We’ve been doing this for over 70 years, since World War II. It started with the world’s first CARE Package® of food for the post-war hungry in Europe. Our work today is as important as ever, we believe that poverty and inequality are historic injustices that we can end within a generation, for good. If you share our core beliefs: poverty is an injustice; poverty is solvable; and together, we have the power to end it, join us, and fight with CARE.

The Deputy Director-Program Development and Coordination (DD-PDC) is responsible for ensuring that CARE Yemen’s programs contribute to CARE’s vision and impact outcome areas. The DD-PDC is expected to provide strategic and technical leadership in the areas of program design, development, grant management and projects implementation of CARE Yemen’s programs with a focus in both lifesaving humanitarian responses and longer-term development aspects. A major emphasis of this position is to play a strong managerial role in ensuring that adequate resources are mobilized to support CARE’s country program strategy and ensuring projects are designed and implemented while fulfilling standards of quality and accountability along with delivering the desired impacts in making a significant contribution to reducing poverty, social injustice and saving lives.

The DD-PDC reports to the Assistant Country Director-Programs (ACD-P) and manages a team of professionals focused on the design, fundraising, grant management, and implementation of programs and projects, organized into two separate teams: Program Development and Program Coordination. S/he works closely with, and is supported by the different program units at CI, regional and CARE USA HQ levels, as well as with other interested CARE Member Partners. The DD-PDC is responsible for maintaining good working relationships with, donors, CARE Member Partners, and other stakeholders. S/he will work closely together with the position of Deputy Director of Program Quality (DD-PQ) and Deputy Director of Program Operations (DD-PO) and will have to coordinate leave schedules accordingly. H/She will be required to visit the field regularly and maybe be asked to act as ACD-P during their absence.

Responsibilities:

• Staff Management
• Resource Mobilization and Program Development
• Grant Management, Implementation, and Coordination
• External Coordination and Representation
• Act for Deputy Directors and/or Assistant Country Director for Programs

Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree in international development, or equivalent combination of education and work experience
• At least 5 years in senior management and leadership positions in humanitarian and development programs
• Demonstrated leadership and management skills in a very complex international setting
• Demonstrated experience in program design (including proposal development), implementation, monitoring and evaluation
• Strong background and extensive experience in emergency programming in conflict setting
• 8 years in senior management and leadership positions in humanitarian and development programs
• Cultural sensitivity and proven experience in working in the Middle East strongly desired
• Arabic Language Skills
• Demonstrated experience with proposal development with range of international donors (i.e USAID, EU, ECHO, DFID, GAC)