Senior Programs Specialist, IDRU

Overview

Senior Programs Specialist, IDRU is a role at Samaritan's Purse. This position provides leadership for the Incident Management Team (IMT) and Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) during responses, and works to improve systems to ensure excellence and readiness.

• Maintain your personal relationship with Jesus Christ and be an effective witness for Him.
• Manage the Incident Management Team (IMT) and communicate with Senior Leadership and DART Team Lead to make strategic decisions during disaster response.
• Manage IMT strategy/planning process and engage in grant proposal process.
• Make recommendations for strategic program responses with input from the Technical Advisory Unit.
• Serve as a go-between for daily, working-level operations of the IMT, DART, and Response Manager.
• Drive systems improvement by guiding After Action Review process and collaborating with Subject Matter Experts.
• Work with DART Leadership, Technical Advisors, and Awards Management team to create framework, proposals, and budgets for future response flash appeals.
• Analyze and make recommendations for pre-positioned DART inventory.
• Support and mentor DART members through specialty training development, Position Description creation and maintenance, and DART position checklist updates.
• Lead and support the transition from emergency response to field office or early recovery phase and support country office and headquarters leadership with reporting and recording historical knowledge of disaster response activities.
• Deploy on DART responses in key leadership positions, including roles that oversee all DART staff in the field.
• All other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor's Degree from a four-year college or university in Emergency Management, International Development, or related field and four (4) or more years of International Field experience in Leadership and Program Management; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 12 credit hours of college-level Biblical Studies (required); if not already completed, opportunity to meet and complete requirement is available upon hire.

Job Location: Boone, NC

Type: Full-Time

Language Requirement: Fluency in English (required)

Travel Expectations: 60 days of domestic/international travel expected annually. Required travel documents and vaccinations for entry into foreign countries will be necessary.

• On-site Medical Clinic (staff and dependents)
• Medical, prescription, dental & vision insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Long-term and Short-term disability insurance
• Paid Family Medical Leave
• Term Life Insurance
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• 10 paid holidays
• 12 vacation/personal days
• 10 sick days

Samaritan's Purse is a nondenominational evangelical Christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. Since 1970, Samaritan's Purse has helped meet needs of people who are victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease, and famine with the purpose of sharing God's love through His Son, Jesus Christ. The organization serves the Church worldwide to promote the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

• We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God. 1 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Timothy 3:15-17.
• We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons:
  Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Matthew 28:19;
  John 10:30;
  Ephesians 4:4-6.
• We believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood on the cross, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory. Matthew 1:23;
  John 1:1-4 and 1:29;
  Acts 1:11 and 2:22-24;
  Romans 8:34; 1 Corinthians 15:3-4; 2 Corinthians 5:21;
  Philippians 2:5-11;
  Hebrews 1:1-4 and 4:15.
• We believe that all men everywhere are lost and face the judgment of God, that Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation, and that for the salvation of lost and sinful man, repentance of sin and faith in Jesus Christ results…