Emergency Program Manager , Jamaica; Global Remote

Job Title

Hurricane Melissa Emergency Response Project Manager I

** This is a remote position with deployment to Jamaica. Candidates based in countries where CRS is registered to work will be prioritized.**

Length of Assignment: 12 months with potential extension, pending funding

Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS' relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance, and peace building.

The Humanitarian Response Department (HRD) provides leadership and support to CRS emergency programming. The HRD strengthens CRS' impact through high quality, innovative programs; improved technical and management capacity at the field level; and active engagement in global efforts to promote excellence and learning in humanitarian response.

The EMPOWER (Empowering Partner Organizations Working on Emergency Responses) project is a joint initiative piloted in FY18 of the CRS Latin American and Caribbean Regional Office and the Humanitarian Response Department (HRD). In 2020, CRS expanded this program to Central America and Mexico and it continues to grow a team of LACRO-based emergency responders whose primary role is to support strengthening the emergency response capacity of local partners response in the Caribbean, South and Central America and Mexico and support them implementing high quality emergency responses.

Through EMPOWER, CRS staff accompany local organizations in institutional capacity self-assessments. Based on self-assessment results, as well as institutional mission, vision, and strategy, participating local organizations develop institutional strengthening plans. In response to expressed priorities and requests, CRS provides participating organizations with demand driven technical resources, support, training and accompaniment, and organizes zonal and regional workshops to facilitate shared learning and strengthening of peer networks among local and national humanitarian response organizations.

Job Summary

You will be seconded to Caritas Antilles in Jamaica to support the Hurricane Melissa Emergency Response implementing projects advancing Catholic Relief Services' (CRS) work in localization and serving the poor and vulnerable. Your management skills and knowledge will ensure that the local partner delivers high-quality programming and continuously works towards improving the impact of its programming.

The PM I will work closely with Caritas Antilles and the Dioceses in Jamaica's Melissa emergency response and their primary role will be to strengthen the emergency response and early recovery capacity of local partners and support these partners in implementing high quality emergency and early recovery projects in response to hurricane Melissa. Caritas Antilles, in partnership with its diocesan networks and with technical accompaniment from CRS under the EMPOWER program, is implementing a multi-funded response including emergency relief distribution, shelter, disaster risk reduction, multi-purpose cash assistance, livelihood recovery, and strengthened pathways into Jamaica's national social protection system.

To further strengthen delivery capacity during this critical phase, CRS will deploy a PM I to Caritas Antilles to provide operational support, coordination, technical support, and systems strengthening, ensuring alignment across funding streams (AMBFF, IRUSA, Caritas Internationalis (CI), Private Foundations, and future mobilizations, including a potential US Department of State early recovery project where Caritas Antilles will be the prime recipient).

The seconded PM I will support Caritas Antilles in managing the Melissa response portfolio, ensuring timely, coordinated, safe, and quality program delivery. The role will provide hands-on operational support while also strengthening systems, workflows, and implementation capacity of diocesan teams in Jamaica. The position will…