Program Officer, Humanitarian Response - 2025834

Are you a person of compassion? An advocate for justice? Someone who stands up for the rights of the vulnerable and speaks out for the marginalized, the exploited and the forgotten? Do you believe in our calling as Christians to welcome the least of these and love our neighbor?

If you answered ‘yes’, to any of the above, World Relief, and millions of people around the world need you.

At this pivotal moment in time, we are rapidly expanding and growing our team to meet the increasing needs of our world. We are looking for people who want to use their gifts and talents to make a real and tangible difference in our world and the lives of the suffering.

If you’re looking for a purpose-driven career in which you can grow your talents, while also standing up for the rights of the vulnerable, we want you to join us today.

World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization whose mission is to boldly engage the world’s greatest crises in partnership with the church. The organization was founded in the aftermath of World War II to respond to the urgent humanitarian needs of war-torn Europe. Since then, for 80 years, across 100 countries, World Relief has partnered with local churches and communities to build a world where families thrive and communities flourish.

Today, organizational programming focuses on humanitarian and disaster response, community strengthening and resilience, and refugee & immigrant services and advocacy.

The Program Officer role at World Relief is a critical internal liaison function that helps to ensure the smooth operation of grants and programs in an assigned set of country offices. This role, at Humanitarian Response Program Officer will primarily support on US-government funded humanitarian and rapid response grant spanning implementation in at least 5 countries that sit within two existing World Relief Regional Departments.

The PO will report to the Program Lead for Humanitarian Response and is expected to coordinate and support the effective functioning of the grant, including compliance, reporting, budget management and consortium management.

• Serve as primary liaison and point of coordination between grant and assigned set of WR country offices and WR’s various home office departments
• Ensure timely, relevant communication is delivered between consortium Program Management Unit, country office and home office stakeholders
• Ensure assigned countries’ compliance with relevant WR and US government policies and procedures, including CHS standards and organizational core beliefs
• Support periodic review of portfolio strategies and plans to identify additional areas of collaboration, capacity development, investment, etc.
• Support sharing and learning of portfolio management best practices with other Program Officers across International Programs

• Lead and ensure grant/program compliance with US government, consortium and WR knowledge management standards
• Lead setup tasks required for project administration in WR systems, including ERP, payroll, Metrics Portal, etc.
• Keep all internal grant tracking systems (Proposal Pipeline, Active Award and Reporting Trackers, etc.) updated
• Schedule and lead grant/programming review calls as needed
• Support management of sudden/rapid onset crisis information and needs assessments
• Liaise with technical advisors and other HO stakeholders on issues regarding program operations, management, quality and close out as needed

• Support and review grant budgets key performance indicators monthly
• Support creation of annual and rapid activation grant budget(s)
• Provide ongoing oversight and management to general funds and portfolio cash flow needs
• Conduct quality control of various internal reports, to ensure accurate internal fund codes and award pipelines Internal communications, external representation and knowledge management
• Facilitate collection of content (ie. impact stories, data, quotes, photographs and video) from assigned portfolio, grants and programs
• Review and approve final content for assigned portfolio prior to…