Vice President, Program Design and Impact

Department: Technical Team

Location(s): Hybrid or Remote - Silver Spring, MD or New York, NY or United States

HIAS seeks a Vice President, Programmatic Design and Impact to provide senior leadership for the organization’s global program quality, technical excellence, evidence, learning, and impact agenda. The Vice President is accountable for ensuring that HIAS programs are strategically aligned, evidence-based, responsive to affected populations, and consistently delivered in accordance with organizational priorities, humanitarian principles, and recognized global standards.

Reporting to the Chief Programs Officer and serving as a member of the Programs Leadership Team, the Vice President establishes the organizational frameworks, standards, and capabilities required to design high-quality programs, measure and demonstrate results, strengthen accountability, and translate evidence into strategic and programmatic decisions. The role leads a global team of technical professionals, advises executive and program leadership, and represents HIAS with donors, partners, and sector stakeholders to strengthen programmatic impact, organizational learning, and funding competitiveness.

Note, this position is based at our headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland or our office in New York, New York, and we will consider a remote option for applicants who live outside of commuting distance to either of our offices and are based in other states in which we are registered (California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia).

The salary range for this position is $,000.00.

• Establishes and directs HIAS’s global program design, technical excellence, and program quality strategy, ensuring that programs achieve measurable results and advance organizational priorities.
• Sets organization-wide standards for program quality, evidence-based practice, protection mainstreaming, and safe and accountable programming, and is accountable for their consistent application across HIAS operations.
• Advises the Chief Programs Officer and senior leadership on programmatic priorities, emerging risks, sector developments, and investments needed to strengthen organizational impact and long-term program capability.
• Determines when corrective action or additional organizational investment is required to address significant program quality, technical, or performance risks.

• Provides strategic leadership and oversight of HIAS' monitoring, evaluation, accountability, learning, research, and program data management functions, ensuring the organization can effectively measure, demonstrate, and improve program impact.
• Oversees the development and continuous improvement of organizational frameworks, systems, standards, tools, operating models, and governance approaches for MEAL and program data management.
• Leads the generation, stewardship, analysis, and use of programmatic evidence and data, ensuring findings inform strategy, program adaptation, resource allocation, accountability, and organizational learning.
• Determines organizational data management and stewardship initiatives, including systems, dashboards, databases, data standards, and governance processes that strengthen data quality, protection, comparability, and use across HIAS operations.
• Drives evaluations, assessments, research, and learning initiatives that generate evidence on program effectiveness and contribute to organizational and sector-wide learning.
• Is accountable for the development of measurement and data…