Director, Humanitarian
PrivateDoc
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $128,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Lead GiveDirectly’s humanitarian response portfolio, identifying new opportunities for cash-based interventions in crisis settings
- Develop strategic relationships with humanitarian agencies, donors, and governments to scale cash programming and coordinate responses
- Oversee scoping, program design, and rapid deployment for new responses, ensuring operational feasibility and alignment with humanitarian standards
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Tech, Operations, Comms) to ensure programs are delivered quickly, safely, and effectively
- Maintain strong compliance, safeguarding, and risk management practices across all humanitarian contexts
- Serve as a thought leader and advocate for direct giving as a humanitarian tool at global forums, conferences, and with media
- Support humanitarian program leads, fostering a culture of inclusivity, learning, and ownership
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in humanitarian programming
- Significant time spent in field-based roles managing multi-country or large-scale operations
- Strong understanding of humanitarian systems, including coordination mechanisms (UN clusters, INGO networks), donor engagement, and response frameworks
- Proven experience designing and managing cash and voucher assistance (CVA) or similar direct aid programs
- Demonstrated leadership, problem solving, and critical thinking in high-pressure, uncertain environments
- Excellent cross-cultural communication and ability to lead diverse, distributed teams
- Commitment to fostering inclusivity and equity, both internally and externally
- Fluency in English (required), additional languages such as French preferred
Benefits
- Generously and equitably compensated
- No negotiation policy to ensure equity across roles
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
humanitarian programmingcash-based interventionsprogram designcash and voucher assistancerisk managementcompliancedonor engagementresponse frameworkscoordination mechanismsmulti-country operations
Soft skills
leadershipproblem solvingcritical thinkingcross-cultural communicationinclusivityequityteam leadershipcollaborationadvocacythought leadership