About this role
- GiveDirectly is scaling its emergency response operations to reach
more people, faster, with cash in the wake of crises. As a Manager on the
Humanitarian team, you will play a critical role in supporting the design
and delivery of rapid cash responses globally. You’ll coordinate program
implementation, manage day-to-day operations, and contribute to
fundraising efforts by documenting field insights and preparing donor
materials.
Managers are expected to:
- Execute high-quality program delivery in collaboration with
cross-functional teams
- Manage projects and workstreams with a focus on operational
excellence and continuous improvement.
- Support internal and external relationships, including partners,
vendors, and donors.
Travel Requirement:
- Must be able to travel up to 50-60% of the time including ~2 times
per year for team retreats. Must be able to deploy on short notice in
response to an emergency. This role incurs travel to potentially insecure
areas.
Responsibilities
Design
and implement high-quality programming:
- Coordinate design, planning, and execution of emergency response
operations, ensuring timelines and quality standards are met.
- Apply operational playbooks and deployment criteria to rapidly set
up response programs across a growing number of countries.
- Conduct operational diligence, feasibility, and risk assessments for
individual disaster responses, ensuring alignment with organizational
goals and context realities.
- Track and report on program metrics to support learning and
performance management.
- Liaise with partners, vendors, and subgrantees to ensure smooth
execution.
- Become an expert in GiveDirectly’s tech systems and processes
(Salesforce, CommCare, Jira, etc.) to support project execution and
excellence
Project
and team coordination
- Manage day-to-day activities of designated response, including field
staff tasking and coordination with surge teams
- Provide coaching and mentorship to junior staff or surge team
members during deployments
- Contribute to team goal-setting, impact tracking, and knowledge
sharing
Strategic
and external contributions
- May be asked to support new business development, donor reporting,
or appeal materials, most often by translating field updates into
compelling content.
- Represent GiveDirectly in select internal and external forums (e.g.
Cash Working Groups)
- Ad hoc strategy and/or capability investment projects that advance
GiveDirectly’s global response capacity.
Qualifications
- Alignment with GiveDirectly Values: exceptional alignment with
values and an active demonstration of our core competencies: emotional
intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and
fostering inclusivity.
- 3-5+ years of experience in a role focused on problem solving,
team management, and/or new business development, including prior
humanitarian/emergency experience
- Analytical problem solving: looks at problems with an analytical and
iterative mindset, with strong framework for prioritization and ability to
put structure and process to ambiguous problems.
- Strong project management skills and the ability to manage
multiple workstreams, prioritize/explicitly deprioritize, and hold a high
quality bar.
- Strong technical skills, including data analysis and ease with
learning new third-party tech platforms and tools.
- Fundraising: Preference for candidates with a strong
partnership and relationship management background.
- Strong communications skills: Skilled in speaking, writing,
presenting, and negotiating across multiple stakeholders.
- Ability to orient in new context quickly, rapidly understanding
unfamiliar environments, stakeholders, and processes, with a track record
of setting up effective systems in dynamic situations.
- Enthusiasm for fast-paced environments, which may lack pre-defined
playbook for success and involve significant “learning by doing.” Comfort
with ambiguity and building systems from scratch.
Nice to have:
- Fluent in a language other than English, especially French,
Portuguese, Arabic, or other languages.
- Prior experience with humanitarian cash-based programming
Compensation
- Unless otherwise noted, the benefits stipend may be used to cover
benefits or taken as additional taxable income.
Kenya
- Base Salary: $61,900
- Bonus at Target Performance: 10% (~$6,190 with potential for
upside. For reference, with the organization’s current performance
multiplier, this amount would be $7,242)
- Estimated Total Compensation at Target: $68,090
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