Emergency and Early Recovery Program Manager II, Gaza

Overview

Job Summary

The Program Manager leads and provides management and strategic oversight to components of Gaza emergency and early recovery programming. The Program Manager manages a multi‑donor portfolio and, through strong project management skills, ensures that effective systems and processes are in place to support high‑quality programming in a constantly changing context. Based in Gaza, the Program Manager II plays a key role in ensuring strong coordination across teams to enable effective project design and implementation—particularly for food security and emerging urban livelihoods.

He/she is also involved in close collaboration with other sectors, including shelter, WASH, psychosocial support (PSS), supply chain, and operations. Strong management skills and technical expertise help ensure that the Country Program delivers high‑quality programming and continually enhances the impact of its emergency response efforts while ensuring a responsive approach to early recovery.

Roles and Key Responsibilities

• Provide management, guidance, and technical oversight of all new and existing projects within the early recovery portfolio throughout the project cycle to ensure project design, start‑up, implementation and close‑out are in line with CRS quality principles and standards, donor guidelines, and industry best practices. Provide leadership in implementing and adapting Gaza’s Early Recovery and Livelihoods Strategy, ensuring integration across projects and alignment with agency priorities and contextual needs.
• Effectively manage talent and supervise teams, ensuring strong coordination among them, while fostering positive team dynamics and supporting staff well‑being. Provide coaching, strategically tailored individual development plans, and complete performance management for direct reports.
• Lead the development of program learning—identify opportunities for learning, research and publications in the area of Early Recovery and implementation of MEAL policy. Facilitate the dissemination of promising practices and lessons learned to contribute to the agency’s knowledge management agenda. Ensure integration of innovations and best practices.
• Contribute to the proactive pursuit of opportunities for new funding to ensure growth of the Food Security and Urban Livelihoods portfolio in line with agency, regional, and Emergency Response and Recovery strategic priorities. Serve as the technical lead and/or coordinate with relevant technical advisors to ensure quality proposals per agency and donor standards. Contribute to budgeting and staffing plans and activities for proposals.
• Oversee technical assistance and capacity strengthening activities in Early Recovery for staff and partner organizations to enhance program quality and impact.
• Oversee the identification, assessment and strengthening of partnerships relevant to Food Security and Urban Livelihoods and the appropriate application of partnership concepts, tools and approaches.
• Ensure timely and appropriate project expenditures are in line with financial plans and efficient use and stewardship of project material sources.

Knowledge,

Skills and Abilities

• MEAL skills and experience required.
• Staff management experience and abilities that are conducive to a learning environment.
• Experience using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), web conferencing applications, information management systems.
• Good experience in project grants management, including project design, preferably for grants from multiple public donors, including USG funding.
• Demonstrated ability to write high quality technical proposals and reports.
• Experience engaging with partner organizations and in capacity strengthening.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with ability to make sound judgment and decisions and offer innovative solutions.
• Strong relations management abilities. Ability to relate to people at all levels internally and externally.
• Strong emotional intelligence and soft skills to support teams working under high levels of stress.
• Proactive, resourceful, solutions‑oriented and results‑oriented.

Required Languages
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English fluency (written and verbal) is…