Are you passionate about leading humanitarian efforts that make a transformative impact on communities in crisis? Are you driven to ensure responses are locally led and gender equal, while navigating complex humanitarian environments? CARE is seeking an experienced Regional Humanitarian Director (RHD) to lead our humanitarian strategy and responses across [region], ensuring we are well-prepared to deliver impactful solutions when disaster strikes.

Role Summary:

As the Regional Humanitarian Director, you will be at the forefront of CARE’s humanitarian response, deploying rapidly to lead and bolster crisis response in partnership with CARE Country Offices and local partners. You will oversee strategic planning, ensuring responses are aligned with our global mission and humanitarian principles, while prioritizing gender equality and localization. With the ability to stay on the ground for up to three months during deployments, your leadership will ensure effective, timely, and contextually relevant humanitarian action.

You will collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, including UN agencies, donors, and regional partners, to advocate for CARE’s humanitarian goals. You’ll also provide strategic oversight for emergency preparedness across the region, ensuring our teams and local partners are ready to respond to any crisis.

Key Responsibilities:

• Humanitarian Leadership: Lead CARE’s response efforts, coordinating rapid deployments, and managing high-impact humanitarian programs.
• Strategic Vision: Develop and implement a regional humanitarian strategy in line with CARE’s mission, focusing on gender equality, localization, and accountability.
• Regional Representation: Build CARE’s profile by representing our humanitarian work to key stakeholders, including donors and UN agencies, strengthening partnerships to enhance our responses.
• Program Quality: Ensure humanitarian programs meet the highest standards, align with the needs of affected populations, and deliver sustainable, long-term outcomes.
• Capacity Building: Strengthen the preparedness and response capacities of CARE’s country offices and local partners, providing mentorship and leadership development to humanitarian leaders across the region.

What You’ll Bring:

• Experience: 10+ years in humanitarian preparedness, response, and risk reduction, with a deep understanding of humanitarian standards (CORE, SPHERE, Grand Bargain).
• Leadership: Proven ability to lead large-scale emergency responses, with a focus on gender equality and accountability in humanitarian programs.
• Collaboration: Strong experience in external representation, working with key humanitarian stakeholders like UN agencies, donors, and INGOs.
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to design and implement humanitarian strategies that align with both local and global goals.
• Communication: High-level written and verbal communication skills, with fluency in English and French.

Why CARE?

At CARE, we are committed to making a real difference. Our humanitarian work is driven by the values of compassion, innovation, and a relentless focus on the needs of the most vulnerable, especially women and girls. Join a team that prioritizes locally led action, where you’ll have the opportunity to influence regional humanitarian policies and directly impact communities facing crisis.

If you’re ready to lead life-saving initiatives and ensure humanitarian programs that change lives for the better, apply today to become CARE’s Regional Humanitarian Director.

How to apply

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