PROGRAM OFFICER PSI

CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in more than 90 countries. We create local solutions to poverty and inequality and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis. These solutions have a broad range, from clean water to access to education; from microfinance to ensuring that everyone has nutritious food; from agriculture and climate change to disaster response. CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because they have proven to be the best hope for creating lasting change in the world. Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face. We’ve been doing this for over 70 years, since World War II. It started with the world’s first CARE Package® of food for the post-war hungry in Europe. Our work today is as important as ever, we believe that poverty and inequality are historic injustices that we can end within a generation, for good. If you share our core beliefs: poverty is an injustice; poverty is solvable; and together, we have the power to end it, join us, and fight with CARE.

The Program Officer position provides operational, events, administrative, and programmatic support to the office of the Vice President for Program Strategy and Impact (VP of PSI). The Program Officer will be responsible for the successful execution of day to day team operational needs, including but not limited to coordinating meetings and event planning (logistics, set up IT, etc.); maintaining team file and knowledge repositories and online platforms; managing consultant contracts and procurement and human resources processes. The incumbent supports the VP of PSI in communications, research and analyses, team coordination and follow up and support to strategic partnerships both internal and external to CARE. The position also provides programmatice and administrative support to the newly established Climate Justice team. The incumbent is expected to proactively reach out on behalf of the VP of PSI to key individuals and stakeholders to ensure engagement with the PSI team; facilitating the scheduling of webinars, internal and external meetings and events, both virtual and in-person efficiently and independently; designing Power Point presentations for the PSI VP and, coordinating team events and coming up with ideas to boost PSI team morale by engaging with PSI SLT. Coordination of PSI Townhall agenda and scheduling, coordination of VP scheduling, Content development and communication on behalf of the PSI VP are among the responsibilities the position will be expected to perform.

The position reports directly to PSI VP and expected to collaborate with other teams under PSI including the Health, Equity & Rights team, Climate Justice, the Education team, Gender Justice and the Food and Water Systems teams. The position is also expected to work closely with heads of each of these units and with PSI’s Director of Program Strategy. The Program Officer will also work with finance, procurement, P&C and other internal units as required. The amount of time dedicated to each responsibility in this job may vary significantly depending on the overall PSI work plan and activities, so the amount of time spent on any specific responsibility will vary and will be allocated in regular discussion with the VP.

Responsibilities:

• Coordination, Communication, Meetings and Events
• Operations and Administrative Support
• Donor, Partner and Country Office Engagement
• Programmatic Support
• Knowledge Sharing
• Perform other PSI desired duties, as needed.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in International development, business, Public Health, Social Sciences or related field.
• Fluency in Spanish and French or other major international language
• At least 2 years relevant work experience
• Proactive, communicative and disciplined professional persona that is engaged and flexible.
• Advanced skills in the use of Microsoft Office Suite esp PowerPoint, Publisher and Word in order to prepare state-of-the-art power point presentations and reports
• Ability to work in a diverse multi-cultural team across time zones and geographies
• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher) – advanced skills
• Knowledge of knowledge sharing and management platforms (Sharepoint)