Senior Manager, Humanitarian

Summary

Join GiveDirectly's Humanitarian team as a Senior Manager and play a key role in launching and overseeing rapid cash responses globally. You will drive organizational readiness, design response strategies, manage program implementation, and support fundraising by translating field insights into compelling cases for support. The role involves managing a Program Manager, supporting staffing and budgeting, and managing internal and external relationships. You must be able to travel up to 30-40% of the time, including deploying on short notice to potentially insecure areas. GiveDirectly offers a competitive salary, robust health benefits, flexible paid time off, and allowances for desk setup and learning and development. The position requires strong analytical and problem-solving skills, project management expertise, and excellent communication abilities.

Requirements

• 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
• 4-7+ years of experience in a role focused on problem solving, team management, and/or new business development. Prior humanitarian/emergency experience strongly preferred
• 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
• Strong communications skills: Skilled in speaking, writing, presenting, and negotiating across multiple stakeholders
• 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

Responsibilities

• Design and implement high-quality programming
• Oversee end-to-end design, planning, and execution of improvements to emergency response capabilities, coordinating internal and external stakeholders to ensure successful delivery
• Refine and scale deployment criteria and operational playbooks to accelerate readiness 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
• Define, track, and report on operational efficiency and impact metrics to support performance management and continuous improvement
• Ensure high-quality management of partners, vendors, and subgrantees to drive excellence in program execution
• Assess and advocate for required resources (e.g., budgets, staff) for project success; monitor ongoing utilization and adapt plans to address gaps or overages
• Pursue new funding opportunities and represent the GD Humanitarian team, internally and externally
• In coordination with the Humanitarian Director, Country Directors, and Fundraising teams, identify and pursue response-specific and unrestricted emergency funding opportunities
• Translate field learnings and operational successes into compelling donor proposals, updates, and campaign materials
• Establish and maintain high quality relationships with designated donors and operational partners
• Represent GiveDirectly at external and internal fora, including but not limited to Town Halls, conferences, and media engagements
• Manage and develop high-performing teams
• Manage a Program Manager and support broader surge staffing efforts to ensure GD can respond effectively to Tier 1 disasters
• Support team goal-setting, impact planning, and performance tracking across emergency responses
• Foster talent development through coaching, career planning, and clear accountability, with a focus on building long-term capacity within the team

Preferred Qualifications

• Fundraising: Preference for candidates with a strong partnership and relationship management background
• Fluent in a language other than English, especially French, Portuguese, Arabic, or other languages

Benefits

• A competitive salary, including bonus
• A robust health benefits plan (exact details will vary by country)
• Flexible paid time off
• Allowances for desk set-up and learning and development