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We are currently recruiting a Global Humanitarian Director to join our Programs team.

This is a remote, 18-week fixed-term position, open to candidates based in RI countries of operation.

The Global Humanitarian Director plays a crucial role in Relief International’s response to humanitarian emergencies. Responsible for keeping RI’s standards for humanitarian response up to date – these standards, associated tools, and trainings are used to carry out high quality humanitarian responses in both emergency and protracted crisis settings.

The Head of Sub-Office in North Darfur holds comprehensive responsibility for overseeing the office’s operations, program development, and administrative tasks. This role includes supervising and mentoring the North Darfur sub-office staff, guiding program execution, and ensuring efficient administrative functions.

Reporting directly to the Country Director, with programmatic oversight in conjunction with the Deputy Country Director for Programs, the Head of Sub-Office plays a pivotal role in strategic planning and implementation of initiatives in North Darfur.

As part of the country Programs Team within RI Sudan, the Program Manager (PM) will support Program and Portfolio Management for Sudan’s ECHO project (s). The PM works with the Deputy Country Director of Programmes and Technical Coordinators to provide ongoing support to Sudan program teams.

This position demands a highly dynamic, proactive, autonomous and flexible individual with solid and effective, quality project  cycle  and  grant  management  skills  who  is  ready  to  provide  substantive contributions and explore advancing their leadership capacity for achieving results in a demanding and fast paced environment. An excellent communicator and team player with fluency in English and who is at ease working in a highly diverse team, capable adapting communication styles to different audiences.

Reporting to the Global IT Manager, The Global Automation Specialist, will be a technical expert within the IT team. By using new automated processes that you will create, replacing traditional ways of working, your input will improve overall productivity within the organization.  

You will advise and be the focal point for process automation within RI’s global IT infrastructure, promoting automated workflows, and developing solutions to strengthen workflows and applications.  

Reporting to the Regional Director for the Middle East, the Country Director is responsible for the Yemen mission overall, including high-level representation, fundraising and program development, strategic planning, risk management, program quality, administrative processes, security, and all other aspects vital to ensure the health of the mission. The Country Director must be extremely dynamic, maintain the ability to work on both macro/ strategic and micro/ detail-oriented issues simultaneously, and have strong communication skills in order to work effectively with internal actors at all levels of the organization and external actors including but not limited to donors, government institutions, U.N. agencies, partners and other key stakeholders. Experience working in Yemen or relevant transferrable skills from other complex mission contexts is highly preferred.

Deadline for Submission of Tender Response: Friday, 15 March 2024.

Submission to: [email protected]

Relief International (RI) invites your submission to this Request for Proposal (RFP) for partners to support RIs Medical Supplier Capacity Development Program as per the details in this RFP. RI seeks one or more partners for between 2 and 4 years starting by the end of Q1 2024.

Download detailed Tender Documents from the following link BOX Link:

https://ri.box.com/s/tgzfyyfkukiuap3kk1p1dvamr6dbyk5q

RI reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, and to accept the bid deemed to be in the best interest of RI, and is not bound to accept the lowest-priced bid submitted. RI reserves the right to award contracts to multiple vendors if deemed to be in its best interest. Submissions of unsuccessful candidates may be kept on file for future opportunities.

The Deputy Country Director (DCD) for Programs, reporting directly to the Country Director, will play a pivotal role in enhancing program quality and expanding Sudan’s comprehensive portfolio, which includes community engagement, health, nutrition, protection, livelihoods, and WASH initiatives. Tasked with supervising all strategic program operations and coordination within Relief International’s Sudan Country program, the DCD Programs will work closely with the Sudan Country Director on strategic planning, securing new projects/program opportunities, and the systematic execution, monitoring, and evaluation of projects.

This role involves leading the team of technical program managers and sector leads, managing grants, overseeing reporting, enhancing communications, and ensuring the highest standards of program management. Furthermore, the DCD Programs will serve as an essential conduit between the Sudan program and the regional and global technical teams, bolstering RI’s capacity for networking, fostering strategic partnerships with Clusters, UN Agencies, INGOs, and ensuring robust collaborations with local organizations and communities. Additionally, in the absence of the Country Director, the DCD will assume leadership, supporting both the Country Director and the country teams. This position, based in Port Sudan/Khartoum or remotely, will necessitate travel to field locations across all Sudanese states.

We are excited to be looking for a Climate Advisor, this is a newly created role to join our Global Technical Assistance team

This is a remote position, open to candidates based in US, UK, France or globally.

This role is required to travel to our country offices approximately 30% of the time.

The Climate Advisor will lead a highly collaborative process, to shape and implement RI’s climate adaptation and mitigation vision, strategy and theory of change. Reporting to the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Director (WASH) to ensure a fully integrated approach.

Climate change is dramatically affecting our world. Changing weather patterns are affecting food production, and extreme weather events are gaining in frequency and intensity.

RI’s Climate Advisor is a: 

Programmatic visionary, translating strategy into action and engendering a culture of learning and innovation for excellence in program quality and impact.

Consummate humanitarian voice, articulating RI’s sharpened position and positioning RI as a leader in the humanitarian and development sector, globally.

Team builder and talent developer, working as an integral contributor of the Technical Assistance Department and RI’s Programs team; building team capacity and driving talent development throughout the organization.

Kind contributor to an extraordinary team, contributing to collective problem solving as the organization grapples with complex challenges in high-risk settings.

You will lead on:

Vision & Strategy 

• Drive the implementation of a climate lens in all program design of RI’s core sectors.
• Contributing to expectant action and emergency preparedness and planning.
• Develop RI’s climate strategy and theory of change, through a highly collaborative process.

New Business Development 

• Lead and support program design. Working with sector leads, integrate climate smart approaches into RI’s Health & Nutrition, WASH, Livelihoods, Education, Cash, and Protection programming.
• Support new business development, most notably for donors spanning bilateral (governments), multilateral (UN and EU), Foundations and Corporations, with an eye towards facilitating public-private partnerships.
• Undertake new business development efforts in coordination with the Program Development team and Strategic Partnerships Director to seek out new opportunities – both humanitarian and development.

RI’s Climate Change Adaptation & Mitigation Capacity 

• Provide technical expertise in the development and implementation of climate smart approaches across RI programming.
• Grow and strengthen local, community capacity to prepare for, manage and respond to climate shocks and anticipated impacts of climate change with green, digital and off grid solutions.
• Build RI’s on-the-ground capacity to deliver quality and holistic programming through the use of innovative and entrepreneurial solutions to complex problems.
• Reinforce long-term development by developing relevant approaches and tools, capacity building and technical guidance plans in RI sectors and programs for RI staff and local partners.

• Support emergency preparedness through a lens of anticipatory action and planning for RI country offices
• Identify, document and disseminate best practices within climate change interventions.
• Develop a robust RI community of practice for cross-germination of ideas.
• In partnership with teams across the agency, co-lead and support RI’s agency wide rollout and implementation of environmental risk assessment and management.

Representation & Engagement 

• Shine a light on RI accomplishments, internally and externally.
• Stay updated on climate science, trends, and best practices.
• Work with MEAL teams to plan for climate-specific and multi-sectoral evaluations, to highlight successes and provide learning opportunities.
• Lead representation and engagement efforts in partnership with internal and external stakeholders to influence resource-partners and peers and position RI as a leader in climate change adaptation and mitigation.

• Provide thought leadership in leading climate change initiatives and networks.
• Engage with policymakers, stakeholders, and relevant institutions at local, national, and international levels to advocate for policies that address climate change impacts on vulnerable populations.

Value-Added Partnerships 

• Explore, lead, and facilitate value-added partnerships – at global, regional, and country levels – that add depth and scale to RI’s work and enable greater resilience and long-term community health and wellbeing.

• Serve as RI’s spokesperson on Climate adaptation and mitigation and develop entrepreneurial partnerships with the private sector for durable solutions.

Carbon Credits Program Management 

• Manage RI’s ongoing fuel-efficient stove program in Ghana, known as “Gyapa™. Oversee the sub-award with implementing partner and coordinating Gyapa’s verification, annual reporting, SDG (Sustainable Development Goal) reporting, project design document (PDD) finalization for the third crediting period and working with brokers to sell Gyapa carbon credits. The Gyapa Program is under the Gold Standard™ for which it earns verified emission reductions (commonly known as carbon credits).