Food and Cash Assistance Project Manager

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Here’s where you come in:

As the Food and Cash Assistance Project Manager, you will provide strategic, operational and technical oversight and management of the food and cash assistance portfolio in compliance to World Vision and donor standards. You will provide leadership that entails planning, supporting and management of the program so that activities and outputs remain on track and the program contributes to its main goal of alleviating suffering among disaster affected and vulnerable communities. Furthermore, you will provide oversight and quality implementation of resilience building initiatives and strengthen integrated programming.

Requirements include:

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture, social sciences, management, business administration, international development or a related field including grant management.
• Field-based international NGO work experience in Food Assistance program leadership, with a minimum of 5 years total development, emergency experience in cash-based and resilience programming in fragile or challenging and complex contexts with the responsibility of overseeing comprehensive food security programs at a senior level.
• Relevant professional experience managing and implementing large emergency response projects in Africa (assessment, proposal development, report writing, and evaluation, etc.)
• Strong English communication skills (both oral and written).
• Willingness to spend at least 30% of the time in the field visiting projects sometimes under difficult living conditions.