PROGRAM OFFICER, HEALTH EQUITY AND RIGHTS

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.

CARE is seeking a Program Officer, who will provide programmatic and administrative support to the Health Equity and Rights (HER) Team, Senior Director and the VP Program Strategy and Impact. This position will provide general team support as well as support to specific projects, including, but not limited to supporting the Senior Director and VP PSI administratively; keeping abreast of the various restrictive grant timelines and project deliverables for the Senior Director and VP/PSI working closely with Director of Business Operations and Finances; managing the revenue tracker related to USG funding, Foundation funding, Corporate and Private individual donor funding including the Fast and Fair Vaccine Response campaign in collaboration with the Director for Resource Mobilization and Knowledge Management; proactively reaching out on behalf of the Senior Director and HER Leadership to key individuals in the global public health network to ensure engagement with the HER team; facilitating the scheduling of webinars, internal and external meetings, both virtual and in-person efficiently and independently; designing state-of-the art Power Point presentations for the HER team and for the Senior Director and, coordinating team events and coming up with ideas to boost HER team morale by engaging with HER Team members on a rotating basis. Coordination of PSI Townhall agenda and scheduling as well as HER Team agenda, coordination and scheduling. Content development and communication on behalf of the HER Senior Director and VP PSI.

Responsibilities:

• Program administration
• Database management
• Donor, Partner and Country Office Engagement
• Knowledge Sharing
• Perform other Health Equity and Rights team and VP PSI duties, as needed.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Social Sciences or related field
• Proactive, communicative and disciplined professional persona that is engaged and flexible
• Understanding of the concepts of global public health programming including program design, implementation, management, monitoring, evaluation and reporting as well as revenue generation and tracking
• Study and/or experience in low and middle income countries in the Global South
• Culture, context and history
• Advanced skills in cleaning, entering, aggregating and generating reports from data using MS Excel
• Advanced skills in the use of Microsoft Office Suite esp PowerPoint, Publisher and Word in order to prepare state-of-the-art donor presentations and reports
• Ability to work comfortably, seamlessly and remotely 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)