Director, Climate and Disaster Resilience (up to $127,750 USD)

Position Title: Director, Climate and Disaster Resilience

Department: Technical Unit

Location: Remote in CT, FL, GA, IL, MD, MA, NY, NC, PA, Puerto Rico, TN, TX, VA, and WA

Key Relationships:

Reports to: Interim VP, Technical Unit

Direct Reports: 1-2

Assignment Type: Full time

Compensation: $116,253 to $127,750

Benefits: Click here to learn more about our benefits!

Application Requirements: Resume Required

About Americares:

Americares is a health-focused relief and development organization that saves lives and improves health for people affected by poverty or disaster. Each year, Americares reaches 85 countries on average, including the United States, with life-changing health programs, medicine, medical supplies, and emergency aid. Americares is one of the world’s leading nonprofit providers of donated medicine and medical supplies. For more information, visit americares.org.

About the position:

The Director of Climate and Disaster Resilience (CDR) will oversee the technical direction of CDR across the organization. The focus will be on leading the growing CDR portfolio, which is focused on building capacity of health centers, advancing the technical quality of Americares’s existing CDR portfolio of projects, serving as a resource across the organization for CDR initiatives and as the CDR spokesperson for Americares. The impact of this role will be to ensure evidence-based standards and international best practices for CDR are integrated across Americares work supporting frontline health centers.

Key Outcomes:

In the first 90 days, the Director will:

• Develop familiarity with the CDR portfolio.
• Build relationships with the various internal and external partners.
• Contribute technically to the advancement of existing projects.

In the first 6 months, the Director will:

• Provide strategic direction to the advancement of the CDR portfolio.
• Closely liaise with the development department for upcoming CDR funding opportunities.
• Support the marketing and communications needs of the CDR portfolio.

In the first year, the Director will:

• Ensure CDR Portfolio has a documented strategic plan, an operational structure, clear avenues for advancement and growth in response to global trends in climate and health.
• Ensure CDR Portfolio existing projects are on target with deliverables.
• Develop relationships across Americares Programs team members and with external CDR partners
• Ensure High-quality CDR contributions to new funding opportunities, abstracts and media events on behalf of Americares.
• Ensure a CDR community of practice is established and operational.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Spearhead the global CDR portfolio advancing Americares position as a thought leader in the CDR space internationally with a focus on CDR for frontline health centers.
• Lead human-centered project design, technical implementation, and evaluation of CDR projects within the existing portfolio and for new funding opportunities which arise.
• Lead the development of a CDR strategy across the organization with explicit consideration for evolving evidence on the effects of climate on human health, beyond immediate disasters and the feasibility of expanding interventions and deepening programming that advances health center resilience to mitigate climate related risks.
• Serve as the CDR spokesperson for Americares representing the organization for media and at external events.
• Advance the role of CDR efforts to ensure the resilience of Americares owned and operated clinics.
• Build and support the management of a new Community of Practice in CDR.
• Work cross-functionally with various Americares departments and external donors.
• Collaborate with Monitoring and Evaluation, Technical Advisor and regional and country programs teams.
• Perform a range of senior managerial functions including but not limited to contributing to annual operational plan development, team budgeting, biweekly technical unit leadership meetings, and staff performance evaluations.
• Other duties as assigned

We’d love to hear from you if…

• You have technical expertise in climate change with a health focus, demonstrated via an academic degree in climate and health, research background, and/or climate-specific DRR or adaptation work experience.
• You are skilled at working (10+) in global public health internationally and/or nationally with non-governmental organizations and health clinics.
• You have the ability to work cross-functionally- engaging with multiple stakeholders and multiple teams and collaborative.
• You have expertise in project cycle management and contribution to funding proposal development.
• You have the ability to set up processes and initiatives.
• You have language skills in at least one of our core languages, other than English: Spanish, Tagalog, Hindi, Kiswahili, Haitian Creole (this would be a plus, but is not a requirement)
• You have US work authorization (required)

Additionally, our core competencies as an organization are:

• Ownership and results
• Communication
• Problem solving
• Equity and inclusion
• Teamwork and conflict resolution
• Leadership
• Prioritization
• Management
• Strategy and planning
• Decision making

We know not all applicants will demonstrate all the competencies we’re looking for, and that women and underrepresented groups tend to not apply unless they meet all the requirements. We encourage you to apply even if you do not check all the boxes above, and we look forward to reviewing your application holistically.

What you can expect:

• Interview with People and Talent (45 Minutes)
• Video interview with Hiring manager and a panel of team members (approximately 2 hours)
• Finalist video interview (approximately 45 minutes)
• Reference check
• Offer!
• Background check and onboarding

As a global health organization, we are committed to ensuring a safe environment for our staff, partners, and visitors. All Americares staff and visitors who are on-site at any of our locations or will be traveling for work are required to be fully vaccinated (which includes a booster, when eligible) against COVID-19 unless an exemption required by law is applicable.

Americares is currently authorized to support remote work employees in the following locations: Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Washington. Please note that we do not provide relocation assistance at this time. #LI-REMOTE

Americares is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

To request a disability accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact us at [email protected].

How to apply

https://americares.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/1345?c=americares