Program Lead-Humanitarian Response

Verde Edge Consulting Ltd is recruiting a Program Lead – Humanitarian Response on behalf of its client. The role leads a global humanitarian response fund and crisis-specific giving initiatives, enabling timely response activation, credible partner coordination, effective fundraising, and transparent impact reporting. The position involves managing activation plans, budgets, response tools, cross-functional teams, and risk readiness. It also covers monitoring crises, recommending grant allocations, leading donor-acquisition campaigns, and overseeing post-response reviews.

• Lead the humanitarian response fund and crisis-specific giving initiatives
• Maintain activation plans, procedures, budgets and response tools
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and manage risks, readiness and continuous improvement
• Monitor humanitarian crises and assess response opportunities
• Identify credible partners and grant prospects
• Recommend allocations based on needs, capacity and available funding
• Coordinate approved grant implementation, monitoring and reporting
• Lead fundraising and donor-acquisition campaigns
• Oversee approved messaging and digital giving channels
• Engage donors, champions and strategic partners
• Ensure effective stewardship, transparent impact reporting and dignified storytelling
• Monitor program performance, fundraising targets, response timelines and resource utilisation
• Provide management and governance updates
• Maintain program records
• Lead post-response reviews to strengthen future interventions

• Bachelor's degree in Humanitarian Studies, International Development, Disaster Management, Nonprofit Management, Philanthropy, Business, or a related discipline.
• At least five (5) years of relevant experience, including significant responsibility in humanitarian response, emergency fundraising, crisis grantmaking or a comparable program.
• Direct experience with a humanitarian-response charity, disaster-relief organisation, grantmaking institution, pooled humanitarian fund or similar crisis-response organisation is required.
• Experience in rapid-response activation, humanitarian partner management, grant/allocation recommendations, donor fundraising and post-response reporting is strongly preferred.
• Experience in digital fundraising, campaign analytics, crisis communications or paid donor acquisition is an advantage.
• Familiarity with humanitarian standards, safeguarding, localisation, cross-border grantmaking and relief-to-development approaches is strongly preferred.
• Experience in an international or globally distributed organisation is preferred.
• Strong understanding of humanitarian needs, response actors, funding priorities and coordination in disasters and complex crises, including the transition from relief to recovery and longer-term development.
• Working knowledge of recognised humanitarian standards and relevant UN and international-agency coordination practices.
• Excellent program and project management skills, with the ability to lead complex, time-sensitive, cross-functional initiatives.
• Sound judgement under pressure and ability to make evidence-based recommendations using incomplete or rapidly changing information.
• Strong relationship management, fundraising, donor stewardship and stakeholder engagement skills, supported by excellent written and verbal communication.
• Data-informed approach to KPIs, performance analysis and continuous improvement; commitment to safeguarding and dignified representation of crisis-affected communities.
• Be ready to work in Kenya.