Humanitarian Program Manager At Sorasun Foundation
Purpose of Assignment:
The Humanitarian Program Manager leads the planning, coordination, implementation, and quality assurance of all humanitarian interventions within the organization’s Nigeria portfolio.
- They ensure that programs are strategically aligned, contextually relevant, donor-compliant, and impact-driven, meeting the needs of crisis-affected populations.
Core Purpose:
- To provide strategic leadership and operational management to humanitarian programs, ensuring effective response, accountability, coordination, and capacity building of teams and partners.
Job Title: Humanitarian Program Manager
Section: Health
Duration: 6 months
Duty Station: Adamawa state (With frequent travels across the area of operations)
Reports to: Executive Director
Start Date: Immediately
Major Duties And Responsibilities:
Program Leadership & Strategic Direction
Provide overall vision, guidance, and technical direction for humanitarian interventions.
Lead program design, proposal development, and humanitarian strategy formulation.
- Ensure integration of gender, protection, and resilience across all interventions.
- Maintain strong alignment with national humanitarian response plans and cluster strategies.
- Represent the organization in humanitarian coordination forums, clusters, and donor briefings.
Representation
Represent the organization at task force meetings, assessment, coordination meetings as needed.
Liaise with Government on matters related to the program to ensure programmatic accountability as needed .
- Participate in media relations, public outreach and awareness initiatives, including coordinating and responding to inquiries, acting as a spokesperson, or identifying and preparing spokespeople for local, national and international media at the request of the Communications department.
Participate in coordination meetings and communicate relevant information to Executive Director and other health staff as needed.
Qualification & Competencies
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Education & Other Skill:
- A minimum of BSc in Social sciences/Administration or its equivalent.
Work Experience:
Minimum four (4) years of progressive humanitarian experience, with 2+ years in a leadership/managerial role.
Proven experience in planning, programming, implementation monitoring and evaluation of project/program.
- Strong project management, proposal writing, and budget monitoring skills.
- Excellent understanding of humanitarian principles, cluster coordination, and nexus approaches.
- Knowledge of donor frameworks.
- Proficiency in data-driven management and report writing.
Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Strategic Thinking & Decision-Making
- Adaptability and Context Awareness
- Team Building & Coaching
- Accountability and Integrity
- Partnership and Networking
- Innovation and Problem Solving
- Gender Sensitivity and Inclusion
Language Proficiency:
- Fluency in English and local working language of the duty station will be an asset.
Closing date: 12th November 2025.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Resume and Cover Letter to:
using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.
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