Senior Manager, Emergency Cash Delivery

📋 Description

• • As a Senior Manager on the Humanitarian team at GiveDirectly, you will play a key role in launching and overseeing rapid cash responses globally, driving organizational readiness, designing response strategies, managing program implementation, and supporting fundraising by translating field insights into compelling cases for support.
• • Day to day, you will oversee end-to-end design, planning, and execution of emergency response improvements; conduct operational diligence and risk assessments for disaster responses; define and track operational efficiency and impact metrics; manage partners, vendors, and subgrantees; assess and advocate for required resources; pursue funding opportunities; translate field learnings into donor proposals and campaign materials; represent GiveDirectly at external and internal fora; manage a Program Manager and support surge staffing; support team goal-setting and performance tracking; and foster talent development through coaching and career planning.
• • GiveDirectly is a global nonprofit that has delivered cash to over 2 million people in 15 countries since 2011, aiming to reshape international giving by providing direct cash grants to the world’s poorest. The organization operates with a candid, analytical, agile, and non-hierarchical culture, with a global team of ~150 and country operations teams of ~650 spanning 21 countries and 69 languages. Its values center the people served, emphasize high ownership, flexibility, mutual support, fun, and professional growth.
• • In this role, you can learn to lead large-scale humanitarian emergency responses at a fast-growing, innovative nonprofit; deepen expertise in cash transfer programming in crisis contexts; build and manage high-performing teams under ambiguity; develop advanced fundraising and donor engagement skills; and contribute to evidence-based advocacy that shapes global aid practices while advancing your career in a mission-driven, high-impact environment.