CARIBBEAN HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE LEAD

JOB SUMMARY:

Location: This position is open to candidates based in countries where CARE Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has an established office, including Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, the United States, and the Caribbean Islands. The successful candidate will be hired through the applicable CARE office in their country of residence and must have legal authorization to work there.

Provides strategic leadership, coordination, and oversight for CARE’s Caribbean Humanitarian Partnership Platform (CHPP), strengthening locally led humanitarian preparedness and response across the Caribbean region. The role leads regional humanitarian strategy, external representation, emergency response coordination, resource mobilization, and partner engagement, while ensuring strong alignment with CARE’s humanitarian priorities, partnership principles, and commitments to gender equality and localization. The position works closely with regional and global stakeholders, humanitarian partners, donors, and CARE teams to strengthen collaborative, timely, and effective humanitarian action across the region.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Leadership and Management of the Caribbean Humanitarian Partnership Platform (CHPP) 

• Serve as CARE’s Co-convener of the Caribbean Humanitarian Partnership Platform (CHPP), providing overall leadership, vision, and strategic direction for the platform.
• Oversee the full portfolio of CHPP work across the region, ensuring alignment with CARE’s humanitarian strategy and locally led response commitments.
• Lead internal coordination across CARE teams to ensure coherent support to CHPP partners, including program quality, fundraising, communications, and operations.
• Manage relationships with CHPP member organizations, ensuring strong engagement, accountability, and equitable partnership practices.
• Guide the evolution of CHPP as a regional mechanism for timely, scalable, and locally led humanitarian response.

External Coordination, Representation, and Advocacy 

• Represent CARE and CHPP in regional and international coordination platforms, including disaster management agencies, UN mechanisms, and sector working groups.
• Lead external engagement with governments, donors, and peer organizations to strengthen recognition and support for locally led humanitarian response models.
• Drive advocacy efforts that elevate the role of local and women-led organizations in humanitarian action.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships that enhance coordination, influence, and resource mobilization.

Program Strategy, Design, and Emergency Response Leadership 

• Lead the design and implementation of regional humanitarian programs across preparedness, response, and early recovery.
• Provide technical leadership in multi-sector program design (e.g., cash, WASH, shelter, food security, protection), ensuring quality and innovation.
• Oversee activation and implementation of emergency responses, including partner-led interventions and surge support.
• Ensure integration of gender equality, protection, and accountability to affected populations across all programming.

Program Support, Operations, and Funding Mechanisms Oversight 

• Oversee operational systems that enable rapid and effective humanitarian response, including pre-positioned funding mechanisms and partner disbursement processes
• Ensure strong coordination with finance, logistics, HR, and compliance teams to support efficient program delivery.
• Monitor program implementation to ensure adherence to CARE standards, donor requirements, and accountability frameworks.
• Identify and address operational bottlenecks that may impact response speed or quality.
• Communications, Resource Mobilization, and Learning (15%)
• Lead development of communications and advocacy products that highlight CHPP impact and elevate partner voices.
• Support and lead fundraising efforts, including proposal development, donor engagement, and identification of innovative financing mechanisms.
• Promote learning and knowledge sharing across CHPP and CARE, capturing best practices and lessons learned.
• Contribute to CARE’s thought leadership on locally led humanitarian action at regional and global levels