The Humanitarian Programme Officer (HPO) is a core member of Christian Aid Ireland (CAI)’s humanitarian team, responsible for managing and contributing to the delivery and growth of CAI’s humanitarian portfolio across a range of institutional donors and funding mechanisms. The HPO leads the full grant cycle – including programme design, proposal development, implementation, monitoring, compliance, reporting, and close-out – ensuring high-quality delivery aligned with donor and organisational requirements.

The postholder will be responsible for ensuring that programme and grant information is accurately and consistently recorded in Christian Aid’s programme management systems, including iPIMS, in line with organisational standards.

The postholder provides technical and operational support across CAI’s humanitarian, resilience, and climate programmes, including humanitarian response (Sclr, Cash Programming, WaSH, Food Security, Shelter), peacebuilding and conflict prevention, gender-based violence prevention and response, resilience building, and climate change adaptation.

The HPO works closely with colleagues across CAI and Christian Aid globally, as well as with regional and country teams and national and local implementing partners. The role involves overseas travel to fragile and crisis-affected contexts and providing surge capacity during early stages of emergency responses.

The postholder will be expected to undertake other reasonable duties consistent with the nature and level of this role, including responding to organisational and donor priorities as required. While the role may have a primary focus on particular donors or funding streams at any given time, the postholder will work as part of a wider humanitarian team and may contribute, as required, to other donor portfolios and humanitarian initiatives in line with organisational priorities.

Essential:

• Degree-level qualification or equivalent in a relevant field.
• Minimum 5 years’ international development experience, ideally humanitarian work, including overseas experience.
• Proven experience managing institutional donor funding, particularly Irish Aid and ECHO.
• Strong track record in high-quality proposal development and donor reporting.
• Knowledge of humanitarian principles and international standards (e.g., SPHERE, Red Cross Code of Conduct, Core Humanitarian Standards).
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Strong relationship-building and cross-cultural collaboration skills.
• Ability to work under pressure, manage multiple priorities, and adapt creatively to changing circumstances.
• High level of administrative and organisational competence, including effective meeting management.
• Strong computer literacy.

Desirable:

• Professional experience living and working in disaster-affected countries.
• Knowledge of global development issues, humanitarian policy, and advocacy.
• Experience supporting security management initiatives.
• Technical expertise in humanitarian sectors (e.g. Food Security, Shelter, WaSH, Cash Programming)
• Working experience and knowledge of peacebuilding, gender-based violence prevention and response, resilience building, climate change adaptation
• Experience in capacity-building of staff and partner organisations.
• Written or spoken French or Spanish.

This role will preferably be based in Dublin but other locations in ROI/UK will be considered.   As advertised the Dublin salary is £46461, if based in UK the salary will be £35,994.

A hybrid working arrangement is available, in addition we offer a very generous benefits package.