Crisis Response Senior Specialist - 2025636
Limited Term, Part-time 32 - 40 USD per-hour-wageJob Overview
Are you a person of compassion? An advocate for justice? Someone who stands up for the rights of the vulnerable and speaks out for the marginalized, the exploited and the forgotten? Do you believe in our calling as Christians to welcome the least of these and love our neighbor?
If you answered ‘yes’, to any of the above, World Relief, and millions of people around the world need you.
At this pivotal moment in time, we are rapidly expanding and growing our team to meet the increasing needs of our world. We are looking for people who want to use their gifts and talents to make a real and tangible difference in our world and the lives of the suffering.
If you’re looking for a purpose-driven career in which you can grow your talents, while also standing up for the rights of the vulnerable, we want you to join us today.
ORGANIZATION SUMMARY
World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization whose mission is to boldly engage the world’s greatest crises in partnership with the church. The organization was founded in the aftermath of World War II to respond to the urgent humanitarian needs of war-torn Europe. Since then, for 80 years, across 100 countries, World Relief has partnered with local churches and communities to build a world where families thrive and communities flourish.
Today, organizational programming focuses on humanitarian and disaster response, community strengthening and resilience, and refugee & immigrant services and advocacy.
POSITION SUMMARY:
US Programs is creating a new Crisis Response Coordination Team across enterprise divisions for the purpose of harnessing and harmonizing unique acumen and capacities that will ensure that clients, partners, and WR staff feel supported, engaged, and rallied to respond to crises. This role will project-manage and coordinate this complex cross-departmental collaboration.
Part-time position for 25 hours per week, with a flexible schedule.
This is a limited-term position funded through a grant agreement until September 30, 2026, and contingent upon funding extension.
Are you a person of compassion? An advocate for justice? Someone who stands up for the rights of the vulnerable and speaks out for the marginalized, the exploited and the forgotten? Do you believe in our calling as Christians to welcome the least of these and love our neighbor?
If you answered ‘yes’, to any of the above, World Relief, and millions of people around the world need you.
At this pivotal moment in time, we are rapidly expanding and growing our team to meet the increasing needs of our world. We are looking for people who want to use their gifts and talents to make a real and tangible difference in our world and the lives of the suffering.
If you’re looking for a purpose-driven career in which you can grow your talents, while also standing up for the rights of the vulnerable, we want you to join us today.
ORGANIZATION SUMMARY
World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization whose mission is to boldly engage the world’s greatest crises in partnership with the church. The organization was founded in the aftermath of World War II to respond to the urgent humanitarian needs of war-torn Europe. Since then, for 80 years, across 100 countries, World Relief has partnered with local churches and communities to build a world where families thrive and communities flourish.
Today, organizational programming focuses on humanitarian and disaster response, community strengthening and resilience, and refugee & immigrant services and advocacy.
POSITION SUMMARY:
US Programs is creating a new Crisis Response Coordination Team across enterprise divisions for the purpose of harnessing and harmonizing unique acumen and capacities that will ensure that clients, partners, and WR staff feel supported, engaged, and rallied to respond to crises. This role will project-manage and coordinate this complex cross-departmental collaboration.
Part-time position for 25 hours per week, with a flexible schedule.
This is a limited-term position funded through a grant agreement until September 30, 2026, and contingent upon funding extension.
ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Establish and maintain structured communication to ensure timely, transparent information sharing across all participating US Programs and Enterprise divisions.
- Act as a central point of contact for crisis response coordination, ensuring staff, leaders, and partners have rapid access to the information they need.
- Assess current workflows and identify gaps or redundancies that hinder rapid crisis response, then design streamlined processes that support collaboration and reduce response time.
- Create clear documentation and workflow maps that outline new procedures, ensuring teams have a consistent operational framework to follow.
- Develop and maintain a master project plan that tracks milestones, deadlines, and owner responsibilities across multiple workstreams.
- Monitor progress toward deliverables, proactively identify delays or blockers, and facilitate solution-oriented discussions to keep the initiative on schedule.
- Facilitate alignment meetings to define scope, assign ownership, and set realistic timelines for each crisis response workstream.
- Provide ongoing guidance to ensure stakeholders understand their roles, expected outputs, and interdependencies with other teams.
- Conduct regular risk assessments to identify emerging challenges in the crisis response coordination process and recommend mitigation strategies.
- Prepare and disseminate timely updates and briefing materials to ensure internal leadership and stakeholders remain informed, aligned, and confident in progress.
- Ensure all coordination meetings are efficient, and outcome oriented by managing agendas, facilitating discussions, and capturing action items.
- Oversee follow up communications and ensure accountability for next steps to maintain project momentum.
The Crisis Response Senior Specialist will be focused narrowly on streams of work flowing through the Crisis Response Coordination Team with key objectives and responsibilities listed as follows:
1. Facilitate clear, timely communication across teams to ensure unified crisis response.
2. Develop new systems and procedures to increase multi-departmental efficiency and cohesion
3. Create and maintain a project plan tracking deliverables, timelines, and key dependencies.
4. Clarify responsibilities, develop timelines, and guide various streams of work
5. Identify and mitigate risks, keep stakeholders informed, and manage expectations.
6. Plan, facilitate, and follow up on meetings to ensure decisions and action items move forward.
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
- Mature and personal Christian faith
- Committed to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief
- Desire to serve and empower the Church to impact vulnerable communities
- Able to affirm and/or acknowledge World Reliefs Core Beliefs, Statement of Faith, Christian Identity and National Association of Evangelicals' For the Health of The Nation document
- Ability to work 15-25 hours per week on a temporary basis through September 30th, 2026
- Previous World Relief experience required; US Office experience preferred
- Bachelor’s degree and/or PMP certification required
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- 5+ years of experience in project management
- Experience coordinating and guiding complex cross-departmental initiatives
- Experience in deploying Asana or other project management software.
- Demonstrated ability to manage projects with limited resources and competing priorities
World Relief offers a competitive benefits package and employee discount program part-time employees (working 25+ hours per week).
World Relief is honored to be recognized with the Gold-level Cigna Healthy Workforce Designation for exceeding the core components of our well-being program including leadership and culture, program foundations and execution, and whole person health.
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Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.
For World Relief staff, strong commitment to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief is essential, and Christian faith is a prerequisite for employment, based upon United States federal guidelines provided in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.