About CRS 

Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform the lives of people in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion, or nationality. CRS’s relief and development work is carried out through programs in emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance, and peacebuilding. 

Job Summary 

The EMPOWER (Empowering Partner Organizations Working in Emergency Response) program is an initiative that started in 2018 and is currently in its 4th phase. Under Catholic Relief Services’ (CRS) Humanitarian Response Department (HRD), EMPOWER has recently transitioned to a Global Structure, focusing on partner capacity strengthening in emergency response in Latin America and the Caribbean, and Central & West Africa, with a structure able to expand into other regions as applicable.

The objectives o...