HEROS 2.0 Programme Director

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership and direction across all programme workstreams.
• Serve as the senior point of contact for programme performance and client engagement.
• Lead a geographically dispersed team delivering humanitarian response, logistics, and technical assistance activities.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with HMG, multilateral agencies, suppliers, and implementing partners.
• Oversee programme governance, risk management, contractual compliance, and financial performance.
• Drive innovation and champion technology-enabled solutions that improve humanitarian and stabilisation outcomes.
• Ensure rapid, effective, and accountable responses to emerging crises and complex operating environments.
• Foster collaboration across the Chemonics global network to maximise expertise, learning, and impact.
• Deliver against agreed KPIs, service levels, and contractual milestones.

We Are Interested In Hearing From Candidates Who Have

• Significant leadership experience managing large, complex programmes, ideally for major international donors.
• A proven track record of setting strategic direction across multiple workstreams while balancing humanitarian, security, and political priorities.
• Experience engaging and negotiating with senior stakeholders across large organisations and, ideally, government clients.
• Experience managing portfolios of projects, humanitarian logistics and supply chains, and technical assistance deployments.
• Extensive experience leading humanitarian or emergency response operations, including field-based delivery.
• A strong understanding of innovation and the application of technology-enabled solutions within humanitarian and/or stabilisation contexts.
• Excellent people leadership, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated experience managing large budgets, contractual performance, risk, and value for money.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities, with the ability to remain calm and effective in complex environments.
• Commercial awareness and the ability to contribute to organisational growth and long-term success.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.

Desirable Experience

• Formal programme management qualifications or equivalent expertise.
• Experience working within HMG or the multilateral humanitarian system.
• Fluency in an additional official UN language.

Register Your Interest

This is a scoping opportunity intended to identify and engage with potential candidates ahead of an anticipated bid.

If you are an experienced humanitarian leader with a passion for delivering impact at scale and shaping the future of UK-funded crisis response, and you meet the above criteria, we would welcome a confidential conversation.

Chemonics is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics.

Safeguarding

At Chemonics, safeguarding – protecting a person’s right to live safely, free from violence, abuse, and neglect – is integral to the work we do. We integrate safeguarding measures to protect our staff, partners, and communities from all forms of violence and apply a survivor-centered approach that is trauma-sensitive, human-rights informed, intersectional, and locally led.

All job applicants will complete a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) basic check or equivalent overseas police check will be obtained for Chemonics employees prior to their start date.