Technical Advisor I - Safe and Dignified Programming

***Position duration: 18 months (tentative July 1, 2026 – December 31, 2027\)*** **Note: This is a global remote position.** **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* lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding. **Job Summary** You will provide technical advice and support to a range of program design and implementation issues in the area of Safe and Dignified Programming in line with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) program quality principles and standards, donor guidelines, and industry best practices to CRS and partner teams to advance the delivery of high\-quality programming to the poor and vulnerable . Your advice, knowledge, and support will contribute to determining how effective, adaptive and innovative CRS’ Safe and Dignified Programming is across the globe. **Roles and Key Responsibilities** * Support the development and contribute to the implementation of agency\-wide strategies, standards, tools and best practices in Safe and Dignified Programming that effectively engage partners, donors, and governments . Help ensure a cross\-sectoral approach integrating gender, protection mainstreaming, and disaster risk reduction. * Provide technical solutions to project teams, remotely and on\-site, for strategic planning and how to best apply standards , best practices, partnership principles, tools and M\&E, helping to ensure high\-quality implementation. * Contribute to the development of the technical design for proposals. Support the process of preparation, design, submission and approval of project concepts and full\-fledged proposals. As needed, act as a technical writer on proposal development teams. Advise project teams on integrating donor strategies, priorities and technical requirements into CRS’ approach. * Support capacity strengthening initiatives in Safe and Dignified Programming for staff and partners through helping develop learning and training strategies and agendas/curriculums, conducting trainings and workshops, and coaching. * Collect and analyze program data, capture and share lessons learned and best practices for specific projects to facilitate improvements in decision\-making and contribute to the Safe and Dignified Programming learning agenda . Contribute to maintaining relationships with donors, peer organizations, research and other institutions, participate in forums in Safe and Dignified Programming to collect and share best practices and promote CRS’ work. * ***Knowledge, Skills and Abilities*** * Proficient in MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications, information and budget management systems, knowledge\-sharing networks .