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 manage programming in the Country Program (CP) for Agriculture, designing and implementing projects advancing Catholic Relief Services’ (CRS) work in serving the poor and vulnerable. Your management skills and knowledge will ensure that the CP delivers high-quality programming and continuously works to ensure compliance to CRS program standards and program quality tools in agriculture projects.

Roles and Key Responsibilities:
• Provide leadership in designing and providing training and coaching to ensure project team and partner staff use the appropriate project management systems and tools.
• Support Project Managers to manage and implement all activities throughout relevant project cycles - project design, start-up, implementation and close-out - in line with CRS program quality principles and standards, donor requirements, and good practices.
• Supervise Agriculture MEAL Officers. Participate in the analysis and evaluation of project performance data following MEAL policy. Help identify issues and concerns and use participatory processes to help overcome implementation obstacles.
• Ensure all agriculture projects have a learning agenda. Contribute to learning with project staff and partner teams
• Identify staff capacity and technical assistance needs of partner organizations and capacity strengthening and required interventions to support quality project implementation. Work with the project managers and agriculture coordinator to develop a plan to address capacity needs.
• Act as a support person in project design and proposal development in respective programming area, gap-filling and taking on growth responsibilities, as needed.
• Help identify, assess and strengthen partnerships relevant to Agriculture, applying appropriate application of partnership concepts, tools and approaches.
• Provide support for monitoring financial and material resources relevant to project needs.

Basic Qualifications
• Graduate Degree in International Development, International Relations or in the field of Agriculture required. Additional experience may substitute for some education.
• Minimum of 2 years of relevant field-based experience in coordinating or managing light to moderately complex projects required, preferably with an international NGO.
• Additional experience may substitute for some education.

Required Languages - French, Haitian Creole

Travel - be willing and able to travel up to 50 % within the country

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
• Strong critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills with ability to make sound judgment.
• Strong relationship management skills and the ability to work effectively with culturally diverse groups.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to write reports
• Proactive, results-oriented, and service-oriented

Preferred Qualifications
• Project management experience in Agriculture is highly desirable.
• Experience engaging with partner organizations.
• Experience contributing to the development of technical proposals.
• MEAL skills and experience preferred.
• Experience using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications, information management systems.

Les intéressés sont priés d’acheminer les documents suivants cv, lettre de motivation, copies diplômes) à l’adresse électronique suivante : haiti.recruitment@crs.org et l’objet de l’email de soumission doit fait mention de : Agriculture Program Quality Manager

Agency-wide Competencies (for all CRS Staff)

These are rooted in the mission, values, and guiding principles of CRS and used by each staff member to fulfill his or her responsibilities and achieve the desired results.

• Integrity

• Continuous Improvement & Innovation

• Builds Relationships

• Develops Talent

• Strategic Mindset

• Accountability & Stewardship



Supervisory Responsibilities (if none, state none)

Project MEAL Officers

Key Working Relationships:

Internal: Project Managers, Country MEAL Manager, Human Resources Department, Procurement Department

External: Private sector actors (buyers, processors, exporters, etc), Ministry of Agriculture officials, Project implementing entities, local and international NGOs, institutional donors



***Our Catholic identity is at the heart of our mission and operations. Catholic Relief Services carries out the commitment of the Bishops of the United States to assist the poor and vulnerable overseas. We welcome as a part of our staff people of all faiths and secular traditions who share our values and our commitment to serving those in need. CRS’ processes and policies reflect our commitment to protecting children and vulnerable adults from abuse and exploitation.

Disclaimer: This job description is not an exhaustive list of the skill, effort, duties, and responsibilities associated with the position.



CRS' talent acquisition procedures reflect our commitment to protecting children and vulnerable adults from abuse and exploitation.

CRS is an Equal Opportunity Employer