HEROS 2.0 Programme Director

Overview

In this role you lead Chemonics UK’s strategic delivery of the HEROS 2.0 humanitarian programme, acting as a trusted partner to HM Government. You oversee a large, global portfolio and multidisciplinary teams, ensuring high-quality, innovative responses that strengthen the UK’s humanitarian response capabilities. You drive governance, risk management, and value-for-money delivery while collaborating across the Chemonics network and key partners. This is a high-impact leadership opportunity to shape crisis response at scale.

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

Key requirements

• Significant leadership experience managing large, complex programmes, ideally for major international donors
• Proven ability to set strategic direction across multiple workstreams while balancing humanitarian, security, and political priorities
• Experience engaging and negotiating with senior stakeholders across large organisations and 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
• Strong understanding of innovation and 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 in complex environments
• Commercial awareness and the ability to contribute to organisational growth and long-term success
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills

• leadership
• influencing and stakeholder management
• communication
• technology-enabled solutions in humanitarian/stabilisation contexts
• risk management and governance
• contractual and financial performance oversight

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