Director, Regional Health Programs - AEMEA Region

**Position Title**: Director, AEMEA
**Department**: Regional Programs - AEMEA
**Location:** Remote in CT, DC, FL, GA, IL, MD, MA, NC, NJ, NY, OR, PA, Puerto Rico, TN, TX, VA, and WA
**Travel Required:** Up to 30%
**Reports to**: VP, Regional Programs – AEMEA
**Direct Reports**: 4
**Assignment Type**: Full time, Exempt
**Hiring Range:** $127,036 to $139,600
**Benefits:** Visit our Careers page to learn more about our benefits!
**Application Requirements**: Resume, completed application questions

**About Americares:**

**Global Health Starts with YOU!**
Americares is a global health and disaster relief organization that helps people and communities around the world access health in times of disaster and every day. Each year, Americares reaches 85 countries on average, including the United States, with life-changing health programs, medicine, medical supplies and emergency aid. Americares is one of the world’s leading nonprofit providers of donated medicine and medical supplies. For more information, visit americares.org.

**Americares Values:**
We create global community, treating people as they want to be treated.
We respond effectively and responsibly, putting plans into practice.
We embed ethics and equity in our work and workplace.
We are better together; partnership is at our core.
We ask and listen, to create sustainable solutions for a healthier tomorrow.
We commit to quality, growing and improving to ensure individuals and communities thrive.

**About the Position:**
The Director, AEMEA Region supports the VP, Regional Programs - AEMEA, in providing strategic and operational leadership to deliver high-quality programs, partnerships and business development for protracted crises settings across the region and development context in Asia/Eurasia.

This role plays a vital function in ensuring the smooth implementation of regional programs, strengthening cross-portfolio collaboration, supporting fundraising efforts, and increasing the visibility of AEMEA programs internally and externally. The role liaises regularly with Operations, Finance, and People and Talent points of contact to ensure effective and aligned country-level support.

**Key expectations for this role include:**
*In the first 90 days, the Director, AEMEA will:*

- Learn and live the Americares values.
- Complete all required new hire onboarding trainings.
- Build strong working relationships with Regional Programs - AEMEA program leaders, MHPSS and CDR technical experts, country teams, and HQ partners (e.g., Quality, Impact, and Learning (QIL) and Humanitarian Programs (HP)).
- Develop an understanding of current portfolio, models, strategy, technical strengths, gaps, opportunities, and context within priority geographies.
- Provide supervision of this role’s direct portfolio, creating initial direct report and project management supervision cadence and structures.Actively contribute to AEMEA business development by reviewing and supporting partnership opportunities and proposals.
- Fully understand and plan for fiscal year operational and budget priorities; align with the VP on fiscal year priorities and initial strategic direction for the portfolio.
- Draft an initial strategy outline and process for protracted crises in the region, including further development and alignment on transition points and criteria between acute and protracted complex crises, in collaboration with Humanitarian Programs.

*In the first 6 months, the Director, AEMEA will:*

- Deliver consistent, high-quality programming across Asia/Eurasia and protracted crises portfolios, with strong performance against strategic priorities, plans, budgets, and donor requirements.
- Build robust systems for program design, management, and oversight, ensuring consistent application across the portfolio and alignment with organizational standards.
- Contribute to portfolio growth efforts by advancing multi-country proposals, co-developing regional business development processes, strengthening donor relationships, and building strategic partnerships aligned with regional priorities.
- Establish and operationalize a clear regional approach to protracted crises programming, including defined program models, grantmaking approaches, and effective, systematized transitions between Humanitarian Programs and AEMEA.
- Strengthen alignment of programs with national health priorities and global standards, while deepening partnerships with governments, local actors, and key stakeholders to support scale and sustainability.
- In collaboration with QIL, embed accountability to affected populations, safeguarding, and community engagement consistently across program design and implementation.
- Strengthen knowledge management and learning systems to ensure systematic capture and use of program evidence, lessons learned, and best practices to inform program strategy and adaptation.
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