Project Manager – Humanitarian Food Assistance and Resilience Program

Country: Sudan Organization: World Vision Closing date: 24 Oct 2026 With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith. Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories! Here’s where you come in: As Project Manager – Humanitarian Food Assistance and Resilience Program, will lead the planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of two humanitarian and resilience programmes implemented by World Vision Sudan across East and South Darfur, West Kordofan, and White Nile States. These include the General Food Assistance to Vulnerable Populations programme, funded by the US Government, and Restore Resilience in Sudan, funded by Global Affairs Canada. You will ensure quality, timely, and accountable delivery, achievement of programme outcomes, effective resource management, stakeholder coordination, donor compliance, safeguarding, risk management, and accountability to affected populations, promoting continuous learning and sustainable impact for vulnerable communities. (a) Strategic Programme Leadership and Delivery You will provide strategic leadership and oversight for both programmes, translating approved proposals, workplans, and budgets into implementation plans and measurable targets. You will oversee programme start-up, staffing, partner mobilization, and operational systems, adapt implementation to changing humanitarian and security conditions, coordinate food assistance and resilience activities, and address implementation challenges through regular reviews and field visits. (b) Grant Management and Donor Compliance You will ensure compliance with donor agreements, budgets, reporting schedules, US Government and USDA requirements, GAC obligations, CRS consortium agreements, and World Vision policies. You will maintain grant management and compliance systems, oversee timely and accurate reporting and grant modifications, ensure complete documentation, and coordinate donor visits, audits, and compliance reviews. (c) Programme Quality and Technical Oversight You will ensure programme delivery meets technical standards, donor commitments, and humanitarian principles. You will oversee food assistance, cash assistance where approved, and resilience interventions while integrating protection, safeguarding, gender equality, disability inclusion, child well-being, and conflict sensitivity. You will ensure transparent targeting and beneficiary verification, coordinate technical teams, and promote quality improvements and innovation. (d) Programme Quality, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEAL) You will maintain quality assurance frameworks and lead MEAL planning, assessments, monitoring, evaluations, and learning activities. You will monitor indicators and data quality, use findings to improve programme implementation, document lessons and good practices, maintain knowledge management systems, review technical reports, and guide needs assessments, targeting, and intervention prioritization. (e) Reporting, Compliance and Donor Accountability You will ensure timely, accurate, and high-quality narrative, situation, indicator, and donor reporting. You will monitor performance against targets and milestones, strengthen staff and partner reporting systems and capacity, coordinate with MEAL teams to identify corrective actions, and respond promptly to donor requests and recommendations. (f) Financial Management and Resource Stewardship You will oversee programme finances, ensuring value for money and responsible use of donor resources. You will work with Finance and programme teams to manage budgets, forecasts, expenditure plans, and cash flow; review financial performance; address under-expenditure and overspending; and maintain effective controls, risk mitigation, transparency, and accountability. (g) Coordination, Representation and Partnerships You will represent World Vision in coordination meetings, technical working groups, donor engagements, and humanitarian forums. You will coordinate with government authorities, UN agencies, clusters, and implementing partners, strengthen partnerships through joint monitoring, support donor visits and external reviews, and organize programme field visits and review sessions. (h) Leadership, People Management and National Capacity Strengthening You will lead and supervise programme managers, coordinators, technical specialists, and other assigned personnel, establishing clear objectives and supporting performance and professional development. You will foster a collaborative, inclusive, and results-oriented team culture, mentor national leaders and technical teams, strengthen staff and partner capacity, address development gaps through training and coaching, and promote knowledge sharing, succession planning, and the transition of responsibilities to qualified national colleagues. Requirements include: • Bachelor's Degree in Social Sciences, International Development, Humanitarian Studies, Law, Social Work, Development Studies or another relevant discipline. • A Master's degree is an added advantage. • At least 5 years of progressively responsible experience in humanitarian assistance, international development, food security, food and cash assistance, resilience programming or related fields, including substantial senior programme management responsibility. • Demonstrated experience managing large, complex, multi-location programmes with significant budgets, multiple implementation partners and demanding donor requirements. • Proven experience managing US Government-funded awards and/or Global Affairs Canada-funded programmes, with a strong understanding of applicable grant compliance and reporting obligations. • Demonstrated experience in budget oversight, financial forecasting, risk management, procurement coordination and partner financial monitoring. • Strong knowledge of food assistance, food security and livelihoods, cash and voucher assistance or resilience programming. • Experience working in fragile, conflict-affected or emergency humanitarian settings, preferably in Sudan or comparable operating environments. • Experience strengthening national staff capacity, mentoring teams and promoting localisation. Travel and/or Work Environment Requirement • The job requires regular travel to project sites • Staff are required to be physically fit • Proficiency in English and Arabic is an added advantage Applicant Types Accepted: Local and International Applicants (IA's) Accepted How to apply Is this the job for you? Find the full responsibilities and requirements for this position and apply online by the closing date October 24, 2026. World Vision is dedicated to our team members’ development and their success. We aspire for all employees to be fulfilled through their work and their contributions to an organisation working to provide long-term sustainable solutions to the world’s most vulnerable people. For more information on World Vision International, please visit our website: www.wvi.org.Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness. Our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so.