Humanitarian Program Director - Nigeria
Organization: Prosper Global
Posted: 23 October 2026
Contingent upon Donor Funding
Location: Maiduguri, Borno, Nigeria
Position Status: Full-time

ABOUT PROSPER GLOBAL
Prosper Global is a humanitarian organization working alongside communities facing conflict, climate change, and economic hardship to meet urgent needs and create the conditions for lasting progress. In 2026, Mercy Corps changed its name to Prosper Global to reflect its belief that when every community can prosper, all humanity moves forward.

PROGRAM SUMMARY
Prosper Global Nigeria implements humanitarian and resilience programs for populations affected by conflict, displacement, food insecurity, and climate-related shocks. Its work spans food security, water security, livelihoods, governance, and peacebuilding, with a focus on timely emergency response, early recovery, resilience, and sustainable recovery.

THE POSITION
The Humanitarian Program Director provides strategic leadership and oversight of Prosper Global Nigeria's humanitarian programming portfolio. The role drives the expansion and quality of humanitarian interventions, ensures timely and principled crisis response, strengthens donor positioning and engagement, and captures learning, innovation, and impact.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Strategy and planning: Lead humanitarian programming across emergency response, early recovery, and resilience; identify needs, crisis trends, and funding opportunities; develop response strategies and operational priorities; integrate humanitarian and development programming; and promote adaptive, evidence-based management.

Donor engagement and resource mobilization: Strengthen relationships and positioning with humanitarian donors; lead high-quality proposals, concept notes, and program design; and build partnerships with NGOs, UN agencies, government, and private-sector actors.

Program management and quality: Ensure programs are delivered on time, on budget, and to quality standards; uphold humanitarian principles, Sphere Standards, the Core Humanitarian Standard, and Prosper Global frameworks; oversee performance monitoring and learning; and strengthen coordination across sectors and locations.

Finance and compliance: Ensure transparent resource management, budget planning, forecasting, spending oversight, donor compliance, procurement, sub-award management, and timely narrative and financial reporting in collaboration with Finance, Grants, Operations, and program teams.

Knowledge management and representation: Capture and share lessons, evidence, best practices, learning briefs, case studies, and impact stories; represent Prosper Global in clusters, inter-agency working groups, donor forums, and other coordination platforms; and strengthen its visibility and leadership in Nigeria's humanitarian community.

Team management and safeguarding: Lead, mentor, and support senior program staff and field teams; strengthen national and partner capacity; promote accountability, collaboration, learning, and professional development; and integrate safeguarding, dignity, and participant accountability into all work.

REPORTING AND SUPERVISION
Reports to the Country Director. Works with the Senior Management Team, Human Resources, Operations, Finance, Regional Technical Advisors, Global Humanitarian Teams, and external partners. Supervises the Senior Program Manager, Emergency Response Start-up Manager, PaQ Director, and WASH Technical Advisor.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND TRANSFERABLE SKILLS
Master's degree in international development, humanitarian studies, or a related field. At least 10 years of humanitarian programming experience, including senior leadership in complex and insecure environments. Demonstrated experience managing large-scale programs funded by US DoS, ECHO, UN agencies, or similar donors; humanitarian proposal development and donor engagement; and strong knowledge of humanitarian coordination systems, Sphere Standards, and the Core Humanitarian Standard. Excellent strategic planning, leadership, communication, diplomacy, and team-management skills are required.

SUCCESS FACTORS AND CONDITIONS
The successful candidate will anticipate emerging crises, build partnerships, make sound decisions, and support high-performing teams. This is an unaccompanied position based in Maiduguri, Borno State, with shared staff housing and basic but functional living conditions. Travel to operational areas is required, primarily through UNHAS scheduled flights and established security protocols. Prosper Global is an equal-opportunity employer committed to inclusion, safeguarding, ethical conduct, and accountability to participants and stakeholders. Team members dedicate 5% of their time to ongoing learning.

HOW TO APPLY
Apply here: https://jobs.jobvite.com/careers/prosperglobal/job/oSf0Afwr?__jvst=Employee&__jvsd=sG7PojwO&__jvsc=Jobvite&bid=nIVZjrxS
C4AIK course: https://www.c4aik.org/challenge-page/6db65a28-f078-4e47-af11-e4c8656d8dff?programId=6db65a28-f078-4e47-af11-e4c8656d8dff