Country Manager - Haiti

About the role

The Norwegian Red Cross is recruiting a Country Manager for its work in Haiti, supporting the Croix-Rouge Haïtienne in delivering prehospital and primary health care to vulnerable populations affected by violence and displacement. The post is based in Port-au-Prince, with occasional travel to programme sites, and is a 12-month contract under a Service and Security Agreement with ICRC. It reports to the NoRC Americas Regional Operations Manager.

Key responsibilities

• Strengthen cooperation with the Croix-Rouge Haïtienne and the Movement partnership with the ICRC and IFRC, and represent NoRC in-country among humanitarian organisations and Norwegian stakeholders.
• Draft yearly plans of action and budgets for the country portfolio and oversee compliance with technical and operational standards.
• Lead emergency preparedness and response at country level and act as technical lead for access to prehospital care, primary health care, protection of health services, cash-for-health and emergency preparedness.
• Ensure health projects are designed, implemented and monitored according to technical standards, and provide technical support to the quality design of health programmes.
• Support training and coaching of National Society staff, and ensure high-quality reporting to donors and the regional office.
• Oversee sound financial and administrative management of projects, procurement, and develop the security policy and procedures for the NoRC Haiti office.
• Coordinate with ICRC, IFRC, other partners and the regional team, and engage with the wider humanitarian community.

Required profile

• Master's degree in public health preferred, combined with relevant field practice.
• Strong experience designing, implementing and managing community health projects in humanitarian settings, and in health and protection projects in conflict settings with high exposure to armed violence.
• Proven project management experience, including needs assessments, baselines and endlines, design and reporting.
• Experience building the technical capacity of partner organisations.
• Ability to work under stressful conditions such as restricted movement and high-level security measures.

Required skills

• French and English; local and regional languages are an asset, Spanish highly desirable.
• Knowledge of primary health care strengthening, community-based health initiatives, SGBV, cash-for-health and emergency preparedness and response.
• Understanding of technical standards and their operationalisation in humanitarian projects.

Applicants are subject to a thorough background check. The posting was published on 2 November 2026 with a closing date of 15 November 2026.