Your mission
Contract: Full Time (38,75 hours per week) – Maternity Replacement
Duty Station: Vienna
Starting date: 1 November 2025
Application Deadline: 24 August 2025
What we are looking for:
In line with CARE’s mission, vision, and core values, the Program Assistant works with the development team on the acquisition of new projects, as well as the management and administration of ongoing program portfolios in Africa, Asia, the Balkans, the Caucasus, and the Middle East. The thematic scope includes economic empowerment, climate change adaptation, food and nutrition security, good governance, sexual and reproductive health rights, and gender equality.
Responsibilities:The Program Assistant will support the team on the following tasks:- Proposal development and project reporting, including translations, research and administration
- General contract management, monitoring and liaising with Country Offices and donors
- Compiling reports for the board and the CARE International Confederation
- Maintaining CARE Austria’s project database
- Compiling project-related information and maintaining the program specific parts of the CARE Austria Website in cooperation with relevant departments (e.g. Communications, Marketing, Finance etc.)
- Keeping minutes of team meetings
- Helping organise/prepare trainings, travel, workshops and events
- General administration and office work, as well as support for the Programme Team on day-to-day tasks
Why us?
CARE is one of the world’s leading development and humanitarian aid agencies, fighting poverty and injustice in over 100 countries and helping more than 70 million people each year to find paths out of poverty, with a specific focus on the empowerment of women and girls. We save lives in disaster and conflicts and stand with women, girls, and their communities to achieve lasting change for a better future.
For this position we offer:- One-year maternity replacement contract
- Gaining first-hand experience in a leading international development and humanitarian NGO
- Working with a professional and committed team in an international context
- Salary starting from EUR 47.000,00 gross annually (full time 38,75 hours per week). Please note: Actual classification will depend on relevant professional experience and will be calculated in accordance with CARE Austria’s salary scheme
- Attractive fringe benefits (e.g., annual ticket for Vienna’s public transport; Edenred Card/lunch vouchers)
- Home-office in coordination with line management and flexitime model
- Well-equipped office in central Vienna
- Working with an international team of 45 staff members from 12 different nations based in Vienna
Please note: An EU citizenship or valid work permit for Austria is a necessary requirement for this position. Thank you for your understanding that only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.
We are looking forward to receiving your application. Please upload your CV and motivation letter in English, as well as copies of relevant certificates and recommendation letters on our career website until 24 August 2025. Please indicate in your application how you learned about this job vacancy. Applications will be treated confidentially in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation.
About us
CARE Austria, an organisation for development cooperation and humanitarian aid, was founded in 1986. As a non-profit organisation, we are politically and religiously independent and currently provide aid in 20 countries. Our team consists of 45 employees.
CARE works all over the world to save lives and eradicate poverty. This can only succeed if all people have the same rights and opportunities. With our projects, global supporters and a dedicated team, we are committed to inclusion and social justice.
Our overriding principle is to work together to create conditions in which people can help themselves, with the full participation of those affected.
