Panama Program Manager

The Program Manager provides strategic and operational leadership for HIAS programs in Panama, ensuring that interventions are responsive to the priorities, capacities, protection risks and evolving needs of refugees, asylum seekers, migrants and displaced populations.

The position leads the planning, implementation, monitoring and continuous adaptation of community-based programming where HIAS Panama operates.

Panama is both a transit and host country for refugees, displaced people, and migrants in Latin America. While migration policies have changed across the Americas, hundreds of thousands of displaced people still need humanitarian assistance as they move across the country, headed north and south, particularly in the border areas of Darien and Chiriquí, but with many of them staying in Panama City.

In 2025, Panama hosted more than 155,000 displaced people, including over 5,000