Program Unit Manager

Responsibilities

• Cultivate a cooperative and positive working environment for all staff members at the PU to ensure staff satisfaction and psychological security
• Organize in developing the strategic design and resource mapping by coordinating with all project managers to ensure PU has a comprehensive assessment of needs and gaps in target areas
• Provide the updated local context, quality analysis of assessments in programming intervention areas to program design and program quality (PDPQ) team for quality proposal development
• Provide direct line management to Deputy Program Managers, Project Managers and to ensure their needs and work with them to identify address challenges 
• Establish, develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders to ensure the organization maintains the acceptance from State level key stakeholders
• Provide direct line management, resourcing and structural design to operations team at the PU to ensure proper supports to all project implementations
• Maintain information management system that allows for efficient communication and information sharing between country office (CO) team and PU (including government and internal reporting)
• Lead and provide strategic direction in the application of partnership strategy to complete the partnership assessment and to identify the required room for capacity development
• Ensure all staff in the PU have a working understanding of gender equality and inclusion in their programs and are providing sufficient resources to meeting gender objectives in their work such that gender integration remains a key priority for all project managers
• Provide leadership to ensure all projects having current conflict analysis in place and to ensure projects comply with DNH principle

Job Requirements:

Required Qualifications And Skills

• Proven experience in coordination with local authorities and all key stakeholders, working with UN agencies, INGOs and local NGOs / CSOs
• Excellent networking and representation skills in both local and international platforms
• Understanding of humanitarian principles and ability to articulate how they have complied and implemented them in the past
• At least 5 Years of experience in management level at humanitarian and development sectors 
• Ability to use the application of Microsoft Office Suit and email
• Ability to organize assessment, research and evaluation fragile environment
• Ability to develop technical input and draft outline for interventions for project proposal (logical framework and cost estimation for budget preparation)
• Strong understanding or organizational development and partnership approaches
• Ability to write the donor reports and to discuss the project update in English language
• Ability to maintain information management systems that support M&E project frameworks
• Previous experience with field activity coordination and project management cycle implementation in the humanitarian and development sectors
• Ability to negotiate and communicate with local / village leaders
• Ability to manage multiple budgets of grant projects at the tight deadlines
• Experience with gender mainstreaming, child safeguarding and child-protection mainstreaming
• Experience in conflict sensitivity programming and DNH approach
• Strong understanding of the Core Humanitarian Standards

Working Time:

8:30 AM ~ 5:30 PM

Monday ~ Friday

Saturday & Sunday closed

Job Benefits:

Insurance, Medical Benefits, Severance Pay and other attracting conditional benefits

Employer details:

International Non-Governmental Organizations

Salary:

2,000,000 MMK ~ 3,500,000 MMK

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