Programme Manager (Nexus) - Southern Shan State

About the role

Oxfam GB in Myanmar is recruiting a Programme Manager (Nexus) for a fixed-term 1-year contract in Taunggyi, Myanmar, open only to national applicants. The post provides strategic leadership, technical oversight and overall management of a consortium-based Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) Nexus programme across Southern Shan State, covering disaster and conflict preparedness, humanitarian response and recovery, community resilience, sustainable livelihoods, civil society capacity building and social cohesion. It reports to the Deputy Head of Programmes and works closely with Humanitarian Programme Managers, donors, the programme Steering Committee and consortium partners.

Key responsibilities

• Lead programme planning, implementation, monitoring, adaptive management and close-out, integrating humanitarian, development and peacebuilding approaches
• Provide strategic leadership for preparedness, response and recovery, including FPVAA, DCP plans and community resilience planning
• Implement community resilience plans, livelihood and economic recovery interventions, and support business groups, producer groups and climate-resilient livelihoods
• Integrate social cohesion, conflict sensitivity and peacebuilding, and lead conflict analysis and context monitoring
• Manage consortium partners, including due diligence, capacity building, performance monitoring and MEAL compliance
• Lead grant and budget management, including sub-grants, financial monitoring, reporting and audit support
• Manage staff and consultants, and lead MEAL, knowledge management and learning processes
• Represent the programme to donors and partners, and integrate GEDSI, safeguarding, accountability to affected populations and risk management

Required profile

• Master's degree in international development, humanitarian action, peace and conflict studies, disaster risk management, social sciences, public administration or a related field
• Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in humanitarian, development, resilience, peacebuilding or HDP Nexus programming, including at least 3 years in a senior programme leadership or management role
• Demonstrated experience managing complex, multi-sectoral, multi-partner programmes in fragile, conflict-affected or humanitarian contexts
• Proven experience in programme cycle management, grant management, budget oversight, donor compliance and risk management
• Experience implementing social cohesion, peacebuilding, conflict-sensitive and Do No Harm approaches