Programme Management Specialist (Retainer_PSEA and Cross Cutting Themes)

Application period: 23-Apr-2024 to 06-May-2024

Functional Responsibilities:
This role will support the mainstreaming of the cross-cutting thematic areas across all grants. The cross-cutting themes are gender and social inclusion, disability inclusion and rehabilitation, accountability and responsiveness, conflict sensitivity, emergency response and environmental safeguards, and prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA).

Mainstreaming of the Cross Cutting Themes

• Contextualize requirements of the Cross Cutting Themes to the specific context of the Programme, ensuring to balance requirements with context, challenges, and capacity.
• Demonstrate specific technical capacity in at least two of the cross-cutting themes, particularly disability inclusion and rehabilitation, accountability and responsiveness, and prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse.
• Provide guidance and support to internal colleagues for mainstreaming of cross-cutting themes, grant making, and development of localization work across the Programme.
• In close networking with partners, local civil society organizations, disabled people’s organizations, and relevant key stakeholders, ensure that supported activities are aligned with the Programme’s strategies and priorities, with conflict sensitivity principles, with approaches to civil society engagement, and with other key principles of the Fund.
• Maintain a clear understanding of cross-cutting themes related grant outcomes and core indicators, particularly as they relate to the strengthening of community health systems and the improved health situation of vulnerable communities in conflict-affected areas.
• Provide management oversight to ensure that the cross-cutting themes are an integral part of the approach of all partners.
• Ensure that demand side is not ignored under the health for all lens when essential health services are available to vulnerable people in Myanmar and increasing the number of people with access to these services.
• Ensure grants contribute to the strengthening of health systems, particularly community health systems, and ensure cross-cutting areas’ standards.

Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse

• Conduct PSEA capacity assessment activities as part of the UNOPS Due Diligence for new partners.
• Support the implementation of UNOPS Myanmar PSEA Minimum Requirements for all partners, including training provision.
• Support case management for PSEA as needed.

Capacity Strengthening throughout Project Management Lifecycle

• Conduct capacity strengthening activities with partners to support their development throughout the project management lifecycle. Support one-to-one capacity strengthening activities where relevant and necessary.
• Support partners in specific advanced technical training in two or more of the cross-cutting themes and how it should be applied in a health setting.
• Ensure mainstreaming of cross-cutting themes to support partners in reaching the most vulnerable populations throughout the project management lifecycle.
• Where safe and feasible, support cross-learning between partners to strengthen their cross-cutting themes mainstreaming and supportive systems.

Information and Knowledge Management

• Ensure adequate knowledge management and information, keeping the partners abreast of important developments and capturing and sharing lessons learned.
• Identify and suggest ways to expand integrated health services to vulnerable populations in conflict-affected areas.
• Maintain confidentiality and data security at all times.
• Work in close collaboration: share information, seek their advice, and give due consideration to advice received to move the portfolio forward in a way that is both managerially and technically sound.

Education/Experience/Language Requirements:

Education

• A Master’s degree in a relevant discipline (for example: international development, social science, public administration, political science) with 5 years of relevant experience.
• A Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (for example: international development, social science, public administration, political science) with 7 years of relevant experience is considered equivalent.

Work Experience

• At least 5 years of experience managing grants or projects is required.
• Within this experience, at least 3 years of working in the health, humanitarian, or community development sector is required.
• Full competency in the usage of computers and office software packages, including G-Suite, is highly desirable.
• Experience of working sensitively and effectively in a culturally diverse setting is preferable.
• Experience of working in local governance, including but not limited to formal local government structures, local and community-based NGOs, traditional governance systems, and informal networks is desirable.

Language

• Fluency in English is required.

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Remarks: Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.