Position TitleDeputy Programs Director
Requisition Number 15-0168
Post Date 10/26/2015
CityYangon Description
At the heart of Pact is the promise of a better tomorrow. The promise of a healthy life. Of dignified living. Of sustainable natural resources that benefit communities. Now more than ever in its 42-year history, Pact is helping millions of people who are poor and marginalized discover and build their own solutions and take ownership over their future.
Pact enables systemic solutions that allow those who are poor and marginalized to earn a dignified living, be healthy, and take part in the benefits that nature provides. Pact accomplishes this by strengthening local capacity, forging effective governance systems, and transforming markets into a force for development.
Pact Myanmar
Pact Myanmar is one of the largest of Pact’s global programs, and one of the largest and most diverse integrated development operations in Myanmar. With over 500 employees and 26 offices across the country, we operate integrated health, livelihoods and natural resource management programs that impact the lives of almost 5 million individuals across 35 townships and almost 10,000 communities. With community governance and financial independence at the core of our approach, we focus on local ownership; long-term sustainability; a long-term approach to community and institutional capacity development; and the power of markets to help lift people out of poverty.
Position Purpose
The Deputy Programs Director is a new position that will lie at the heart of Pact Myanmar’s programmatic and strategic decision-making. The successful candidate will report directly to our Programs Director to support our extensive Integrated Programs in Pact Myanmar, to help grow our existing programs, and expand our programs into new geographic areas in the coming years. This position will play a critical role in supporting day-to-day management of program implementation; ensuring program quality throughout our programs, and will play a coordinating role with Pact’s numerous local and international partners. This will include high-level technical and management support to Program and Technical Coordinators running our national programs in health, livelihoods and natural resource management. The Deputy Program Director will also be responsible for supporting our program teams to launch new projects and will also be expected to support new business initiatives including technical and budgeting proposal support. The position is based in Yangon, and will require regular travel to the field.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic
• Assist in designing and communicating Pact’s “One Program” approach to the country office with the Programs Director and work to ensure harmonization and better collaboration between program and support units with established benchmarks
• Assist in in the development of new program concepts and funding opportunities and work to expand the current portfolio of programming in line with the strategic plan
• Represent Pact in Technical Forums, working groups and in the development of new partnerships as appropriate and necessary
Programmatic
• Directly support Program Coordinators and Managers to ensure ongoing quality control, efficient spending and work plan management for all grants and contracts, working with a wide cross-section of departments and functions in the organization
• Ensure effective pan-organizational collaboration between program teams and M&E, capacity development and communications functions
• Support development of program strategy for new sectors and geographic areas
• Documenting Pact Myanmar’s key models and approaches
Administrative
• Ensure compliance with HQ and donor requirements, policies and regulations.
• Coach and mentor key staff to produce quality, timely internal and donor reports
Basic Requirements
• Available to work in Myanmar
• Experience in program design and implementation in the field
• Experience managing high-caliber managers and technical specialists
• Proven track record in ensuring program quality and providing mentoring at the operational level
• Experience in new business development, specifically pre-positioning, designing and writing proposals and preparing quality budgets essential
• Advanced degree in relevant field
• 7-10 years progressive experience in managing and administering USAID or donor-funded development assistance projects
Preferred Qualifications
• Senior level field-based program experience required
• Significant experience in health and livelihoods programming.
• Experience working in SE Asia preferred.
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