Myanmar: Water for Women Programme Manager

Oct 23, 2018 | Oxfam GB
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The role: Oxfam’s Water for Women Sanitation Marketing Project aims to break down barriers to socially inclusive market based sanitation in Myanmar. This project is built on the human right to sanitation, which entitles everyone to safe, acceptable, and affordable sanitation. Oxfam will take a systems-based approach to breaking down barriers to socially inclusive sanitation in Rakhine and Magway, combining commercial marketing techniques with community-driven behaviour change to increase demand and accessibility to high quality latrines. Key barriers to accessing sanitation at the household level for women will be identified and addressed, including supporting a more appropriate, low-cost and sustainable latrine design to enter the Myanmar market. The project will work with the market to make purchasing a latrine easier. As market-based solutions to sanitation are new to Myanmar, country specific evidence using rigorous techniques will be generated and disseminated. This will feed into shaping government approaches to sanitation, providing opportunities for nationwide scale-up. The project will work to challenge gender norms with this process, ensuring not only messaging supports greater inclusion, but by working with youth networks and women marketers to develop gender leadership, and through intensively working with households on decision making processes.

Your role as Project Manager will be to lead the effective implementation of the Water for Women Project. You will continuously develop the project through taking a holistic approach to increasing sanitation coverage by working on both increasing demand and strengthening the supply of latrines in both Rakhine and Magway. You will manage a team that works with a range of actors including latrine hardware supplies, microfinance institutions, product designers and civil society. You will find the best approach to targeted subsidies to ensure the entire community can benefit from sanitation in target areas

Level: C1, International

Employment term: Fixed-term (2 years with possibility of extension)

Report to: Programme Strategy and Impact Director

What we offer: 

  • Respectful and empowered working environment
  • Life insurance, Medical+ dental + optical benefits
  • Competitive salary and Career advancement opportunities
  • Generous leave entitlement

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Program Management:

  • Lead the effective and efficient implementation of the Water for Women project in Rakhine and Magway;
  • Programme and budget monitoring: provide leadership in programme implementation and budget monitoring in line with agreed upon activities and in compliance with Oxfam’s financial system;
  • Manage the grant and contract to ensure the project is implemented as agreed, on time and within budget;
  • Manage sub-grants to implementing partners; ensuring partner organisations get appropriate support and inputs in implementation
  • Performance Management: support and provide leadership in improving the performance of staff through training, capacity building, mentoring and coaching; implement the Oxfam performance management system with direct reports, ensuring clear work objectives and completed end of deployment reviews;
  • Ensure that HR, logistics, security issues are addressed timely and effectively.

Representation, Networking, Communications and Coordination:

  • Provide regular programme updates and other information as required to the Programme Strategy and Impact Director and Quality Director;
  • Represent Oxfam at donor events, development coordination meetings and other relevant meetings/working groups (to be identified);
  • Represent Oxfam to government officials and other stakeholders;
  • Participate in and represent Oxfam at all donor and partner coordination meetings;
  • Liaise and coordinate with other projects and programmes on the Oxfam country office level, and in particular on the field office-level.

Programme Quality and Learning

  • Lead the formative research to inform key marketing messages for different segments;
  • Help develop sales and marketing strategies to create a greater demand for latrines;
  • Publish key findings and learning on best approaches to market based sanitation and others;
  • Ensure that gender equality and leadership is a central part of Oxfam’s programming in Rakhine and Magway;
  • Ensure that adequate and regular information is shared;
  • Ensure the programme adheres to a MEAL plan and Oxfam Programme Quality standards.

General

  • Be an active member of Oxfam’s team, participate in appropriate staff meetings, including planning sessions;
  • Work and coordinate closely with the Oxfam Sittwe-level team lead to ensure mutual learning and support.

SKILLS AND COMPETENCE:

  • Masters of Business Administration preferred,
  • Experience working with the private sector, understanding business strategy, and marketing;
  • Experience in working on sales/social marketing and programme management, experience in public health behaviour change programmes an advantage;
  • Proven programme and management skills including strategic planning, monitoring, evaluation, budgeting, proposal development and report preparation. Practical experience of ensuring accountability standards throughout the project lifecycle;
  • Experience of working in partnership with diverse actors including communities, government and private sector;
  • Demonstrated facilitation, coaching and mentoring skills;
  • Sensitivity to cultural differences and ability to work in a wide variety of cultural contexts;
  • Working knowledge of Do no Harm approaches and at least basic knowledge of conflict sensitive approaches;
  • Ability to represent Oxfam’s governance work and project externally with national and international actors;
  • Fluency in spoken and written English, basic Myanmar language skills an asset;
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, as well as ability to work independently;
  • Flexible work attitude to manage multiple priorities;
  • Computer skills (Word, Excel, Power Point);
  • Commitment to an understanding of Oxfam's aims, values and principles;
  • Understanding of gender, diversity issues and strong commitment to promote gender and diversity equality.