UN Women: Project Manager, Yangon, Myanmar, NOC, Fixed-Term Appointment
Overview
Manages the REACH project, responsible for planning, implementing, and managing UN Women interventions to address immediate and long-term needs of GBV survivors and other at-risk women.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the UN Women Women’s R.E.A.C.H Project Plan, develop, implement, and monitor the REACH Project annual workplan and individual partner workplans, including budget and results framework.
- Manage the delivery of the day-to-day Project activities to ensure prompt and adequate achievement of results.
- Ensure effective use of resources and compliance with UN Women rules, policies, and procedures as well as donor/fund requirements.
- Prepare for audits and implement their recommendations.
- Support the Project Governance mechanisms, primarily through a multi-stakeholder Project Steering Committee.
- Establish an effective project management tool with monitoring system for the delivery of Project results.
- Prepare quarterly and annual progress reports and donor reports as well as regular progress updates and reviews.
- Lead field mission planning and implementation and write mission reports.
- Design and manage women’s economic empowerment activities within the scope of the Project (e.g TVET, entrepreneurship, financial literacy, digital inclusion).
- Explore and understand market context, relevance and opportunities of training and employment pathways, linking women to decent work and income opportunities in Myanmar, and particularly in key target regions of the Project.
- Seek opportunities for linking and integrating key livelihood support opportunities with efforts to address gender-based violence (GBV), particularly aimed at women and girls.
- Determine positive and productive community structures and approaches that can support women and girls in their growth, participation and achievement of resilience, empowerment, access, capacity and rights.
- Identify and support processes for implementing appropriate modalities of granting and provision of financial support to a variety of partner and beneficiary types as proposed by the Project.
- Provide substantive technical support to responsible parties and other stakeholders.
- Build relationships with responsible parties to support implementation and expansion of the REACH Project; respond to any potential problems.
- Provide timely inputs and suggestions on programmatic areas.
- Support project documentation and learning.
- Manage the Project’s budget and financial resources and write financial reports in accordance with Donor requirements and UN Women procedures, facilitate review and submit the reports to the Regional Office and Donor.
- Supervise, coach and mentor Project staff and manage performance.
- Manage capacity building needs and opportunities to support the Project team in implementing the Project and collaborate on initiatives of key institutions and mechanisms.
- Write terms of reference of personnel, consultants and contractors required for project implementation and oversee the recruitment process.
- Support resource mobilization activities that seek to identify and acquire additional and complementary funding for further scope, scaling and extension of the objectives, outcomes and outputs of the Project.
- Support the identification of appropriate partners, development of effective partnership modalities and implementation of partnership arrangements and agreements in accordance with UN Women policies and procedures.
- Manage Project partnerships through regular monitoring, communication and support to their implementation, as well as the required narrative and financial reporting in fulfillment of partnership agreements.
- Analyze and research information on potential collaborators (donors, partners, other agencies) on an ongoing basis, prepare substantive briefs on possible areas of cooperation, and identification of opportunities for cost sharing.
- Develop knowledge management strategies and methodologies for effective internal capture, storage, access and sharing of project information and knowledge assets.
- Identify and synthesize best practices and lessons learned to disseminate information and communicate impactfully from the Project.
- Provide the CO, RO or HQ with updates and relevant information for publication and advocacy campaigns.
- Provide inputs to Country Office communication plan.
Required Experience
At least 5 years of progressively responsible experience at the national and/or international level in project management including on project design, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation and donor reporting, is required. Work experience in the technical areas of gender, women’s economic empowerment, vulnerable women and girls and integrated livelihoods approach is required. Experience in establishing strong collaboration and partnership modalities among international and local organization is required. Experience in leading a team or having supervisory role is required. Experience in the fields of TVET/training, Gender-based Violence (GBV), and human rights of women is desirable. Experience in administrative systems and UN system norms is desirable. Experience in country and/or region is desirable. Experience in leading and coaching staff in international settings is desirable. Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc.) and spreadsheet and database packages, experience in handling of web-based management systems is required. Experience in the use of a modern web-based ERP System, preferably Oracle Cloud, is desirable.
Qualifications
Master’s degree or equivalent in social sciences, human rights, gender/ women’s studies, international development, or a related field is required. A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree. A Programme/Project management certification (such as PMP®, PRINCE2®, or MSP®) would be an added advantage.