Overview
Provides strategic leadership to strengthen coordination, collective action, and principled engagement of INGO members within Myanmar’s complex humanitarian landscape. Ensures INGOs are effectively represented in the humanitarian coordination architecture and enables evidence-informed joint advocacy.
Tasks Summary
- Lead and strengthen coordination mechanisms for INGO collective engagement.
- Facilitate strategic discussions on humanitarian trends, access dynamics, and operational risks.
- Oversee systems for information collection, analysis, and dissemination to INGO members.
- Analyze complex political, humanitarian, and programmatic information.
- Shape and manage communications to influence internal and external agendas.
- Represent INGO members in humanitarian coordination structures.
- Act as a focal point for dialogue on humanitarian access, principled response, and policy issues.
- Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders.
- Provide support and strategic advice to enhance INGO participation in influence and advocacy efforts.
- Engage with members and the Steering Committee to identify Forum priorities.
- Consult across the membership to ensure perspectives are reflected in joint strategies.
- Report back to INGOs on discussions, decisions, and developments.
- Support coordination across multiple thematic and operational workstreams.
- Convene and facilitate member meetings, workshops, and discussions.
- Ensure documentation of meetings, decisions, and action points.
- Establish and maintain systems for information management and document storage.
- Support operational problem-solving across the membership.
- Oversee planning, implementation, and monitoring of Forum-related projects.
- Manage project workplans, budget, timelines, and coordination.
- Ensure compliance with donor requirements, internal procedures, and reporting obligations.
- Lead risk assessment and mitigation planning.
- Engage in donor mapping and fundraising.
Experience Requirements
- At least five years of experience working to support planning, coordination and collaboration of diverse stakeholders with clear sets of deliverables
- Public policy analysis, advocacy and research experience
- Ability to manage internal and external communications, such as newsletters and websites
- Management of diverse partnerships
- Organizational skills and understanding to address INGO priorities relating to development aid effectiveness, cooperation with Civil Society and Government and any other item that is of high importance to the INGO community
- Expert knowledge of relevant communications environment and Programme context.
- Experience working in Myanmar or other Southeast Asian contexts
Qualification Requirements
• Master’s degree in a relevant field (development studies, humanitarian affairs, political science or other relevant social sciences etc.)
