Overview
Provide strategic leadership, technical oversight, and operational management of a UNICEF-funded Total WASH Programme serving floating and lakeshore communities. Ensure the delivery of high-quality, inclusive, climate-resilient, and sustainable WASH interventions.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide overall leadership, strategic direction and management of the Total WASH Programme.
- Lead programme planning, implementation, monitoring, review, adaptation and close-out processes.
- Ensure programme implementation aligns with UNICEF requirements, government priorities, sector standards and organizational policies.
- Develop and oversee programme operational plans and ensure effective coordination across all technical workstreams.
- Lead regular programme review and coordination meetings with partners and internal teams.
- Ensure programme interventions are informed by context analysis and integrate gender equality, disability inclusion, conflict sensitivity, safeguarding, accountability and other cross-cutting priorities.
- Promote meaningful participation and leadership of women, youth, persons with disabilities and marginalized groups.
- Provide regular programme updates, analysis, forecasts and strategic recommendations to senior management, donors and other key stakeholders.
- Ensure programme interventions contribute to sustainable, community-led and climate-resilient WASH services.
- Provide technical oversight for design, construction, rehabilitation and improvement of water supply systems.
- Oversee sanitation facility design and construction for floating and lakeside communities.
- Lead development of evidence-based Public Health Promotion and Social Behaviour Change strategies.
- Integrate climate adaptation and environmental sustainability considerations throughout programme delivery.
- Lead engagement and performance management of implementing partners.
- Lead overall grant management and ensure compliance with donor agreements, organisational policies, and relevant donor regulations.
- Manage programme budgets and financial performance.
- Support emergency preparedness planning for floods, disease outbreaks and climate-related emergencies.
- Establish clear work plans, performance objectives and accountability mechanisms, and conduct regular performance reviews.
- Foster a culture of accountability, teamwork, learning, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
- Oversee the effective integration and implementation of Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) systems and processes.
- Serve as the primary programme focal point for UNICEF and other key stakeholders.
- Establish and maintain strong working relationships with government departments, local authorities, donors, UN agencies, clusters, networks, civil society organizations, OPDs, and other relevant stakeholders.
- Represent the organization and assigned programmes in relevant coordination forums, technical working groups, sector meetings, and partnership platforms.
- Ensure Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) principles are integrated throughout programme design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and learning processes.
- Lead the identification, assessment, monitoring and mitigation of programme, operational, financial, partnership and compliance risks.
- Comply with all security policies, procedures, directions, instructions, regulations or plans.
- Ensure adherence to safeguarding policies by protecting the safety and dignity of all individuals.
- Perform assigned tasks to contribute to an efficient and timely emergency response activities.
Required Experience
Minimum 6-8 years of progressively responsible experience managing WASH programmes. Demonstrated experience managing large-scale development and/or humanitarian WASH programmes. Proven experience managing multidisciplinary teams including engineers, public health promotion staff and partner organizations. Demonstrated experience working with UNICEF funded programmes. Strong understanding of UNICEF programme management, reporting and compliance requirements. Experience managing substantial programme budgets and multiple workstreams. Experience working directly with government institutions, communities and civil society organizations. Strong skills in project-cycle management, MEAL, risk management and adaptive programming. Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in humanitarian, development, resilience, peacebuilding, or nexus programming, including at least 3 years in a programme leadership or management role. Demonstrated experience managing complex, multi-sectoral and multi-partner programmes in fragile, conflict-affected, or humanitarian contexts. Proven experience in programme cycle management, grant management, budget oversight, donor compliance, and partner management. Strong experience working with local partners, civil society organizations, community-based organizations, and other stakeholders, including capacity strengthening and localization approaches. Sound knowledge of Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL), safeguarding, Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI), protection mainstreaming, and conflict-sensitive programming. Strong understanding of risk management, financial management, and donor regulations. Demonstrated ability to build effective partnerships, manage diverse stakeholders, and represent programmes with donors, government, and coordination platforms. Strong facilitation, coaching, mentoring, and team management skills. Excellent analytical, communication, report writing, and proposal development skills. Good understanding of Myanmar's humanitarian, development, and civil society context.
Qualifications
Master’s or bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, Water Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Public Health Engineering, Environmental Health, Public Health, Development Studies or related discipline.
