Employment Term:           Fixed Term (1 Year Contract)

Level:                                    National, C1

Location:                           Taunggyi, Myanmar

Closing Date:                   8 September 2026

“This role is opened for national applicant only.”

The Role:

Oxfam GB in Myanmar  is looking for Programme Manager (Nexus).

Job Purpose :

The Programme Manager (Nexus) will provide strategic leadership, technical oversight and overall management of a consortium-based Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) Nexus programme across Southern Shan State. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring effective and integrated delivery of interventions covering disaster and conflict preparedness, humanitarian response and recovery, community resilience, sustainable livelihoods, strengthening of local civil society capacities and social cohesion.

The role will oversee programme implementation, consortium and partnership management, grants and budgets, donor compliance, risk management, and stakeholder engagement to ensure high-quality programme delivery and achievement of agreed outcomes. The Programme Manager will provide leadership to consortium partners, local CSOs, and programme teams ensuring interventions remain context-responsive guided by Do No Harm principles. The role will promote localisation, community resilience and social cohesion while ensuring donor compliance and standards. The Programme Manager will also ensure that GEDSI, safeguarding, accountability to affected populations, learning, and adaptive management are integrated throughout the programme cycle.

This Role Report To:                        Deputy Head of Programmes                                                           

Staff Reporting to this Post:     MEAL Manager, Finance Manager, Programme Coordinator, Grant Coordinator

Key Relation/Interaction:         The Programme Manager work closely with Humanitarian Programme Managers and Senior Programme Manager, is expected to have close relationship with the donor, relevant affiliate team, and the programme’s Steering Committee – as well as a key focal point of partners.

Key Responsibilities: (Technical, Leadership, People and Resource Management)

Programme Leadership, Strategic Management and Partnership Development

• Provide overall strategic leadership and management of a Nexus programme ensuring quality implementation, timely delivery and achievement of programme objectives.
• Lead programme planning, implementation, monitoring, adaptive management and close-out processes across all programme components.
• Ensure effective integration of Humanitarian, Development and Peacebuilding approaches throughout programme implementation.
• Lead programme adaptation based on evolving context, dynamics, access constraints and emerging opportunities.
• Ensure programme strategies and interventions are tailored to and remain responsive to the distinct social, economic and conflict dynamics of Shan State.
• Provide strategic guidance to programme teams and partners on resilience, preparedness, recovery and social cohesion programming.
• Ensure programme implementation contributes to community resilience, social cohesion, localization and sustainable development outcomes.
• Promote innovation, learning and evidence-based decision-making across the programme. 

Humanitarian Preparedness, Response and Recovery Leadership

• Provide strategic leadership, technical oversight and quality assurance for disaster and conflict preparedness, emergency response, recovery, and community resilience programming.
• Lead the facilitation and application of Feminist Participatory Vulnerability Assessment and Analysis (FPVAA) and other contextually appropriate risk and vulnerability assessment approaches.
• Lead and coordinate emergency response interventions during disaster, conflict, or other humanitarian crises, ensuring adherence to humanitarian principles and organizational standards.
• Oversee community preparedness and resilience planning processes to strengthen local capacities to anticipate, prepare for, respond to and recover from shocks and stresses.
• Guide the development, implementation, review and updating of Disaster and Conflict Preparedness (DCP) Plans and community resilience plans.
• Strengthen community preparedness structures, local leadership mechanisms, and community-based response systems.
• Support establishment and strengthening of community-based early warning, early action, and emergency preparedness mechanisms.
• Ensure lessons learned from simulations, emergency responses, and recovery interventions are documented and integrated into programme adaptation and preparedness systems.
• Promote integration of preparedness, response, recovery, livelihoods, and social cohesion approaches to strengthen community resilience and support sustainable development outcomes.
• Ensure all humanitarian and recovery interventions are implemented in accordance with Do No Harm (DNH), Protection, Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP), safeguarding standards, and donor requirements.

Community Resilience and Development Programming

• Lead implementation of community resilience plans developed through participatory planning processes.
• Ensure effective implementation of livelihood and economic recovery interventions.
• Support establishment and strengthening of business groups, producer groups, saving groups and community enterprises.
• Lead in context-based market assessment and analysis.
• Oversee agriculture and climate-resilient livelihood activities.
• Support market-based and income-generating opportunities identified by communities.
• Ensure resilience investments address community-prioritized risks and vulnerabilities.
• Promote sustainability, local ownership and long-term impact.

 Social Cohesion, Conflict Sensitivity and Peacebuilding

• Ensure social cohesion outcomes are intentionally integrated across all programme components.
• Promote collaboration, trust-building and collective action among diverse communities.
• Support activities that strengthen social capital and constructive relationships across ethnic, religious and social groups.
• Ensure all interventions are designed and implemented in accordance with Conflict Sensitivity and Do No Harm principles.
• Lead regular conflict analysis and context monitoring processes.
• Support partners and programme teams to identify and mitigate risks of unintended conflict impacts.
• Ensure programme approaches contribute to peaceful coexistence and community resilience.

Consortium and Partner Management

• Lead consortium coordination and relationship management with implementing partners.
• Ensure alignment of programme approaches, quality standards, donor compliance requirements, and MEAL standards across consortium members.
• Facilitate joint planning, programme review, learning, and decision-making processes.
• Provide technical guidance, mentoring, and programme management support to consortium partners.
• Ensure consortium partners understand and consistently apply donor MEAL requirements, reporting standards, indicator definitions and data quality protocols.
• Monitor partner performance and ensure achievement of agreed programme targets, deliverables and quality standards.
• Promote effective communication, collaboration, shared learning and problem-solving across consortium members. 

Grants, Budget Management and Localisation

• Lead overall grant and budget management for the Nexus RM programme, ensuring compliance with donor, consortium, UNOPS, EU and organizational requirements.
• Oversee sub-grant and consortium grant management, including partner due diligence, capacity and risk assessments, contracting, budget review, fund disbursement, financial monitoring, reporting and grant closure.
• Oversee programme budgets, expenditure tracking, forecasting, variance analysis and budget revisions, and monitor budget utilization and burn rates.
• Review partner workplans, budgets, financial and narrative reports to ensure accuracy, compliance, accountability, value for money and programme quality.
• Support partners, including local CSOs and community-based organizations, to strengthen financial management, compliance, accountability and programme quality.
• Identify financial, operational and compliance risks and ensure appropriate mitigation actions are followed up.
• Ensure timely and quality donor reporting in coordination with programme, finance, MEAL and partner teams.
• Support audits, donor reviews and financial verification exercises, ensuring findings and recommendations are addressed.
• Promote localisation principles, local leadership and ownership, with a focus on strengthening the capacity and systems of local partners.
• Promote strong financial stewardship, transparency, accountability and value for money across the programme and all partners. 

Capacity Strengthening and Organisational Development

• Lead capacity strengthening initiatives for local CSOs and consortium partners.
• Support organizational development, governance and institutional strengthening processes.
• Strengthen programme management, MEAL, safeguarding, financial management and donor compliance capacities.
• Promote partner sustainability and long-term institutional development.
• Develop and oversee partner capacity development plans.

Staff Management and Leadership

• Line manages assigned programme staff and consultants, ensuring effective performance management, coaching, mentoring, and professional development.
• Foster a culture of accountability, teamwork, learning, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
• Develop Terms of Reference and manage consultants, technical advisors, and short-term specialists as required.
• Ensure clear work planning, objective setting, performance reviews, and staff wellbeing support.
• Promote effective coordination between programme, technical, MEAL, finance, and operations teams.

Programme Quality, MEAL and Knowledge Management

• Ensure programme implementation is fully aligned with donor-approved logframes, results frameworks, indicators, targets, reporting schedules, and quality standards.
• Lead implementation of donor-compliant MEAL systems and processes across all consortium partners.
• Ensure systematic collection, analysis and utilization of quantitative and qualitative data to demonstrate programme outcomes, impact and learning.
• Strengthen partner capacity on donor-specific MEAL requirements, data quality standards and evidence generation.
• Ensure Data Quality Assessments (DQAs), data verification exercises and routine monitoring visits are conducted regularly.
• Promote adaptive management by utilizing programme evidence, community feedback and contextual analysis to inform programme adjustments.
• Ensure accountability mechanisms are functional, accessible, and responsive to community feedback and complaints.
• Lead reflection, learning and after-action review processes following emergencies, recovery interventions and major programme activities.
• Support external evaluations, donor monitoring missions, audits and learning reviews.
• Ensure documentation and dissemination of lessons learned, best practices, case studies and success stories across the consortium.
• Promote a culture of learning, accountability and evidence-based decision-making within the programme and among partner organizations. 

Coordination, Representation, and Networking

• Act as the primary programme focal point for the donor, consortium partners, and other key stakeholders.
• Establish and maintain strong working relationships with consortium partners, civil society organizations, community leaders, networks, and other relevant stakeholders.
• Represent Oxfam in relevant coordination forums, technical working groups, sector meetings, consortium platforms, and strategic networks.
• Lead donor engagement and maintain regular communication with donors regarding programme progress, achievements, challenges, risks, and opportunities.
• Identify opportunities for programme integration, scaling, learning, advocacy and strategic partnerships that strengthen nexus programming and community resilience outcomes.

GEDSI, Disability Inclusion and Cross-Cutting Themes

• Ensure Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) principles are integrated throughout programme design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and learning processes.
• Promote disability-inclusive programming approaches and support meaningful participation and leadership of persons with disabilities, including OPDs, in programme governance and implementation.
• Ensure safeguarding, protection, conflict sensitivity, social cohesion, climate resilience, and localisation principles are mainstreamed across all programme activities.
• Monitor programme performance against inclusion and protection objectives and support corrective actions where necessary.
• Champion inclusive programming practices across partners and stakeholders.

Risk Management, Accountability and Compliance

• Monitor partner compliance with donor, organizational, contractual, safeguarding and regulatory requirements and support the development and implementation of corrective actions where gaps are identified.
• Promote a culture of accountability, ethical conduct, risk awareness and compliance across programme teams and partner organizations.
• Ensure safeguarding, protection, and accountability principles are systematically integrated into programme design, implementation, partnership management, monitoring and learning processes.
• Promote safeguarding awareness and ensure staff, partners, consultants and relevant stakeholders understand and comply with organizational safeguarding policies, procedures and reporting mechanisms.
• Ensure the safety, dignity, rights and well-being of programme participants, communities, staff and partners are protected throughout programme implementation.
• Support partners to strengthen safeguarding, accountability, compliance and risk management systems as part of partner capacity strengthening and organizational development efforts.

Safety and Security

• Complying with all security policies, procedures, directions, instructions, regulations or plans.
• Taking care of their own safety and security.
• Actively contributing to the development and maintenance of security management policy and

Safeguarding

• Ensure adherence to safeguarding policies by protecting the safety and dignity of all individuals.
• Ensure completing all annual core compliance courses.
• Must report any concerns or witness or suspect any behaviour that could be in breach of the one Oxfam safeguarding policies (PSEA, Child Safeguarding etc) or Oxfam Code of Conduct.

Other

• Eager and required to adhere to Oxfam’s principles and values as well as the promotion of gender justice and women's rights.
• Understanding of and commitment to adhere to equity, diversity, gender, child safety and staff health and wellbeing principles.
• In case of emergency response, perform assigned tasks to contribute to an efficient and timely emergency response activities.

What we are looking for:

Skill and Competence:

Essential

For this role, you will be expected to role model Oxfam's feminist leadership approach and we have selected the most relevant feminist leadership practices which we will use for assessment purposes (which you can read more about here ).

• Strategic Thinking and Judgement
• Vision Setting
• Relationship Building
• Influencing
• Decisiveness
• Agility, Complexity, and Ambiguity

In addition:

• Master’s degree in international development, Humanitarian Action, Peace and Conflict Studies, Disaster Risk Management, Social Sciences, Public Administration, or a related field.
• Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in humanitarian, development, resilience, peacebuilding, or HDP Nexus programming, including at least 3 years in a senior programme leadership or management role.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex, multi-sectoral, multi-partner programmes in fragile, conflict-affected, or humanitarian contexts.
• Proven experience in programme cycle management, grant management, budget oversight, donor compliance, and risk management.
• Experience implementing social cohesion, peacebuilding, conflict-sensitive and Do No Harm approaches in ethnically diverse and conflict-affected settings.
• Proven experience managing consortium programmes and multiple implementing partners.
• Strong experience working with partners, civil society organizations (CSOs), community-based organizations (CBOs), and localization approaches, including partner capacity strengthening and organizational development support.
• Demonstrated experience managing sub-grants and partner compliance systems.
• Strong knowledge of Conflict Sensitivity, Do No Harm (DNH), Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI), safeguarding, Protection, and Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP).
• Excellent leadership, negotiation, facilitation, partnership management and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strong written and spoken English.

Desirable

• Experience working in Shan State.
• Experience supporting local CSOs and national NGOs.
• Understanding of ethnic diversity, and local context in Shan State.
• Experience in community resilience and participatory planning approaches.

We offer:

We offer a competitive salary and a range of additional benefits to staff including flexible working options, generous pension scheme, annual leave, additional leave allowances, company sick pay, life assurance and a range of other benefits. 

From the day you join Oxfam we invite you to stretch and learn in your role. Our wide range of Learning & Development opportunities includes in-house courses, e-learning modules, on-the job learning opportunities, coaching and mentoring, and much more. 

You can read more about all Oxfam has to offer here.

Flexfam:

We believe flexible working is key to building the Oxfam of the future, so we’re open to talking through the type of flexible arrangements which might work for you. 

How to apply:

As part of your online application, please upload your up to date CV and Cover Letter explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile.  

If you have any questions about this role, we'd love to hear from you. Please email us at recruitmentteam@oxfam.org.uk , making sure you include the job title of the role you're asking about.

Our values and commitment to safeguarding

Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom Oxfam GB engages. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.

The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.  In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

About us

Oxfam is a global community who believe poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s right activists, marathon runners, aid workers, coffee farmers, street fundraisers, goat herders, policy experts, campaigners, water engineers and more. And we won’t stop until everyone can live life without poverty for good.

Oxfam GB is a member of international confederation of 21 organisations working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries. 

A thriving diverse Oxfam:

It’s people power that brings about change. To play our part as a global organisation working to overcome poverty and inequality, we need equality, diversity and inclusion across our community of staff, partners and volunteers. Together, we’re committed to becoming a more diverse workforce, better able to tackle the global challenges that face our world today.

To do that:

• We need to dismantle the unequal power structures that exist everywhere, this including Oxfam and the wider development and charity sectors.
• We need an inclusive Oxfam where everyone can bring who they are to our work and feels celebrated for the differences they bring.
• We want and need everyone, and that means we need you.