The European Union (EU) has established the Humanitarian Development Peace Nexus...
The European Union (EU) has established the Humanitarian Development Peace Nexus Response Mechanism (Nexus Mechanism) programme to allow innovative, tailor-made, flexible, rights-based activities along the humanitarian-development-peace spectrum in Myanmar States and Regions in protracted crisis and/or conflict-affected.
The overall objective of this European Union funded programme is to contribute to lasting peace and national reconciliation, security, stability and sustainable development in Myanmar by reducing vulnerabilities and building the resilience of communities affected by conflict or natural disasters. It specifically aims at providing support to conflict-affected populations, displaced populations, host communities, and returnees by strengthening the humanitarian-development-peace nexus.
As part of the support for socio-economic recovery in conflict-affected areas, a strong emphasis will be given to alleviating inter-communal and politically induced tensions, providing durable solutions and addressing serious human rights concerns: the systematic integration of Rights Based Approach (RBA) while meeting immediate needs, will be pivotal to all aspects of programme implementation in order to assure principled, inclusive, non-discriminatory and needs based interventions. Human Rights protection and promotion will be at the core of the action: all actions will be screened against strict due diligence criteria specific for the Myanmar context for assuring principled engagement, limiting the potential to perpetuate harmful practices. The Nexus Mechanism will rely on an incremental and adaptive approach to enable the EU to respond to sudden needs and the changing operational conflict context. Pool funding will allow the programme to address humanitarian and development needs in protracted crisis situations while supporting longer term durable solutions. Decision making will follow procedures designed to ensure that the humanitarian, development and peace perspectives are taken into consideration. Finally, the action will strengthen the capacity of the EU to conduct context specific conflict analysis tailored to the evolving needs. UNOPS will act as the Secretariat of the Nexus Mechanism and manage the programme. The programme commenced in January 2020 and is expected to continue operations until December 2023.
Purpose and Scope of Assignment
The Senior Programme Manager will provide leadership, strategic direction and promote best practice in the performance and delivery of this innovative and challenging programme. The Senior Programme Manager is the head of the programme team which includes professionals in M&E, grants, programme management and support.
Under the overall supervision of the UNOPS Myanmar Director and Representative and working closely with the Nexus Steering Committee, the Senior Programme Manager will be responsible for: