Programme Manager (Emergency Response)

Description and Requirement

Functional Responsibilities

Emergency Preparedness and Response Leadership

• Lead the design and delivery of LIFT’s emergency response programming in Myanmar, ensuring coherence with LIFT’s 2024–2028 Programme Operational Approach (POA) and its localisation, inclusion, and resilience-building goals.
• Oversee field-based rapid needs assessments during emergencies, coordinating closely with implementing partners, UN agencies, and relevant authorities to ensure evidence-driven prioritization
• Design and deploy fit-for-context emergency response packages (e.g. cash, in-kind support, early recovery inputs) with sensitivity to conflict dynamics, displacement trends, and gendered impacts
• Lead the development of emergency response strategies and standard operating procedures, ensuring timely activation and alignment with global humanitarian standards and UNOPS operational policies
• Serve as the focal point for conceptualizing, launching, and managing emergency-focused calls for proposals, including surge cost extensions or recovery bridging mechanisms

Field Coordination, Risk Management, and Delivery Oversight

• Coordinate emergency deployments and operational support for implementing partners, ensuring agility and accountability in high-pressure or rapidly evolving contexts
• Anticipate risks to partner delivery in volatile environments and recommend mitigation or reprogramming measures to LIFT senior management and the Fund Board
• Ensure integration of Do-No-Harm principles, gender-responsive approaches, and community engagement across all emergency interventions
• Lead technical review and negotiation of emergency project proposals and budgets, ensuring strategic alignment, value for money, and context appropriateness
• Ensure full compliance with UNOPS policies and emergency delivery protocols, including safety/security, environmental safeguards, and fiduciary controls

Requirements

Education/Experience/Language requirements

Education

• An advanced university degree (e.g. Masters) in Agriculture, Rural Development, Natural Resource Management, Political or Social Sciences, or other related fields from an accredited academic institution is required.
• A first-level university degree (e.g. Bachelor's) in the above fields with an additional two years of relevant professional experience may be accepted in lieu of a Master’s degree.

Work Experience

• A minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in the Myanmar context in emergency response, humanitarian work or programme management is required.
• Experience with strategic planning, results-based management and reporting, formulation and monitoring of projects/programmes, in complex contexts is required.
• Experience in conducting crisis assessments and partner coordination is required.
• Vast knowledge of the local context (Geopolitical, Social, economic) is required.
• Experience with LIFT thematic areas (nutrition, food security, etc.) is highly desirable.
• Experience in international organizations and/or international contexts is an advantage.
• Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (e.g. MS Office newer versions) is required. Experience with Google Suite is highly preferred.

Language

• Fluency in both written and spoken English and Burmese is required.