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­­­­­VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

Community Partners International (CPI) is a U.S. nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering vulnerable communities in Asia to meet their essential health, humanitarian and development needs. Founded by U.S. doctors in 1998, the organization has grown to serve more than one million people each year. Community Partners International focuses on helping communities affected by conflict, violence, and displacement, in remote and hard-to-reach contexts, and marginalized by poverty and exclusion.

The senior program manager will closely work together with Regional Program Director to lead program implementation, quality assurance and operationalization of Thai-Myanmar based projects. He/she will be closely collaborating and coordinating with partners and donors to achieve equitable and accessible health care services in the community.

Primary Responsibilities

• Ensure all programs and projects under CPI’s Mae Sot office are implemented well in order to achieve quality outcome together with project team.

• Oversight the monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) activities of CPI’s Thailand based projects and ensure the quality MEL reports and learning documents are produced in time.

• Oversight the implementation of partners’ Health System Strengthening activities to be in line with Better Health Together Strategies of CPI and complement with Service delivery interventions under respective program.

• Regularly assess and track the quality of service delivery under respective program and take follow – up actions to safeguard the quality service provision.

• Be proactive and energetic to assess and analyze progress, challenges and risks in the project implementation and delivering the results and regular reporting to Regional Program Director to take timely action.

• Be part of the senior management team (SMT) of CPI’s Thailand program and perform the functions of SMT and take responsibility and accountability of respective SMT functions.

• Coordinate with different stakeholders, partners and donors to inform project plan and updates regularly to get consensus and take the actions on time.

• Prepare accurate and timely progress reports throughout its life cycle and submit to Program Directors, stakeholders and donors.

Regular Responsibilities

• Develop new programs to support the strategic direction of the organization and better health together strategies.

• Working closely with project staff and M&E staff, contribute to CPI’s internal monitoring and evaluation efforts.

• Be office in charge (OIC) for Mae Sot program office while closely working with operation units in Mae Sot and Regional Program Director in Bangkok.

• Working closely with the finance team and contribute to the oversight and management of partners’ sub-grants including preparation of LOAs, oversight of sub grantee payments, adherence with donor requirements and timelines, and timely submission of sub-grantee reports.

• Working closely with CPI’s Program Strategy and Quality Unit, Program Management Unit, Program Operation Unit and Research unit in developments of new strategies and systems (e.g development Health and development strategies, cross cutting areas, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning).

• Lead or participate in the development of letters of intent, concept notes, and grant proposals, as required.

Partner Support

• Support and mentoring partners in development, implementation and review of effective of health and humanitarian response programs based on cultural and situational appropriate adaptations of international best practices.

• Provide M&E related technical support to CPI’s partners as needed.

• Enhance the capacity of local partners to ensure successful implementation of the program.

• Seek opportunities for partners to share their work and advocate for needs and assist them with preparing reports, abstracts, journal articles, and conference or other presentations.

• Meet regularly with leadership of partner organizations in order to ensure the relevance of CPI’s support, and to monitor progress toward mutually established goals and objectives as part of our grant obligations to our donors.

• Identify opportunities for advocacy including opportunities for partners to share and promote their work.

Capacity Building and Supporting Other Staff

• Supervise and provide necessary support to program and M&E staff based in Mae Sot office.

• Any organizational development and capacity building support as needed.

Operations and Administration

• Work closely with the finance team and program staff to prepare annual and quarterly. budgets, forecasts, and financial reports, and to ensure all program expenses are within budget and have appropriate supporting documentation.

• Work with finance team to ensure CPI’s internal control policies, systems, practices are in place in Mae Sot base.

• Work closely with logistics team to ensure all supplies and equipment are procured and distributed in timely manner, to ensure proper stock and management systems and practices are in place.

• Work closely with HR/admin team to ensure HR/admin policies, procedures, processes are in place.

Organization Representation

• Represent CPI in partner, donor and other stakeholder meetings.

• Meet with prospective donors or partners as needed, facilitate the development of donor relationships, and help to ensure donor requests are handled promptly and effectively.

• Establish, strengthen and sustain the good relationships/ coordination with donor agencies, implementing partners, local authorities and other relevant organizations.

Essential Skills

• Masters level training in public health, public policy, social science, development studies or equivalent work experience

• Minimum eight years’ progressive experience in program management in an international organization

• Fluent in written and spoken English and Burmese

• Proven strong experiences in program management, stakeholder management and team management skill

• Experience of working in a multicultural, low-resource setting

• Ability to establish priorities in a time sensitive environment and meet deadlines with strong attention to consistency, detail, and quality

• Comfortable working with a variety of partners, and navigating complex relationships

• Comfortable in working with multi-cultural context

• Flexibility to allow for travel (up to 50% of work time), variable working hours, and some modifications of tasks and responsibilities as team and project needs change

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

All interested and qualified candidates are requested to send an Application Letter, Curriculum Vitae to:

Community Partners International

Email: recruitment.th@cpintl.org

• The closing date for application is 17:00 p.m., (Wednesday, 31 August 2022)

• Please clearly mention the Position and Location you are applying for in the email Subject Line.

• CPI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, national origin, age, marital status, or disability.

• Candidates are required to declare in advance should there be any relative or family member currently employed in CPI. Failure to do so can lead to termination of the employment contract even after successful selection.

• CPI is committed to safeguard violation against human rights including Child Safeguarding and Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) according to CPI’s safeguarding policy. To comply with the Safeguarding Policy is everyone’s responsibility and all staff are required to adhere to the Code of Conduct, that enshrines principles of PSEA and Child Safeguarding, at all times (both during work hours and outside work hours). Familiarization with, and adherence to, the Code of Conduct is an essential requirement of all staff, in addition to related mandatory training. All staff must ensure that they understand and act in accordance with this clause. Any breach or violation against the Safeguarding Policy may result in disciplinary action up to and including termination of the employment.

• Because of the large volume of applicants, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

• Contract and position is contingent upon successful award of the project and final approval by the donor.