Myanmar: Food Security and Livelihoods Activity Manager

Sep 27, 2016 | Solidarités International
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The SI program for Sittwe T/S is part of a DFID Consortium of NGOs led by Save the Children (SCI) in partnership with ACF and Oxfam. The consortium is responsible for 95% of the WASH intervention in Sittwe T/S covering approximately 85,000 beneficiaries in 16 camps and the surrounding host communities. SI works in 4 large camps and two large host communities to deliver an integrated WASH program. The WASH intervention has gone through successive phases with a majority of the WASH hardware completed and a well-developed hygiene promotion program in place. However, as a first step towards more livelihoods and participative activities, the consortium is proposing that every partner implements one different food security or livelihood pilot project to capitalize on lessons learnt on the capacity of implementation in the camps; with the objective to extend the successful activities to all areas targeted by the consortium in the frame of a new humanitarian and development strategy. The FSLAM will be in charge of the implementation of this pilot project.

About the job:

This position is a manager position and requires good management commands. The AM will also have an important task on capacity building of local staff as well as communities. The position requires frequent and regular field visits and regular coordination with the field teams that are working in the camps and villages.

Main activities:

• Support the PM in the project implementation
• Design and establish BoQ for the activities to implement
• Manage the camp staff related to the food security and livelihoods activity implementation
• Train and organize the capacity building of the supervisors, officers and agents
• Organize the hygiene kits targeting which will occur in the last 3 months of the project (link with the consortium members for the selection criteria, beneficiary selection)
• Contribute to the market and food security and livelihoods assessment in the camps with the consortium members
• Select and implement the FSL pilot project in link with the consortium members to identify lessons learnt / capitalization format and indicators.

About the mission:

SI has been in Myanmar since 2008, first in the Delta in response to the Cyclone Nargis. In 2011, SI expanded to three new regions (Dry Zone, Rakhine, and Chin State) focusing on Livelihoods, Food Security, Shelter, and WASH. In 2012, SI started emergency response to people displacements due to violence in Kachin and later in Rakhine (between armed forces in Kachin State and between communities in Rakhine). SI has a base in Sittwe which is responsible for managing programs in Sittwe and Pauktaw T/S (emergency programs for IDPs), and in Rathedaung T/S since October 2013

How the mission is organized:

SI currently has a coordination base in Yangon and 3 bases with one in Rakhine State, one in Dry Zone, and one in Kachin State.

In Sittwe, there is a Field Coordinator (FCO), a logistic Manager, Administration Manager and 3 WASH PMs, one for Sittwe and one for Rathedaung and one for Pauktaw, plus 6 Activity Managers:

• 3 in Pauktaw, one in charge of the activities implementation in Pauktaw, one as a socio/anthropologist, one (national) in charge of the constructions
• 3 in Sittwe, 1 Activity Manager in charge of WASH activities, 1 Activity Manager for Sittwe in charge of the FSL activities, one (national) in charge of the constructions

Your profile

Education: Academic and practical knowledge of Agriculture/Agronomy engineering is essential.

Experience: Minimum experience of 1 year in relevant international FSL experience, preferably in emergency or humanitarian contexts; experience in complex ethnic and/or religious contexts or sensitive environments preferred (conflict, post-conflict); IDP/refugee camp experience desirable, experience in targeted assistance, beneficiary selection and livelihoods approaches fundamental.

Technical skills and knowledge: Good technical knowledge about agriculture/vegetable gardening. He/She will need to conduct participative targeting processes in difficult and tensed context

Transferable skills: Patience, diplomacy, tact and sensitivity in dealing with ethnic division in tense environments and capacity to analyze and report on security situation; good social skills to work as part of a large team and live in shared accommodation.

Languages: Good level of English essential, Rakhine/Burmese desirable though not required.

Other desirable qualities: Myanmar, or at least South-east Asia, Experience preferred.

We offer

SI will offer you:

A salaried post: according to experience from 1600 euros gross per month, plus 10% annual leave allowance paid monthly, and a monthly Per Diem of 500 USD.
Social and medical cover: Expatriates benefit from an insurance package which reimburses all healthcare expenses (including medical and surgical expenses, dental care and ophthalmological expenses, repatriation) and a welfare system including war risks. Essential vaccination and antimalarial treatment costs are refunded.

Vacation: During the assignment, a system of alternation between work and time off is implemented at the rate of one break every three months. For a one-year assignment, the expatriate will have a 7-day break during the 3rd and the 9th month (with 500 euros allocated by Solidarités). He or she will also be entitled to go back to his or her home country for a 14-day period after six months spent on the mission (Solidarités will cover travel costs)

For further information about SI, please consult our website: http://www.solidarites.org/en/

Contact: Anna FRANGI, Recruitment and Follow Up Officer