Programme Manager (Nexus)

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• Location:Myanmar - Taunggyi
• Workplace Type:On-site
• Hours:37.5
• Salary:TBC
• Job Family:Programme
• Division:International
• Grade:National C1
• Job Type:Fixed Term
• Closing Date:15 November 2026
• Country:Myanmar

Employment Term:           Fixed Term (1 Year Contract)

Level:                                    National, C1

Location:                           Taunggyi, Myanmar

Closing Date:                   15 November 2026

“This role is opened for national applicant only.”

Early application is encouraged as the recruitment process will be done on a rolling basis and Oxfam reserves the right to appoint a suitable candidate as soon as they are identified.

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

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.

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 so