Programme Design and Learning Coordinator

Employment Term: Fixed Term (1 Year Contract with Possible Extension)

Level: International, C2

Location: Yangon, Myanmar/Remote

Closing Date: 12 February 2024

The Role:

Oxfam is looking for Programme Design and Learning Coordinator

Job Purpose:

To strengthen the practice of Oxfam in Myanmar, working jointly with partners in programme development, design and innovation including co-design of high quality and impactful programme and project proposals and strategies. The role will be also lead on learning and will develop mechanism and processes for strengthening ‘culture of learning’ within the organisation. The role will oversee, edit, and ensure quality of all reports donor and other reports generated by the team. S/he will be responsible to increase organisational capacity in Oxfam and partners in programme development and innovation ensuring knowledge and learning are integrated along the process.

Key Responsibilities:

Programme and Project Design and Development

• Working closely with funding, technical advisers, programme managers and partners, co-lead, co-facilitate and provide technical support for the development and design of high-quality programmes in line with Oxfam country strategy and programme quality standards including log-frame, theory of change and Oxfam approaches.
• Provide support to all the programme teams for their planning of programme/project development to align with the Oxfam in Myanmar Country Strategy.
• Coordinate and lead the development, design and writing of new proposals: Coordinate with the programme/project design team including relevant project managers, technical advisers and partner organisations to support the development of high quality and impactful concept notes and project proposals that meet the requirements of calls for proposal and adhere to Oxfam quality standards and approaches, and align with Oxfam in Myanmar’s strengths, priorities and principle of safe programming.
• Coordinate and support the involvement of business support teams such as finance, Human Resource, logistic, security in project design.
• Ensure that internal and external knowledge and learning informs programmes and projects development and design through reviewing of secondary literature, support of ownership of programme teams and partners, understanding and use of the findings from research and learning process by programme teams, and involvement of partners and other relevant stakeholders in development and design processes.
• Develop comprehensive context and programme/project needs analysis to support design processes and proposals development.
• Facilitate participatory and inclusive programme and project design workshops to produce a high quality and impactful theory of change and project design
• Capture and write the programme/project design into a high quality and compelling proposal within the allocated time.
• Identify and raise to programme managers and head of PQ&I any risk identified related to the quality of programme development and design and support the identification of relevant measures for manging risk related to quality.
• Based on the business development needs, manage multiple design processes simultaneously.

Programme Learning & Reporting

• Promote a learning culture within the organization and to document learning and best practices for collaboration, learning, and adaptation.
• Support programme managers and partners to document their successes and best practices
• into appropriate knowledge assets.
• Ensure information sharing, consultation participation, and feedback collection are integral
• parts of the Project.
• Documents learning at various program levels and shares learning across the organisation and
• with other stakeholders where relevant.
• Support documentation of project activities, processes, emerging models, case studies and lessons learned.
• Work closely with PQ and programme team and coordinate internal reporting activities and support quality assurance of reports, presentations, and other documentation purposes.
• Editing of donor reports, annual reports and other key project related documentation and ensure high quality donor reports.
• Providing report writing trainings and on job support to selected Programme Managers.
• Conducting or editing of selected context analysis and programme summary narratives
• Conducting desk reviews of specific sectoral issues
• Production and editing of key proposals and concept notes of a high quality.
• Support in the delivery of programme briefing notes.

Working with others

• Support and contribute to the Oxfam’s country strategic planning and implementation processes and provide technical advice and inputs to the Myanmar Leadership Team as required.
• Coordinate with other programmes and agencies on programme development and innovations as required.
• Proactively engage with Oxfam in Asia (regional platform and across countries) and Oxfam globally (cross affiliate, OIS other regions) contributing to Oxfam practices related to programme development and innovations, identifying and adapting good practices from others in Oxfam and reflecting and learning with peers across the confederation
• Participate and contribute to Country/Programme monitoring & learning workshops/reviews with relevant programme leads, partners, and other stakeholders

Capacity development– staff and partners on programme development, design and innovation

• Whenever possible embed capacity development approaches into the process of programme development, design and innovation using accompaniment and mentoring approaches to ensure both capacity growth and high-quality design
• Working across the country team, identify needs and jointly develop and agree on capacity development targets and steps for programme development and design using blended learning approaches. Lead on the implementation, monitoring and accountability for the agreed capacity development ambition.
• Provide ongoing support and capacity building to programme teams in proposal development.
• Develop accessible and user-friendly guidance and tools that support development, design and innovation.
• Connect Oxfam and partners in Myanmar to other Oxfam and external remote/online capacity development opportunities related to programme development, design and innovations
• Work with the programme quality manager and intended audience to develop and deliver training materials on programme and project development especially design and proposal.
• Provide support to the head of programme quality and impact on partner capacity development process

For more information regarding the position, please have a look at the Job Profile here.

What we are looking for:

Skill and Competence:

Essential

• Passion for improving programme design for greater and tangible impact and outcomes for poor and vulnerable women and men
• Minimum 5 years’ experience of improving effectiveness of humanitarian, development and nexus programmes and demonstrating tangible outcomes for poor and vulnerable women and men
• Masters agree in International development, political science, community development, Evaluation or similar
• Sound understanding of and proven experience in project cycle management in international development
• Strong technical competence and experience in development of proposals to institutional donors
• Demonstrated experience leading project design process and interrogating project logic
• Practical experience of mainstreaming gender in development, advocacy or humanitarian work
• Proven experience of upward and downward accountability approaches and mechanisms
• Comprehensive knowledge and proven experience of ways of working with diverse team
• Strong facilitation, communication and interpersonal skills and ability to communicate in English clearly both verbally and in writing and with all levels of staff
• Demonstrable ability to think creatively and practically to improve Programme Quality and Learning
• Proven experience in innovations

Desirable

• Experience working within Myanmar, or similar fragile contexts
• Experience working in an adaptive way, using evidence and research to ground an alter approaches

What we offer:

Oxfam aims to recruit and retain diverse, passionate people who have the necessary skills, knowledge and commitment to meet our vision. We offer a competitive salary and a range of additional benefits to staff including flexible working options, generous pension scheme, annual leave, additional leave allowances, company sick pay, life assurance and a range of other benefits.

Find out more about our pay & benefits, please click here

Our values and commitment to safeguarding:

Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom Oxfam GB engages. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.

The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

Note to candidates: Shortlisted candidates will be assessed on our organisational values and attributes at the interview stage. The successful candidate(s) will be expected to adhere to our code of conduct. We encourage candidates to read and understand our code of conduct here.

About Us

Oxfam is a global community of people who believe in a kinder and radically better world, where everyone has power to thrive not just survive. We believe we can overcome poverty by tackling inequalities that fuel it. We are shop volunteers, women’s right activists, marathon runners, aid workers, coffee farmers, street fundraisers, goat herders, policy experts, campaigners, water engineers and more. And we won’t stop until everyone can live life without poverty for good.

Oxfam GB is a member of international confederation of 21 organizations working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 80 countries.Oxfam in Myanmar is the branch of Oxfam GB.

Only short-listed candidates will be notified.