Mercy Corps is hiring a
Location: The team is flexible on working location for this role and can accommodate remote-work, depending on adequate time-zone coverage with Myanmar and legal working status in selected country.
About Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps is powered by the belief that a better world is possible. To do this, we know our teams do their best work when they are diverse and every team member feels that they belong. We welcome diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be stronger and have long term impact.
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Position Summary**
Mercy Corps began working in Myanmar in 2008 to help communities recover from Cyclone Nargis. Our goal is to enable communities to determine their future through food and water security, inclusive and equitable access to economic opportunity, climate change resilience, and equal rights leading to peace and prosperity. We approach our work through a resilience lens, to ensure households and communities can manage the shocks and stresses that threaten these outcomes.
The Director of Programs (DoP) will direct the strategic development and implementation of the country-level portfolio. The DoP will be responsible for management oversight of all programs, building and sustaining motivated and creative cross-cultural teams, ensuring technical quality and fundraising strategically in collaboration with the Country Director. S/he represents Mercy Corps Myanmar (MCM) programs and is responsible for coordinating with the larger MC network to ensure that connections are build-out, taking full advantage of regional and global expertise.
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Essential Responsibilities**
STRATEGY AND PLANNING
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
TEAM MANAGEMENT
FINANCE & COMPLIANCE MANAGEMENT
INFLUENCE & REPRESENTATION
SECURITY
**Supervisory Responsibility:
**Program Managers, Program Development Manager, Senior Accountability & Inclusion Advisor, Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning team members
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Accountability**
Reports Directly To: Country Director
Works Directly With: Country Leadership Team (Ops, Finance, HR, Security). Also works directly with local national staff and affiliated relevant Mercy Corps headquarters units as necessary.
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Accountability to Participants and Stakeholders**
Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our program participants, community partners, other stakeholders, and to international standards guiding international relief and development work. We are committed to actively engaging communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.
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Minimum Qualifications & Transferable Skills**
Success Factors
The successful DoP will combine strong leadership and management skills while building diverse programs and managing donor and partner relationships. S/he will have an ability to think creatively about improving the quality and impact of programs. The DoP will have proven experience with cross- cultural team and capacity building, individual staff development and strong mentoring skills. S/he will be able to bring diverse views and programs together for a common vision. Prioritizing, problem solving and the capacity to balance attention to detail and maintaining strategic vision are essential. The most successful Mercy Corps staff members have a strong commitment to teamwork and accountability, thrive in evolving and changing environments and make effective written and verbal communication a priority in all situations.
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Living Conditions / Environmental Conditions**
The team is flexible on working location for this role and can accommodate remote-work, depending on adequate time-zone coverage with Myanmar and legal working status in selected country. The decision will be made on a case-by-case basis alongside HR depending on the profile of the selected applicant.
Mercy Corps Team members represent the agency both during and outside of work hours when deployed in a field posting or on a visit/TDY to a field posting. Team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner and respect local laws, customs and MC's policies, procedures, and values at all times and in all in-country venues.
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Ongoing Learning**
In support of our belief that learning organizations are more effective, efficient and relevant to the communities we serve, we empower all team members to dedicate 5% of their time to learning activities that further their personal and/or professional growth and development
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion**
Achieving our mission begins with how we build our team and work together. Through our commitment to enriching our organization with people of different origins, beliefs, backgrounds, and ways of thinking, we are better able to leverage the collective power of our teams and solve the world’s most complex challenges. We strive for a culture of trust and respect, where everyone contributes their perspectives and authentic selves, reaches their potential as individuals and teams, and collaborates to do the best work of their lives.
We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a journey, and we are committed to learning, listening and evolving to become more diverse, equitable and inclusive than we are today.
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Equal Employment Opportunity**
Mercy Corps is an equal opportunity employer that does not tolerate discrimination on any basis. We actively seek out diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be collectively stronger and have sustained global impact.
We are committed to providing an environment of respect and psychological safety where equal employment opportunities are available to all. We do not engage in or tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, color, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, disability (including HIV/AIDS status), marital status, military veteran status or any other protected group in the locations where we work.
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Safeguarding & Ethics**
Mercy Corps is committed to ensuring that all individuals we come into contact with through our work, whether team members, community members, program participants or others, are treated with respect and dignity. We are committed to the core principles regarding prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse laid out by the UN Secretary General and IASC and have signed on to the Interagency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme**.** We will not tolerate child abuse, sexual exploitation, abuse, or harassment by or of our team members. As part of our commitment to a safe and inclusive work environment, team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner, respect local laws and customs, and to adhere to Mercy Corps Code of Conduct Policies and values at all times. Team members are required to complete mandatory Code of Conduct elearning courses upon hire and on an annual basis.