• Job number: SRH05769
• Status: Employee
• Area of expertise: Grants & Partnership Management
• Position: Missions
• Country: Myanmar (Burma)
• Contract Type: Short term contract

About us

Desired start date: 01/05/2024
Duration of the mission: 6 months
Location: Yangon, Bangkok

SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL (SI) is an international humanitarian aid association which, since more than 40 years, has been providing assistance to populations affected by armed conflicts and natural disasters by meeting their basic needs for food, water and shelter. Particularly committed to the fight against diseases linked to unsafe water, the leading cause of death in the world, SI’s interventions provide expertise in the field of access to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene promotion, but also in the essential area of food security and livelihoods. Present in some twenty countries, the SI teams – 2500 people in total, made up of expatriates, national staff, permanent staff at HQ, and a few volunteers – intervene with professionalism and commitment while respecting cultural norms.

About the mission

About the job

General objective:

Under the supervision and with the support of the Grants & Partnership Coordinator, head of the Grants Unit, and working closely with program and support departments at coordination level, and with base teams, the Grants Manager’s primary role is to lead proposal development, be the focal point for the overall grant management cycle and ensure accountability to donors.

The main challenges:

• Grants and Funding structure of the Myanmar mission: high number of grants, with very heterogeneous donors and contracts configuration. Important share of programs implemented in consortium/partnerships (both national and international, in a position of lead or sub-recipient).
• Grants department under structuration (creation of a Grants and Partnerships Coordinator role, which will start just before the Grants Manager) in order to accomodate the high number of (regular) grants, the training and autonomization of teams, as well as the growing partnerships portfolio.
• Entry in the country is limited for expatriates, the position has to be considered as remote position until further notice

Priorities for the 2/3 first months:

• Clear the closing of all grants related to Mocha cyclone response
• Lead the lessons learning about Grants Management of the Mocha Response
• Support the roll-out of the new RACI of the Grants and Partnerships Department at mission level
• Lead the development of critical concept notes and proposals (BHA, LIFT-UNOPS)
• Contribute to revise the Grants Management related tasks of the Rakhine base (post-cyclone and adaptation to remote working)

Your profile

Education / academic background:

• MSc in Humanitarian affairs, programming, International affairs
• A first experience on a similar position
• 3-4 years in the humanitarian sector

Specific skills and experience:

• Grants management, donors’ guidelines
• Proposal writing and proposal development coordination
• Experience in partnerships management and development
• Remote work
• Sense of coordination (internal, external)
• Team player

Language:

• English (fluent – mandatory)
• French (strong asset) – number of Grants funded by French requiring communication in French to Paris
• Burmese (strong asset)

SI will offer you

A salaried position:

According to experience, starting from EUR 2310 gross per month (2100 base salary + 10% annual leave allowance paid monthly) and a monthly Per Diem of USD 750 in Bangkok, USD 700 in Yangon.

SI also covers accommodation costs and travel expenses between the expatriate’s country of origin and the place of assignment.

Breaks: During the assignment, a system of alternation between work and time off is implemented at the rate of 7 working days every three months (with a USD 850 break allowance, allocated by Sl). To these breaks periods, SI grants one (1) additional rest day per month worked.

Insurance package: Expatriates benefit from an insurance package which refunds 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.

LIVING CONDITIONS:

Depending on access constraints and possibility to secure visas, the position will be held either remotely (in the sub-region or in Thailand, depending on possibilities) or in Yangon. In both locations, living conditions are good with accommodation providing by SI in its guesthouses.

No major security concerns in SI offices locations, both Rakhine and Kachin are in Security level 3, but remain largely inaccessible for expatriate given the visa situation. The position will be based in Bangkok as a starter, monitoring the situation in Myanmar, should a later move to Yangon be considered (not foreseen in the first 5 months of the position anyway).
Remote management and adapted modalities require a strong application of digital/online security framework.

Application process

Do you recognize yourself in this description? If yes, please send us your CV and cover letter!

Please note that CV-only applications will not be considered, and that the vacancy may close before the deadline.

Thank you for your understanding.

To learn more about Sl: www.solidarites.org

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Solidarités International (SI) est déterminé à prévenir et à combattre tout type d’abus – tout acte d’exploitation, d’abus et/ou de harcèlement sexuels (SEAH) à l’encontre des membres des communautés bénéficiaires ou de ses collaborateurs et collaboratrices, atteinte aux personnes et/ou aux biens, fraude, corruption, conflit d’intérêt non déclaré, financement d’activités portant atteinte aux droits de l’homme – qui pourrait être perpétré dans le cadre de ses interventions. SI applique une tolérance zéro à l’égard de tout type d’abus, particulièrement des actes de SEAH.

Solidarités International est un employeur équitable qui combat toute forme de discrimination. SI ne demandera jamais une rétribution quelconque en vue de participer à un processus de recrutement.

Solidarités International (SI) is determined to prevent and fight all type of abuse – all act of exploitation, abuse and/or sexual harassment (SEAH) against members of beneficiary communities or collaborators, fraud, corruption, violation of persons and/or property, funding of activities harmful to human rights – that could be perpetrated in the frame of its interventions. SI implements a zero-tolerance policy regarding acts of abuse, notably acts of SEAH.

Solidarités International is an equitable employer committed to find all forms of discrimination. SI will ever ask for any remuneration to take part in a recruitment process.