What will the jobholder be expected to achieve?

To provide high quality, strategic cross-cutting conflict advice to the Embassy. Specifically, by a) bringing a deep understanding of Myanmar’s conflict to inform all aspects of our policy and programming work and b) ensuring our approach to service delivery is best in class in terms of conflict sensitivity.  

You will:

• Feed into Embassy-wide and programme-level risk management processes, supporting teams to identify conflict risks and mitigate them appropriately. This may include risk ownership of relevant BEY risks, mitigating risks appropriately.
• You will support delivery of an effective Integrated Security Fund(ISF) portfolio. You will participate in the ISF working group and act as a policy lead for at least 3 ISF projects. In addition, you will support overall management by providing conflict and technical advice for the programme, support on Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) and help ensure the ISF portfolio remains conflict sensitive.
• Will have an extensive understanding of the organisation together with a sound working knowledge of the external business environment. You will be politically aware and be able to anticipate the impact of our work especially when drawing up proposals for change. A key aspect of the role is the ability to plan ahead, think strategically and ensure that operations, service provision or policy programmes are developed to meet changing business needs.
• You will represent the Embassy in donor and development forums to build UK influence and partnership to promote UK values and approach. You will display a solid thinking and working politically approach and be effective in communicating the UK approach on conflict management across the office and with Ministers. You will identify and recommend new opportunities for engagement with peacebuilding, security and stabilisation and social cohesion/inclusion. You will bring deep Myanmar knowledge and experience and relationships with external experts and central teams to add value to the UK programme in Myanmar and build a robust and effective approach to shaping our ongoing approach.
• You will design and lead strategic Embassy engagement with a broad range of stakeholders and advise and steer more senior engagement in order to deliver enhanced results across UK policy and programme objectives.
• Demonstrate independent and high-quality evidence-informed judgement and a high degree of creativity and flexibility to support design and delivery of conflict sensitive policy and programming in the Embassy.
• Demonstrate leadership in horizon scanning and be pro-active in anticipating issues and understanding underlying causes before providing solutions. You will consult and negotiate with other grades, some more senior and maintain effective contacts with a range of external actors and organisations in order to incorporate evidence.
• Represent the UK in international for a and demonstrate leadership in the international community to promote more effective coordination on key issues related to peace and conflict and to further UK objectives.
• Lead the delivery of selected components of business cases within the Politics, Economy & Governance and or Human Development and Programme Management teams, acting as Programme Responsible Owner or component lead as appropriate.
• Responsible for the overall programme portfolio of approximately £15 million business case, three-year programme and will have management oversight of programme and budget management.
• Will often act as a team leader with responsibility for delivering team objectives whenever necessary.

Essential on arrival:

• Deep understanding of the Myanmar context, especially the politics of ethnic and conflict areas; advisory experience within FCDO; A demonstrable track record of delivering conflict outcomes at expert level through strong capability in the Conflict Technical Competencies set out below.
• Ability to oversee/manage the delivery of high-quality conflict analysis, prioritise analytical needs, identify the appropriate tools, in support of, or in complement with, analysis undertaken across HMG.
• Collaborative leadership of a conflict appropriate response – Experience in developing, managing and leading policy and programmatic approaches on peacebuilding and conflict resolution that are adapted to the context, manage risks, and deliver effectiveness, impact and value for money.