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JOB DESCRIPTION

Community Partners International (CPI) is a U.S. nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering vulnerable communities in Asia to meet their essential health, humanitarian and development needs. Founded by U.S. doctors in 1998, the organization has grown to serve more than one million people each year. Community Partners International focuses on helping communities affected by conflict, violence, and displacement, in remote and hard-to-reach contexts, and marginalized by poverty and exclusion.

The Local Empowerment and Resilience Network (LEARN) Activity is a 5-year, USAID-assisted project that aims to empower citizens and communities in southeast Myanmar by developing and strengthening collaboration between civil society, ethnic service providers, and local administration/community-established governance structures to increase local agency, encourage social cohesion, and address community needs and concerns.

CPI is currently seeking a qualified candidate for the position of Technical Manager (Organizational Development [OD] Specialist) for the LEARN Activity. The Technical Manager will have overall responsibility for designing and overseeing OD interventions aimed at strengthening the capacity of CSOs, CBOs, and ethnic service providers to improve overall organizational sustainability and access to high-quality essential services and humanitarian assistance in southeast Myanmar. The Technical Manager will bring innovative ideas, methodologies, and approaches to organizational strengthening of local organizations.

Primary Responsibilities

• Provide technical direction, coordination, and oversight for all of the project’s organizational development activities in southeast Myanmar.

• Provide comprehensive, customized, and documented mentoring and technical assistance to institutions and organizations that are delivering capacity strengthening interventions under the LEARN Activity.

• Lead oversight of organizational and technical capacity assessments of all selected partners assisted by LEARN, and support the development of tailored organizational growth plans.

• Ensure the quality of capacity strengthening activities being implemented with LEARN support, and establish robust feedback mechanisms to ensure that inputs from local partners are used to upgrade OD processes and materials

• Support the development of materials and processes for specific topics for the OD of local partners, including trainings, mentoring and coaching, peer learning platforms, and other methodologies.

• Provide guidance, oversight, and management of external trainers and consultants engaged in providing OD to LEARN partners

• Collaborate with the LEARN technical and program teams to ensure that capacity strengthening activities are integrated and aligned with other LEARN activities and partner priorities

• Promote the sustainability of LEARN’S OD activities with effective networking, coordination, and linkages to other programs, partners, and counterparts

• Ensure the implementation and monitoring of milestones and deliverables related to OD

• Contribute to project reporting, work planning, budgeting, and deliverables related to OD, as required

• Provide inputs for the preparation of briefs, presentations, knowledge sharing platforms, and other informational materials related to OD, as required

• Support the Technical Director to develop, implement, and update the LEARN Localization Plan throughout the project cycle

• Ensure that gender, inclusive development, and diversity, equity, and inclusion principles are integrated into technical and operational activities related to the project’s organizational development components

• Other tasks as delegated/assigned by the Technical Director

Regular Responsibilities

• Establish, strengthen, and sustain good working relationships/coordination with USAID, consortium partners, local implementing partners, other donors and agencies, and other project stakeholders

• Represent CPI and the LEARN project in key technical working groups and coordination bodies

• Facilitate the learning objectives of LEARN, including any assessments, surveys and research, in coordination with the project’s MEAL and technical teams

• Ensure that relevant information is shared/communicated across LEARN project teams, CPI departments, consortium members, and local implementing partners

• Ensure that all project activities and expenditures related to Enhanced Learning are in line with CPI’s and USAID’s policies, priorities, and standard procedures.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

• Master’s degree in management, public health, public administration, development studies, or other relevant field

• 5-8 Years of relevant experience in activities related to civil society strengthening, NGO management, and/or organizational development.

• Minimum of 5 years of direct experience applying performance assessment methodologies to identify and address performance gaps, developing and implementing capacity building plans, building consensus among organizations for improved performance, and developing training interventions for stakeholders in Myanmar

• Experience successfully supervising trainers and consultants

• Fluent in written and spoken English and Burmese

• Excellent coordination, collaboration and communication skills with diverse teams, multiple stakeholders, and local partners.

• Able to work well in a multicultural setting

• Able to establish realistic priorities in a time sensitive environment and meet deadlines with strong attention to consistency, detail, and quality

• Comfortable working with a variety of partners and navigating complex relationships

• Resourceful to resolve problems and take the initiative to find solutions

• Flexibility to allow for travel, variable working hours, and some modifications of tasks and responsibilities as team and project needs change

Preferred skills:

• Prior experience working with USAID or for a USAID grantee, and familiarity with USAID rules and regulations

• Prior experience working with ethnic service providers and CSOs in southeast Myanmar

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

All interested and qualified candidates are requested to send an Application Letter, Curriculum Vitae to:

Email: recruitment@cpintl.org

• The closing date for application will be on 2 November’2022, (Wednesday),17:00pm Thailand Standard Time.

• Please clearly mention the Position and Location you are applying for in the email Subject Line.

CPI’s Value

• At CPI, we believe that all people have right to live their live free from sexual violence and recognized that there are unequal power dynamics across the organization. CPI does not tolerate discrimination and harassment under any circumstances and will take disciplinary action, which may include dismissal, against any worker who discriminates or harasses any worker. Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) is everyone’s responsibility and all staff are required to adhere to the Code of Conduct, that enshrines principles of PSEA, at all times (both during work hours and outside work hours). Familiarization with, and adherence to, the Code of Conduct is an essential requirement of all staff, in addition to related mandatory training. All staff must ensure that they understand and act in accordance with this clause.

• CPI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, national origin, age, marital status, or disability.

Note to Candidate

• Candidates are required to declare in advance that should there be any relative or family member currently being employed in CPI. Failure to do so can lead to termination of the employment contract even after successful selection.

• Because of the large volume of applicants, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

• Contract and position are contingent upon successful award of the project and final approval by the donor.

Closing Date               :      19 April 2026 (11:59 PM, Bangkok Time)