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Base: TBC (Pha-an/Phapon/Taunggoo) VA: 2021-HI-009: Team Manager - 1 Position

1) The document is a job posting for a Team Manager position with Humanity & Inclusion (HI) in Kayin State, Myanmar. 2) The Team Manager will oversee the implementation of HI services including rehabilitation, mental health and psychosocial support, and protection for vulnerable communities. 3) Key responsibilities include ensuring quality service delivery, managing a team of 7 staff, monitoring activities, and coordinating with other organizations.

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Base: TBC (Pha-an/Phapon/Taunggoo) VA: 2021-HI-009: Team Manager - 1 Position

1) The document is a job posting for a Team Manager position with Humanity & Inclusion (HI) in Kayin State, Myanmar. 2) The Team Manager will oversee the implementation of HI services including rehabilitation, mental health and psychosocial support, and protection for vulnerable communities. 3) Key responsibilities include ensuring quality service delivery, managing a team of 7 staff, monitoring activities, and coordinating with other organizations.

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Team Manager -1 Position

Base : TBC (Pha-an/Phapon/Taunggoo)


Duration : 6 months – further extension conditional upon funding
VA: 2021-HI-009

Humanity & Inclusion (HI - registered as the Federation Handicap International) is an independent and
impartial aid organization working in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. HI works
alongside people with disabilities and vulnerable populations, taking action and bearing witness in order
to respond to their essential needs, improve their living conditions and promote respect for their dignity
and fundamental rights. HI works to meet the needs and defend the rights of children, women and men
with disabilities. In emergency, HI’s mandate widens to target the most vulnerable groups within any
population taking gender inequities into account – from isolated rural communities, to people with
disabilities, to excluded minority groups – to ensure their equal access to appropriate relief aid).

Since 1984, HI has been active in Burmese refugee camps along the Myanmar-Thailand border. The
organization has set up rehabilitation centers and supplies prostheses and mobility aids to people with
disabilities. In Myanmar the first operations are dated 2008, following cyclone Nargis. The program,
mainly focused on emergency response, was closed at the end of the response operations. In 2013, the
program was reopened.

HI’s intervention in Myanmar and Thailand is based on 3 strategic pillars:


1/ Armed Violence Reduction (AVR), including Victim Assistance and community-based Risk
Education
2/ Inclusion with a focus on Disability Inclusion, (projects covering Inclusive Humanitarian Action
providing technical support to Humanitarian Actors, Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction, Inclusive
Livelihood)
3/ Health including Physical and Functional Rehabilitation and MHPSS
This includes prevention of disability amongst malnourished children in Rakhine through Early
Childhood Stimulation Therapy and Physical Rehabilitation; Physical and Functional Rehabilitation
services and Mental Health services in the frame of victim assistance in Kachin & in South East Myanmar
amongst others.

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HI programmatic response in Kayin (Karen) State to the conflict escalation include the deployment of
mobile units to provide emergency assistance (protection, rehabilitation, MHPSS, recreational activities,
health and external referrals) to displaced and host communities.

Humanity & Inclusion encourages qualified people with disabilities or chronic illness and women
to apply. We commit advancing inclusive workplace to remove barriers and to the full and equal
participation in the workforce. We commit to provide equal employment opportunities, reasonable
accommodation in workplace to all employees and qualified applicants, regardless of Nationality,
gender, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including people with disabilities.

Main objective of the position:


The team manager is managing one Handicap International (HI) multidisciplinary team. S/he is
responsible to ensure all HI team activities with children, adolescents, and adults are implemented
smoothly and team(s) is well functioning to provide qualitative services to most vulnerable people,
including people with disabilities and their caregivers.

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Responsibility 1: Ensure the qualitative and timely implementation of HI services (protection,
rehabilitation, MHPSS, recreational activities, and external referrals) and follow the referral
pathways in an emergency, in collaboration and coordination with HI technical unit and relevant
stakeholders
• Ensure that services (rehabilitation, SRH, MHPSS, Inclusion, and Protection) are reaching the
most vulnerable people in respect with applicable quality standards (prioritization of cases,
follow up, referrals, HI case management system with clear opening and closure of cases)
• Is responsible for activity planning and the identification of geographical and sectoral priorities,
with the support of the mobile unit project manager.
• Is responsible for the logistic planning of daily activities (vehicles, stocks release request, site
offices management). In the event of information/issue related to HI office (newly available land,
necessity to upgrade the facilities, need for equipment), he/she should immediately report to
his/her line manager.
• Is responsible for the administrative planning of daily activities (donation certificate, travel
request)
• Is responsible for gathering and consolidating the mapping of services at zone/area level and
submit it to his/her line manager
• Close monitoring of activities to make sure they are in line with sectoral quality standards, HI,
and donor requirements.
• Make sure that team members are strictly maintaining the confidentiality of their beneficiaries.

Responsibility 2: Ensure qualitative management of the team, including capacity building, positive
and constructive Teamwork
• Organize the daily and weekly planning and objectives of his/her team issuing timely weekly
planning and action plan to the team and his/her line manager
• Supervise closely and daily a mobile unit (about 7 staffs & volunteers) in the field
• Ensure the proper HR follow-up of his/her team (contract, leaves, training), in coordination with
the mobile unit project manager and HR department
• Provide proper orientation and follow up to the team and the community worker/volunteers on
protection issues in direct link with the technical unit, how to engage with beneficiaries, especially
with children, adolescent, and women, in line with HI and donor PSEA, child protection and other
relevant policies

Responsibility 3: Support the monitoring and evaluation of activities, Reporting and Archiving
• Ensure and overlook the data collection from the field and share with the technical unit (technical
advisor, MEAL manager & data entry team daily
• Orientate and follow up with the team members on how to properly fill-up, gather, and archive
all tools/assessment/format provided and guided by the technical team to ensure qualitative
services and timely data management.
• Engage in project monitoring and reporting by using reporting HI tools and review the progress
with the support of the mobile unit project manager and technical unit
• Ensure that team member are strictly following internal and external referral pathway, and record
the referrals accordingly
• Develop tools in close collaboration with the technical unit, orient and monitor their application
by the team members.
• Collect and document case study, lessons learned as per project needs and requested by the line
manager, with the support of the technical unit

Responsibility 4: Participate in the internal and external coordination and external representation
• Is responsible for the internal coordination of the activities, in liaison with the other team leader
and PM to make sure that there are no gaps/overlapping in HI response

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• Is responsible for the external coordination of the activities at the field level (camps and zone
level) in liaison with the PM to make sure that there are no gaps/overlapping in the humanitarian
response. He/she reports any gaps/overlapping to his/her line manager
• Establish networking with relevant stakeholders, represent HI in the camps, and liaise with
relevant stakeholders (Community leaders, CCCM, Health, Protection, etc.) to ensure that HI
mandate, strategy, and referral pathways are understood and disseminated
• In the event of a media visit to HI activities, immediately inform his/her line manager and the
emergency coordinator. The country director is the only person allowed to discuss with the
media.
• He/she Is the security focal point of his/her team and timely report security-related information
to his/her line manager

It is expected that the position holder will perform any other duties as required by the Line
Manager that are commensurate with the position.
Due to the developing and volatile situation in South East Myanmar and emergency nature of the
programmatic response, the position holder’s responsibilities may evolve as per programmatic needs.

Duty Station: Kayin (Karen) State


Line Manager of the position holder: Project Manager
Position holder is Line Manager for: 6 to 10 Officers and Assistants (Protection, MHPSS, Rehabilitation,
Nurse, referrals)
Position holder is technical referent for: N/A

Profile:

Essential Preferable

Qualification(s) At least a master's degree in


developmental studies, social science
sector, Public health, etc.
Experience • At least 1 year of team • At least 3 years of team
management experiences in past management experiences in past
• At least 2-3 years’ experience • At least 5 years’ experience
working in any reputed national or working in any reputed national or
an international humanitarian NGO an international humanitarian NGO
in a Senior Officer position. in a Senior Officer position.
Competencies • Excellent facilitation skills
(facilitation of training, awareness
session, communication with the
community)
• Burmese: Fluent
• Karen languages
• English: Fluent
• Computer knowledge (MS office)

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Personal • Strong teamwork approach • Experience of working in a remote
• Ability to lead and guide team community setting is an advantage
qualities
• Good communication skills in both • Have the capacity to maintain
verbal and written Burmese and close relationships with partners,
English stakeholders, and clients
• Availability to travel to remote • Proven analytical and planning
areas and spend time at field level skills
• Ability to work under pressure and
in a multicultural team
environment
• Ability to communicate and
coordinate smoothly with external
actors and represent the
humanitarian mandate of an NGO

HI is committed to protecting children and vulnerable adults from harm. All staffs are expected to
comply with the child Protection and PSEA Policies. Applicants for this position will be assessed
regarding their suitability to work with children and vulnerable adults.

Reference within the advertisement HI Myanmar’s commitment to the organizations Child Protection and
PSEA Policies, making reference to the special prevention measures taken to ensure safer recruitment
processes are followed.

The successful candidate will be required to complete a police check and self-declaration form to help
verify their suitability to work with children.

Send applications to: recruitment@myanmar.hi.org (CV + cover letter).


Please write: “VA2021-HI-009 Team Manager (Kayin/Karen)” in subject.
Deadline for the submission: 12th May 2021.

The appointment of the position is subject to the fund availability.

Only shortlisted applicant will be contacted for a written test and interview. Applicants may be contacted
on a rolling basis before the closing date, it is encouraged to apply early. After closing date, applications
are not considered.

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