Cash, Food and Livelihood Manager

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:

Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategic Leadership & Portfolio Governance

• Provide strategic leadership and direction across a portfolio of WVIM projects and grants, ensuring coherence, alignment, and strong contribution to WVIM’s strategy.
• Lead annual portfolio planning, integrated work planning, budgeting, and multi‑project coordination.
• Ensure adaptive management approaches, scenario planning, and contingency planning in response to Myanmar’s fragile context.
• Establish high‑performing standards for project quality, evidence generation, and technical excellence.
• Strengthen organizational systems, operational efficiency, and internal collaboration between Operations, PQD, Finance, P&C, Procurement, Security, and others.

Donor Engagement, Fundraising & External Relations

• Serve as the primary institutional representative and trusted liaison to donors, partners, authorities, networks, and coordination bodies.
• Work with grant acquisition team to lead fundraising and business development efforts, including capture planning, donor intelligence, consortium building, and proposal development.
• Build and maintain strategic partnerships with donors, UN agencies, INGOs, LNGOs, private sector actors, and foundations to enhance visibility and influence.
• Ensure high‑quality donor reporting, communications, and compliance to position WVIM as a “partner of choice.”

Multi-Project Oversight & Quality Delivery

• Directly supervise Project Managers and provide leadership, accountability, and performance management.
• Oversee project planning, budget management, compliance, MEL, procurement, safeguarding, and risk mitigation across all projects.
• Ensure delivery of results on‑time, on‑budget, and to high quality standards.
• Drive technical integration across WASH, Livelihoods, Nutrition, Education, Child Protection, and other sectors, particularly within APs.
• Monitor portfolio performance and lead corrective actions, learning loops, and quality‑improvement initiatives.

People Leadership, Team Performance & Capacity Strengthening

• Build a team of excellence, collaboration, accountability, and innovation within the grants and project teams.
• Mentor Project Managers and senior technical staff; develop succession strategies and local leadership pathways.
• Promote staff safety, resilience, well‑being, and professional development.
• Lead remote and hybrid management approaches suitable for Myanmar’s restrictive context.
• Live and model WV’s Christian faith and values: servant leadership, humility, integrity, compassion, and service, while respecting and working inclusively with staff and communities of all faiths and backgrounds.

Risk, Compliance, Safeguarding & Organizational Integrity

• Ensure full compliance with donor regulations, WV policies, humanitarian principles, and safeguarding standards.
• Lead risk identification, mitigation planning, and proactive escalation.
• Strengthen governance, audit readiness, financial stewardship, and operational effectiveness control.
• Work closely with Security to assess threats, plan field movements, and implement security SOPs; enforce context‑specific duty of care, critical incident management, and remote management SOPs.
• Ensure partners meet minimum compliance and security standards; support partner capacity strengthening.
• Uphold WV’s Christian values, safeguarding culture, Code of Conduct, and high ethical standards.

M&E, Learning, Evidence, and Innovation

• Promote learning, knowledge management, and evidence‑based programming across all projects.
• Lead initiatives on innovation, financial accessibility, climate resilience, market‑based programming, and HDP Nexus approaches.
• Champion an organizational culture of evidence, learning, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure PQD and MEAL teams have the access, data, and systems required for high‑quality measurement.
• Worl closely with PQD team to ensure smooth, effective, and successful project implementation, and knowledge products, and documentation.
• Strengthen local partner capacity in M&E, accountability, and adaptive practices.

 

Developing Anticipatory Action Protocols, Policies & Triggers

• Threshold Setting: Designing impact-based forecasting models and threshold levels that serve as the "trigger" for releasing pre-arranged funds.
• Action Plans: Defining the exact, tailored activities to execute (e.g., distributing cash, safeguarding livestock, reinforcing shelters) the moment a trigger is met.

Stakeholder Coordination & Partnerships

• Cross-sector Collaboration: Bridging the gap between local meteorological agencies, disaster risk management authorities, UN entities, and at-risk communities.

Data, Analysis & Evidence Generation

• Predictive Modeling: Monitoring climate and hazard early warnings at various timescales to ensure forecasting models are accurate to local realities.
• Evidence Building: Collaborating with Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) teams to evaluate the effectiveness of activations.

Support to operations & Organizational Priorities

• Provide direct strategic and operational support to the OD on priority tasks, emerging needs, and organizational initiatives.
• Lead or contribute to cross‑departmental taskforces, change management processes, and operational improvement efforts.
• Support crisis coordination, emergency response planning, and high‑level donor engagements as requested by OD.
• Contribute to strengthening organizational culture, systems, and leadership rhythms.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND EXPERIENCE

• Master’s degree in International Development, Public Policy, Business Administration, Humanitarian Studies, or related field. - Desired
• Minimum 5 years of progressive leadership in INGO or development/humanitarian organizations.
• Proven experience managing large, multi‑sector, multi‑donor portfolios.
• Experience supervising Project Managers and senior technical staff.
• Proven success in donor relationship management and fundraising (e.g., DFAT, USAID, FCDO, UN agencies, private foundations).
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in conflict‑affected or fragile settings.
• Proven ability to build and manage high performance local field teams. Provide mentoring to increase their accountability, introduce appropriate management practices, and information from a wide range of sources.
• Experience in leadership roles including strategic design and learning and knowledge management.
• Excellent English (spoken and written), including report writing.
• Basic Myanmar is an advantage for engagement with staff, partners, and communities.
• Based at the National Office.
• Frequent travel to field/project sites, including remote areas.
• Able to work in fragile and emergency contexts.
• Mix of in‑person and remote management as safety allows.
• Good health and physical ability to travel to project areas and participate in field activities.
• Senior‑level strategic leadership and portfolio management
• Strong stakeholder engagement and negotiation
• Excellent proposal writing, reporting, donor communication, and representation
• Financial management and compliance oversight
• Political economy awareness and conflict‑sensitive programming
• Ability to lead diverse teams in remote or restricted environments
• Outstanding communication, facilitation, and diplomacy skills
• Strong ethical leadership and safeguarding commitment

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only