Fund Director, Access to Health Fund

Under the overall supervision of the UNOPS Myanmar Country Director & Representative, working closely with the Board composed of the Fund’s Donors, and in close coordination with key stakeholders, the Fund Director will be responsible for: 

1. Stakeholder Management

• Establish solid working relationships based on trust with the Fund Board, current and potential partners and key stakeholders.

• Manage Access to Health communications with stakeholders regarding Fund activities, progress and exceptions, enabling their ability to accept handover of Fund deliverables. 

• Advise the partners on issues that may impact the achievement of their outcomes. 

• Manage the information flows between the Fund Board, the UNOPS Myanmar Director and Representative and the UNOPS team dedicated to Access to Health. 

• Represent Access to Health and UNOPS at external events and meetings.

• Represent Access to Health in the UNOPS Management Group (MG) to ensure coordination, effective delivery and information sharing.

• Seek new donors for the Access to Health Fund, if required.

2. Delivery and Performance

• Oversee the implementation of approved programme plans, manage the delivery of the programme’s outputs, and initiate corrective action where necessary.

• Authorize, monitor and control work packages to be delivered by the UNOPS team or by implementing partners.

• Advise the Fund Board on architecture and processes to strengthen Access to Health’s engagement at all levels

• Identify and manage risks, advising the Fund Board and UNOPS Myanmar Director and Representative of deviations that have or will exceed set tolerances as approved in the programme plan.

• Monitor and evaluate performance of service providers. 

• Represent UNOPS at Fund Board meetings on a periodic basis as ex officio, non voting member in order to discuss key issues and propose solutions to challenges that arise.

• Monitor progress of the programme at a strategic level and ensure periodic progress and updates are made to the Fund Board. 

3. Procedures

• Ensure compliance with UNOPS organizational policy and UNOPS Financial Rules and Regulations.

• Manage the Access to Health Fund Management Office to ensure performance of the Fund in the areas of programmatic/technical results delivery, financial management (budget/cash flow/expenditure), work planning and resource mobilization, monitoring and evaluation (M&E), administrative (including regular reporting and audit results) and procurement operations.

• Manage budgets, cash flow and obligations, taking accountability for expenditures against the budget; ensure that deliverables are met and payments to contractors, grantees/ implementing partners and personnel are received on time.

• Understand and manage UNOPS pricing policy and related corporate charges as they apply to Access to Health.

• Ensure implementing partner capacity is commensurate with funding requirements. 

• Ensure appropriate measures have been documented in a Closure Plan to facilitate the transition of operations in the final stage of delivery.

4. Knowledge Management

• Provide feedback to Practice Leads on policy, supporting guidance with an aim towards continuous improvement of UNOPS policies complete lessons learned as per reporting format.

• Support UNOPS Myanmar’s efforts in being a centre of excellence for programme management.

• Master's degree preferably in public health, medicine, epidemiology, health economics, sociology/anthropology and health, or related disciplines, business administration, public administration, international relations or related subjects.
• A Bachelor's degree in these areas with a minimum of 12 years of relevant experience is considered as an equivalent.