Fund Director, Livelihoods and Food Security Fund (LIFT)

Under the overall supervision of the UNOPS Myanmar Director & Representative and working closely with the LIFT Fund Board, the Fund Director will be responsible for:  

1. Stakeholder Management

• Work closely with the Fund Board, represents LIFT with the private sector, civil society, and other relevant stakeholders (including UN agencies) to promote excellence, good practice, and coordination. 

• Manage LIFT 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 LIFT. 

• Represent LIFT and UNOPS at external events and meetings.

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

• Support the LIFT Donor Consortium, other potential donors, and UNOPS to explore future platforms to coordinate external investment in Myanmar’s agriculture, rural development, and nutrition sectors. 

• Seek new donors for the LIFT 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 LIFT’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.

• Ensure principles of gender equity, peace, voice and accountability, ‘doing no harm’, and aid effectiveness in all activities associated with the LIFT. 

• Monitor and evaluate performance of service providers. 

• Representing UNOPS (The Fund Manager, as reflected in LIFT Joint Collaboration Agreement) vis-à-vis all other stakeholders and in the Fund Board as ex officio, non-voting member. 

• 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, and in line with the Delegation of Authority received from the UNOPS Executive Director. 

• Manage the LIFT 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 LIFT.

• Ensure implementing partner capacity is commensurate with funding requirements. 

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.

• Advanced university degree (Master's or equivalent), preferably in a subject related to rural development, business administration, public administration or international relations is required; 
• First level university degree (Bachelor's or equivalent) with a minimum of 12 years of relevant experience is accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.