INGO Forum Director

What we are looking for

NRC is looking for an INGO Forum Director to join the Myanmar mission. The role holder will be responsible for overall leadership, strategic direction, and facilitation of coordination between international members of the forum, the Steering Committee, and external stakeholders. The coordination entails ensuring effective information exchange and analysis, representation, and advocacy on common positions and agreed interests.

If you are an influential, interpersonal, and strategic leader, with extensive negotiation and problem-solving skills, who enjoys advocating and engaging with high level actors, facilitating information sharing, and influencing advocacy and coordination, then this is the role for you!

What you will do

• INGO Forum Strategy development and implementation.
• Joint advocacy initiatives leadership.
• Partnerships, localisation, and capacity sharing support.
• Representation of INGO Forum members at external meetings and fora.
• Stakeholder relations.
• Member engagement promotion, ensuring the Forum meets the members’ priority needs.
• Financial resource management, including overseeing proposals, budgets, and reports.
• Policy analysis on key issues affecting INGOs in Myanmar.
• Risk mitigation measures.
• Information sharing facilitation.

What you will bring

• Senior management experience in a humanitarian/recovery/development context.
• INGO management experience.
• Policy change and practice influencing track record.
• Advocating and engaging with high level actors experience.
• Inter-agency coordination familiarity.
• Global humanitarian and development coordination infrastructure and systems familiarity.
• Donor and diplomatic missions representational and diplomatic experience.
• Multiple donor grants/contracts involvement.
• Resource mobilization strategies development and implementation.
• Complex, and volatile context exposure.
• English fluency, both written and verbal.

What makes this position attractive?

• Active since 2007, the INGO Forum is an independent membership body and coordination forum. It supports and strengthens the work of the INGO community in order to better respond to the needs and protect the rights of the people of Myanmar. This is achieved by improving coordination and representation, amplifying the collective voice of members, and representing their interests to key decision-makers, as well as by coordinating and facilitating information exchange, learning, and resource-sharing among the NGO community.
• The INGO Forum provides a platform for organisations to share experiences, identify challenges, and find ways to support the work of its members to serve better the people for whom it works.
• Myanmar has seen a radical change in context the last three years, with internal borders being created due to increased conflict, and multiple stakeholders are needed for engagement, while a variety of modalities to the increasing humanitarian needs are required.
• The members are the drive behind INGO Forum, and their active participation is essential to the INGO Forum’s continued dynamism.
• The opportunity to join one of the most respected, largest, and best resourced INGO Forums. The chance to network with a diverse portfolio of stakeholders in a challenging and complex environment.
• Meaningful work, with a high-quality integrated programme that responds to the diverse needs, priorities, and concerns raised by beneficiary communities.
• Female candidates are strongly encouraged to join our work culture that empowers every employee to share ideas and take responsibility.

The full Job Description can be found on our website.