Deputy Chief of Party

Pact seeks an experienced Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP) for an internationally-funded social resilience program, in which Pact is one of two consortium partners. The DCOP manages the day-to-day programmatic activities designed to strengthen social resilience in Myanmar, using innovative approaches to meet the needs of communities and expand opportunities for women and young people in coordination with civil society partners. The DCOP will be based in Thailand and will manage a technical team and an operations team. The DCOP will be responsible for both overall project operations and designated program activities in coordination with technical and administrative staff. The DCOP reports to the consortium Chief of Party programmatically while being firmly rooted in the Pact Thailand Country Office.

• Support overall operational, financial, grants and contracts, HR, safety and security, and compliance oversight to the project;
• Lead on ensuring the effective logistics and operations for ensuring effective implementation of project activities;
• Provide technical leadership and oversight of Pact’s thematic objectives, particularly in impact areas such as combating gender-based violence and mental health and psychosocial support, ensuring complementarity to the project’s wider objectives;
• With CoP, ensure synergies of program objectives and approaches by CSO partners;
• Ensure project M&E and award management protocols/SoPs are adopted and utilized;
• Maintain current awareness of the implementation environment in both Burma and Thailand and report on, and advise adaptations to, those implementation environments;
• Identify potential areas of financial and compliance vulnerability and risk and together with the project’s senior management implement corrective action plans to resolve problematic issues and risk mitigation;
• Provide oversight for various financial functions such as project budgeting, auditing, forecasting and analysis;
• Support COP in managing, tracking, monitoring, and reporting financial data as requested. Identify problems and work to resolve them as well as to prevent future problems;
• Guide and monitor grants and contracts procedures in compliance with project and bilateral funder rules and regulations;
• Ensure funds expended are compliant with US government regulations and policies;
• Implement fraud mitigation practices and ensure systems and processes are implemented effectively to support implementation of the award;
• Ensure proper financial documentation and reporting, establish and provide direction and management of project funds;
• Lead and oversee the development, management, and complete life cycle of a variety of possible subaward and procurement mechanisms;
• Support the CoP in preparing programmatic reports and workplans and representing the program externally; 
• Mentor and supervise program/technical, finance, operations, grants and contracts staff engaged in the activities noted here, as well as provide training and capacity development support to civil society partners;
• Employee complies with all company policies and procedures, including completing all compliance training topics by the deadline to satisfy each and receiving the corresponding acknowledgment statement that the training has been completed.
• All other duties as assigned

• Master's degree with nine (9) years work experience or bachelor's degree with at least eleven (11+) years work experience
• At least five (5+) years management experience
• Experience with responsibility for operations of internationally-funded projects at all levels of management up to DCOP.

• Experience in Burma and/or Thailand;
• Technical expertise in one or more of the program’s impact areas mentioned above;
• Experience with the provision of capacity development assistance to Burmese CSOs;
• Experience in financial compliance and progressive supervisory work experience directly supervising administrative, finance, and/or operations staff;
• Knowledge of bilateral funder rules, regulations and policies, particularly financial reporting and compliance requirements;
• Fluency in English (oral, writing and reading).