Program Quality & Partnership Manager
Location: Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
Contract: 1-year fixed term
One Oxfam Grade: C1 National
Salary and benefits: N/A
Job purpose: The Program Quality and Partnership Manager strengthens IP3 Program Quality and Partnership Management through leadership in learning, evidence use, and strategic documentation. The role ensures consistent, high-quality, and timely monitoring, reporting, and evidence sharing across the IP3 program.
They advise Oxfam country offices and partners in the Mekong region to track and document progress and demonstrate evidence of change toward program impacts. The Manager ensures strong alignment between regional and country-level implementation, annual plans, and reports that meet donor requirements and Oxfam quality standards.
In collaboration with the IP3 Manager and with support from the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, they will lead the development of an effective Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) framework and system, aligned to the IP3 Theory of Change and Theory of Action.
Working closely with country teams, regional partners, and the Oxfam Asia team, they will build systems for evidence and program wide learning, and deliver capacity strengthening for women leaders, Indigenous Peoples, civil society actors, and other stakeholders involved in the program.
The Program Quality and Partnership Lead/Manager will work with partners to analyze outputs and outcomes and support the Policy and Communications Lead in the timely use of evidence for policy engagement and influence.
- Program Quality Leadership and Strategic Support
- Finalise the Program Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Framework (MEAL) for IP3, ensuring relevance and usability for partners and compliance with Oxfam quality standards.
- Ensure the IP3 MEAL Framework embeds GEDSI and Feminist indicators in its regular monitoring activities and milestones.
- Lead baseline studies, mid-term reviews and evaluations.
- Ensure the preparation and quality assurance of all donor reports, ensuring that written outputs meet the highest standards of clarity, synthesis, and strategic communication.
- Maintain and update quality management processes across multiple countries, basins, activities and partnerships.
- Analyse and report on monitoring and evaluation findings and provide strategic advice to inform program adaptation and improvement.
- Apply gender and feminist analysis, ensuring integration of gender and disability inclusion across the program cycle, with a strong focus on program design, MEAL, and accountability.Lead the implementation and use of a systematic approach to programme quality and MEAL, Partnership and Safe Programming, ensuring that Oxfam and partners can effectively demonstrate progress on programme outputs and outcomes - both qualitative and quantitative, for reporting and learning purposes.
- Coordinate with regional programs in Asia, sharing best practices and creating cross program collaboration.
- Coordinate all reporting requirements of IP3 for donors and Oxfam requirements, ensuring high quality and timely reports.
- Support the Program Management Unit (PMU) and implementing countries in developing the Theory of Change and MEAL Framework of IP3 at a country level and ensure its implementation.
- Learning
- Lead the use of MEAL analysis in policy influencing, communication and advocacy, including capacity strengthening with partners.
- Connect program partners and practitioners to each other, and to external and internal sources of expertise.
- Ensure learning feeds into program development and compliance with quality standards and policies.
- Integrate Gender Analysis, Disability Inclusion, and Youth Inclusion within the program strategies and partnerships.
- Provide/mobilise program quality technical advice and guidance to partners, networks, affected communities and the Program Management Unit.
- Ensure project Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability Learning frameworks are regularly updated through a participatory process, ensure learning informs project implementation and adaptive management.
- Plan, design and facilitate learning forums, identifying collaborative learning opportunities with Oxfam’s regional programs, and regional programs of donors, networks and platforms in Asia.
- Capture and synthesise learning from the MEAL systems – design documents, implementation plans, research studies, evaluations to ensure products contribute to strengthened programming and influencing work.
- Knowledge management, communication and Partnership management
- Produce, coordinate and commission policy learning briefs on key issues related to Water Resource Governance, Climate Resilience and GEDSI contextual to in the Mekong Region.
- Build an understanding of Oxfam’s partnership principles, safe programming, and mainstream these in partnership approaches
- Communicate and advocate on the benefits of program quality approaches to IP3 stakeholders, Oxfam in Asia and the wider public.
- Deliver production of regular knowledge sharing materials and the dissemination of key information to stakeholders.
- Ensure the findings from review and evaluation are taken on board and management response actions are implemented.
- Undertake capacity assessments and facilitate technical training advice and learning events for staff at all levels in water governance, resilience, GEDSI and Feminist Influencing.
- Develop a network of supportive program quality colleagues.
- Essential
- University degree in International Development, Community Development, Program Management or Monitoring and Evaluation or relevant degree with comparable level of professional experience
- At least 8 years’ experience in a similar regional role
- Demonstrated experience in documenting management practices and working with quality management systems
- An analytical understanding of GEDSI and Feminism in water governance and climate resilience, and disability inclusion and how to integrate this into MEAL practice
- Demonstrated experience building effective partnership relationships with a range of key stakeholders
- Experience in developing and maintaining an internal program quality management system
- Strong knowledge of the Mekong countries context, actors and stakeholders
- Project management experience in the international development sector
- Experience in political and economic analysis and commissioning research gained in an INGO or public policy context
- Champion of feminist leadership principles and practices and values including commitment to diversity and inclusion
- Exceptional written communication skills in English, with demonstrated ability to produce high-quality, donor-facing reports, strategic documents, and knowledge products to tight deadlines.
- A high level of initiative and drive, ability to work independently with demonstrated self-organisation skills
- Desirable
- Spoken and written fluency in at least one Mekong language
- Familiarity with Oxfam-supported programs on water resource management, climate resilience in Asia.
- Experience in delivering tailored capacity development to civil society partners and internal teams, including training, mentoring, and technical accompaniment. Ability to facilitate learning exchanges and co-create context-specific tools and strategies that strengthen locally led and feminist approaches.
