The Enabling Community Recovery and Resilience project, ENCORE, aims to empower the most vulnerable communities in rural areas to shift from crisis to recovery. The project incorporates short, intermediate, and long-term interventions. ENCORE works in 52 Townships in 11 States and Regions in across Myanmar with targeting beneficiaries to improve their resilience to economic, security, health and climate-related shocks”.

Working closely with highly vulnerable communities, ENCORE aims to:

• Address the most fundamental and critical needs
• Restore livelihoods and rehabilitate basic community infrastructure
• Build social cohesion and community preparedness to sustain project gains and manage future shocks

All three project components, (i) Community capacity building, and mobilization, (ii) Community-led undertakings to address basic needs and promote recovery and resilience, and (iii) Improved governance and service delivery in contested territories, are underpinned by the inclusive and principled multi-stakeholder engagement process, in which the selection of partners is done in collaboration with the UNDP’s Civil Society Unit and informed by the Human rights due diligence (HRDD) and conflict-sensitive considerations.
ENCORE envisages providing hands-on capacity development to improve dialogue/facilitation, problem-solving, gender and conflict sensitivity, participatory planning, insider mediation, and negotiation skills. The project activities are designed so that they will not in any way contribute to any existing conflict or tension within the community or create new sources of conflict but, instead, should contribute to peacebuilding and promote social cohesion among community members. The capacity development component will include strengthening awareness, skills, and methods to engage in more participatory, transparent, inclusive, human rights-based, gender, conflict-sensitive, and accountable service delivery and governance processes.

The ENCORE Project is designed to deliver interlinked interventions covering the whole crisis to recovery to resilience continuum, and the emphasis on building community resilience and increasing sustainability is therefore central to its overall strategy. The phasing of ENCORE includes (i) household-level basic needs responses (Phase 1), (ii) intermediate-term community-level crisis response interventions (Phase 2), and (iii) medium-term community-led recovery and resilience-building initiatives (Phase 3).  The gradual progression of community support enables the project to carefully adapt to the complex and widely varying operational conditions across project sites while gradually building trust and social cohesion thus promoting community ownership and social cohesion.

• Support the rapid implementation of the ENCORE project by undertaking rapid identification of training needs.
• In collaboration with the TCBS, prepare the annual capacity building and training work plan based on the Overall ENCORE Capacity Building and Training Plan, and develop and/or enhance standards in designing, developing, implementing, managing, monitoring, and evaluating capability building and training programs and activities in the Project.
•  Design, develop modules, and implement capability-building programs for the PIO and township teams (i.e., TC an CF), CVs, CDCs, community project groups, SLAW, O&M, and Livelihood Groups (LGs) in line with the ENCORE Capacity Building and Training Plan, and in coordination with relevant specialists of the PMO and PIO.
• Conduct pilot TOT training in each PIO area and ensure on the replication in each township under the guidance of an International Capacity Building Specialist.
• S/he should be able to work with the operations and program side to achieve the desired outputs and results.

Admin and logistics support

• Coordinate technical, budget, procurement, and administrative and logistics support for training programs and activities of the PMU and PIO and ensure all training preparations are done in an efficient and timely manner.

Monitoring Capacity Building Activities/Plan

• Monitor the implementation of the ENCORE Capacity Building and Training Plan, including the application of standards in training activities.
• Provide assistance in the actual delivery of the training inputs, in collaboration with the UNDP Field Offices

Data Management:

• Design, maintain, and periodically update a database of (i) training and capacity-building technical assistance (TA) providers at the country and state/cluster level, and; (ii)  training activities and other related information (i.e. participants, content, duration, pre and post evaluation results, costs, and to inform analysis and aid in operations planning, implementation, and decision-making, and evaluation and updating of training plans and strategies
• Necessary reporting and sharing of results
• Prepare periodic (monthly, quarterly, and annual) and on-demand training program implementation progress reports for submission to the PMU and UNDP management and development partners, and for feedback to implementation teams.
• Regular reporting to the Project management while maintaining close communication over operational issues
• The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.

• Knowledge Generation. Ability to research and turn information into useful knowledge, relevant for context, or responsive to a stated need
• Knowledge Facilitation. Ability to animate individuals and communities of contributors to participate and share, particularly externally

Business Direction & Strategy

• System Thinking. Ability to use objective problem analysis and judgement to understand how interrelated elements coexist within an overall process or system, and to consider how altering one element can impact on other parts of the system

Digital & Innovation

• Innovation capacity building. Ability to define and create the conditions for trying out new ways of working or introducing new problem-solving approaches to an organisation  Ability to develop, manage and evaluate a learning curriculum that raises awareness, builds confidence, strengthens innovation capabilities around a certain method, tool or technique; or helps develop an innovation mindset. Ability to create the authorising environment (mandate, incentives) to embed and spread new ways of working. In-depth knowledge of one or more innovation methods, broad knowledge of innovation processes and innovation management. Ability to align a learning and development strategy with broader innovation strategy.