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KEY INFORMATION
Job Title: Senior Project Officer - Facilitate Pillar
Sector: Gender-Based Violence Prevention
Duration/Level of Effort: Full-time Position
Location: Remote or on-site in Southeast Asia (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste or Vietnam)
Deadline to apply: 18/June/2025
SUMMARY OF THE PROJECT
The Southeast Asia Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Prevention Platform is a pivotal initiative supported by a AUD20 million investment from the Australian Government over five years (2024 to 2029). The Platform aims to enhance GBV prevention efforts across Southeast Asia by fostering collaboration among governments, civil society organisations, international bodies, and other stakeholders. We are guided by the principles of being locally driven, evidence-based, inclusive and diverse, survivor-centred and trauma informed, adaptable, collaborative, minimising harm, accessible and innovative. We seek to build capacity, amplify evidence, and innovate in the prevention of GBV.
SUMMARY OF THE POSITION
The Senior Project Officer for the Facilitate Pillar will be responsible for supporting the Facilitate Pillar Lead in developing, co-creating, and implementing the Platform’s capacity strengthening strategy, which is focused on enhancing the expertise and capacity of key GBV prevention practitioners and policymakers to design and deliver effective GBV prevention programming and policies. Reporting to the Facilitate Pillar Lead, the Senior Program Officer will work closely with women’s rights organisations, constituency-based organisations, policymakers, and other partners to facilitate capacity exchanges around designing and implementing high-quality, evidence-based primary prevention initiatives.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Technical:
Provide support to the Facilitate Pillar Led in designing, co-creating and implementing capacity strengthening strategies for practitioners (primarily women’s rights organisations) and policymakers, focusing on evidence-based primary prevention.
- Work collaboratively with women’s rights organisations and constituency-based groups to gather inputs to inform the development of GBV prevention instructional materials – courses, training manuals, facilitation guides.
- Provide technical support to women’s rights organisations in designing and implementing evidence-based primary prevention interventions such as the RESPECT Framework.
- Support the design and implementation of a learning program to be hosted through an online Learning Management System (LMS), which is designed to create and deliver self-directed and facilitated group courses.
- Support content creation for the online learning program.
- Work closely with the Gender, Disability, and Social Inclusion (GEDSI), Safeguarding and Locally-Led Development Specialist in mainstreaming inclusion and safeguarding across the Facilitate pillar.
- Ensure that capacity strengthening initiatives and learning materials are accessible and that reasonable accommodations are provided to learners with disabilities where required and appropriate.
- Coordinate peer learning exchanges among GBV primary prevention practitioners at country and regional levels in collaboration with the Advocate Pillar team.
- Support the collection of both qualitative and quantitative data regarding the Facilitate pillar activities (e.g., learning interventions, peer exchanges, trainings).
- Contribute to strategic planning sessions, annual reviews, and platform-wide learning to ensure the Facilitate Pillar’s activities align with broader regional GBV prevention goals.
- Collect and analyse feedback from Facilitate Pillar’s activities and stakeholder engagements to inform adaptive programming and continuous improvement.
Planning, administration and reporting
- Work collaboratively with other key members of the Platform team, coordinating with other Platform leads and contributing to other workstreams to ensure coherence and synergy and avoid siloing and duplication.
- Work collaboratively with the Facilitate Pillar Lead and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Director to ensure the Facilitate pillar activities are contributing to the achievement of the overall Platform Theory of Change.
- Actively participate in annual work planning exercises for the Platform, including developing the work plan with the Facilitate pillar team.
- Contribute to the Platform’s annual progress reporting.
- Provide ad hoc reports on the Facilitate pillar as requested by the Platform Regional Director, Steering Committee and/or Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).
- Contribute to all other Platform deliverables and reports as requested by the Platform Regional Director and/or the Facilitate Pillar Lead.
- Support strategic coordination across various project implementation components, internal teams and external partners to ensure harmonised implementation of the Facilitate Pillar plans.
- Support all project management for the Facilitate Pillar including maintaining the work plan and budget, supporting with logistics and administration and coordinating with the operations team.
- Project manage grants which fall under the Facilitate Pillar, including maintaining open communications with grantees, ensuring compliance with partnership agreements and supporting grantee reporting in collaboration with the Partnerships team and Grants Officer.
- Perform any other related duties and responsibilities assigned by the Pillar Lead that are necessary to support the effective implementation of the program and the attainment of its stated objectives and outcomes.
APPLICATION PROCESS
This position is open for citizens of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste and Vietnam. We will not consider applicants from other regions/countries.
Candidates with the ability to live and work in Bangkok, where our regional hub is, or a willingness to undertake significant travel to Bangkok are strongly encouraged to apply. This position also has the option to work remotely from any country in Southeast Asia.Previous applicants will be considered in this round of recruitment. If you have previously applied, you do not need to reapply in this round.
Candidates are encouraged to apply on or before 18 June 2025.
For your application to be considered, please upload your documents as follows: Candidate Last Name, First Name, date, Title of the Position.
To apply, please submit: - CV that highlights relevant experiences and achievements vis-à-vis this job description - Cover letter outlining your interest and suitability in the role.
Equal Opportunity:
Women, indigenous women and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. Cowater International is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to hiring based on merit and qualifications. Cowater does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, religion, sex, gender identity, disability, age, or any other basis protected by law.
Salary Information
This position offers a salary within the range of AUD 4000 - AUD 5000 per month, based on the successful candidate’s experience and qualifications.
