1.Deputy Chief of Party Technical, USAID Mekong Safeguards
2.MONITORING, EVALUATION & LEARNING SPECIALIST
3. The Communications Project Officer
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TITLE: Deputy Chief of Party Technical, USAID Mekong Safeguards
CONTRACT TERM: Through August 2023 initially, with the possibility of extension
SUMMARY OF JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
The Asia Foundation’s Thailand Office is seeking qualified, talented Thai applicants for Deputy Chief of Party, Technical of the USAID Mekong Safeguards project. USAID Mekong Safeguards is a five-year $8.6 million project working with major banks, governments, and developers in China, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar on large energy and transportation infrastructure investments to strengthen environmental and social standards and adopt clean technologies in Southeast Asia’s Lower Mekong sub-Region. The program is an exciting opportunity to support new and improved ways governments, financiers, developers, and CSO’s can invest and build sustainable energy and transportation infrastructure.
The Deputy Chief of Party Technical (hereafter referred to as DCOP) should be a vibrant individual who can manage technical, operational, and administrative deliverables for a large, distributed program set to bring rapid change in the sector. The DCOP works in tandem with the Chief of Party (COP) to oversee the development and implementation of high-quality policy adoption and capacity building activities across several program areas to transform infrastructure investments across the Lower Mekong sub-Region. S/he will support the COP in representing the program in donor, ministry, and partner meetings (at the national and sub-national levels) and will regularly engage with sub-awardees contractors, local partners, and staff. S/he will lead technical projects, discussions, and collaborations with governments, utilities, developers, and financiers to improve infrastructure investment environmental and social safeguards in the region and adopt cleaner, alternative technologies in government infrastructure planning. Likely program areas will include:
- Directly engaging government ministries, energy and transportation authorities, and conducting technical cooperation results in regulatory and policy change.
- Organizing policy dialogues that bring together researchers, policy-makers, civil society, and private sector on regional architecture, water, energy, infrastructure, and safeguards.
- Design, manage, and/or lead research efforts on these and related issues.
- Ongoing engagement with leaders in the Lower Mekong sub-Region and the international community.
- Provide advice or technical support for government leaders and government agencies, as needed.
- Analysis of key international trends and impacts on Thailand and the Mekong subregion.
S/he will be based in Bangkok, Thailand, and will report to the CoP to lead the technical program planning for the timely development of products and delivery of services, including annual work planning and progress reporting.
Reporting & Supervision:
The DCOP Technical will report directly to the COP. The DCOP will also supervise certain program technical staff.
Responsibilities
- Work under the leadership of the COP to support the technical teams in the design and delivery of programs to improve and incentivize the adoption of environmental and social safeguards in large energy and transportation infrastructure projects in the Lower Mekong sub-Region.
- Lead capacity building and policy recommendation development, supported by staff and sub-awardees, to stakeholders including government, financiers, developers, civil society organizations, and standards-making bodies. Provide technical direction and guidance to core technical team members.
- Support development of implementation strategies and work plans, and coordinate the day-to-day management of technical staff and technical management of the program in field offices across Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, and Cambodia;
- Facilitate knowledge management, communications, and information flow for program implementation;
- Support timely report preparation, including quarterly and annual reports, and ensure compliance in reporting to USAID, The Asia Foundation, and government counterparts.
- Maintain a working knowledge of workplan budgets and expenditures, and assist the technical teams to set up and implement appropriate systems for program implementation;
- Build a strong technical team management structure that enables teams to function productively and collegially with program partners and stakeholders; and
- Represent the project in local, national, and international meetings and events, in the absence or cooperation with the COP
Requirements:
- Extensive knowledge of Mekong sub-regional issues, particularly water governance, energy, infrastructure development, and regional architecture;
- Advanced university degree (masters or doctorate) in a directly relevant technical field from an accredited university, preferred;
- Experience working for or engaging with Government ministries involved in the Lower Mekong sub-region, particularly energy and transportation and line ministries;
- Demonstrated familiarization with integrated resource planning concepts, and power sector reform;
- Experience in managing programs or initiatives to support regional cooperation or regional policy agendas;
- Experience conducting research and publishing research outputs;
- Excellent written and spoken English;
- Ability to work in a fast-paced team environment;
- Entrepreneurial, with a track-record of building new programs or initiatives;
- Thai citizen (required);
- Minimum 12-15 years of experience in relevant management, supervisory, and technical experience working with similar scope and scale programs is required.
- Minimum 8 years’ experience in the energy or transportation sector related to financings and/or safeguards in Southeast is required.
- Experience working in the Lower Mekong sub-region is preferred.
- Technical program/project management experience working government and financing environmental and social safeguards in Asia is required, as is demonstrated experience and knowledge of capacity building, government engagement and policy analysis;
- Previous experience with USAID-funded programs is preferred.
- Demonstrated communications and interpersonal skills.
- Proficiency in English required, fluency in Thai, and another Mekong language is desirable.
- Women are highly encouraged to apply.
JOB FUNCTIONS
Intellectual Leadership: The person in this role will shape program direction, lead intellectual and policy discussions, and strengthen partnerships with research organizations, civil society, government, and the international community. The position will also play a key role in raising the Foundation’s influence and profile, through contact with the media, influential stakeholders, and the international community.
Flexible, Response Program Management: This position will play an important role in managing flexible programs that respond to opportunities and requests. The successful candidate should have experience in managing policy reform programs, including coordination with an experienced team of staff and consultants. The person should also be comfortable in engaging with senior government officials.
Relationship Building: This position will play an important role in building relations with experts, and officials around the region. The person in this role will be the projects key person in maintaining relations with officials and experts in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Cambodia, and across the region who are involved in Mekong infrastructure issues and architecture. This relationship-building must be done in close collaboration with key partner embassies/donors, in a way that is complementary and supportive to the diplomatic efforts.
Please send a cover letter specifying the position to which you are applying with your resume or CV by email to: poonsook.pantitanonta@asiafoundation.org by February 19, 2020. (Only short-listed candidates will be notified).
TITLE: Deputy Chief of Party Technical, USAID Mekong Safeguards
CONTRACT TERM: Through August 2023 initially, with the possibility of extension
SUMMARY OF JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
The Asia Foundation’s Thailand Office is seeking qualified, talented Thai applicants for Deputy Chief of Party, Technical of the USAID Mekong Safeguards project. USAID Mekong Safeguards is a five-year $8.6 million project working with major banks, governments, and developers in China, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar on large energy and transportation infrastructure investments to strengthen environmental and social standards and adopt clean technologies in Southeast Asia’s Lower Mekong sub-Region. The program is an exciting opportunity to support new and improved ways governments, financiers, developers, and CSO’s can invest and build sustainable energy and transportation infrastructure.
The Deputy Chief of Party Technical (hereafter referred to as DCOP) should be a vibrant individual who can manage technical, operational, and administrative deliverables for a large, distributed program set to bring rapid change in the sector. The DCOP works in tandem with the Chief of Party (COP) to oversee the development and implementation of high-quality policy adoption and capacity building activities across several program areas to transform infrastructure investments across the Lower Mekong sub-Region. S/he will support the COP in representing the program in donor, ministry, and partner meetings (at the national and sub-national levels) and will regularly engage with sub-awardees contractors, local partners, and staff. S/he will lead technical projects, discussions, and collaborations with governments, utilities, developers, and financiers to improve infrastructure investment environmental and social safeguards in the region and adopt cleaner, alternative technologies in government infrastructure planning. Likely program areas will include:
- Directly engaging government ministries, energy and transportation authorities, and conducting technical cooperation results in regulatory and policy change.
- Organizing policy dialogues that bring together researchers, policy-makers, civil society, and private sector on regional architecture, water, energy, infrastructure, and safeguards.
- Design, manage, and/or lead research efforts on these and related issues.
- Ongoing engagement with leaders in the Lower Mekong sub-Region and the international community.
- Provide advice or technical support for government leaders and government agencies, as needed.
- Analysis of key international trends and impacts on Thailand and the Mekong subregion.
S/he will be based in Bangkok, Thailand, and will report to the CoP to lead the technical program planning for the timely development of products and delivery of services, including annual work planning and progress reporting.
Reporting & Supervision:
The DCOP Technical will report directly to the COP. The DCOP will also supervise certain program technical staff.
Responsibilities
- Work under the leadership of the COP to support the technical teams in the design and delivery of programs to improve and incentivize the adoption of environmental and social safeguards in large energy and transportation infrastructure projects in the Lower Mekong sub-Region.
- Lead capacity building and policy recommendation development, supported by staff and sub-awardees, to stakeholders including government, financiers, developers, civil society organizations, and standards-making bodies. Provide technical direction and guidance to core technical team members.
- Support development of implementation strategies and work plans, and coordinate the day-to-day management of technical staff and technical management of the program in field offices across Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, and Cambodia;
- Facilitate knowledge management, communications, and information flow for program implementation;
- Support timely report preparation, including quarterly and annual reports, and ensure compliance in reporting to USAID, The Asia Foundation, and government counterparts.
- Maintain a working knowledge of workplan budgets and expenditures, and assist the technical teams to set up and implement appropriate systems for program implementation;
- Build a strong technical team management structure that enables teams to function productively and collegially with program partners and stakeholders; and
- Represent the project in local, national, and international meetings and events, in the absence or cooperation with the COP
Requirements:
- Extensive knowledge of Mekong sub-regional issues, particularly water governance, energy, infrastructure development, and regional architecture;
- Advanced university degree (masters or doctorate) in a directly relevant technical field from an accredited university, preferred;
- Experience working for or engaging with Government ministries involved in the Lower Mekong sub-region, particularly energy and transportation and line ministries;
- Demonstrated familiarization with integrated resource planning concepts, and power sector reform;
- Experience in managing programs or initiatives to support regional cooperation or regional policy agendas;
- Experience conducting research and publishing research outputs;
- Excellent written and spoken English;
- Ability to work in a fast-paced team environment;
- Entrepreneurial, with a track-record of building new programs or initiatives;
- Thai citizen (required);
- Minimum 12-15 years of experience in relevant management, supervisory, and technical experience working with similar scope and scale programs is required.
- Minimum 8 years’ experience in the energy or transportation sector related to financings and/or safeguards in Southeast is required.
- Experience working in the Lower Mekong sub-region is preferred.
- Technical program/project management experience working government and financing environmental and social safeguards in Asia is required, as is demonstrated experience and knowledge of capacity building, government engagement and policy analysis;
- Previous experience with USAID-funded programs is preferred.
- Demonstrated communications and interpersonal skills.
- Proficiency in English required, fluency in Thai, and another Mekong language is desirable.
- Women are highly encouraged to apply.
JOB FUNCTIONS
Intellectual Leadership: The person in this role will shape program direction, lead intellectual and policy discussions, and strengthen partnerships with research organizations, civil society, government, and the international community. The position will also play a key role in raising the Foundation’s influence and profile, through contact with the media, influential stakeholders, and the international community.
Flexible, Response Program Management: This position will play an important role in managing flexible programs that respond to opportunities and requests. The successful candidate should have experience in managing policy reform programs, including coordination with an experienced team of staff and consultants. The person should also be comfortable in engaging with senior government officials.
Relationship Building: This position will play an important role in building relations with experts, and officials around the region. The person in this role will be the projects key person in maintaining relations with officials and experts in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Cambodia, and across the region who are involved in Mekong infrastructure issues and architecture. This relationship-building must be done in close collaboration with key partner embassies/donors, in a way that is complementary and supportive to the diplomatic efforts.
Please send a cover letter specifying the position to which you are applying with your resume or CV by email to: poonsook.pantitanonta@asiafoundation.org by February 19, 2020. (Only short-listed candidates will be notified).
TITLE: Position Announcement: Regional Communications Program Officer
The Asia Foundation’s regional peace and transitions team seeks a skilled, confident and enthusiastic specialist to play a vital role in our regional programs for the Asia-Pacific region. The Asia Foundation is an international development organization committed to the development of a peaceful, prosperous, just, and open Asia-Pacific region.
The Asia Foundation’s regional peace and transitions team supports effective programming across South and Southeast Asia. Alongside our country offices across the region, the team is addressing the root causes of instability through locally grounded and context-driven efforts to improve governance, targeted support for peacebuilding, policy analysis, and concerted efforts to reduce gender-based violence. Emphasis is placed across programs on partnering with domestic institutions and building better understanding of how violence can be addressed.
The regional peace and transitions program has a strong policy research element and places increasing emphasis on communications as a core part of its work. Priority is given to ensuring that research findings are used by policymakers and others, building networks of specialists, and ensuring that initiatives achieve a strong, positive impact. Some of its programs work directly with social media and seek to reduce online conflict risks; other work focuses on research and analysis which needs to be disseminated online.
The Communications Project Officer will work as part of a team and interact with other organizations across the region. An initial 2-year contract will be offered. This post is expected to be based in Bangkok; applicants need Thai nationality or eligibility to work in Thailand.
Please send a cover letter with your resume by email to: poonsook.pantitanonta@asiafoundation.org by February 21, 2021 (Only short-listed candidates will be notified.)
General Tasks
- Designing and implementing communications strategies for policy research and other initiatives, in consultation with colleagues
- Development of presentations, documents, briefings including basic graphic design
- Development of online media content including potentially podcasts, short videos, infographics, and other material
- Development of accessible content such as ‘stories of impact’ from project partners
- Commissioning and managing expert technical inputs and regional partners for online resources and documents
- Dissemination and promotion of resources, events and publications, mainly online
- Coordinating online events, in-person meetings (when possible), in-house specialists’ network, stakeholder lists
- Potential involvement in programs using social media and online initiatives to reduce conflict, misinformation, and hate speech.
- Tracking performance against project communication objectives and indicators
Skills, qualifications and experience
- Fluent or near-fluent written and spoken English
- Ability to generate and adapt documents, images and graphics, including familiarity with relevant mainstream software
- Familiarity with popular social media platforms
- Broad understanding of CMS and web design (non-technical)
- Experience of strategic approaches to communication
- Strong communication skills including the ability to work effectively with partners and colleagues across diverse cultures and different countries.
- Self-motivated, good organizational skills, detail-oriented, ability to prioritize, multi-task and meet deadlines.
- Ideally, experience of working with international development or peacebuilding organizations
- Academic qualifications: University degree or first degree in communications, journalism, politics, social sciences, humanities and any related field
- A minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in communications. A background in development, peacebuilding, social research or related fields would be ideal but is not essential.