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Mahidol Migration Center- Joint Research Unit
Paid 6-Month internship or part-time administrative position

Opening: 1 part-time positions
(ideal for recent graduates that want to up-skill)

Your Personality

1. Interested in the topic of migration, refugee and labor rights
2. Eager to learn with a Growth Mindset of acquiring new job skills
3. Able to adapt and able to work independently 
4. Open minded and eager to work in a work environment with a horizontal management style
5. Able to give and receive honest feedback and make changes toward problem solving
6. Team spirit and assertive communication skills (able to communicate well about your needs and any challenge you face, and able to let your teammates know when you didn’t understand something)
   

Proactive

1. Able to work under pressure
2. Excellent English oral skills, Thai written skills, feel at ease speaking in public, bilingual required
3. Able to create a good relationship with people from different backgrounds (farmers, government, NGO, migrant workers, and business managers)
4. Able to summarize, interpret, translate information efficiently in Thai and English. Capacity for Burmese/Thai/English interpretation is a plus.

You are passionate and want to make apositive impact for migration rights programming and social labor justice?
Join our team !!!!!

1. About us

The Institute for Population and Social Research was established in 1971 spearheading research on diverse topics- migration, aging, sexual reproductive health, urban studies from interdisciplinary perspectives. See: https://ipsr.mahidol.ac.th/en/ 

The Mahidol Migration Center Joint Research Unit (under construction- https://mmc-jru.mahidolmigrationcenter.com/pages/userPage/index.php) is a university-basedproject aimed at converging policy makers, academic researchers, CSOs/civil society organizations, and migrant rights leadership in producing public dialogues and research toward migration policy reform. We collect migration social data with workers, CSOs, government, and employers to provide assessments inpriorities for improvement areas in migrant and refugee rights. We then conduct workshops, trainings, and share research.

2. Overview of the job

1. Administrative responsibilities including coordination of meetings, coordination between our finance persons(not you) and various faculty leads for different workshops, various International Organizations, and local NGOs, international and Thailand-based university researchers and faculty for the purpose of organizing seminars, trainings, writing workshops, stakeholder meetings, networking meetings, and conferences.
2. Deliverables (will train you): Drafting at least 1-2 grants, maintaining the website and online database, Drafting and/or translations of policy briefs in the target sectors: agriculture, fisheries, seafood processing, domestic elder care, and migration in media trainings.
3. Database management: maintain our centralized open-source online database of non-propriety migration research from IPSR, Mahidol faculty affiliated with MMC-joint research unit, and partnered government agencies, international agencies, and CSOs
4. Applications to funding: take part in applying for external grants and projects(Thai and English ability is a plus)
5. Field trip: possible field trips with the team to meet with different stakeholders in Central Thailand and provinces (migrant- workers and refugees, employers, Thai government, NGO, private companies both Thai and international),
6. Create communication materials:
   • For the business correspondence (letters to stakeholders for meetings, trainings, and project collaboration)
   • For PR development (drafting press-release articles, posters, flyers, live streaming videos, etc.)
   • For the projects: presentations for trainings, policy dialogues, research synopses, conferences, in-person and online meetings

** tasks require good team work and communication

3. Requirements (ranked by order of importance)

• Thai, English, Burmese (English/ Thai writing will be tested during an interview)
• This position involves traveling (domestic)
• Minimum Undergraduate degree or Master in one or more of these areas: Human Rights, International Relations, Business, Sociology-Anthropology, Economics, Political Science, Law, Data Management Science, Demography, Languages
• Background knowledge about the international standards especially on the human and labor rights principals
• Interest in tech/IT solutions especially for data online management
• Interest in web design and social media effectiveness (required)
• Interest in policy advocacy and reform (required)
  

4. Bonus points if you are familiar with these tools (in order of importance)

• Canva or poster creation software, QR code, online forms for registrations and event evaluation survey
• backend basic website updating (we will train you)
• Instagram, Line, FB and other social media
• knowing how to edit AI translated material for professional use
• Data visualization software, basic excel (if you are interested in research)
• MAXQDA or Nvivo (if you are interested in research)
• basic VDO editing

5. Conditions of internship scheme or part-time employment

• Our office is at the main Mahidol University campus in Salaya
• Working schedule: 3-5 days per week, 8hours/ per day. In case of fieldwork, these schedules are flexible/adjustable.
• Local holidays: Adjusted to Thai calendar (14 days per year)
• Stipend: the chosen person will start with 9,000 THB as an intern/ probation period for 3 months probation and will then receive a stipend top up services of 15,000-20,000 THB (pending research ability, performance review, quality ofmonthly deliverable) as an intern or part-time project based administrative assistant/RA, project is 12 months(October2025-October 2026) with possible extensions and renewal annually
• Benefits Package: must purchase your own health insurance coverage, annual workplace health examination- basic minimum package paid
• Public transport allowance for meetings in Bangkok (upon presentation of receipts); Travel cost for regional projects are paid by the project

6. Send your:

1. resume(Thai or English), Confirm you can start May 4
2. portfolio web link (if any)
3. be ready for interviews April 27-30 at IPSR, Mahidol University

Associate Professor, MMC-JRU Project PI

Sudarat.mus@mahidol.edu

Address:

Institute for Population and Social Research

Mahidol University

999 Phutthamonthon 4 Road

Salaya, Phutthamonthon

Nakhon Pathom 73170

T: 66 2441 0201 ext. 403

F: 66 2441 9389