ThaiNGO

Regional Programme Development Specialist, Asia & Pacific

Contract type: Permanent

Salary & Benefits in Thailand:   Circa THB 1,475,000 gross salary per annum  (dependant medical allowance ) plus pension allowance, medical cover for staff, , 37 annual leave days including public holidays.

Introduction to VSO

VSO is the world’s leading independent international development organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty in developing countries. Our high-impact approach brings people together to share skills, build capabilities, promote international understanding and action to change lives and make the world a fairer place.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our new global programme and policy development and Asia regional team to make transformational changes to the lives of poor people in Asia.

The role

You will provide methodological support and strategic insight to programme development in the Asia Pacific region. This involves working with the regional team, country directors and programme managers to support them in the adoption of VSO’s People First new programme framework.

It is important that you ensure our interventions are pro poor (anti poverty), address exclusions that result in poverty, are accountable and are based on the 3 elements of sustainable development (social, economic and environmental coherence). 

Supporting reflective practice, you will ensure we support relevant participatory and evidence-based methodologies to support ongoing programme development work in country office and across the region, and within VSO as a whole.  You will be promoting and provoking critical dialogue between Asia & Pacific staff and volunteers about methodological approaches working with country offices to ensure information sharing and peer learning on development approaches.

The applicant

You are highly experienced in the development, implementation and management of development programmes. 
You have significant hands on experience of working through participatory development methodologies as a practitioner and as a strategist, with skills in gender analysis, poverty analysis, stakeholder mapping and social exclusion analysis.

This role can be based in the regional office in Thailand or a country office in the Asia-Pacific region (Cambodia, Nepal, Bangladesh). Candidates need the right to work in one of these locations.  National terms and conditions of those countries will be offered.

How to apply

To find out more details and apply, please visit our website http://www.vsointernational.org/vso-today/careers-at-vso/ using the vacancy search function to find for the employee position and complete the online application form or click  http://vso.force.com/jobopportunities/Job_DetailsPage?jid=a0mD000000AllrA

Before you apply, please download and read the job description for full details of the roles and person specification and application guidelines available on our website. 

VSO is committed to a policy of equal opportunities, values inclusion and seeks to have a diverse workforce.

Applications are welcome from people of all origins, age, religions, gender, ethnicities, sexual orientation and disability. Every application will be reviewed against the above requirement with the position only.

Due to a high volume of applications, only short listed candidates will be contacted.