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Senior Programme Officer
Organization: Asian- Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW)
Apply By: 15 Jan 2025
Location: New Delhi(Delhi)
About the Organization
The Asian- Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW) is a non-profit women’s NGO with a consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. Based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ARROW has been working since 1993 to champion women and young people’s sexual and reproductive rights in partnership with women’s rights organisations, youth-led and youth-serving organisations, and NGOs working on gender equality and sexual and reproductive rights. ARROW occupies a strategic niche in the Asia-Pacific region and globally as a South-based, feminist, and women-led organisation that focuses on the equality, gender, health, and human rights of women.
Job Responsibilities
Project Coordination/Management
- Coordinate the development and implementation of Annual Work Plans, and review and revise them periodically as the need arises with the guidance of the Senior Program Manager.
- Develop and implement project review, monitoring and evaluation mechanisms.
- Prepare high quality narrative reports for ARROW’s own and funders’ requirements, as well as contribute to quarterly progress report and annual organisational reports.
- Manage and monitor project budgets and disbursements, and work with the Finance team in developing accurate financial reports and their timely submission to donors.
- Co-ordinate contracts and agreements related to projects.
- Build and sustain relationships with donors for initiatives being handled.
- Liaise with, and provide appropriate coordination to any consultants, other ARROW programme/project officers related to outputs that are part of the project.
- Liaise with, and provide appropriate guidance, supervision and coordination to any consultants, short-term contractual personnel, vendors and interns to ensure high quality and timeliness.
- Identify and resolve challenges that arise, consulting the Senior Programme Manager and other ARROW staff as needed.
- Report regularly to the Senior Programme Manager, on the progress of activities/tasks assigned, and to inform on any issues, which are potentially detrimental to the organisation.
- Regularly and accurately update the MIS in a timely manner.
Partnership Management
- Build and sustain harmonious relationships with the project partners, taking into consideration ARROW’s partnership principles.
- Maintain regular communications with the project partners.
- Ensure that partners deliver high quality project outputs in a timely manner.
- Ensure that partners submit project technical and financial reports that comply with ARROW and donors’ requirements.
- Provide support to partners to enable them to perform and fulfill project outputs.
- Facilitate partners’ participation at various regional and international advocacy spaces.
- Identify and resolve challenges that arise to meet project requirements as needed.
Capacity Building and Advocacy
- Lead, conceptualise, organise and implement project meetings and capacity-building workshops in collaboration with the Programme Manager and with the support of consultants and other staff as needed.
- Lead and support partners in various ways to ensure strengthening of their capacities.
- Lead and support the projects’ advocacy planning and implementation, particularly for global and regional advocacy. This may include organising and managing face-to-face and online advocacy and knowledge sharing events, such as meetings, satellite and parallel sessions, round table discussions, publications launch, and others.
- Coordinate and contribute to ARROW’s advocacy efforts by writing of position papers, campaign statements, calls to action, outcome documents and similar outputs related to the project, and contributing or leading the writing for such organisational outputs.
- Represent ARROW among its stakeholders at meetings and conferences nationally, regionally and internationally.
Evidence Generation and Publications Development
- Develop knowledge products/publications for the project.
- Seek and manage input from ARROW programme team, Programme Advisory Committee, reviewers and other key people to be able to develop high quality and knowledge products.
- Liaise with consultants, as well as other team members, as needed.
Organisational Development and Team Tasks
- Support the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of ARROW’s strategic plan.
- Contribute to other shared programme tasks of ARROW, such as joint advocacy planning and development, information scanning, visitor orientation, publication outputs, promotion of ARROW, and others.
- Contribute to mid-year, annual and long-term strategic planning.
- Lead or assist in the planning, implementation and evaluation of programme meetings, such as the annual Programme Advisory Committee Meeting, and Partners’ meetings.
- Contribute to and participate in organisation-wide tasks, such as staff meetings, staff capacity development activities, annual retreat, evaluation and planning meeting, staff representation at Management Team and Board of Directors’ meetings, visitor orientation, and others.
General/Others
- Seek and manage input from the Programme Team, the Programme Advisory Committee, Board, partners, as well as other relevant parties, as needed, on work assigned.
- Managing correspondences related to the post, ensuring that the Programme Manager is copied to these; filing and administrative work related to the performance and reporting of the position.
- Identify with the Programme Manager in the development of appropriate key performance indicators for the position.
- Performing any other tasks as assigned by the Programme Manager.
- Reporting/Liaison and Coordination
- The Senior Programme Officer is directly accountable to the Senior Program Manager.
Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience
- 8 to 12 years of relevant experience, including experience in multi-country project management at the regional level.
- Degree or equivalent standard of education in development, public health, gender and women’s studies, social science or any related field.
- Has capacity to conceptualise and implement a strategy for evidence-based advocacy at the national, global and regional levels to build support and commitment to SRHR in the ICPD post-2015 development agenda/framework.
- Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills (fluency in English is essential; knowledge of other UN languages and key Asia-Pacific languages a plus).
- Strong research and analytical skills, and the ability to summarise and simplify complex information into an accessible form, such as position statements, outcome documents, campaign statements and advocacy briefs for social change.
- Ability to develop and deliver trainings related to advocacy and/or research.
- Passion for, commitment to, and strong understanding of sexual and reproductive health and rights issues, as well as women’s rights and gender studies, human rights and/or related fields; in particular, expertise on universal access to SRHR and on religious fundamentalisms’ impact on SRHR is highly desirable.
- Knows how to use a rights and justice framework, and is familiar with commitments made within international human rights instruments such as but not limited to ICPD PoA, Beijing Platform of Action SDGs, CEDAW and UPR.
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