PCAsia is seeking an active and motivated candidate for “Gender, Peace & Security” Manager Position to work with a high profile and dynamic organization.
PARLIAMENTARY CENTRE OF ASIA
The Parliamentary Centre of Asia (PCAsia), established in early 2021
in Phnom Penh, is the successor of the Parliamentary Institute of
Cambodia (PIC) founded in 2011, a transition that reflects an expansion
of activities with Parliaments across Southeast Asia. The mandate of
PCAsia is therefore to contribute to the strengthening of Southeast
Asian Parliaments through capacity building of their staff, based on the
demands or requests of each Parliament within a framework of
south-south and north-south cooperation. It draws on the expertise of
national, regional, and international partners (Parliaments and research
centres).
Role of department
The training of Parliamentary staff is at the core of PCAsia’s
mission, and the Capacity Development (CD) department is responsible for
carrying out this work. CD handles curriculum and syllabus design for
the training programs, and its staff provides practical training
according to their respective expertise for most of the many training
programs. With the transition to blended learning and learning by
distance, CD staff is also called to increasingly play a facilitation
role, working with external experts to design and deliver content
suitable for digital platforms, then working with trainees to complete
the related assignments.
Other responsibilities include researching,
the mentoring and quality control of research products produced by the
trained parliamentary researchers, and providing quality control
technical advice with regards to newly-trained parliamentary staff
members when back working in their institutions of provenance in
applying their newly-acquired skills.
Position description
The Women, Peace & Security (WPS) agenda remains critically
important in a world that struggles with complex conflict—be it violent
state-based warfare, civil war, internal conflict, or violent extremism.
National Action Plans (NAPs) on women, peace, and security have been
created in about 80 countries to establish priorities for government
agencies and other organizations to work toward. Sectoral strategies on
gender, justice, or national security in other nations have taken
gender-sensitive peace and security priorities into account.
Parliamentary support for the women, peace, and security agenda has been
uneven, with many not knowing about or not getting involved in national
implementation initiatives.
As representative of the people,
Parliamentarians have an obligation to guarantee that everyone,
including women and girls, can live a life that is safe, secure, and
peaceful and that they have equal opportunities to create societies that
are safe and secure. To these ends, legislators can accomplish these
goals by utilizing their authority in the legislature to promote laws,
budgets, policies, and initiatives/programmes.
The Programme Manager
for Gender, Peace and Security is thus responsible for conceptualizing
activities, trainings and drafting of a curriculum on gender equality
for parliamentary staff that play crucial role in supporting the Member
of Parliaments (MPs) in performing their three functions. To some lesser
extent the Programme Manager is also responsible for conceptualizing
knowledge/ experience sharing mechanisms for MPs in the subject of
gender equality and its mainstreaming in the parliament.
The
Programme Manager is also expected to develop a plan to integrate gender
into the other training activities of the organization and cover all
components of the PCAsia capacity development programmes.
The Manager
is expected to conduct training in these areas for both PCAsia staff
and external trainees. In addition, the Programme Manager is expected to
identify potential candidates from the trainees that are suitable for
PCAsia’s Training of Trainers (ToT) programme so that knowledge on this
subject can be delivered to parliamentary staff in their own language
(i.e., Laos).
Main Responsibilities and Tasks
1/ Management
• Manage annual
work planning on conceptualizing and designing the PCAsia Gender Peace
and Security training, and its implementation including its integration
in PCAsia’s cross-cutting themes such as (parliamentary) budgeting,
Parliamentary Research, Parliamentary Diplomacy and Environment and
Climate Change (ECC) to ensure smooth team spirit for effective and
productive delivery;
• Prepare reports on activities, outputs and
outcome of the Gender Peace Security programme in a timely manner with
quality that meets the expectation of parliamentary clients;
•
Provide technical support to PCAsia’ efforts in capacity development of
AIPA member parliaments and their effort to implement national
development strategies on addressing gender inequality;
• Use a
gender equality and human rights-based approach (HRBA), including a
focus on youth development, in the design, delivery and evaluation of
all activities in order to effectively develop the capacity of
parliaments in the region on these subjects;
• Manage the application of a monitoring system to track progress on programme results and indicators;
•
Knowledge management, including developing guidance on aspects of
women’s access to justice in post-conflict settings for dissemination
and use in the Parliaments across Southeast Asia context; and
• Provide overall supervision to the programme team and serve as expert on WPS.
2/ Training
• Develop contextualised curriculum on Gender and the
Human Rights Based Approach for “stand alone” training for parliamentary
and PCAsia staff as well as being integrated into PCAsia’s various
training programmes and research outputs. Provide training to PCAsia
staff as well as trainees from AIPA Parliaments on GM/HRBA.
• Develop the training curriculum for ToT on Gender Mainstreaming and conduct the ToT.
• Develop and deliver training on issues relevant to WAIPA/AIPA
• Ensure that programme staff are trained on gender equality issue to the most practicable standard possible.
• Provide the necessary material and communicate, as necessary, with current and future stakeholders.
•
Organize periodic consultations with key stakeholders, women leaders,
CSOs, human rights experts, UN agencies, to gather inputs on programme
design, as necessary.
3/ Research
• Collaborate with other sections within the Capacity
Development Department in producing research products for clients
including writing material to be published on PCAsia’s website.
•
Conduct research or prepare analytical reports, briefing notes,
background papers, summaries, talking points and others as requested by
the PCAsia senior management/ the Executive Director or parliamentary
clients.
• Liaise with parliamentary clients to assess their needs and obtain feedback on Gender Peace Security and other related topics.
4/ Others
• Participate in PCAsia meetings as requested by the PCAsia senior management.
• Provide expert input to the PCAsia training programmes, papers, and products as requested by PCAsia senior management.
• Perform other tasks as requested by the PCAsia senior management and/or the Executive Director.
• Comply with the PCAsia Manual of Procedures.
•
Provide technical support to AIPA member parliaments and knowledge
building to raise the profile of gender mainstreaming and HRBA through
PCAsia’s programme activities and report on these.
Required Qualifications, Skills and Experience
Essential
•
Master’s degree, or higher, in a relevant field such as gender studies,
human rights, social or political science, international development,
international relations, or other relevant fields, preferably from an
overseas university.
• A least five years of experience managing
gender programme at the national and/or regional/international level
where analysing and integrating the perspective of gender equality and
human rights in the context of the parliamentary framework, and a strong
background in research and analysis, preferably with Asia pacific
region experience.
• Strong people management and leadership skills,
implementation, monitoring skills or curriculum development and ability
to create a productive working environment.
• Ability to develop detailed operational plans, budgets, and deliver on them with knowledge of results-based management.
•
Ability to synthesize programme performance data and produce analytical
reports to inform senior management and strategic decision-making.
• Teaching, including curriculum development, management and mentoring skills.
• Experience in working in a multi – cultural environment.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.
•
General knowledge and computer skills sufficient to produce work
products in the use of standard office software, such as MS Office
(Word, Excel, Power Point) in English and where appropriate.
• Excellent oral communication and written skills in English
• Able to communicate and write in Lao or any other AIPA member Parliaments’ language is a plus.
• Willingness and capacity to travel to the provinces or undertake overseas assignment in AIPA member countries/abroad.
Desirable
•
Previous experience working in international organizations, government,
parliament, or other political organizations in Southeast Asia region
or beyond.
• Have a basic understanding of parliament and the
parliamentary working system at national and regional levels, including
the work of the AIPA Secretariat is a plus.
APPLICATION INFORMATION
Interested applicants should send a cover letter and CV to job@pcasia.org
and indicates a with “Gender, Peace & Security” for the PCAsia in
the subject line and salary expectation in the email. The application
deadline is 16 August 2024. Only short-listed candidates will be
contacted.
At PCAsia, we are committed to creating a diverse and
inclusive environment of mutual respect. PCAsia recruits, employs,
trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, colour,
sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, and national origin.
People from minority groups, indigenous groups, and persons with
disabilities are equally encouraged to apply.
PCAsia has a
zero-tolerance policy on sexual exploitation and abuse, including any
kind of harassment and discrimination. All selected candidates will,
therefore, be treated and undergo confidence reference and background
checks.
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