THE ASIA FOUNDATION TIMOR-LESTE
Position Description
TITLE: Prevention Coordinator, Ending Violence Against Women Program
UNIT: Timor-Leste Office
REPORTS TO: Team Leader, EVAW Program, The Asia Foundation Timor-Leste
SUPERVISES: Senior Program Officer, Program Officers, Program Assistant and consultants (STAs) as required
APPLICATIONS DUE: before 5:00 pm July 17, 2014
BACKGROUND
The Asia Foundation (the Foundation) is implementing an Ending
Violence Against Women (EVAW) Program in Timor-Leste under a Grant
Agreement with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
(DFAT). The program will run from 15 April 2014 to 30 June 2017 (Phase
1) with an option to extend for an additional four years (Phase 2). The
EVAW Program goalis to reduce the proportion of women
who have experienced violence, and to better meet the needs of women and
children affected by violence. The objectiveis to
improve outcomes for women in prevention, support services, and access
to justice by improving capacity in key ministries, reducing levels of
violence, improving services, and strengthening judicial processes
serving the needs of women survivors of violence.
The EVAW program will be implemented based on the DFAT EVAW Design
Investment. It will be informed by research conducted on the underlying
causes and opportunities for EVAW in Timor-Leste relating to the core
pillars of prevention, service provision, and access to justice. For the
prevention pillar, the program will seek to involve the government, in
particular the Secretary of State for the Promotion of Equality, and
civil society in designing, implementing and monitoring research based
prevention projects.The EVAW Program will work with the Ministry of
Social Solidarity as the key government implementing agency for services
to women and children who experienced violence. The primary mechanisms
under this pillar will be grants to CSO service providers, and
institutional strengthening support to the Directorate of National
Social Reinsertion (DNRS) within MSS who will be the program’s primary
counterpart. The program will take a cautious and phased approach to the
access to justice pillar which will support the provision of legal
assistance to women and children affected by violence and court
monitoring. The work will evolve based on research which aims to
understand women’s pathways to justice and what are considered by women
to be satisfactory outcomes.
Most of the violence against women in Timor-Leste is intimate partner
violence. In prevention efforts, the EVAW program will shift focus from
awareness raising and ‘socialisation’ of the Law Against Domestic
Violence (LADV) towards a focus on promoting behaviour change, particularly among men and boys. Efforts under this Pillar will recognize and address the key risk factors
associated with higher rates of VAW, such as lifetime exposure to
violence and gender-related social norms, with a key component of the
Prevention Pillar aimed to reduce violence that is witnessed and
experienced by children.
The program, however, recognizes and will seek
to dismantle the root causes of VAW, namely persistent gender inequality and power imbalances within society.
Summary of position responsibilities
The Prevention Coordinator will manage the Prevention Pillar of the
EVAW Program, under the direction of the Team Leader. The Coordinator
will manage research and program learning in the Prevention Pillar,
including research regarding motivators of change, and grants to civil
society partners to assess the impact of previous prevention activities.
The Coordinator will provide strategic direction to the development of
further work under the Pillar including defining prevention targets,
messaging, testing of messaging and identification of partners. The
Coordinator will be the key contact point in the program with the
Secretariat of State for the Promotion of Equality (SEPI). The
Coordinator will manage monitoring and evaluation of program activities
including collaborating closely with partners to understand the impact
of prevention activities. The Coordinator will work closely with
colleagues across the EVAW Program to ensure robust program learning.
The Coordinator will supervise the work of a Senior Program Officer,
Program Officers, a Program Assistant and consultants.
RELATIONSHIPS
Internal
Daily contact with the EVAW Team Leader, EVAW staff working in
Research and M&E, Prevention and Services Pillar and the TAF
Timor-Leste Program Support Unit, in particular the Communications
Officer.
External
Contact with grantees under the EVAW Program, contact with government
officials and agencies in Timor-Leste including bi-lateral and
multi-lateral development assistance agencies, national and
international NGOs.
REQUIREMENTS
Experience and skills
- Minimum of five years progressively senior experience in EVAW programs.
- Experience in working on prevention of violence against women and children.
- Experience in development programs, in particular supporting partner organisations in implementing complex programs;
- Experience of developing training programs, including material, for partners in a developing context;
- Strong understanding of international debates regarding EVAW and in particular prevention of violence against women, including research related to the field.
- Knowledge of international agencies engaged in research on violence against women and family violence;
- Experience of development of and implementation of prevention activities;
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong interpersonal and intercultural skills, including ability to work with and manage cross-cultural teams, adaptability to developing-country contexts.
- Ability to communicate in Tetum desirable.
Education
- Degree, (post graduate preferred) in social sciences.
Key responsibilities:
- Manage the Prevention Pillar of the EVAW Program including development of work plans, implementation of program activities, monitoring and evaluation of work, reporting of program activities and management of staff.
- Lead preparation of the Prevention Pillar research to guide development of behaviour change prevention activities. Provide technical advice and supervision for prevention research and evaluation;
- Facilitate development of evidence based prevention programs with partners and manage grants to partners under the Prevention Pillar, including providing technical input to grants;
- With support from the Communications Specialist and in collaboration with partners, design prevention messages and activities;
- Ensure that prevention activities, including messaging, are tested in a robust manner;
- Ensure that the program and partners are conducting rigorous monitoring and evaluation of prevention activities;
- With the Organisations and Institutions Specialist undertake an assessment and design engagement with SEPI;
- Lead the Program’s engagement with SEPI including providing technical support and facilitating inputs as required;
- Ensure that the program is learning from international research and best practice regarding prevention work and that EVAW program learnings are contributing at an international level;
- In coordination with the Team Leader, establish and maintain close collaboration with the Australian Government’s education sector program;
- Provide technical input as required for activities to strengthen the involvement of traditional and community leaders regarding prevention activities.
- Manage the Pillar’s ‘learning lab’, ensuring that partners are centrally engaged in research conducted under the pillar and that program learnings are utilised by partners conducting prevention activities.
How to apply:
The Asia Foundation strongly encourages women to apply.The Asia Foundation offers a competitive package based on the position and previous experience to successful applicants.All applications must include a cover letter, an updated CV and must address the selection criteria. Please include three contactable referees. They must be addressed to the Human Resources Manager and delivered by hand to the Asia Foundation’s office at Rua Praia dos Coqueiros, Bairo Metin Rua, Dili, Timor-Leste before 05.00 pm on Thursday, 17 July 2014, OR via email to TAFTimorLeste@asiafound.org
Only short-listed candidates will be acknowledged for further process
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