Contract type: Permanent

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

The role

• In this key 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 promote 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 Thailand Cambodia, Nepal, or Bangladesh. Candidates need the right to work in one of these locations.  National terms and conditions 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  https://vso.secure.force.com/jobopportunities/Job_DetailsPage?jid=a0mD000000AllrAIAR

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.