Associate Programme Officer

Contract

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UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) commits to ensuring that women migrants, including women migrant workers, contribute to sustainable development and benefit from reduced social and economic inequality through safe migration, skill development and decent work across three key areas:

1. We work with governments and regional bodies to ensure that labour and migration policies promote and protect the right of all women to safe migration, skill development, and decent work, free of discrimination and exploitation;
2. We work with government and private sector to ensure that women migrants have increased access to justice and gender-responsive information, procedures, training and services on safe migration, skill development and decent work; and
3. We work with other UN agencies and migration stakeholders at regional and national levels enhancing their capacities for them to reaching women migrants.

UN Women ROAP – Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) – Migration unit is formulating a Migration Strategy in order to provide more effective support to governments and other stakeholders to address needs and concerns of women migrants through transformative and holistic approach in line with the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) General Recommendation No. 26 and the gender-responsive principle of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM).

The WEE-Migration unit through its Care Accelerator programme works to address the issues of women employed in care and domestic work, including women migrant workers to enhance their access to decent employment, skills development, and protection and support services in the Asia and the Pacific region. Recognising the transnational movement of many women into care and domestic work, the WEE & Migration unit has prioritized to strengthen its work on the intersection of care economy and migration and seeking to advance and mobilize resources to increase knowledge, capacity, and resource to address the issues that domestic and care workers, especially women migrant workers face which will contribute to advancing human rights and sustainable development agendas.

The WEE-Migration unit works also support UN Women country offices and regional programmes on developing interventions to create transformative change on the ground to enable women migrants to fully participate in economic development opportunities and access to protection, social security, and support services. The WEE-Migration team works to ensure coherence and alignment of the agency’s interventions in line with international human rights and development frameworks such as the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) General Recommendation No. 26 and the gender-responsive principle of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM).

Under the direct supervision of Regional WEE-Migration Programme Lead, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:

Support the development of UN Women ROAP Migration Programme Strategy in line with the UN Women Strategic Plan (2022 – 2025) • Keep abreast of new policy developments and strategies analyzing policy papers, strategy documents, national plans and development frameworks, and prepare briefs and inputs for policy dialogue, technical assistance coordination, and development frameworks; • Develop and review background documents, briefs and presentations related to the program strategy; • Ensure the alignment of the strategy to be in line with the UN Women Strategic Plan (2022 – 2025); • Contribute to planning and organizing a review process of the strategy with relevant UN Women colleagues and partners; • Develop plan for dissemination of the strategy to colleagues, partners and other actors. Enhance UN Women’s coordination with partners and other stakeholders • Attend external meetings, collecting intelligence, establish rapport and build relation-ships with relevant to the different policy areas related to the care economy and migration;

• Support UN Women in meetings/events, speaking engagements to disseminate UN Women’s policy positions in different settings, as required. • Draft position papers/articles/op-eds/letters/reports to strengthen the WEE - Migration advocacy efforts on the linkages of the care economy and migration; • Support the exchange of information and capacity building internally and externally to strengthen awareness and knowledge on the care economy and migration.

Developing programme, resource mobilization strategies in the areas of migration un-der the scope of women’s economic empowerment • Support, manage inception, conceptualization of new care programming and research • Design and formulate programme/project proposals and initiatives, including with a view to project expansion, in consultation with relevant internal and external stake-holders • Draft inputs to strategy documents, briefs, policy dialogue, knowledge products and other documents related to the targeted thematic areas

Furthermore, UN Volunteers are required to: • Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and take active part in UNV activities (for in-stance in events that mark International Volunteer Day); • Be acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country; • Reflect on the type and quality of voluntary action that they are undertaking, including participation in ongoing reflection activities; • Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publications/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc.; • Assist with the UNV Buddy Programme for newly-arrived UN Volunteers; • Promote or advise local groups in the use of online volunteering, or encourage relevant local individuals and organizations to use the UNV Online Volunteering service whenever technically possible.

☒ Accountability ☒ Adaptability and Flexibility ☒ Building Trust ☐ Client Orientation ☒ Commitment and Motivation ☐ Commitment to Continuous Learning ☒ Communication ☒ Creativity ☒ Empowering Others ☐ Ethics and Values ☒ Integrity ☐ Judgement and Decision-making ☒ Knowledge Sharing ☐ Leadership ☐ Managing Performance ☒ Planning and Organizing ☐ Professionalism ☒ Respect for Diversity ☒ Self-Management ☒ Technological Awareness ☐ Vision ☒ Working in Teams

migration studies, gender studies, international development studies, human rights or other related field . 
• Has experience in programme development. • Has facilitation skills and ability to organize a virtual meeting. Proven experience in facilitating strategic planning process is an asset.  • Excellent coordinating and liaising with civil society and private sector actors is an asset. • Demonstrable high-level proposal writing and presentation skills in English.

Thailand is located in Southeast Asia. The climate is tropical, with the monsoon season run-ning from May/June through October/November. Bangkok is the capital of Thailand, and it is also the most populated city in the country. It is located in the Chao Phraya River delta in the central part of the country. Bangkok has an estimated population of 8.75 million as of 2017 (13% of Thailand’s total population), based on data from the 2010 census. Over the past dec-ades, Bangkok has grown rapidly with little urban planning or regulation. This has led to traffic congestion and air pollution, and there is frequent flooding of streets during the rainy season in the City’s low-lying areas.

The cost of living in Thailand is relatively low, as compared to many other capitals in South-east Asia. Housing is widely available in various sizes and at various price points. Private healthcare in Thailand is of excellent standard, and there are numerous top hospitals in Bang-kok, which fall far below countries like the US in terms of price. There are numerous high-quality international schools available in Bangkok, with English as the language of instruction. Bangkok has different public transportation options, including the BTS Skytrain and MRT Un-derground, metered taxis, mobile-based ride-hailing services (Grab, All Thai Taxi, etc.), tuk tuks, motorbike taxis, buses and boats.