Programme Officer

Position: Programme Officer
No of position: 2
Application Deadline: 08 January, 2024
Starting Date: 01, March 2024

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.

For more please visit www.arrow.org.my

Role context
The role of the Programme Officer (PO) is to effectively lead the coordination of planning, implementation and evaluation of programme and project activities. The role also includes developing and sustaining partnerships for the area of work responsible for. The PO coordinates and facilitates timely and accurate responses to advocacy opportunities at the regional and global levels. As part of the programme team, the role is also to contribute to the overall growth and effectiveness of the programme and organisation in achieving its long-term objectives through assisting in programme meeting and other activities. 

Responsibilities

  • Ensure high quality development and implementation of Annual Project Work Plans, and review and revise them periodically as the need arises
  • Manage and monitor project budgets and disbursements, and work with the Finance team in developing accurate financial reports and their timely submission to donors.
  • Build and sustain harmonious relationships with the project partners and networks. Provide support to partners to enable them to perform and fulfil project outputs.
  • Build and sustain movements on SRHR and intersectional issues.
  • Conceptualise, organise and implement project meetings and capacity-strengthening workshops in collaboration with the Programme Manager and with the support of consultants and other staff as needed.
  • Conceptualise and develop evidence generation and knowledge products/publications for the project
  • Lead or assist in the planning, implementation and evaluation of programme, projects, organisations and networks.

🔗Click here for the full Job Description.

Experience and Skills

  • 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.


Additional Requirements  

  • 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.
  • Has worked in and has knowledge of the socio-cultural-economic-political context of the Asia and the Pacific region
  • Experienced in managing or sustaining regional, global networks and movements.
  • Good ICT skills – word, excel, powerpoint, online and social media – needed; skills in publishing, video editing and photography a plus.
  • Excellent planning and organisational skills; is flexible and can manage a periodic high workload; ability to multi-task, prioritise and meet multiple deadlines; can work effectively, efficiently, diplomatically and calmly in a multi-cultural environment; and can quickly understand and optimise new skills, processes and procedures.
  • Creative thinker; enthusiastic, a self-manager, displays initiative, results-oriented, known for quality work, an information seeker, works with integrity.
  • Excellent interpersonal, collaborative and team player skills, with ability to influence and negotiate; treats people with fairness and respect.
  • Would be able to commit to staying and growing with us for a minimum of two years.


Interested eligible candidates to send a CV, motivation letter and the contact details of three references to jobs@arrow.org.my by 08 January, 2024. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted by 30 January, 2024.

Vietnam

  • Centre for Creative Initiatives in Health and Population (CCIHP)

Indonesia

  • Aliansi Satu Visi (ASV);
  • CEDAW Working Group;
  • Hollaback! Jakarta;
  • Institut Kapal Perempuan;
  • Kalyanamitra;
  • Komnas Perempuan;
  • Remaja Independen Papua/Independent Youth
    Forum Papua (FRIP/IYFP);
  • Perkumpulan Keluarga Berencana Indonesia (PKBI);
  • Perkumpulan Lintas Feminis Jakarta;
  • Perkumpulan Pamflet Generasi;
  • RUTGERS Indonesia;
  • Sanggar SWARA;
  • Women on Web;
  • Yayasan Kesehatan Perempuan (YKP); 
  • YIFOS Indonesia

Maldives

  • Hope for Women
  • Society for Health Education (SHE)
Programme Officer

Position: Programme Officer
No of position: 2
Application Deadline: 08 January, 2024
Starting Date: 01, March 2024

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.

For more please visit www.arrow.org.my

Role context
The role of the Programme Officer (PO) is to effectively lead the coordination of planning, implementation and evaluation of programme and project activities. The role also includes developing and sustaining partnerships for the area of work responsible for. The PO coordinates and facilitates timely and accurate responses to advocacy opportunities at the regional and global levels. As part of the programme team, the role is also to contribute to the overall growth and effectiveness of the programme and organisation in achieving its long-term objectives through assisting in programme meeting and other activities. 

Responsibilities

  • Ensure high quality development and implementation of Annual Project Work Plans, and review and revise them periodically as the need arises
  • Manage and monitor project budgets and disbursements, and work with the Finance team in developing accurate financial reports and their timely submission to donors.
  • Build and sustain harmonious relationships with the project partners and networks. Provide support to partners to enable them to perform and fulfil project outputs.
  • Build and sustain movements on SRHR and intersectional issues.
  • Conceptualise, organise and implement project meetings and capacity-strengthening workshops in collaboration with the Programme Manager and with the support of consultants and other staff as needed.
  • Conceptualise and develop evidence generation and knowledge products/publications for the project
  • Lead or assist in the planning, implementation and evaluation of programme, projects, organisations and networks.

🔗Click here for the full Job Description.

Experience and Skills

  • 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.


Additional Requirements  

  • 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.
  • Has worked in and has knowledge of the socio-cultural-economic-political context of the Asia and the Pacific region
  • Experienced in managing or sustaining regional, global networks and movements.
  • Good ICT skills – word, excel, powerpoint, online and social media – needed; skills in publishing, video editing and photography a plus.
  • Excellent planning and organisational skills; is flexible and can manage a periodic high workload; ability to multi-task, prioritise and meet multiple deadlines; can work effectively, efficiently, diplomatically and calmly in a multi-cultural environment; and can quickly understand and optimise new skills, processes and procedures.
  • Creative thinker; enthusiastic, a self-manager, displays initiative, results-oriented, known for quality work, an information seeker, works with integrity.
  • Excellent interpersonal, collaborative and team player skills, with ability to influence and negotiate; treats people with fairness and respect.
  • Would be able to commit to staying and growing with us for a minimum of two years.


Interested eligible candidates to send a CV, motivation letter and the contact details of three references to jobs@arrow.org.my by 08 January, 2024. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted by 30 January, 2024.

Morocco

  • Association Marocaine de Planification Familiale (AMPF),
  • Morocco Family Planning Association

India

  • CommonHealth;
  • Love Matters India;
  • Pravah;
  • Rural Women’s Social Education Centre (RUWSEC);
  • SAHAYOG;
  • Sahaj;
  • Sahiyo;
  • SAMA – Resource Group for Women and Health;
  • WeSpeakOut;
  • The YP Foundation (TYPF)

Lao PDR

  • Lao Women’s Union;
  • The Faculty of Postgraduate Studies at the University of Health
    Sciences (UHS)

Sri Lanka

  • Bakamoono;
  • Women and Media Collective (WMC),
  • Youth Advocacy Network – Sri Lanka (YANSL)

Malaysia

  • Federation of Reproductive Health Associations of Malaysia (FRHAM);
  • Joint Action Group for Gender Equality (JAG);
  • Justice for Sisters (JFS);
  • Reproductive Health Association of
    Kelantan (ReHAK);
  • Reproductive Rights Advocacy Alliance Malaysia (RRAAM);
  • Sisters in Islam (SIS)

Maldives

  • Hope for Women;
  • Society for Health Education (SHE)

Myanmar

  • Colourful Girls Organization;
  • Green Lotus Myanmar

Nepal

  • Beyond Beijing Committee (BBC);
  • Blind Youth Association of Nepal;
  • Blue Diamond Society (BDS);
  • Nepalese Youth for Climate Action (NYCA);
  • Visible Impact;
  • Women’s Rehabilitation Centre (WOREC);
  • YPEER Nepal;
  • YUWA

Pakistan

  • Aahung, Centre for Social Policy Development (CSPD);
  • Forum for Dignity Initiative (FDI);
  • Gravity Development Organization; Green Circle Organization;
  • Indus Resources Center (IRC);
  • Idara-e-Taleem-O-Aaghai (ITA);
  • Rehnuma – Family Planning Association Pakistan;
  • Shelter
    Participatory Organisation;
  • Shirkat Gah;
  • The Enlight Lab

Philippines

  • Democratic Socalist Women of the Philippines (DSWP);
  • Galang;
  • Healthcare Without Harm;
  • Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities;
  • Likhaan Centre for Women’s Health;
  • Nisa UI Haqq Fi Bangsamoro;
  • PATH Foundation Inc. (PFPI);
  • Women’s Global Network for
    Reproductive Rights (WGNRR)

Singapore

  • End Female Genital Cutting Singapore
  • Reproductive Rights (WGNRR)

Mongolia

  • MONFEMNET National Network