Position: Senior Programme Officer – PMEL
No of position: 1
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 Senior Programme Officer (SPO) PMEL is to ensure effective implementation of ARROW’s feminist PMEL framework for effective programme and project activities. The SPO PMEL will coordinate results and data collection and analyse the data for Impact, including organising learning session within the organization.

Responsibilities

• Develop systems for monitoring, consolidating and analysing impact of the work of the organisation
• Coordinate and participate for regular monitoring of data collection, analysis and reporting for respective projects and programmes;
• Support and participate in project/program quarterly program review and mid-term and end evaluations (both internal and external) as required
• Lead the coordination of the annual indicators in line with ARROW’s strategic plan (2022-2026)
• Liaise with, and provide appropriate guidance, supervision and coordination to any consultants, short-term contractual personnel, to ensure high quality PMEL outputs, such as evaluations etc.
• Regularly and accurately update the MIS in a timely manner.
• Support ARROW partners deliver high quality project outputs in a timely manner.
• Coordinate the QPRs/ Annual Report, update of results-based frame annually and regular learning session of ARROW and relevant products/publications that involve PMEL components.

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Experience and Skills

• Minimum 6-10 years of relevant experience, including experience in multi-country project management demonstrate knowledge and experience of PMEL in advocacy and human rights
• Degree or equivalent standard of education in development, public health, gender and women’s studies, social science, PMEL professional experience relevant for the position and at a similar level or any related field.
• Strong PMEL skills, and the ability to summarise and simplify complex information into an accessible form, strategic, analytical, creative and will proactively take initiative to develop new approaches for advocacy PMEL Ability to develop and deliver trainings related to PMEL
• Knowledge, 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.
• Knows how to use a rights and justice framework, and is familiar with commitments related to SRHR, regionally and internationally
• Good ICT skills – word, excel, PowerPoint, online and social media.

Additional Requirements  

• Excellent planning and organisational skills;
• Creative thinker; enthusiastic, a self-manager, displays initiative, results-oriented, 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.
• Excellent training and coaching skills preferable.
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills (fluency in English is essential; knowledge of other UN languages and key Asia-Pacific languages is a plus).
• Energetic, flexible, collaborative, proactive, sense of humor; who can positively and productively impact both strategic and tactical programme initiatives.

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 Jan, 2024.