Executive Coordinator – Director for Humanitarian Response, Asia

Position: Executive Coordinator – Director for Humanitarian Response, Asia

Location:  Nepal, Vietnam, Thailand, Jordan or Sri Lanka

Contract duration:    Permanent

Entry Salary:  Local terms and conditions in locations specified above apply

Closing date: 5PM GMT time on 30^th October 2022

The Role:

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced executive  professional  who wants to help people harness their own power to achieve a feminist, just, green transition in the 45 countries where ActionAid works.

This position offers competent and well-organised  support to the Asia/ Humanitarian Response Director. This role is responsible for providing complex operational/strategic support across the full range of the Asia/ Humanitarian Director’s responsibilities ;  ongoing administrative support to Secretary General’s Directorate and the International Board, Governance Board, Development Committee. The role works  with other directorate executive coordinators ensuring synergies and collaborative relationships to enable a stronger and more collaborative Federation.

Who?we're looking for: 

With significant experience in a similar role, you should also have demonstratable experiences providing executive coordination for international organization where  initiative, problem-solving, liaising and diplomacy are required. Candidates with proven experience working in multi-country setting or Asia Region level are strongly encouraged to apply for the role.

You should also have strong commitment to ActionAid’s values and ethos, including ActionAid’s feminist leadership principles.

You should have knowledge and practical application of technology, familiar with standard Microsoft platforms and with social media and internet-based work-sharing and virtual seminar platforms.  The role should have significant experience  of coordination, administration, financial administration, including budget monitoring within an international organisation.

You should also have strong planning and organisation skills and outstanding attention to detail. You should have highly developed interpersonal, influencing and relationship skills with ability to build good working relationships with multi-cultural teams spanning multiple geographies. It is vital that you have the ability to work under pressure while managing multiple tasks to tight deadlines across time zones and for a variety of internal audiences.

What we offer:

ActionAid is committed to providing a welcoming, supportive workplace where we recognise a job well done, encourage close collaboration and sharing power, and where safeguarding standards and feminist leadership are exemplified everywhere. At ActionAid, you can look forward to a fair?compensation package and a flexible working environment, including

• A workplace that embraces intersectional feminist principles 
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption pay 

How to apply: 

Please click on?the link to start the application process:  https://actionaidinternational.bamboohr.com/careers/137?source=aWQ9NA%3D%3D

Applications close on 5PM GMT time on 30^th October 2022. Please upload an up-to-date curriculum vitae and a covering letter, clearly explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile.

Please check your application and make sure you meet all the essential criteria listed in the person specification. In addition, your application will be stronger if you meet at least some of the desirable criteria. If you do not meet at least all the essential criteria, please do not apply as we only consider candidates if they meet the essential criteria listed on the job description.

Due to high volumes of applications received, we can only correspond with short listed applicants. Should you not have received feedback on your application within two weeks of the closing date, please consider your application as unsuccessful.

ActionAid International will not consider unsolicited candidates from recruitment agencies. We reserve the right to withdraw any of our vacancies at any time.

About us: 

ActionAid is a global federation working for a world free from poverty and injustice. 

ActionAid International welcomes applications from all sections of the community and promotes diversity. 

ActionAid is committed to recruiting candidates who promote ActionAid’s SHEA and Safeguarding policies and values. ActionAid will only recruit candidate who are committed to SHEA and Safeguarding and ActionAid’s values, thereby helping to create safer working cultures. As a deterrence measure ActionAid is also committed to deterring candidates who are intending to cause harm from joining ActionAid.