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Employment Opportunity

Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)

THAILAND

ADRA is a global network of independent humanitarian organizations established in 1984 by the Seventh Day Adventist Church for the specific purpose of providing individual and community development and disaster relief. ADRA Thailand works with people in poverty and distress to create just and positive change through empowering partnerships and responsible action. ADRA Thailand has served vulnerable and marginalized people in Thailand through community development initiatives targeting Food Security, Economic Development, Primary Health and Education. ADRA Thailand’s emergency response initiatives provide aid to disaster survivors and people fleeing active conflict from Myanmar.

ADRA Thailand has been working with vulnerable and marginalized communities in Thailand since 1984. ADRA works with people in poverty and distress to create just and positive change through empowering partnerships and responsible action.

ADRA Thailand is currently seeking applicants for to work at our office in Chiang Rai province in the Statelessness Reduction and Community Sensitization Project as detailed below:

• Project Manager Position (ผู้จัดการโครงการ)

Responsibilities:

• To ensure high quality project implementations

• To ensure quality and timely reporting on project progress

• To ensure proper project staff supervision

• To ensure transparent and correct project related financial transactions and recording

• To ensure transparent and adequate communication and coordination with Program Department

• To provide work coordination with stakeholders including government officials

• To provide overall leadership to the project team (20 staff)

• To ensure project expenditure stays within the budget

• To Monitor day to day project implementation in order to achieve stated results

• To develop a detailed implementation plan with the project team

• To provide quality and timely project reports (monthly and year-end reports)

• To represent ADRA in all relevant coordination meetings in all the project target areas

• To provide updated project data upon request

• To provide support and mentorship to project staff

• To ensure that the project implementation is in accord with DIP,  to regularly update and revise DIP and log-frame as needed and to stay in close communication with the Program Coordinator and Program Director

• To perform other tasks as required by the Program Coordinator and Program Director

Preferred candidates are expected to meet the following:

Minimum Skills & Education Required:

Educational Qualifications:

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree, preferably Master’s degree in Community Development or related field.

 Experience:

• A minimum of 5-year experience in community development or in management positions that is equal to the stated responsibilities outlined above

• Concrete knowledge of issues  pertaining to statelessness

• Prior work experiences in assisting stateless persons to obtain their legal status

Language Skills:

• Thai as native language

• Excellent command of spoken and written English

• Able to write reports in English

Skills and Abilities:

• Significant experience in working with hill tribe communities

• Capacity and experiences to facilitate high quality trainings

• Strong team spirit and experience in being a team leader (preferably at least 3 years)

• Ability to work under pressure and able to multi-task

• Ability to interact in a sensitive and diplomatic way

• Ability to speak in public with confidence

• Strong sense of responsibility

• Computer proficiency in Microsoft Office and Excel

• High level of flexibility and self-motivation

• Strong cross cultural and interpersonal skills

Core Competencies:

• Leading and Supervising

• Relating and Networking

• Writing and Reporting

• Planning and organizing

Application Procedure:

In the subject line of the email, please write “Applying for Project Manager” Please send applications (Cover letter, CV, salary expectation, copy of Identification document, copy of driving license, educational certificate and/or training certificate) to: hr@adrathailand.org by 30 January 2021, 5.00 pm.

Please note: Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted. The offer of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks which can include criminal records

For further information, please contact: hr@adrathailand.org or 053 839 402 ext. 12