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Opening: Volunteer Community Outreach Advisor

Asylum Access is an innovative non-profit founded to make refugee rights a reality in Africa, Asia and Latin America.  We help refugees assert their fundamental rights using four integrated tools; individualized legal counsel and/or representation, community legal empowerment, policy advocacy and strategic litigation.  With offices in Ecuador, Mexico, Thailand, Tanzania and Malaysia, we provide direct legal assistance reaching over 10,000 refugees per year.  

Asylum Access Thailand is looking for Volunteer Community Outreach Advisors to assist the Community Outreach team at Asylum Access in planning, organizing, implementing and evaluating the community empowerment activities as approved by Community Outreach Coordinator.

Duration: 8 months contract  (January - August 2017)

    Key responsibilities  

• Facilitate a forum or space to motivate discussions to develop community action plans
• Promote an inclusion of community members, both refugee and local, to mobilize and organize people to develop and implement an action plan
• Facilitate a collective understanding of the action plan by creating spaces for dialogue and reflection
• Identify what resources, abilities, and capacity exists within community members to successfully implement the community action plans
• Provide training and capacity building where identified by the participants
• Develop monitoring and evaluation plans including sharing feedback with the participants and allowing them to propose improvements.

    Qualifications:

• University degree in Community Development, Social Administration or related fields.
• Demonstrated ability to work with refugee communities in urban areas.
• Must be able to work under stress and with changing priorities.
• Able to effectively communicate in English both verbally and in writing.

    Package:

• Work experience in supporting urban refugee communities in different situations.
• Free English classes for non-native English speakers.
• Small stipend to cover travel to and from the office.
• Written reference plus certificate of completion.
• Experience in group facilitation and training clients.
• Experience in developing work plan and M&E
• Improved fluency in English through working in an English speaking environment.
• Cross-cultural communication skills, and experience working with interpreters.
• Asylum Access Alumni opportunities to obtain paid work in the field of refugee law or human rights.

    Note: The position is based in Bangkok.

To apply:

Please send a cover letter, a resume and an academic example of written English to Khemtida Petchtam at khemtida.petchtam@asylumaccess.org with the subject line “AAT VLA Application”. Please be sure to specify in your cover letter as to what makes you uniquely qualified to be a Volunteer Community Outreach Advisor with AAT, how volunteering with us fits into your career plans, and the date that you expect to be available. The closing date for applications is Friday 2nd December however we may appoint before this date.  

Please note that this position will only receive a travel stipend; we are happy to work with successful applicants to arrange for funding or school credit where available.