Project Assistant FREE TO BE ME

Scope: SEA (Indonesia and Philippines)
Location: The Philippines
Hours: fulltime
Staffing level: PO/ Salary range Grade 5-6

Yayasan Humanis dan Inovasi Sosial or Humanist and Social Innovation Foundation is an affiliated organization of Hivos. Currently we are looking for a candidate to fill this position:

Title: Project Assistant FREE TO BE ME

Duty Station: The Philippines

Report to: Project Manager FtBM

Free to Be Me is an ambitious, daring and innovative program that will help build and maintain a vibrant gender and sexual minority groups movement that is confident and capable to lobby and advocate for their human and economic rights. The program is led by an alliance of three consortium members – Hivos (the lead party), ILGA World and Positive Vibes – and three technical partners – Sogicampaigns, The Global Interfaith Network (GIN) and Workplace Pride. Together the alliance will coach, accompany, fund and train gender and sexual minority persons and organizations to influence norms and attitudes, generate (public) support, and promote laws, policies and regulations that recognize, respect and protect gender and sexual minority people’s human and economic rights.

The program will be implemented in 14 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

The program is funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, under the Power of Voices program, which is part of the Strengthening Civil Society subsidy framework. The five-year program has a budget of EUR 37 million.

Main goal of the position

The Project Officer (PO) assists the program officers and the financial officer with a variety of tasks that can include the provision of financial-administrative support, logistics, note-taking, etc. The PO is committed to the values and principles defined by Yayasan Humanis, Hivos and Free to be Me.

RESPONSIBILITIES

 

RESULT AREAS	RESULT DESCRIPTION
Processing information	·        Is in charge of entering program-related financial and other data and processing it into standard systems.
Service delivery	·        Maintains logistical and administrative activities and corresponding systems for internal and external communication, fulfils information requirements.
Department planning	·        Organises and keeps track of meetings, maintains and applies department agenda and planning, organises periodic and one-off events, monitors reporting schedules and requirements.
Positioning	·        Is part of the Free to be Me team in the region and as such interacts with internal and external stakeholders.
Quality improvement	·        Helps to improve work processes and engages in quality improvement projects and activities.
Logistics tasks	·        Performs a variety of logistics tasks such as organising travel and events.

 

REQUIREMENTS

·        Relevant vocational training or comparable work experience, and higher level of working and thinking.

·        Able to speak and write English fluently as well as Tagalog and/or Indonesian.

·        1 to 3 years of work experience in a professional organization, and preferably in an international environment.

·        A proactive, open-minded team player with a positive attitude, who enjoys working in a dynamic environment.

·        Supportive of the goals of Free to be Me.

·        Familiar with working with financial administrative systems.

·        Skilled in organizing and planning.

·        Experience in supporting the organization of events, preferably also online.

·        Ability to think and act creatively and ‘outside the box’ to solve problems

·        High level of integrity.

·        Lived experience as a gender and sexual minority person is an asset.

·        Level skills: Anticipation, Quality oriented, skilled

·        Job skills: Customer orientation, planned working, accuracy

 

Want to apply?

Kindly send your resume and cover letter by 15^th September, 2021 to  hr@hsi.foundation (ads 2)

E-mail Subject : PO FreetobeMe_Philippines