ACT Alliance Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific

Regional Representative (Asia and the Pacific)

About ACT Alliance

ACT Alliance is a coalition of more than 140 churches and affiliated organisations working together in over 140 countries to create positive and sustainable change in the lives of poor and marginalised people regardless of their religion, politics, gender, sexual orientation, race or nationality. ACT Alliance is supported by 25,000 staff from member organisations and mobilises about $1.5 billion for its work each year in three targeted areas: humanitarian aid, development, and advocacy.

ACT Alliance is deeply rooted in the communities it serves. It has earned the trust and respect of local people long before large international interventions scale up, and remains steadfast in its grassroots commitments for many years after world attention has shifted elsewhere. For more details about the general work of ACT, please click on this link: http://www.actalliance.org/

To strengthen the ACT Alliance secretariat, a Regional Representative (Asia and the Pacific) is recruited to join the global team.

Major functions summary

As part of a global ACT secretariat the Regional Representative strengthens and supports national, sub-regional and regional ACT forums in their work in emergencies, development and advocacy and manages the ACT secretariat presence in the region.

Duties and responsibilities

• Represents the ACT Alliance Secretariat in the Asia and the Pacific region
• Strengthens and supports national, sub-regional and regional ACT forums in their humanitarian, development and advocacy work through strategies and action plans
• Fundraises for joint ACT member-led initiatives, including the humanitarian appeals
• Oversees the ACT Alliance’s humanitarian response in Asia and the Pacific
• Supports communication from and within the region
• Engages with members in the Asia and the Pacific region and ensures adherence to ACT policies
• Implements regional membership strategy and builds member relations
• Enables effective ecumenical coordination and co-operation
• Supports ACT forums in external relations
• Manages the regional staff
• Supports some select global secretariat functions (to be defined)

Competences and behaviours

• Committed to the values of the ACT Alliance and takes pride in delivering on agreed priorities according to the highest standards individually and as part of a global team
• Proactively finds innovative and creative solutions, is efficient and reliable, adapts to change and uncertainty, is decisive and acts with integrity

• Builds effective internal and external relationships, involves others when solving problems and treats others with consideration and respect in an alliance where faith is a key ingredient of people’s lives
• Passion for building and developing core skills for the role and contributes knowledge outside of immediate own role
• Effectively motivates, influences and develops others, drives high performance, inspires people to follow them and acts as a role model

 Key working relationships

• Liaises with ACT forum coordinators in the region
• Liaises with ACT forums and ACT members in the region
• Manages the staff in the ACT Alliance secretariat office in Asia and the Pacific
• Liaises with external partners (UN agencies, regional organisations, peer agencies in the region) as relevant to the agenda in the region
• Is member of the ACT global management team
• Reports to Director/Chief Operating Officer

 Technical skills and experience

• A minimum of seven to ten years of professional experience; a minimum of five in an international context
• Ability to analyse rapidly changing operational contexts and policy developments and to see opportunities emerging
• Excellent knowledge of humanitarian, development and/or advocacy agenda’s in the region
• Excellent knowledge on the role of churches and NGOs in humanitarian response, development and/or advocacy
• Ability to work flexibly in a networked working environment
• Relevant academic degree with excellent communication skills
• Management experience and experience of responding to an emergency in a management role an asset
• Knowledge on the ecumenical landscape in Asia and the Pacific a significant asset
• Excellent knowledge of English language, other languages an asset

ACT Alliance is in a process of decentralising some of the key functions in its Geneva based secretariat. The Asia and the Pacific office will be located in Bangkok, Thailand.

Compensation for the position will be competitive to similar roles. It is expected that the successful candidate is able to start in the role by mid-September 2015 with an orientation phase in Geneva.

If you are interested kindly submit your CV, application letter and information about three potential references via email to recruitment@actalliance.org.

Deadline for applications: Monday 15th June at 16 hours, Geneva time.

The first round of interviews for this role is expected to take place during the week 26 through Skype.