Project Coordinator for The Advancing Refugee

About Asylum Access

We are human rights advocates who support forcibly displaced individuals and communities as they reclaim their rights, agency and power.

Our unique combination of legal empowerment, policy advocacy and global systems change creates conditions in which refugees can live safely, move freely, work legally and go to school.
Our work transforms the traditional approach of endless humanitarian handouts to a sustainable solution that honors refugees' freedom, dignity and autonomy, and equips them to make choices about their own lives.

Asylum Access' global team and family of local civil society organizations advocate to make human rights a reality for refugees throughout Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Our national organizations are led and staffed primarily by community members in those countries, and there is strong mutual trust and respect between us and our clients.
On the international stage, we work with established institutions to shift the global system to better uphold and promote refugees' human rights.
We can help catalyze and lead systemic transformation because, uniquely among NGOs in the refugee response sector, we focus exclusively on rights and governance.

Project Description

Advancing Refugee Protection and Rights in SEA through Legal Empowerment (ARPR) Project is a three-year project which entails to contribute to greater recognition of and respect for the rights of refugees and asylum-seekers in Thailand, Indonesia and the region, through action-oriented analysis of the effectiveness of legal empowerment programs and recommendations for legal and policy reform.

The specific objectives of the Project are as follows:

Analyze the existing laws and legal mechanisms available to, and the baseline of legal empowerment among, refugees and asylum seekers in Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, with a view to informing law, policy and legal empowerment programs.
Analyze the effectiveness of legal empowerment programs targeted at refugees and asylum seekers in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia in improving legal literacy, facilitating community mobilization, and strengthening refugee-led advocacy to access justice and protection, in particular for women, girls and other marginalized groups.
Conduct a comparative analysis of the legal empowerment programming outcomes in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia in facilitating access to justice and protection for refugees and asylum seekers, in particular for women, girls, and other marginalized groups, with a view to developing and disseminating recommendations for strengthening legal empowerment programs in the region.

Position Description

The Project Coordinator will be responsible for the overall implementation, coordination and management of the ARPR Project, ensuring program implementation with quality and cost effectiveness.
The Project Coordinator will ensure that the project can deliver key activities on time and meet targets and objectives.

Key Responsibilities

Project Management (70%)

Manage the implementation and development of the technical and administrative aspects of the project;
Oversee project expenditure and hold budget management responsibility for the project, including monitoring budget vs expenditure, ensuring that costs are allocated correctly and expenditure is happening in line with the plan;
Lead on developing and revising the project management tools on timely basis;
Ensure that internal and external reporting requirements are met, including donor reports, in line with the required format and with review and input from relevant staff and Grant Manager ;
Ensure that project progress is effectively monitored through the regular collection and analysis of key indicators and ensure that processes and results are proper documented;
Work closely with the Executive Director and Director of Program to ensure quality implementation.
Ensure that lessons learnt and success stories from the project are effectively documented and shared;
Work closely with the Protection Program Coordinator and Community Engagement Coordinator and operational support departments (HR, Operations, Finance) to ensure that key project inputs are understood and delivered in a timely manner;
Input into the development of future funding proposals and identify opportunities for programming that may develop locally;
Be the point of contact for the Project with project partners in Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia.
Work closely with Policy Advocacy and Communication Coordinator on policy advocacy and public campaign for law reform.
Ensure appropriate and effective Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Accountability mechanisms and practices for the project.

Partnership Management and Support (15%)

Support, ensure capacity sharing of and coordinate closely with AAT's paralegal and refugee leadership team implementing key components of this project;
Plan and organize regular meetings with the local partners to draw lessons, share experiences and