• Full time, permanent role

• Based in Melbourne CBD (combination WFH and two days in office)

• Exciting job opportunity to work with an incredible team in the International Development Sector

ABOUT IWDA

IWDA is an Australia based organisation, resourcing diverse women’s rights organisations, primarily in Asia and the Pacific, and contributing to global feminist movements to advance our vision of gender equality for all.

VISION: Gender equality for all

PURPOSE: To defend and advance the rights of diverse women and girls

VALUES: Feminist, Accountable, Collaborative, Transformative

STRATEGIC GOALS 2025:

1.     Resource and contribute to a resilient and vibrant feminist movement, primarily in the areas of freedom from violence and power, leadership and civic space

2.     Promote systemic change towards gender equality for all

3.     Build a resilient and relevant feminist organisation

We resource the work of diverse women’s rights organisations, enable them to be more effective by providing support that goes beyond money, and we make our own contributions to feminist movements through advocacy, knowledge creation and translation.

As part of this contribution, we take actions to decolonise our approach to feminism and development. We want to become the best we can be at partnerships across the Majority and Minority worlds. This means we seek to understand and leverage our locational power so that we know when to:

STEP UP and use our power to leverage resources and access for women’s rights organisations, and make our own contribution to feminist movements

STAND WITH feminist movements in solidarity and amplify the work of global south actors

STEP BACK when others are better placed to take the lead

SIT WITH uncertainty, embrace communal learning and deep listening, and accept that time is needed to collectively discern the best course of action.

Our 2023-2025 Strategic Plan outlines a third way between the models of women’s funds and international development NGOs.

ABOUT THE ROLE

IWDA has proudly partnered with women’s rights organisations (WROs) in Myanmar for more than 30 years, with a particular focus on supporting the leadership of, and elevating the voices of, ethnically diverse women.

The Program Manager, Myanmar manages a five-year funding grant and related contracts for five Myanmar partner organisations. This program, which commenced in March 2022, provides core and flexible funding to WROs, enabling them to maintain their organisational operations and lead emergency responses in local communities following the military coup in February 2021.

The Program Manager manages the funding grants and associated contracts for these partners to implement the work that they do in their communities. It focuses on ensuring that contract deliverables to a quality standard and within the agreed timelines. This requires supporting partners in their reporting and acquitting processes and translating these into donor facing reporting. In doing so, the Program Manager works within mutually respectful relationship with the partners to provide support in identified areas of strengthening and as required.

This Program Manager role sits in the Partnerships team within the broader Partnerships Team and reports to the Senior Program Manager. The Program Manager will contribute to the positive, collaborative and encouraging culture of the Partnerships Team and participate in IWDA’s organisational learning approach and be committed the organisation’s inclusive culture and work collaboratively with teams across the organisation.

Find the full position description here.

THE OFFER

This a full time, permanent position. Classified at SCHADS 6 plus superannuation and salary packaging.

Some of the benefits:

• Flexible work arrangements

• Salary packaging options

• Employee Assistance program

• Additional end of year leave for all and additional paid personal/carer's and parental leave

HOW TO APPLY

If you are looking for an opportunity to make a key contribution to a rights-based international development agency committed to gender equality for all, click apply and submit your application.

IWDA is committed to the wellbeing and safety of our staff. IWDA works through a hybrid approach supporting all team members to work flexibly, fully equipped from home as well as from our office in Melbourne. The candidate will be expected to work from our physical office space at least two days a week.

The safety and wellbeing of children and other vulnerable persons engaged in IWDA’s programs is also a priority for IWDA. We have strong recruitment processes in place to ensure the safest and most suitable people are employed by our organisation.

International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA) has an Equal Opportunity exemption (H69/2022) and requests applications from women only (including cis or trans).

IWDA welcomes people with different skills and life experiences, and encourages women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, women with disabilities and First Nations women to apply. Preference will be given to applicants who have experience in, or strong community ties to, one of the countries in which IWDA supports partners.

Any offer of employment will require a National Police Check and endorsement of IWDA’s Safeguarding Code of Conduct. All applicants must be legally entitled to live and work in Australia.