• Terms: Full-time, one-year contract position
• Date: February 2022
• Location: Australia, India or Indonesia – remote work and flexible location
• Reports to: Global Partnerships Director

About Talent Beyond Boundaries

Talent Beyond Boundaries (TBB) envisions a world where forcibly displaced people can leverage their own strengths to secure their futures. We work with governments, employers and partners to help skilled refugees move to countries where they can rebuild their lives in safety and security.

TBB seeks to be a catalyst for systems change in skilled migration, laying the groundwork for this solution to scale to serve millions of displaced people.

Scope of role

This role will work with strategic partners in Asia to expand skilled migration pathways for refugees and other forcibly displaced people, focusing on employment opportunities in Australia as well as several other global destinations. The successful candidate will demonstrate a high degree of flexibility, adaptability and resourcefulness to respond to new developments and emerging priorities.

The Asia Partnerships Manager will also provide support to TBB’s operations, monitoring and evaluation, research and fundraising activities.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• With support from the Global Partnerships Director, manage a capacity building project that seeks to empower partners in Asia to integrate labour mobility activities into their existing work with displaced populations.
• Lead day-to-day project implementation, including the development, packaging and dissemination of technical guidance and training materials for partners in four countries.
• Provide intensive mentoring and support to partners in Asia, facilitating regular training sessions, check-ins and follow-ups.
• Develop detailed narrative and financial reports and monitor project compliance.
• Liaise with diverse stakeholders in the region, including relevant United Nations offices (particularly UNHCR and the International Organisation for Migration), government and multilateral officials, international NGOs, and local and community-based organisations.
• Collaborate with the TBB Australia team to identify appropriate employment opportunities and support candidates through the recruitment, relocation and integration process.
• Liaise with other TBB destination teams as required to facilitate recruitments from Asia.
• Work with the Global Partnerships Director and the Global Program Manager to establish, refine and document TBB systems and processes for attracting, onboarding and supporting partners to implement refugee labour mobility activities.
• Assist with fundraising and external communications to support TBB’s activities in Asia.
• Provide strategic advice to TBB’s leadership team on the context and key risks and operational challenges with implications for our work in Asia.
• Other duties as required.

LINE REPORTS

• Volunteers and interns as required

KEY RELATIONSHIPS

• Global Partnerships Director (direct supervisor)
• Global Program Manager (collaboration to support partner capacity building)
• Australia and New Zealand Director (collaboration on employment opportunities)
• CEO (collaboration on strategy and operational matters)
• TBB Leadership Team (for collaboration with senior colleagues in TBB’s other jurisdictions - USA, Canada, UK and the Middle East)

SKILLS, EXPERIENCE & ATTITUDE

Essential

• High-level organisational and project management skills
• Experience in institutional donor reporting, budgeting and proposal development
• Outstanding communication skills, with the ability to navigate complex stakeholder dynamics and manage strategic relationships to achieve shared goals
• Contextual knowledge and/or experience (personal, academic or professional) in Asia, particularly on projects or initiatives relevant to TBB’s mandate, such as refugees and migration, labour rights and employment, partnerships and program management, and international affairs and policy
• Strong digital literacy and willingness to use/learn to use a range of online collaborative tools (Salesforce, Slack, Google Suite, Trello, etc)
• Fluency in verbal and written English
• A willingness to learn and adapt to a dynamic work environment, a highly collaborative approach, and tolerance for rapid change and ambiguity

Desirable

• Experience working directly with displaced populations, particularly in livelihoods or protection roles
• Fluency in other languages (particularly Dari or Arabic)
• Experience working on global initiatives or with international organisations/UN agencies
• Lived experience as a refugee or displaced person