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Introduction and Context
International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific is a women’s rights, feminist organisation committed to the full realisation of women’s human rights through the pursuit of equality. Together with other organisations in the women’s human rights movement, we act to challenge structures, systems, and institutions that violate women’s human rights.

 Responsibilities and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Lead, develop and implement IWRAW Asia Pacific’s capacity strengthening strategy which includes approaches, analysis, focus areas and strategies to address structural issues of equality and discrimination and priority women’s human rights issues through a feminist and CEDAW lens. This includes: 
● Coordinating all training programmes (national, regional and international) undertaken by IWRAW including any requests for ad-hoc technical assistance and other relevant capacity building activity 
● Liaise with the team and pool of resource persons in coordinating the training and technical assistance programmes. 
● Maintaining and growing the list of resource persons to support the capacity building programme. 
● Coordinating the updating of existing knowledge resources and leading the creation of new resources/tools. 
● Contributing towards conceptualising, planning, writing and editing of the training manual and other supplementary modules or materials for the trainings and technical assistance undertaken by IWRAW Asia Pacific. 
● Incorporating the relevant learnings from the capacity building activities undertaken into IWRAW Asia Pacific’s key knowledge resources. 
● Coordinating IWRAW Asia Pacific’s key learning space (“Institute”) and any other activities undertaken by IWRAW that are relevant to the capacity strengthening/building programme such as organising policy dialogues, thematic meetings and/or expert group meetings, in consultation with the Executive Director and selected team/ resource persons. 
● Coordinating the preparation and finalisation of reports/documentation/evaluations of all capacity building activities. When required, writing and editing of the reports would have to be undertaken by the Capacity Building Officer. 
● Build capacity a) of partners and women’s rights organisations on the use of CEDAW for accountability, movement-building and advocacy. b) develop skills and knowledge to enhance regional and cross-thematic/constituency movement building. 
● Support the implementation of the partnership strategy as and when required 

 Minimum/Essential Qualifications 
● Master’s degree in Social Sciences, Development Studies, Human Rights, and other related fields from a recognised university, or comparable professional qualifications. 
● 5-8 years of experience working on women’s rights, grassroots mobilisation, movement building, feminism advocacy and collaboration, with at least 3 years of demonstrable experience in leading and developing learning agendas, training agendas and capacity building. 
● Strong knowledge and experience in feminist and participatory approaches and training methodologies. 
● Ability to design and conduct trainings, workshops and events both in-person and virtually. 
● Proficiency in MS Word, MS Excel, and PowerPoint and familiarity with online collaborative tools such as Canva, Miro, and Padlet. 
● Excellent oral and written communication skills in English