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Research Project Officer

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American Center for International Labor Solidarity

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Research Project Officer

Announcement Description

The Solidarity Center (previously known as the American Center for International Labor Solidarity (ACILS) empowers men and women around the world to earn safe and dignified livelihoods, exercise their fundamental labor rights, and have a voice in shaping work conditions and public policies that impact their lives.

Our 250+ professional staff work in about 60 countries with 900-plus labor unions, pro-worker nongovernmental organizations, legal-aid groups, human rights defenders, women’s associations, advocacy coalitions, and others to support workers—in garment factories, home services, seafood processing, mining, agriculture, logistics and transport, commercial services, marketplaces and other informal sectors, manufacturing, the public sectors, and beyond—as they exercise their rights, including organizing for safer work sites and conditons, demanding living wages, improving laws (and the enforcement of existing laws) that protect working people, and fight exploitation, discrimination and abuse.

The University of Sydney, the Solidarity Center, Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA, and Building and Woodworkers’ International (BWI) are partnering to conduct a three-year research project on gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH) in Cambodia’s construction sector. The research is primarily funded by the Australian Research Council’s (ARC) Linkage Scheme, along with financial and in-kind contributions from the project partners. The project aims to generate evidence to support better responses to workplace gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH) in Cambodia’s construction sector and identify ways this can be supported by the international labour movement. The research is a mixed methods study involving a survey of female workers in four provinces (Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, Kampot and Sihanoukville) and semi-structured interviews with workers, union leaders and members, and representatives of labour organisations.

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Research Project Officer

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  • Career Category: Social Work, Research / Development, Capacity development
  • Type : Job Opportunity
  • Location: Phnom Penh
  • Schedule:Full-time
  • Salary: N/A
Position Summary

The position for Gender Based Violence and Harassment at Work

Period of Performance: Three (3) years from May 2021

The role

A full time Project Officer will be appointed for three years, ideally from May 2021, to coordinate the field-based components of the research, trainings and workshops and be the key contact with project partners and the research team in Australia.

Reporting

The Project Officer will be based at the Solidarity Center Cambodia in Phnom Penh and will work with the Solidarity Center Gender Team. The Project Officer’s primary line supervisor is Professor Michele Ford at the University of Sydney. The day to day reporting will be with the Gender Team Coordinator and the Country Program Director at Solidarity Center. The Project Officer will have regular Zoom meetings with the University of Sydney research team.

Expectations - Duties, Responsibilities
  • The appointed person will:
  • Gather and analyse relevant reports and news articles on the research topic.
  • Coordinate recruitment of enumerators.
  • Provide administrative, technical and logistics support for the enumerator training.
  • Coordinate fieldwork including oversight of the administrative, logistical and technical components of the survey.
  • Liaise with local unions and other organisations to access research sites and participants, and schedule interviews.
  • Accompany researchers (including the PhD candidate) to the field sites during data collection.
  • Make accommodation and transport arrangements for the researchers for data collection.
  • Ensure that University of Sydney ethics requirements for the project are adhered to in-country.
  • Organise in-country and virtual stakeholder meetings and events, including a workshop at the end of the project.
  • Draft regular project progress reports.
  • Provide translation and transcription support as required.
  • Other work related to the project that may arise.
Requirements - Skills, Qualifications, Experience
  • Qualifications, skills and experience
  • Essential
  • A university degree in a relevant field or equivalent relevant work experience.
  • Ability to work with minimal direction to set priorities, multi-task and problem solve.
  • Strong track record of work on projects that address gender discrimination and equity.
  • A record of strong stakeholder management experience and effective communication skills (verbal and written).
  • A high level of proficiency in both English and Khmer.
  • Proven experience with G-Suite and MS Office Applications.
  • Desirable
  • Experience working on projects to address sexual harassment and GBVH.
  • Experience in coordinating various aspects of research projects, and especially field-based data collection.
  • Experience of delivering training (on gender/GBVH topics would be an advantage).
  • Experience of spoken interpretation.
  • Experience in trade unions and labour issues.
 

How to Apply

Interested candidates mCandidates interested in the position should email 1) a CV including three references and 2) a three-page cover letter addressing the selection criteria. Materials (which must be in English) should be emailed with “Project Officer (Gender Based Violence and Harassment at Work)” in the subject line to email provided in the contact details by the closing date at 17:00pm.

 
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Contact Details

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  • Suosdey DIN
 
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