Vacancy Call for
Programme Associate for the
Climate Justice Programme &
Crises and Women’s Human Rights Initiative

Deadline for Applications: 24 October 2025

Join our dynamic and powerful team! 

Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) is currently inviting WOMEN in all their diversities, including those belonging to minority and marginalised groups from Asia and the Pacific countries with relevant experience and skills to apply as Programme Associate for the Climate Justice Programme and Crises and Women’s Human Rights Initiative. 

The successful applicant will work with our committed Secretariat and membership to advance women’s human rights, women’s organising power, strengthening cross-movements solidarity and advocate for Development Justice. 

If you believe in the power of peoples’ movements to bring about structural change and are committed to supporting feminist progressive movements through strengthening the capacity and leadership of grassroots women, please apply to join our team!  

Programme Description & Selection Criteria 

The Programme Associate will work closely with and provide support to the following programmes: 

  1. The Climate Justice Programme focuses on ​building the capacity of the women most affected by climate change and ​collecting evidence on the impacts faced by communities. Our advocacy aims to ensure that climate policies ​from local to global levels incorporate the voices, experiences and demands of Asia-Pacific women’s climate justice movements.  It recognises that feminist solutions for climate justice are key in dismantling structural inequalities between countries, between rich and poor and between men, women and other genders
  2. Crises and Women’s Human Rights Initiative: focuses on working with members and partners to interrogate, expose and dismantle the root causes of multiple interconnected crises and its consequences on women’s human rights – by documentation, research, political education and capacity building, advocacy and movement actions.   

Selection Criteria

  • Demonstrated commitment to the promotion of women’s human rights in Asia and the Pacific. 
  • In depth understanding and knowledge on political, economic, and socio-cultural environments in the region and its impact on women’s human rights.
  • Minimum of two (2) to three (3) years experience in development work, women’s human rights and/or social movements at the national, regional or international levels. 
  • Prior work experience and knowledge on climate, debt, political economy of violence is an asset
  • A degree in social and political science, law, human rights, development or women’s studies.
  • Experience in research support via desk, legal, qualitative and quantitative research skills, and capacity to analyse and critique economic, social and development policies. Experience in policy analysis is an asset.
  • Experience and knowledge of participatory data gathering and analysis and participatory facilitation with grassroots organisations and their communities is an asset.
  • Strong coordination/teamwork skills both within and across teams. 
  • Project management skills including programme planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation is an asset.
  • Demonstrated ability to work with a diverse, membership-driven network and its allies.
  • Excellent command of English language, both oral and written; demonstrated ability to write for movements as well as programme reports and project proposals.
  • Good interpersonal skills, with the ability to network in a multicultural environment and to develop strong professional relationships with members and other stakeholders.
  • Proficient computer skills – familiarity in using online shared platforms such as Google Suite. 
  • Must be able to travel overseas as required.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

Key tasks of the programme association include:

  • Assisting and work closely with Programme Officers to implement, monitor and evaluate programme activities (includes training, documentation, research, consultations, campaigns, advocacy) according to programme’s annual work plan and overall strategic plan; 
  • Providing support to programme organising committee members and partners in engaging with the  programmes that includes maintaining regular and secure communication among network members or partners (including email, video calls, telephone calls, etc.);
  • Providing support to coordinate the participation of members and partners attending programme activities (including logistical, visa, airline booking, finance support during meetings); as well as supporting the coordination with members and partners to strengthen advocacy opportunities in regional and international policy spaces;
  • Providing administrative and planning support to the Programme Officers including network coordination relevant to its work in engaging international and regional human rights, climate and development mechanisms/processes; 
  • Providing support in ensuring the thorough and substantive documentation of the programmes’ major activities and ensure that summary evaluation feeds into programme  reports;
  • Providing support in facilitating the publication of key knowledge tools and resources that may be led by the programmes or outcomes from cross-programme collaboration;
  • Assisting the Programme Officers in writing programme narrative and financial reports for members and donors.

Remuneration & Compensation

Salary range commences at USD 1,200 per month. Other benefits include monthly work from home allowance (130 USD), health allowance and insurance; contributions to social security and to the employee provident fund; and 13th month salary. This is a full-time position with a two-year (renewable) contract; and a probationary period of four months applies. Staff will be based and work from her home country. 

How to apply?

Interested applicants should submit the following:

Duly completed online Application Form here

Application form would require the following documents to be attached : 

  • Resume
  • Cover letter addressing the selection criteria
  • Reference letter from at least two professional referees attesting to the previous work experience of the applicant 
  • A sample of written work that demonstrates the applicant’s knowledge and analytical skills particularly in the area of Crises (e.g. debt crisis), Climate Justice,  women’s human rights and/or development policies at the country, sub-regional and regional levels (e.g. an article, research and project/programme report, programme plan, statements)

Please note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted.

If you have any questions please contact us at recruitment@apwld.org 

For more information visit  www.apwld.org 

Deadline to apply: 24 October 2025 

 

 

 

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

Only Five Years Left: Development Justice at the core of a truly transformative and accountable Sustainable Development Goals

Sub-grant for the Alumni of the National Monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals and Development Justice
SDG Monitoring 2026-2027

The Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) is inviting alumni of the SDG Monitoring Programme to apply for the 2026-2027 SDG Monitoring sub-grant.  

Ten years into implementation, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have demonstrated repeated failures to enforce state accountability. The multiple crises are deepening with increasing debt burdens on the global south, austerity measures, increasing poverty and widening inequality. Extractivism and degradation of the environment and women’s human rights have worsened, with wars and conflict escalating accompanied with trade wars across the world, and a worsening climate crisis. Amidst this, the United Nations is also facing tremendous backlash in an era of broken multilateralism and intense geopolitics. 

With only five years left to assess the progress of the goals, it is critical to raise and amplify concerns on systemic failures and barriers impeding a truly transformative and genuine sustainable development. APWLD believes that without addressing the structural impediments to the 2030 Agenda – such as extractive-based neoliberal capitalism, unjust financial, trade and investment agreements, land and resource threats, militarism, patriarchy and fundamentalism, as well as patriarchal authoritarian governance – the transformative vision of the SDGs will never be achieved.

For 2026-2027, APWLD will support 8 organisations from its previous SDG monitoring partners (alumni) to continue the monitoring the SDGs implementation using a Feminist Development Justice framework by identifying data gaps, enhancing the advocacy and campaign work from national to regional, and organising work at the local level. The partners are expected to work either on specific goals they continue to monitor and on cross-cutting issues among the 17 SDGs, as well as issues under the Financing for Development such as debt, tax, private finance, trade and systemic issues. 

Each selected partner alumni will receive USD 15,000 for 12 months to (1) update their Peoples’ Development Justice Reports by identifying and addressing the data gaps and produce popular materials and/or graphics translated into local languages (2) enhance advocacy and lobby work with their governments’ commitments and implementation of the SDG targets using Development Justice as a framework and (3) contribute to strengthening organising, mobilising and campaigning at the national level. 

Application deadline: 15 November 2025

Apply here: Application Form

Please send completed forms on or before  15 November 2025 to April Porteria (april@apwld.org) and Kalpana Rai (kalpana@apwld.org). 

Please use the subject line: APWLD Application – FDJ ALUMNI SUBGRANT 2026-2027_name of your organisation.

For more full details of objectives, activities and selection criteria please see the full Concept Note.