Research and Fund Raising Intern Vacancy at WomenPowerConnect in Cambodia

Post:                              Research and Fund Raising Intern
Organisation:              WomenPowerConnect
Location:                      Cambodia.
Salary:                           Attractive.
 
WomenPowerConnect (WPC) is a national level organization of women’s groups and individuals working together for formalizing the process of legislative coordination. WPC was born out of the realization that despite substantial grassroots efforts, women’s organizations and groups in India lacked the co-ordination necessary to translate those efforts into legislative and policy outcomes necessary for true progress. Our activities are aimed at advocating with legislators and policy makers to frame gender-friendly policies, which impact women positively.

At present WPC works closely as CARE’s Strategic Advocacy Partner under the Enhancing Mobile Populations Access to HIV/AIDS Services Information & Support (EMPHASIS) project. We support the project with advocacy strategies by providing policy briefings, evidence based advocacy with key stakeholders, developing methods for assessment of advocacy & alliance building efforts at source and destinations, networking, aiding collaborations, providing communication resources. We also have been working with Oxfam India with the aim to address the deep‐rooted problem of women being denied equal land rights in India, due to the largely patriarchal and patrilinear structure of the Indian society. With the support of OXFAM India, WPC is currently implementing a project ‐ ‘Ensuring women’s access to and control over land’. Further with support from Ford Foundation, we work on the issue of Child Marriage particularly in the States of Jharkhand, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh. The project seeks to generate positive actions in communities that would trigger significant reduction in the incidences of child marriage, and enable district and community-monitoring mechanisms at various levels to sustain these actions.

Key Tasks: Supporting research in on-going Projects
Strengthening WPC network base across the country
 Develop and implement fundraising strategies
 Other relevant tasks as assigned by the head of the organization

Skills and Qualification: Communications, journalism or social science related degree
An interest in addressing women’s issues at policy level is a must
Ability to work independently and as a member of the team
Ability to communicate clearly and effectively
Fluency in spoken and written English
Computer literacy is pre-requisite
Closing date: 15 Oct 2013
How to apply:
Please mail your application to mail@womenpowerconnect.org and network.wpc@gmail.com
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