Program Officer

Backgrounds:
The "International Executive Master in Development Studies" (IMAS) is a Joint program between AITVN (Asian Institute of Technology in Vietnam) and IHEID (Geneva-based Institut de Hautes études Internationales et du Développement, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies). The IMAS has been designed to respond to the training needs and demands of development professionals from Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Switzerland and other European countries. Students of IMAS come from diverse organisations such as: governmental organizations, local and international NGOs, cooperation and development agencies, centres for training and applied research, and private institutions. The aim of the IMAS is to bring together theoretical knowledge of major development challenges, with the practical experience of the participants, around a core theme: “Development and globalisation, between growth and exclusion”. In addition to theoretical knowledge, this IMAS also offers participants the chance to acquire tools that enable them to properly comprehend the global context: in other words, cross-cutting competencies whose academic dimension is increasingly indispensable to any professional training. Through its diversity of teaching methods, the IMAS provides a dual analysis of the relationship and links between globalisation and development. Students of IMAS will study in Hanoi and Geneva.
 
The IMAS Program is currently looking for a Program Officer.
 
Job title:           IMAS Program Officer
 
Job description:
- Assisting the IMAS team to plan and prepare promoting activities including networking, mailing, contacts with media, donors, coordination of brochure printing, building and updating databases of students, applicants, host institutions, development organizations and projects in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar etc.
- Organizing the administration of the IMAS program including housing, per diem, transportation, field visits, printing of documents, etc.
- Managing the IMAS accounting and budget control.
- Participating to other promotion and research activities related to the IMAS program and the IHEID-AITVN partnership.

 Location:         Hanoi
 
Skills and experiences required:
- Knowledge of AIT, AITVN and IHEID, Laws/Regulations in Vietnam and donors.
- Logistic and organization skills.
- Public relations skills, knowledge of working with the media.
- Good interpersonal, communication skills
- Good English capabilities.
- Bachelor degree or higher and several years of experience in international office environment.
- Basic skills of accounting.

Salary: competitive
 Job type/status: permanent - full time
 
Interested and qualified applicants are encouraged to apply by sending application letter and CV by/before  1 September 2009, to:
 
Dr. Nguyen Huong Thuy Phan
IMAS Coordinator
Asian Institute of Technology in Vietnam (AITVN)
B3 Building, University of Transport and Communications
Lang Thuong, Dong Da,
Hanoi, Vietnam
Tel: +84-(0) 913027979
Fax: +84-(4) 37669492
Email: [email protected]
 
 Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interview.