The volunteer will be working within this project team but with considerable time spent with farmers.  Many farmers are used to being smallholders and there will be a need for much discussion and consultation around alternative ways of working, for example cluster farms.

This role requires a person with strong technical skills and experience, but who also has considerable extension work experience with small producers and the ability to work successfully with small farmers and communities.  The role needs someone with:

• Demonstrated experience in extension work/experience working with smallholder farmer groups, rural livelihoods and/or rural development
• Experience working in a project team or project management experience
• Substantial proven experience in working with cluster farms/commercial farms on legumes and grains
• Applied  skills and knowledge for soil preparation, seed production, planting, harvesting, post harvesting handling and storage of these crops
• Applied knowledge of good farm management practices
• Applied knowledge of organic farming
• Applied knowledge and understanding of tropical crops
• Demonstrated success in consulting with stakeholders and facilitating the work of others to achieve an agreed outcome
• Demonstrated success in building the skills of others through formal and/or informal training and coaching

Personal qualities will need to include the ability to live and work in a remote area.

Full details and how to apply are in the Position Description - click above.

Further, it is to develop networking and collaboration among Government organizations, NGOs, Community organizations and Disabled Persons Organizations in order to promote barrier-free society and empowerment of PWDs in Asia-Pacific.

A volunteer is required to assist with the development of a training manual. This would allow the local staff to develop their understanding and application of disability & development issues such as Inclusive Community Development, Empowerment of persons with disabilities and facilitation skills.

The suitable applicant will hold relevant qualifications and have extensive experience and demonstrated success in developing and documenting training programs. This training experience will need to be in a community development context.

The role will require patience, resilience and an understanding of the disability sector.

The role will need a qualified accountant or financier, who has developed financial systems and policies and preferably with microfinance understanding.

The role is in Lautoka with some travel to field offices in other towns in Fiji.

Kalyanamitra is now seeking the assistance of a Media and Communications Advisor - someone with experience in media strategy. This will involve understanding the needs of the media in Indonesia and developing Kalyanamitara's website, and generally increasing Kalyanamitara's presence in the local, national and international media.

You'll get the opportunity to help implement a media and communications strategy, draft media releases, build the website, and develop proposals and engage the media and network.

To be considered for this role you will have:

• A degree in Communications or relevant field
• Experience in media development
• Experience in website and multimedia updating and design
• Networking skills

Sanglah Hospital, the largest of the 33 hospitals on Bali, is a 738-bed government-owned enterprise that serves as a referral hospital for the provinces of Bali, Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) and Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTB).

The hospital offers an extensive range of specialist services, including cardiology, intensive care, burns and trauma, and a busy accident and emergency service, as well as more routine obstetrics and gynaecology, surgery, medicine, paediatrics and diagnostic services.

As a result of the Bali bombing in 2002, AusAID has implemented a major project to build a new burns unit and train staff in improved patient care and use of new technology.

As part of their determination to deliver improved clinical services and practices across the hospital, they now require a suitably experienced person to oversee infection control practice within the hospital. This will involve work collaboratively with local counterpart to reinforce best practice, develop new and improve existing policies, protocols and procedures.

The suitable applicant will hold appropriate infection control qualifications, have wide ranging clinical exposure and be a confident trainer and mentor.

Susu Mamas was formed over 30 years ago to provide maternal and child health care to the women of PNG.

The maternal mortality and morbidity rate in Papua New Guinea is the second highest in the Asia Pacific region. This is due to many women not receiving optimal care, especially in rural areas.

In 2009 Susu Mamas received funding to expand services to the Morobe and the Western Highlands Provinces. These areas were selected due to the burden of HIV, maternal and infant mortality. Since then, it has become apparent that the new Provincial Team Leaders require support to establish and manage these services. The emphasis has been on supporting female Team Leaders to manage provincial teams. 

A volunteer is now required to work alongside these women and to support the Team Leaders in managing and implementing appropriate changes to clinical services.

To be successful in this role, you will be a midwife or nurse with solid community health experience. You will have a background managing teams and providing clinical supervision.

Central to this assignment is the ability to cope with cultural isolation and a different standard of living, along with a preparedness to work with limited resources.

Based in Luganville (referred to as "Santo" by people from Vanuatu's northern islands) the Churches Of Christ Conference In Vanuatu (CCCV) has successfully been part of the Vanuatu Church Partnerships Project (VCPP) for a two year period.  The main aim of the project is to implement and manage internationally funded AID projects.  The VCPP now seeks a suitably experienced Technical Adviser to provide technical advice as well as capacity building for staff connected to aid projects.

The successful candidate will have the following:
• Previous experience advising on project design and implementation
• High level organisational skills including experience in implementing new administrative, financial and information management systems
• Experience writing and submitting proposals
• Experience coaching and mentoring others

An understanding and awareness of the Churches of Christ would be helpful.

Thien Chi is requesting a volunteer to work with a local staff member to improve the organisation's ability to raise funds and meet donor's reporting expectations.  The volunteer will apply experience with donor bodies and knowledge of best practice in all aspects of the funding process.  Thien Chi also hopes to improve related capacity in public relations.

The successful candidate will have formal qualifications and experience successfully winning funding proposals.  Strong written skills, including report writing, are necessary, as is the ability to communicate in a locally-appropriate manner.  The volunteer will need to be an excellent communicator in order to pass on valuable skills while working closely with a counterpart.

The organisation was formed initially in mid-2010 by a group of concerned mental health workers to initially improve training and educational opportunities but has since expanded to include much broader membership.

This is the first AVI position with FAMH. Mental Health in Fiji is still associated with a lot of stigma particularly due to cultural beliefs. As a relatively new organisation, it is important to FAMH to have someone to be able to assist in the daily activities and long-term planning of the organization. Due to lack of funding available it would be difficult to fill this position locally.

The organisation is however run by dedicated elected office bearers (President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer) and committee members. They are overseen by four elected Trustees.  They now seek to appoint an Organisational Development Adviser to work alongside the executive committee to support them in the organisation’s strategic development.

To be considered for this position, you will require:

• Degree in Community Development, Health Promotion, Allied Health or international relations, or equivalent experience
• Experience in project planning, project design and project management, preferably in NGO/Health/Community Service Management sectors.
• Experience working for the empowerment of people with diverse capacity and abilities, preferably in the field of mental health
• Successful results in organisational development and meaningful partnerships

Personal attributes must include the ability to cope with cultural isolation, a willingness to learn the local language and a good understanding and appreciation of the Pacific lifestyle.

This programme is aimed at making the criminal justice process, and therefore also the police, more victim-friendly, accessible, sensitive and service-oriented, and developing programs to help minimise the negative effects of crime on its victims. Empowerment implies a greater role for victims in the criminal justice process, and their becoming resistant to repeat victimisation.

The centre is now seeking a dedicated Community projects & fundraising officer to assist in setting up the victim support centre administrative systems and training of volunteers. The successful candidate will also assist with the setting up of community development projects in order to expand the work of the victim support centre.

To be considered for this position, you will require:

• Relevant tertiary qualifications such as social work or community development or equivalent experience.
• Successful results in fundraising  and proposal writing
• Successful results or applied knowledge in establishing income generating projects
• Demonstrated success in building the skills of others through formal and/or informal training and coaching
• Demonstrated success in consulting with stakeholders and facilitating the work of others to achieve an agreed outcome, preferably within a community development environment
• Applied project management skills, within the community development environment

Personal attributes must include the ability to cope with cultural isolation, a willingness to learn the local language and a good understanding and appreciation of the African lifestyle.

Hatobuilico is recognised nationally as being an area of particular need; isolation, extreme climate, environmental degradation and poverty leading to lack of food and malnutrition on the one hand and the potential of tourism on the other as a possible income stream. Resources and mentoring are needed to get programs started in the area.

A suitably skilled and experienced volunteer is now required to identify community needs, Support and develop practical and achievable programs, so that they can provide an improved level of services to their community. The volunteer will be required to mentor local staff in a recently established adult learning centre.
 
To be considered for this position you will require;

• A Bachelors Degree in Community Development or Social Science or Management sector discipline.
• Demonstrated success in building the skills of others through formal and/or informal training and coaching
• Demonstrated success in consulting with stakeholders and facilitating the work of others to achieve an agreed outcome
• Substantial experience and well versed in organisational strengthening strategies and methodologies, preferably in an NGO capacity.
• Project design, implementation and evaluation skills and experience relevant to an isolated, rural community

This assignment will be based in an isolated environment so the volunteer will need to be able to demonstrate an understanding and acceptance of the challenges and rewards of such a lifestyle.

KARINAKAS is an organisation which was founded in 2006 after a major earthquake in Jogjakarta. The Bishop of Semarang Archdiocese requested that KARINAKAS should help those affected by the quake to empower themselves.

The main work of the organisation includes; Disaster Risk Reduction, Community base Rehabilitation for people living with a disability and Community Development Initiatives. KARINAKAS now seeks to appoint an experienced fundraising professional to develop a fundraising strategy and increase capacity to identify opportunities, through the development of funding proposals.

To be considered for this position, you will require:

• BA Degree in Economics, Public Relations, Social Sciences or extensive practical experience coupled with relevant qualifications in a similar field
• Demonstrated success in building the skills of others through formal and/or informal training and coaching
• Demonstrated success in consulting with stakeholders and facilitating the work of others to achieve an agreed outcome
• Experience in developing and implementing strategic fundraising strategies.
• The ability to communicate and (network) socialise effectively across a diverse range of stakeholders with confidence

Personal attributes must include the ability to cope with cultural isolation, a willingness to learn the local language and a good understanding and appreciation of the Indonesian lifestyle.

The presence of international volunteer is also expected to assist the IAC in exploring information resources originating from overseas and needed for the IAC to perform its work. It is anticipated that the successful candidate will also assist the IAC in establishing networks with international organisations that could become partners of IAC and identify international support to strengthen their work.

This assignment aligns with the country strategy for improving health outcomes – To increase the awareness and understanding of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases and to develop training and income generating opportunities to empower People Living with HIV/AIDS.

To be considered for this role, you will require;

• BA/MA in Human Resource Management or Business Management or relevant qualifications in a similar field
• Demonstrated success in building the skills of others through formal and/or informal training and coaching
• Successful results in advising and supporting implementation of Organisational Development initiatives, strategic/operational planning and project management practices, particularly within NGO environments
• Experience working with HIVAIDS or working with communities vulnerable to HIV/AIDS

Personal attributes must include the ability to cope with cultural isolation, a willingness to learn the local language and a good understanding and appreciation of the Indonesian lifestyle.

• Biomedical training opportunity

Sanglah Hospital, the largest of the 33 hospitals on Bali, is a 738-bed government-owned enterprise that serves as a referral hospital for the local provinces. The hospital offers an extensive range of specialist services including cardiology, intensive care, burns and trauma and a busy accident and emergency service, as well as more routine obstetrics and gynaecology, surgery, medicine, paediatrics and diagnostic services.

As part of the hospital's capacity building program, there now exists a need to further develop the technical skills of the medical equipment maintenance staff.

This provides an opportunity for a suitably qualified person to share their relevant skills and experience. The duties will involve developing Standard Policies, Practices and Procedures for medical equipment maintenance and training and mentoring staff in these areas.

Relevant qualifications with proven recent experience in medical equipment maintenance will be required. Experience developing and implementing staff training and demonstrated management acumen will be well regarded.

• Emergency Department focussed education role

Sanglah Hospital, the largest of the 33 hospitals on Bali, is a 738-bed government-owned enterprise that serves as a referral hospital for the surrounding provinces. The hospital offers an extensive range of specialist services, including cardiology, intensive care, burns and trauma, and a busy accident and emergency service, as well as more routine obstetrics and gynaecology, surgery, medicine, paediatrics and diagnostic services.

They currently require a suitably experienced person to join their team.

Duties will include supporting the development of a structured and planned in-service and professional development program for all the nurses in the Emergency Division of the hospital. Further to this will be a need to provide guidance and leadership in the development & implementation of a competency assessment program for the nurses.

Interested applicants should have experience developing Nurse Education Programs, working with multiple stakeholders and strong communication skills. You will also be willing and able to work in new and challenging environments where resources are not readily available.