Total 2 construction manager job vacancies in Malaysia

The Programme Manager is responsible for the design, coordination, execution and delivery in grant making in Asia, as well as contribute towards supporting the management of the programme and monitoring outcomes under the Purposeful Business Challenge. The PM is responsible for developing and managing strategic partnerships, as well as forging networks in Asia. The PM works closely with the Porticus Asia Regional Director, the Challenge Lead, and the Porticus Asia team as well as colleagues in other offices. Regional and international travel will be required for this position (up to 30% of the working time).

The systemic change objective of the Purposeful Business Programme is to creating a rewarding environment that de-risks and enables ambition and innovation for leaders, while building an accountability system that compels laggards to act. We partner with those developing the methods to assess the impact that companies have on people and planet. We incentivise businesses to contribute to the solution. We work with civic actors, financiers, and key regulators to hold businesses accountable to their commitments. By promoting ethical, values-driven finance – investment for profit and for purpose – we can channel more funds into solving the most pressing planetary and social issues of the century.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Exploration

• Coordinate with the Challenge Lead in identifying opportunities for strategy-aligned partnerships under the programme, coordinate with the Porticus Asia Regional Director to manage regional exploration partnerships in Asia and where possible contribute to aligned sectors with clear attention to the learning cycle within which these ideas are developing.

Programmatic Contextualisation

• In collaboration with corresponding CL and Porticus Asia Regional Director, enables sense making when it comes to South east Asia specific decisions related to the Purposeful Business Challenge.

• Works towards building grant ideas that are regionally contextual, but globally relevant and cohesive to the Purposeful Business Challenge

• Works with global partners (many from the USA and EU) to ensure they are able to engage effectively in the SE Asia region, also building local partnerships.

• Participates in external platforms and events representing the regional presence of the Purposeful Business Challenge.

• Develops regional and Challenge related knowledge and participates in related expert networks.

• Continuously analyses opportunities, momentum, trends (particularly regulatory / policy)related to the Purposeful Business Challenge. .

Programme Design and implementation

• Develops grants that aim for systemic and lasting changes in alignment with the Purposeful Business Challenge strategy and leads the implementation of this strategy in the SE Asia region, including but not limited to:

- Applying meaningful participation approaches to the extent possible Grant making, from co-developing applications with prospective partners, to accompanying the implementing, monitoring progress against objectives and ensuring successful closure.

- Convening programme partners and other key stakeholders, particularly to build the field and enable shared learnings amongst partners and cohesion.

- Applying Gender and Inclusion lenses to grant development and management.

• Ensures cohesiveness between local partnerships in SE Asia and global partners within the Purposeful Business Challenge – help to drive global solutions locally, while ensuring local voices and solutions are brought to the global stage.

Storytelling

• Represents the SE Asia Purposeful Business programme internally and externally (e.g. at other funder events, on panels etc).

• Engages in relevant fora and champions the work of partners.

• Prepares communication material in collaboration with communication colleagues.

Building & Maintaining Relationships

• Builds and manages a trust-based external network of implementing partners and grantees, vets and conducts due-diligence on potential grantees.

• Manages partnerships and engages in dialogue on emerging and critical issues with diverse network in the SE Asia region.

• Understands the role and value of local SE Asian partners as contributing to the overall strategic intent of the Purposeful Business strategy.

• Contributes to annual reflection cycles, including to annual operational planning with input, discussion and managing the integration of learning objectives..

• Significant non-financial contribution to partners, such as capacity building on fundraising and identifying co-funders.

Porticus is seeking a Programme Manager to support and monitor the development and management of strategic programmes within the Strengthening our Societies Sector (SoS) in Asia. The PM is responsible for developing and managing strategic partnerships, as well as forging networks. Specific priority will lie under the People on the Move (PoTM) Challenge. The PM works closely with the Porticus Asia Regional Director, the Challenge Lead of PoTM, and the Porticus Asia team as well as colleagues in other offices. Regional and international travel will be required for this position (up to 30% of the working time).

Our People on the Move work focuses on Thailand and Malaysia as major destination countries for refugees, asylum seekers and migrants. Grant making under the People on the MOVE Challenge is delivered in the region through three global programmes: MOVE, Ignite and Immigration Detention.

The MOVE programme focuses primarily on collaborating with people with lived experience of migration as leaders and change-makers.

The Immigration Detention programme supports partners to reduce the use of arbitrary and inhumane detention through strategic promotion of alternatives.

The Igniting Workers Rights programme aims to ensure that migrant workers in a select number of regions have their labour and human rights respected, protected, and fulfilled, live in dignity and to their full potential.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work closely with other regional Programme Managers in the Asia region and in the People on the Move teams as well as in coordination with the Challenge Lead to implement cross regional programmes, promote innovative and equitable grant-making practices and encourage learning.
• Coordinate with the Challenge Lead in identifying opportunities for strategy-aligned projects and programmes, coordinate with the Porticus Asia Regional Director to manage regional exploration grants in Asia and where possible contribute to aligned sectors with clear attention to the learning cycle within which these ideas are developing.
• Contribute to interregional engagement and collaboration by actively supporting Porticus as a learning organisation, by sharing knowledge, experiences across the matrix and sectors.
• In collaboration with the Porticus Asia Regional Director and the Challenge Lead, enable sense making when it comes to strategic decisions related to a challenge, programme challenge-related work or the sector. · Internally and externally represent the region, demonstrating knowledge of the region and context within which we work and identify possibilities for sectoral/cross thematic work, in shaping discourse within the ecosystem.
• Continuously analyse and monitor developments in the field to identify emerging trends, needs, gaps and opportunities in the region and/or challenge related topics.
• Support the management and implementation of the MOVE, Ignite and Immigration Detention Programmes in Asia, in collaboration and consultation with equivalent post holders in other regions and with the Challenge Lead.
• Identify and develop partnerships that aim for systemic and lasting changes in alignment with challenge and programmes strategies and lead the implementation of these programmes, including but not limited to:
•  Applying meaningful participation approach to the extent possible in all stages of the programme grant making from co-developing applications with partners to accompanying the implementing and closing.
• Support in convening programme partners and other key stakeholders.
• Support in applying sophisticated safeguarding and inclusion lenses to programme development and management.
• Contribute to increased evidence and learning about current practices in raising the quality and effectiveness of our work by supporting programmatic research and analysis, programmatic evaluations and share results and learnings internally and externally. · Identify opportunities for innovative, data driven, contextualised programmatic strategies that contribute to field building, (pushing the thematic discourse further), nurturing networks (outside of grants, with funders, thought leaders, practitioners and other system stakeholders), creating platforms and drawing in lessons and learnings (beyond reporting).
• Contribute to the knowledge base of Porticus by regularly sharing insights and knowledge coming out of the programmatic work internally and externally.
• Develop, strengthen and maintain strategic partnerships, in close cooperation with the Porticus Asia Regional Director and Challenge Lead.
• Build and manage trust-based strategic partnerships and engage in strategic dialogue on emerging and critical issues with diverse networks in Asia and globally.
• Understands the role and value of partners as contributing to the overall strategic intent.
• As part of the Challenge team, contribute to regular meetings, the organisation’s annual reflection learning cycles with input, discussion and apply learning for course-correction and future programming.
• Contribute and integrate non-financial contribution to partners such as capacity building on fundraising and identifying co-funders in grant management.