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Careers / MEL Associate

ILGA Asia is seeking a dedicated Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Associate to join its remote team and support efforts to strengthen data systems, ensure quality reporting, and promote learning across LGBTIQ programs in Asia. This six-month, full-time position offers a monthly salary of 40,000 THB and is open to candidates with at least two years of MEL experience, strong data management and coordination skills, and a commitment to rights-based approaches. Fluency in English and one Asian language is required. The successful candidate will work closely with internal teams and external partners to support evaluations, reporting, knowledge sharing, and donor compliance. Applications are due by 16 May 2025.

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Thank you for your interest in joining our team! While we currently don’t have any job openings, we are always excited to explore potential opportunities for collaboration. If you’re passionate about LGBTIQ+ rights and think we could work together, please feel free to reach out to us at [email protected].

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Thank you for your interest in joining our team! While we currently don’t have any job openings, we are always excited to explore potential opportunities for collaboration. If you’re passionate about LGBTIQ+ rights and think we could work together, please feel free to reach out to us at [email protected].

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Shambawi Paudel

(she/they)
Research Associate
Shambhawi Paudel is a feminist advocate with a research interest in critiquing intersectional application of human rights standards. She completed her LLM in Human Rights Law specializing in International Justice.She is involved in policy research and has written and published on a range of issues, including gender, queer rights, education policy, and digital rights and privacy concerns. She believes it is important to have long conversations about navigating oppressive social power relations rooted in care and community. She enjoys reading and crocheting in her free time.

Omair Paul

(he/him)
Research and global advocacy program manager

Omair Paul is the Program Manager at ILGA Asia. He joins the team with almost a decade of UN advocacy experience, previously serving as the UN Representative for Muslims for Progressive Values (MPV) since 2014. He led the organisation’s UN advocacy strategy and campaigns, represented MPV in various high-level UN meetings & processes, and forged working relationships with diplomats, UN agencies, and civil society organisations (CSOs) and networks.

He focuses on countering fundamentalist religious ideologies and protecting the rights to free expression, freedom of religion and belief, and the economic and social rights of women, girls, and ethnic, religious, and SOGIESC minorities in Muslim societies.

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