Malaysia Refugee Com Dev 010725

Title
Refugee Community Developer
Fully Funded | Partially Funded

Quick Info
Location: Malaysia
Term: 4 years, renewable
Start Date: 2025


Team Vision
We exist in SE Asia to bring eternal hope to refugees, with the goal of helping them become physically, emotionally, and spiritually thriving communities. We do this through prioritising long-term relationships, local partnerships, holistic development programs, and discipleship, all supported by a foundation of prayer.


Description
Refugees in Malaysia struggle with many barriers to life. They cannot legally work or access affordable health care, and their children face many educational and societal challenges. Our team aims to reach into communities where we have developed significant trust and to walk alongside our refugee friends to offer them support, tangible resources, mentoring and discipleship.


Responsibilities

• A successful applicant will develop and implement carefully chosen humanitarian programs meeting real needs and building our capacity as an NGO in partnership with others for lasting impact. Examples of this work include:
  
  • interviewing new arrivals and emergency cases and submitting their registration requests to the UNHCR
  • working with a translator to develop materials in trauma awareness and healing, parenting and life skills
    
  • becoming familiar with the NGO refugee clinic and interacting with the local hospitals to help support emergency medical needs of our refugee friends
    
  • advocacy works such as detention reports, unaccompanied minor children and gender-based violence case support of individuals involved. This might include interacting with safe houses
    
  • emergency support in times of crisis (accidents, fires, floods, food shortages etc.)
    
    
• Meeting regularly with our refugee friends to share friendship, sowing and nurturing seeds of the Gospel through discipleship. Examples of this work include:
  
  • Preparing, translating bible stories
    
  • working with a wide variety of bible-based resources applicable to the context
    
  • focus through visiting, learning language, sharing lives and faith
    
  • life based mentoring and friendship

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
  
• Training/experience in trauma counselling, humanitarian development
  
• Cross cultural experience
  
• Experience working within a humanitarian context or NGO
  
• Experience discipling/witnessing
  
• Flexibility with time/expectations
  
• Strengths as a team player and self-starter- capable to work independently, take initiative and move practical parts of the work forward alongside other partners, nationals and refugees.

Preferred Qualifications

• Theological/missional degree or Certificate
  
• Training and experience in Community Development
  
• A minimum Modern Language Aptitude Test (MLAT) score of 50

Preferred Experience

• Active service in building strong friendships and support systems with marginalized
  
• Social service and experience working with refugees or trauma affected individuals

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