What is it like to work for us in East Asia?
Where we work in this region
What is great about East Asia
East Asia is rich in history and culture. The region offers a range of career opportunities that provide you with in-depth knowledge and understanding of East Asian societies in terms of their socio-economic, cultural and historical heritage. The diverse cultural background gives you an appreciation of friendliness, courtesy, and a supportive environment where everyone genuinely believes in a vision to shape a better world.
Why should someone come to work in your region? What are the best bits?
The flourishing economy in the East Asia coincides with rising economic inequality, corruption, continued discrimination and social exclusion, and high levels of vulnerability to economic shocks, and natural and conflict related disasters. It takes dedicatation and passion to bring relevant and sustained results. We need allies in our quest to protect the poor and alleviate suffering.
If you have a longing to help bring dignity to lives of people and earnestness to add value to work that addresses challenges plaguing nations, the opportunity for self-fulfilment is in East Asia. Help make poverty history. Join us.
What are the key areas of focus for your regional programmes? What are people likely to get involved in?
Oxfam GB East Asia focuses on building strong civil society in Cambodia. It supports government programmes on education, hunger eradication, proverty reduction in Viet Nam.
Oxfam GB actively builds alliances with partners for programmes on livelihoods, gender and diversity, Fair Trade, education, humanitarian work and advocacy in Indonesia and continues to work with poor communities in the Philippines to enable them access to and control of their assets.
Work in Thailand through local partner organisations on a range of issues including HIV/AIDS, agriculture, labour rights and Fair Trade continues.
