Career Opportunity!

Background

Pacific Women Lead (PWL) is an ambitious five-year (2021-2026) regional gender equality program funded by the Australian Government and implemented in the Pacific by the Pacific Community (SPC). The PWL program takes a Pacific led approach and their goal is that “Pacific women and girls, in all their diversity, to be safe and equitably share in resources, opportunities and decision-making with men and boys.” Pacific women lead the program, define the problems, identify solutions, and drive strategy through a Governance Board of eminent Pacific women and men with strong and diverse membership from across the region.

Within the PWL program, our project titled “Barriers to Female Leadership for Staff at Selected Pacific Island Universities, with an emphasis on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)” sits within a diverse cultural setting. A consortium of nine partner organisations, led by The University of the South Pacific, are collaborating on this research project via a core team of eight senior researchers from a range of disciplines and locations in Oceania. These researchers are co-investigators for research activities in the South Pacific region with a principle focus on selected Universities (USP, SINU, FNU and NUS) in Fiji, Samoa and the Solomon Islands.

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS:

Reporting: The consultant shall report and remain under the supervision of the SINU Pro-Vice-Chancellor Academic or as directed.
Duty Station: Solomon Island National University (Honiara campus).
Mode: In-Person
Duration: 10 months

Minimum Qualification and Experience Requirements:
To be considered for this position, interested applicants should possess a Postgraduate degree in any STEM discipline or social sciences equivalent and meet the following criteria:

• Demonstrated project-tracking and workplan capability and ability to review/change/adapt the road map if required.
• Evidence of strong people skills positively engaging/ collaborating with diverse stakeholders with differing views and avoiding/resolving conflicts.
• Sound understanding of research implementation in a developing country context, including ethics, risk, monitoring and evaluation, policy and finance in a university or similar organizational environment.
• High level of writing and presentation skills, with demonstrative ability for managing production of report outputs.
• Willingness and ability to commit to the project on a part-time basis until the end of December 2025.
• Must be a citizen of Solomon Islands and legally able to undertake face to face work in the Solomon Islands.

The following criteria would also be an advantage.
Experience in data collection and analysis of surveys and interview data using Pacific based approaches, online questionnaires and toolkits such as Kobo or Monkey survey
A sound working knowledge of the national and regional gender equity and social inclusion policies and/or experience working in collaboration with relevant Samoa government ministries.
Experience in working with SINU and/or Higher Education or in STEM disciplines.
An understanding of the Pacific Island University Regional Network (PIURN) objectives.

APPLICATION SUBMISSION: Those interested in the role should send a brief expression of interest and workplan by cover letter, a concise statement of their experience against the above criteria, plus a copy of their CV, and certificated certificates to the Director HR via email: Director.HR@sinu.edu.sb. Closing date for the documentation will be the 14th of March 2025. For queries related to this EOI please contact Dr Eric Katovai email: Eric.Katovai@sinu.edu.sb For any wider project related queries, please contact Dr Gilianne Brodie via email giliannedbrodie@gmail.com.