Regional Adviser-Asia

Location: Regional Asia
Department: Network Development
Reports to (Line Manager): Head of Network Development
Indirectly responsible for: Network Members across the region
Grade: UK Salary Grade E or its equivalent based on location
Contract Type: Open-ended contract

Note: The candidate should have the right to work and live in any of the Asian countries.

About HelpAge
HelpAge International works with a diverse global network of around 200 organisations across 99 countries to promote the rights of older people to lead dignified, healthy and secure lives.
Through partnership and collaborations, we work to ensure the inclusion of older people across society and strive to deliver a just and fair world for everyone as they get older. Our work is driven by our desire to achieve real impact for older people, to be inclusive, to work in partnership and to learn from our shared experience.

About the Job
The Regional Adviser plays a strategic leadership role in strengthening and coordinating HelpAge’s network across the region. The role supports and drives collaboration with network members (acting as the primary relationship manager for members), enhances regional advocacy and influencing efforts, builds member capacity, and ensures regional perspectives and realities shape HelpAge’s global agenda.

Key areas for impact/influence and responsibilities

Network Member Engagement and Support
• Serve as the main point of contact for network members in the region, fostering strong relationships, promoting coordination, and ensuring clear understanding and alignment with the HelpAge Global Network’s approach, values, and strategic priorities.
• Support members in national advocacy and campaign efforts, embedding older people’s voices, rights, and anti-ageism messaging.
• Develop and deliver tailored regional capacity-strengthening plans in collaboration with HelpAge technical colleagues.
• Promote peer-to-peer learning and support the institutional strengthening of member organisations.
• Support the identification and cultivation of relationships with potential network members and their subsequent onboarding to enhance the reach, diversity, and influence of the HelpAge Global Network.
Advocacy, Movement Support, and Stakeholder Engagement
• Facilitate the co-creation of member-led collective advocacy priorities at national, regional, and global levels, and represent HelpAge as needed to support these efforts.
• Identify opportunities for joint campaigns and advocacy initiatives based on shared objectives.
• Convene regular meetings, forums, and learning events to build solidarity and collective action across the region.
• Cultivate strong relationships with key regional stakeholders to support member visibility and impact.
• Disseminate advocacy and campaigning tools, guidance, and capacity building support to strengthen effective advocacy and campaigning interventions.
• Contribute to building and maintaining relationships with the donor community, and, where opportunities arise, help influence their strategies in close collaboration with fundraising and advocacy teams.

Network Communications and Coordination
• In collaboration with the Communications team, oversee regional communication channels and platforms to share updates, showcase member achievements, and foster collaboration.
• Foster regular dialogue across the network to facilitate ongoing learning, problem-solving, and innovation.
• Strengthen connections between regional actors and align efforts across geographies and thematic areas.

Network Convening
• Lead HelpAge’s regional network engagement around different advocacy themes (e.g., health, care, social protection, humanitarian action), collaborating with the relevant advocacy lead and other technical specialists.
• Coordinate thematic learning, dialogue, and strategic alignment across regions.
• Ensure regional realities and innovations influence global positioning and narrative.
Programme Development, Learning, and Technical Support
• Support the Head of Programme Support in overseeing HelpAge’s activities in the region, ensuring alignment with member priorities and needs as well as agreed collective global priorities.
• Collaborate with members to identify areas for programme development and facilitate access to HelpAge technical support.
• Contribute to knowledge systems that capture lessons, insights, and innovations from across the network.
• Link members with relevant HelpAge teams to ensure timely and relevant technical assistance.
• In crisis settings, coordinate regional response engagement in consultation with the Head of Programme Support/Humanitarian Lead to ensure rapid, aligned, and effective action.
• Regional Advisers also form part of a dedicated support pool to help mainstream advocacy on gender, voice, and inclusion, and will work closely with the Gender and Inclusion Advisor.

Skills and experience required

• Significant experience in a similar regional role within international development, human rights, humanitarian or advocacy-focused organisations.
• Proven track record of engaging networks, coalitions, or civil society partners across multiple countries.
• Demonstrated leadership in regional advocacy, influencing, and movement-building.
• Experience working with or alongside older people’s organisations or rights-based approaches.
• Strong knowledge of regional political and development context and multilateral systems.
• Excellent facilitation, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Strong planning, coordination, and project management abilities.
• Understanding of the rights-based approach and issues facing older people.
• Knowledge of regional governance frameworks, advocacy platforms, and civil society dynamics.
• Awareness of intersectional issues affecting older people (gender, disability, displacement, etc.).
• Familiarity with humanitarian response, social protection systems, care, and health programming.
• Proficiency in English is required.
• Proficiency in at least one relevant regional language is essential, depending on the location of the role. Additional languages spoken within the region will be considered an asset.
• Culturally sensitive and able to work effectively in diverse environments.
• Self-motivated and able to manage multiple priorities under pressure.

Key Behavioural Competencies

At HelpAge International, we believe in the importance of empowering our people to be change makers and leaders at all levels. We expect our people to embrace and live our values, challenging themselves every day to identify issues that are most important to older people and their communities, and to make an impact that matters.

In addition, as an HelpAge employee you are expected to:

Working Collaboratively with Others: Work collaboratively, building mutual trust and respect, with external organizations and partners to achieve our strategic aims and objectives; being accountable for the work we do together.

Adaptability and Flexibility : Adapt to new directions or opportunities arising within the organisation and in our work area; being flexible in our role, constantly using the feedback to learn more and evolve further.

Supporting and Facilitating Change: Lead behavioural and cultural change through embracing a supportive, collaborative and highly inclusive environment where everybody feels supported, respected and engaged.

Extend HelpAge’s Reach and Impact: Extend HelpAge’s reach and impact by creating and identifying new business development opportunities and building relationships with new partners.

Diversity and Inclusion: Lead and promote a culture of including the voices of older people across our support, convening and thought leadership roles, in a way that is transformative, empowering and highly inclusive of those marginalised by gender, economic status, disability and other factors of discrimination.

Leading Others (for managers): Demonstrate strong leadership to own unit/department and manage people in a well and reputable manner. Create an atmosphere of trust and an enabling environment where staff can do their best and develop their potential.

Safeguarding

HelpAge International is committed to safeguarding the communities with which we work, our partners, staff and any others who we come into contact with. The post holder will also be responsible for:

• Preventing harm and abuse from our people, operations and programmes to anyone that encounters our work.
• Reporting all safeguarding incidents you see, hear, hear about or suspect, using our internal reporting mechanism.
• Complying with all safeguarding framework policies and practices.
• Completing mandatory training courses relating to our safeguarding policy framework and complying with HR vetting procedures.

SAFER RECRUITMENT

All employments at HelpAge International will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include misconduct disclosure schemes and terrorism finance checks.

How to apply

Interested and qualified candidates are encourage to review the details of the job description via www.helpage.org and submit their Cover Letter and CV only to Jobs@helpage.org not later than Friday, 5 September 2025. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Note: The candidate should have the right to work and live in any of the Asian countries.