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Closing date: Monday, 22 June 2026
Country: Malaysia
Duty station: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Contract type: International
Grade: E2
Open to: Internationals
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The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the world’s largest humanitarian network, with 191 member National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. IFRC uses the Triple R – response, resilience and respect – to deliver on Strategy 2030. IFRC responds to disasters and crises, ensuring timely, coordinated and locally led humanitarian action. IFRC supports its members in building community resilience in the areas of climate and environment, health and wellbeing, and migration and displacement. IFRC promotes respect for our fundamental principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity, and universality, including in our work on values, power and inclusion. The IFRC focuses throughout on our core mandate – our raison d’être – of strategic and operational coordination, humanitarian diplomacy, National Society development, and accountability.
IFRC is led by its Secretary General and has its Headquarters in Geneva and five regional offices in Africa (Nairobi); the Americas (Panama); Asia Pacific (Kuala Lumpur); Europe (Budapest); and MENA (Beirut) as well as representation offices, service centres and delegations across the globe.
The IFRC has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment and other forms of harassment, abuse of authority, discrimination, and lack of integrity (including but not limited to financial misconduct). IFRC also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles.
The Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP), hosted by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), is committed to reducing road crash deaths and serious injuries in low- and middle-income countries. According to the WHO Global Status Report on Road Safety 2023, road traffic injuries remain a major global health and development challenge, claiming approximately 1.19 million lives annually. These deaths disproportionately affect low- and middle-income countries, which account for 90% of fatalities despite having fewer vehicles and less road infrastructure.
Road traffic injuries and deaths represent a manmade humanitarian crisis and GRSP/IFRC are committed to evidence-based interventions to address this crisis.
Road traffic crashes are the leading cause of death among children and youth aged 5–29 years, and two-thirds of fatalities occur among people of working age, causing significant social and economic harm.
The Global Road Safety Partnership works in a number of low- and middle- income countries to reduce road crash deaths and serious injuries. In particular, GRSP supports policy change and implementation on the national and sub-national level through the provision of grants and technical assistance to local civil society organizations and Red Cross Red Crescent-National Societies. GRSP also builds the capacity of road police in a broad range of countries under various road safety initiatives (e.g., Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS), World Bank-Global Road Safety Facility, United Nations Road Safety Fund, Asia Development Bank) to strengthen their ability enforce road safety policies.
The objective of GRSP’s Road Policing Capacity Building Programme is to support the ongoing development of road policing agencies in selected BIGRS cities and states to effectively and efficiently enforce road safety-related policies utilizing international good practice methods and interventions. GRSP achieves this objective through the provision of targeted technical assistance and capacity building activities, following detailed assessments.
The purpose of this role is to provide leadership for the road policing capacity building programme and to provide road safety management and technical policing expertise to a range of GRSP activities that aim to reduce deaths and serious injuries as a result of road crashes. The position holder will manage GRSP staff located within the Asia-Pacific Regional Office.
The position holder will act as a lead expert to develop road safety capacity building capabilities and projects with a particular emphasis on strengthening the capabilities of road police and road policing agencies in selected locations, based on the needs of GRSP’s donor programmes in the Asia Pacific region. The position holder will also be the lead expert on assigned GRSP member and non-member funded projects. Further, the person will be the focal point in the Asia-Pacific region to lead and guide GRSP team members who are supporting capacity building programmes globally and will manage a team of focused on road policing capacity building.
This role will provide leadership and oversight of road policing activities (especially capacity building) undertaken under the BIGRS road policing capacity building programme (selected countries and cities in Asia), and road policing components in other GRSP road safety programmes.
The position holder will manage up to 10 staff including road policing focussed team members and local support staff as well as up to 10 consultants, all of whom will contribute to the various road policing and road safety projects undertaken by GRSP. The position holder will advise and work in collaboration with GRSP’s management team.
The position holder will, in collaboration with the GRSP’s Geneva based Road Policing Capacity Building Manager, manage and coordinate delivery of an annual Road Policing Executive Leadership Course based at regional location.
GRSP Leadership Team
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Values: Respect for diversity; Integrity; Professionalism; Accountability
Core competencies: Communication; Collaboration and teamwork; Judgement and decision making; National society and customer relations; Creativity and innovation; Building trust
Functional competencies: Strategic orientation; Building alliances; Empowering others
Managerial competencies: Managing staff development
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