Responsible Tourism Specialist

**ACTION** ON POVERTY IN VIETNAM**

**Responsible Tourism Specialist**

**Effective date**: Feb 2024

**Contract type**: Definite-term (renewable).

**Work location**:Based in Hanoi, Vietnam with frequent travels to the fields

**Reports to**: Country Director

ABOUT US

Action on Poverty (AOP) is an independent, secular, nonprofit international development organisation with over 55 years of experience and a well-established network of grassroots connections. AOP operates across Asia, Africa, and the Pacific, delivering innovative and sustainable solutions to address systemic poverty challenges.

**Our vision**

All people thriving in a world without poverty.

**Our purpose**

To be the catalyst that mobilises and collaborates with changemakers globally to create environments free from poverty where communities can flourish. We partner with changemakers in local communities worldwide to transform innovative ideas into scalable, evidence-based, and cost-effective solutions that address the root causes of poverty. Our support and solutions are tailored to meet the specific needs and priorities of each community.

In Vietnam, AOP has led impactful development initiatives since 1989. This role focuses on providing enhancing AOP’s communications and partnership functions to align with global strategies while delivering tailored support to in-country teams and partners.

ROLE SUMMARY

The Responsible Tourism Specialist will play key role in shaping the strategic design and facilitate realization of AOP’s program (in and beyond Vietnam) in relation to tourism, with specific focus on the promotion of community-based tourism (CBT) models.

AUTHORITY

The position has autonomy to make decisions related to all assigned activities within the areas of assigned responsibility.

The position is expected to work closely with other team members and request support from other staff to ensure activities are implemented effectively and to a high standard.

KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS

**Internal**

**External**
- Vietnam Country Director;
- Program and Service Manager;
- Innovations and Products Development Director;
- Other staff in AOP;
- Tourism and CBT partners and networks;
- Government Officials;
- Institution/Universities;
- Donors;
- International and Vietnamese NGOs;

**MAIN AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY**

**Key Responsibilities**

**Specific Tasks**

**Expected Key Results**

**_Strengthen AOP strategic program on responsible tourism._**
- ork with senior management team to define the strategic design of AOP’s program, and investment strategy on responsible tourism related activities with special focus on CBT.
- Strengthen the collaboration of AOP program with like-minded partners, especially market actors along the process of co-design, development and marketing of CBTs products.
- OP’s strategic paper, investment plan for responsible tourism program and Da Bac/AO-CBT business plan;
- Relationship with partners established and well maintained.
- **_Ensure quality of AOP intervention on _**_responsible tourism_**_ and CBT._**
- Engage with other team members in AOP and partners in co-design, testing, development and marketing of CBT products.
- Provide technical advise to partners and AOP’s staff during implementation of CBT and tourism related activities;
- Deliver/coordinate training, capacity building, coaching on responsible tourism to AOP staff and partners when needed;
- Conduct/coordinate studies, review and assessment on CBT, responsible tourism.
- Inputs provided;
- Training, coaching sessions conducted;
- Papers, reports, plans, concept papers, ideas produced.
- **_Promote expansion of CBT and responsible tourism beyond AOP program._**
- Represent AOP Vietnam at approved professional forums, meetings and/or conferences;
- Support Innovations and Products Development Director in documenting/synthesizing lessons and capitalization of AOP’s intellectual products;
- Engage with government agencies to promote CBT and responsible tourism in government agenda;
- Promote the work of AOP through the presentation of professional reports, articles and papers for publication (as appropriate);
- Provide technical support for potential replication of CBT and tourism related activities in AOP program beyond Vietnam;
- Briefings on events, forums participated with lesions and follow up actions.
- Inputs provided;
- Papers, reports produced. published

**_1. _**_Fund Raising for responsible tourism and CBT._**
- Identify potential donors, funding and investment opportunities in CBT and responsible tourism;
- In collaboration with management team to develop concept papers and proposals that comply with AOP’s programming priorities and strategic directions;
- In collaboration with management team to develop plan, mobilize and facilitate materialization of co-investment opportunities on CBTs and other responsible tourism products.
- Inputs provided as assigned;
- Proposal, investment plan developed/submitted.
- MOUs developed and sig