Chit Suu Win Htein
Sydney,NSW
Summary
Experienced community development professionals with skills across a range of areas including gender policy and advocacy, campaign strategy, community engagement and cross-cultural liaison. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand. Strong work ethic, exceptional interpersonal skills, and superb initiative.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Electorate Officer(Short Term Relief)
Australia Labor Party
Sydney, NSW
10.2023 - 02.2024
- Responded promptly to emails sent from constituents seeking assistance or advice from an elected representative.
- Provided administrative support to the Electorate Officer and their team, including diary management, filing and data entry.
- Conducted research on topics relevant to the Electorate Officer's portfolio and provided detailed summaries for review.
- Interacted professionally with customers and inside personnel, answering questions and responding to phone and email inquiries.
Consultant
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
Sydney, NSW
08.2023 - 01.2024
- Developed course outline for Youth Democracy Academy, focused on political inclusions in consultation with the International IDEA's Myanmar team.
- The course includes how political institutions such as government and parliament can be inclusive and gives strategies to have inclusive political participation for women, LGBTQI, ethnic minorities and youth.
- Conducted a comprehensive information collection, synthesizing, drafting the unit's topic, writing, discussions, referencing, editing and proofreading involved throughout the work.
Campaign Manager
Union Aid Abroad APHEDA
Sydney, NSW
03.2022 - 02.2023
- Drafted messaging for press releases that highlighted successes achieved through implementing certain strategies during a campaign period.
- Organized online and in person events such as press conferences, rallies, democracy forum, fundraisers to generate publicity for campaigns.
- Developed and implemented comprehensive campaign strategies to maximize the impact of campaigns.
- Cultivated relationships with key influencers such as member of parliaments, ministerial offices, and network members such as trade unions, Myanmar community, Australian NGOs, faith based organizations within target communities in order to garner support for initiatives or causes supported by the organization.
Consultant
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
Yangon/Sydney, Myanmar/Australia
11.2020 - 12.2021
- Supported dialogue with Government representatives, political parties, and civil society,
- Monitored and analyzed political and legislative developments and prepared inputs for Head of Office.
- Coup in February 2021 changed the dynamic of the work. Connected new networks of political stakeholders, mapped out and advised the Head of Mission.
Consultant
International Women's Development Agency
NSW, NSW
07.2021 - 10.2021
- Developed IWDA's country plan Myanmar (2022-2023) and climate justice stakeholders in Myanmar scoping.
- Country plan involved women's civil and political leadership, violence against women and girls, women’s economic opportunities, impacts of climate change and environment and women with increase vulnerability (women with disabilities, young women and girls, older women, ethnic differences) and health (including sexual and reproductive health and rights, water and sanitation and impacts of COVID -19 and other communicable diseases and PSEAH(Protection from sexual exploitation and abuse).
- Climate justice stakeholder involved research on the organizations working on climate, women's rights and environmental movements.
Consultant
International Women's Development Agency
Yangon, NSW
04.2019 - 07.2019
- Acted as a liaison officer between World Vision Myanmar and IWDA and built relationships with knowledgeable individuals to promote the Individual Deprivation Measure project within Myanmar and ensure appropriate buy-in from stakeholders.
- Assisted with research objectives, including conduction literature reviews, developing project materials, and preparing training materials.
Gender Specialist
Mekong Business Initiative-Asian Development Bank
Yangon, Myanmar
09.2016 - 08.2017
- Mapped out, prepared and completed successfully on Women Owned Business benchmarking report for Myanmar. It was a report done among CLMV (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam) countries.
- The report examine access to finance, markets and trades, training skills and advice, recognition and promotion of female role models and success, enable legal and policy frameworks and foster WOB start-ups to provide policy recommendations for areas of action which are lack of skills, understanding on entrepreneurship, weakness in social support for working mothers, gender, stereotypes, sexual harassment and professionalism and financial sector support.
- Conducted women's leadership and involvement in agriculture corn value chain survey in Shan State.
Associate Programme Consultant
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
Yangon, Myanmar
03.2016 - 08.2016
- Drafted terms of references and contract for international and local constitutional experts and developed ideas for potential steering committee members.
- Conducted research on constitutional related speeches and commentaries.
- Assisted in establishing Myanmar Constitution team.
Consultant
University of New South Wales
Mandalay/Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar
05.2015 - 07.2015
- Organized two constitutional workshops successfully (one in each city) with different stakeholders: law academics, government officials at the ministerial level, chairpersons of the union-level organizations, officials from union election commissions, member of parliaments, leaders of all major political parties, private sector lawyers.
- Workshops were funded and facilitated by the professors from UNSW and politician from Australia Labor Party.
- The role of the consultant was to liaise, coordinate, organized logistically, arrange press release, interpretation services, evaluation report after the project was finished.
Consultant
Australia Labour International
Yangon, Myanmar
06.2015 - 06.2015
- Worked with Australia Labor Party's MPs to develop and deliver a political party campaign strategy training program for Myanmar's largest and most popular political party, the National League for Democracy to over 150 attendees.
Gender and Youth Consultant
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Yangon, Myanmar
02.2015 - 04.2015
- Prepared, reviewed and collaborated with implementing partners for annual gender work plans for UNFPA and organized and facilitated the youth forum attended over 100 people.
Education
Master of Arts - Law And Justice
University of New South Wales
Kensington, NSW12-2025
Master of Arts - Gender and Development Studies
University of Melbourne
Parkville, VIC12-2014
Bachelor of Arts - Philosophy, Politics An Economics
Rangist University
Pathumthani, Thailand08-2010
Associate of Arts - General Studies
Indianan University
Yangon, Myanmar08-2007
Skills
- Gender and women's right research
- Advocacy
- Campaign strategy
- Stakeholder mapping
- Multicultural and diverse communities
- Community engagement
- Schedule and Calendar Management
Affiliations
- Attended Spring Fellowship online program with Australian Progress in 2023, Australia. It covers campaign strategy, digital campaigning, messaging, community organizing, engaging decision makers, and media.
- Attended online Diplomacy Training Program commenced by University of New South Wales, in Sydney in 2021. It covers human rights and frameworks, advocacy strategies influencing parliamentarians, business on Human Rights, Myanmar and the media, forming alliance and coalition, community organizations for human rights.
- Assisted as a campaign volunteer for the National League for Democracy party in 2015 general election in Kayah State, which is mostly resided by Kayah ethnics.
- Attended ASEAN Business Summit Meeting and met with politician, business communities and young entrepreneurs from various countries. Presented a policy review paper on migration on Myanmar illegal migrant workers at Asia Pacific Youth organization in Malaysia in 2015.
- Worked as an intern in Women's Rights Team at ActionAid Myanmar in 2012, assisted in team's activities such as time frames and budgets, organized women's forum among the staff members.
Accomplishments
- Australia Awards Scholarship in 2012
- Graduated with First Class Honours in B.A of PPE
- Child Dream's Scholarship in 2007
Languages
English
Full Professional
Burmese
Native/ Bilingual
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Electorate Officer(Short Term Relief)
Australia Labor Party
10.2023 - 02.2024
Consultant
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
08.2023 - 01.2024
Campaign Manager
Union Aid Abroad APHEDA
03.2022 - 02.2023
Consultant
International Women's Development Agency
07.2021 - 10.2021
Consultant
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
11.2020 - 12.2021
Consultant
International Women's Development Agency
04.2019 - 07.2019
Gender Specialist
Mekong Business Initiative-Asian Development Bank
09.2016 - 08.2017
Associate Programme Consultant
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
03.2016 - 08.2016
Consultant
Australia Labour International
06.2015 - 06.2015
Consultant
University of New South Wales
05.2015 - 07.2015
Gender and Youth Consultant
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
02.2015 - 04.2015
Master of Arts - Law And Justice
University of New South Wales
Master of Arts - Gender and Development Studies
University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Arts - Philosophy, Politics An Economics
Rangist University
Associate of Arts - General Studies
Indianan University
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