Country Representative, China

Location: China

In an increasingly complex and interconnected world, the Asia-Pacific region plays a continued crucial global role. The Asia Foundation provides opportunities to employ your knowledge and skills to improve lives, expand opportunities, and help societies flourish across this dynamic region.

Informed by six decades of experience and deep local expertise, we address critical issues affecting Asia in the 21st century: economic development, women’s empowerment, environment, and regional cooperation. We work with innovative leaders and communities to build effective institutions and advance path-breaking reforms. Together with our partners, we are committed to Asia-Pacific’s continued development as a peaceful, just, and thriving region of the world.

The Asia Foundation’s office in Beijing seeks a new country representative. This is the senior-most Asia Foundation employee in China and leads all programs, external relations, and operations in accordance with Foundation strategies and policy guidelines.

The country representative oversees all aspects of the Foundation’s work in China, including new program development, design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of program activities, and the development and cultivation of effective working relationships with the host government, donors, partner agencies, diplomatic missions, national and international institutions, and the media. This position also oversees fundraising and the diversification of donor support, financial and grant management, administration, and security, along with recruitment, supervision, and appraisal of staff. The country representative is based in Beijing and reports to the executive vice president/chief operating officer in San Francisco.