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Research, Policy and Advocacy  
•        Continue developing AAUK girl led approach including for research, programming and advocacy through a decolonial, feminist and anti-racist lens 
•        Specifically, over the next years this role will provide leadership in the proposal stage, design, implementation and reflection of the Girl-led research projects and helping connect researchers from previous projects to support a girl-led network/movement 
•        Work collaboratively across teams to realise AAUK’s vision of realising girls’ rights through linking evidence to policy and advocacy using a feminist and decolonial lens 

Programme learning and dissemination    
•        Work with Programme Quality and Assurance (PQA), Advocacy, Public Engagement, and colleagues across the federation to identify opportunities to develop new research and policy pieces, programmatic briefs and other content that advances understanding of, and intersectional approaches to, girls rights and holistic programming with girls, and to support the publication and dissemination of programme learning, new research and policy on adolescent girls’ rights and community mobilisation on VAWG prevention and response 
•        Using a decolonial and feminist approach work collaboratively with other colleagues to develop partnerships, which align with our values, with academics, policy institutions and other key stakeholders working on Girls Rights and VAWG that will contribute to the evidence base for, and uptake of, research findings for Girls Rights and VAWG programming, and, wherever possible, advance AAI programmatic learning in academic journals and institutions  

 

Business development and programme quality 
•   Support the Business Development (BD)teams in PAP (policy, advocacy and programmes), and where feasible P&P (philanthropy and partnerships) with the conceptualisation of funding proposals and interventions based on best practice in girls’ rights and VAWG programming.
• Work with the BD team (and other relevant senior technical specialists) to review and provide technical approvals for BD team proposals and tenders submitted by AAUK with a relevant Girls Rights and/or VAWG component
•         Provide guidance to the business development teams on strategic partners for consortia building during the development of competitive bids and tenders. 

Advocacy and campaigns 
•         Provide technical support if required/on request to AAUK campaign development and delivery that supports ActionAid’s anti-racist storytelling principles by challenging harmful stereotypes and single-story narratives of poverty, marginalization and exclusion, and that centre the voices and lived experiences of girls and women.
•         Provide technical support in advocacy engagement of government officials and peer technical/programme specialists in FCDO and other governmental institutions in collaboration with the advocacy unit 

EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERTISE 

•        Qualification in women’s studies, gender, child protection, social work, public health, development or related field. 

•        Multi/Interdisciplinary experience on Girls Rights, with secondary area of expertise in VAWG prevention and response  

•        Extensive experience implementing adolescent intersectional girls’ programming across thematic areas such as VAWG, SRHR, Education, economic rights 

•        Proven knowledge and experience of community mobilisation and social norm change methodologies for VAWG/GBV prevention and/or gender equity (specific experience of SASA! programming would be particularly helpful)