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Advocacy Advisor
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Women Enabled International
Remote (local)- Career category: Advocacy/ Policy
- Job type: Job
- Experience level: Not specified
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: Remote (local)
- Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
- Remuneration: Not Disclosed
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Deadline: 01/01/2024
- Location: United States
Coordinating the Inclusive Generation Equality Collective [LINK]: Coordinative the Collective, a global group of feminists with disabilities and allies advocating collectively for the inclusion of disabled women, girls, and gender-diverse people in gender equality and women’s rights spaces. This is a movement-building and advocacy project. The Temporary Advocacy Advisor will organize monthly full group and working group meetings, liaise with current members and onboard new members, identify opportunities to strengthen members’ capacity for collective advocacy, and facilitate communication within the Collective across its working languages of English and Spanish. The Temporary Advocacy Advisor will also collaborate with Collective members and WEI staff to implement the Collective’s 2024 goals for external advocacy, strategic communications, and external capacity strengthening, particularly as related to the Feminist Accessibility Protocol
Research and advocacy on legal capacity as it impacts sexual and reproductive health and rights: Work with local and global partners to finalize a report documenting recent research on the impact of formal and informal restrictions on legal capacity for women and gender diverse people with intellectual disabilities in Spain. The Temporary Advocacy Advisor may also work with other WEI staff and partners to support research and advocacy impacting the legal capacity–related rights of people with psychosocial and/or intellectual disabilities in Asia, the Pacific, Eastern Africa, and/or the United States of America.
Advocacy at the United Nations: Support written and oral advocacy with United Nations human rights bodies, The Temporary Advocacy Advisor may also contribute to advancing advocacy strategies in U.N. political and multistakeholder spaces, such as the Commission on the Status of Women, the Beijing+30 and Generation Equality processes, and the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Other institutional duties as needed, including supervising interns and supporting fundraising and operations efforts.
Research and advocacy on legal capacity as it impacts sexual and reproductive health and rights: Work with local and global partners to finalize a report documenting recent research on the impact of formal and informal restrictions on legal capacity for women and gender diverse people with intellectual disabilities in Spain. The Temporary Advocacy Advisor may also work with other WEI staff and partners to support research and advocacy impacting the legal capacity–related rights of people with psychosocial and/or intellectual disabilities in Asia, the Pacific, Eastern Africa, and/or the United States of America.
Advocacy at the United Nations: Support written and oral advocacy with United Nations human rights bodies, The Temporary Advocacy Advisor may also contribute to advancing advocacy strategies in U.N. political and multistakeholder spaces, such as the Commission on the Status of Women, the Beijing+30 and Generation Equality processes, and the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Other institutional duties as needed, including supervising interns and supporting fundraising and operations efforts.
SKILLS, EXPERIENCE, AND VALUES
WEI seeks a candidate for this position with a minimum of 5 years’ prior experience on movement building, research, and/or advocacy to advance human rights. For those who meet this criterion, WEI is also seeking candidates who bring:
- Fluency in written and oral communication in English and Spanish is preferred.
- Strong knowledge of disability rights or gender-related human rights frameworks.
- Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to work well with individuals and organizations representing diverse disabilities, genders, and multi-marginalized lived experiences in countries and contexts throughout the world, particularly in the Global South.
- Experience organizing or coordinating movements, preferably including disabled women, girls, and gender-diverse people.
- Experience conducting human rights-based research and documentation.
- Collaborative management of partnerships with global and local organizations, with a particular emphasis on the Global South.
- Advocacy experience with local, national, regional, and/or global decision-makers. Knowledge of the United Nations human rights system preferred.
- Availability to travel to or within the United States, Europe, and/or global partner and conference locations up to 20% of work time.
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