Senior Global Advocacy Officer

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Fòs Feminista

Remote (local)
  • Location: North and Central America, South America and the Caribbean
  • Career category: Advocacy/ Policy
  • Job type: Job
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Remote (local)
  • Right to work requirements: Anyone can apply
  • Remuneration: $38,192.40 USD / yearly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 02/10/2023
  • Location: North and Central America, South America and the Caribbean
Sexual & reproductive rights (SRHR) Health
Position Summary
The Senior Global Advocacy Officer will collaborate in the design and implementation of advocacy strategies that cuts across and connects national, regional, and global spaces and processes to advance sexual and reproductive justice from an intersectional feminist perspective. The Officer will work full time with reporting line to Associate Directors within the Global Advocacy for Change unit (75% of time) and a reporting line to Associate Directors within the Sustainable Ecosystem unit (25% of time).  
 
The Senior Global Advocacy Officer will have a demonstrated commitment to and alignment with Fòs Feminista’s principles and values, particularly those related to social justice, equity, and non-discrimination, which are essential to our mandate of advancing SRHRJ for women, girls, and gender-diverse people—particularly in the Global South.
 
Key Responsibilities
  • Lead Fòs Feminista’s work in regional multilateral spaces, including Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Organization of American States and the Inter America Systems for Human Rights including working with the Associate Director, U.S. Global Advocacy before, during, and after official negotiations.
  • Build and nurture relationships with regional actors such as Member States, Regional UN agencies (UNPFA, UN Women, and UNESCO), and other CSO and feminist networks including the Networks of Networks.
  • Support Fòs Feminista’s LAC regional partners to engage in global multilateral spaces and processes, including the UN Commission on Women, UN Commission on Population and Development, High Level Political Forum, UN General Assembly working and Human Rights processes in Geneva in collaboration with the Associate Director, Global and Multilateral Advocacy.
  • Write and edit high-quality advocacy content, including petitions, letters, meeting requests, research briefs, factsheets, and other communications.
  • Support coordination of arrangements for in-person and virtual technical briefings, meetings, and side events.
  • Support the implementation of advocacy capacity building efforts, including advocacy in multilateral spaces, for partners in the Fòs Feminista’s alliance and for the broader feminist movements.
  • Nurture and maintain partnership relationships with Fòs Feminista’s alliance members, focusing on Latin America and Caribbean and support them in connecting their SRJ advocacy and policy influencing efforts at the national to the regional and global levels in collaboration with the Sustainable Ecosystem team.
  • Contribute to developing feminist knowledge and analysis in accessible communication formats to support advocacy activities and priorities of the Fòs Feminista alliance.
  • Working with other team members, support the strengthening of south-south and cross regional collaboration, exchange, and strategizing amongst alliance members.
  • Network and maintain strategic relationships with relevant stakeholders in allied movements including but not limited to youth rights, disability rights,indigenous women’s rights, migration rights, economic justice, environmental and climate justice in Latin America and Caribbean region to advance Fòs Feminista’s feminist intersectional agenda around SRHR.
  • Keep abreast and analyze the SRJ opportunities, progress, and challenges in the Latin America and the Caribbean region and incorporate this analysis in the organization’s partnership and advocacy strategies.

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