Senior Advocacy and Gender Adviser (LAC)

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Center for Reproductive Rights

Hybrid
  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management, Legal
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Development
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Hybrid
  • Right to work requirements: Anyone can apply
  • Remuneration: Not Disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Location: Colombia
Sexual & reproductive rights (SRHR) Health
Center Background:  The Center for Reproductive Rights (the Center) is a global human rights organization working to ensure that reproductive rights are protected in law as fundamental human rights around the world.

Primary Responsibilities:
The primary job responsibilities for the Senior Advocacy and Gender Adviser for LAC include, but are not limited to: 
Advocacy and Gender Strategy
  • Design and implement a comprehensive LAC external relations strategy to reach State officials in the LAC region, LAC missions before the UN and strategic missions before the OAS.
  • Identify key high-level advocacy opportunities both before Universal and Regional systems and propose engagement strategy to profile LAC priorities within the global agenda.
  • Design a comprehensive strategy to implement key rulings and legal wins in the LAC region, including a policy-briefing strategy and plan to provide technical expertise to key stakeholders.

Advocacy and Gender Technical Support
  • Promote the relationship of the Center with the Inter American Human rights System and the Universal Human Rights System, including high level events, meetings and briefings.
  • Design, plan and conduct technical briefings with Inter-American system stakeholders, including missions of States before the OAS.
  • Create technical and advocacy briefs for commissioners, rapporteurs, missions of States before international and regional bodies, including OAS and UN.

External Relations
  • In coordination with relevant Center teams, build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders at UN and OAS Headquarters in New York, Geneva and Washington D.C., including UN Agencies, OAS Mandates, INGO’s and Member States representatives, and institutionalize these contacts to position the Center as a key source for technical expertise on SRHR.   
  • Organize pre-assembly and pre-sessions briefings and coordination events with networks in LAC before OAS and Inter-American hearings (coalition of Human Rights, Women’s Rights coalition before the OAS, etc.).
  • Organize events in support of LAC key strategic litigation cases and joint events on the global agenda with key movement partners, in collaboration with other Regional Programs and Global Advocacy teams.

Institutional Alignment
  • Support Senior and Executive staff to engage with key UN, OAS and other key events through the development of background materials including briefings, speeches, talking points, stakeholder analysis and capacity development sessions, as needed.
  • Prepare internal and external updates and other written analyses, as needed.
  • Contribute timely and effectively to internal Center processes such as financial reporting, programmatic updates and others, as requested.

Qualifications:
  • Professional in Law (Juris Doctor or Postgraduate) required
  • International Relations, Political Sciences or similar Social Sciences degree a plus
  • At least 8 years of significant working experience in Human Rights, advocacy, external relations or similar fields.
  • Knowledge of international human rights systems, women’s rights and gender equality
  • Strong commitment to the Center’s mission, purpose, and values. 
  • Native fluency in Spanish and strong working knowledge of English are required.  
  • Excellent writing, editing, research, and oral advocacy skills (Spanish and English). 
  • Detail-oriented, with strong organizational and coordination skills. 
  • Ability to work collaboratively, multi-tasking, and under pressure. 

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