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ActionAid UK is a member of the ActionAid Federation, an international charity that works with women and girls living in poverty.    As part of the ActionAid Federation, we work with women and girls, our partners, and dedicated staff in 43 countries to end violence and fight poverty so that all women, everywhere, can create the future they want.

Key Accountabilities and Deliverables
Feminist Research, Policy and Advocacy cycle
• Continue developing AAUK girl-led feminist research (GLR), girl-led programming and girl-led advocacy with a decolonial 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 and the follow up Girl-led Action (GLA) donor- funded projects and helping connect girl researchers and mentors from previous projects to support a girl-led network/movement.
• Disseminate GLR and GLA and focus on partnership development to continue promoting GLR and decolonial, intersectional research as a robust and legitimate approach

Programme, Quality and Assurance (PQA)
• Work with the PQA team to provide relevant and appropriate technical advice/input (in collaboration with, and on request from, Federation Members colleagues), during the programme start-up/implementation phase of a newly acquired programme under AAUK contract

Programme learning and dissemination
• Work with Programme Quality and Assurance (PQA), Advocacy, and colleagues across the Federation to identify opportunities to develop policy pieces, programmatic briefs, position papers, research 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

Funding
• Support the Funding teams with the conceptualisation of funding proposals (where expertise is not available within the Federation) and interventions based on best practice in girls’ rights, girls’ organisations resourcing and VAWG intersectional programming.

EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERTISE
• Multi/Interdisciplinary experience on Girls-Rights, with secondary area of expertise in FGM, VAWG prevention and response
• Experience implementing adolescent intersectional girls’ programming across thematic areas such as VAWG, FGM, SRHR, Education, Economic rights, etc
• Understanding of Feminist Participatory Action Research FPAR and participatory program design
• Proven experience of using research and programme’s finding to develop advocacy strategies and influence policies and donors.
• Extensive experience of advocacy, community mobilisation and social norm change methodologies for VAWG prevention and/or gender equity (specific experience of SASA! programming would be particularly helpful)
• Knowledge and experience of programming and project management in multicounty and multiparter contexts
• Knowledge and experience of girl-led research, and/or other feminist participatory research methodologies
• Experience with designing, monitoring and evaluating Girls Rights programmes, with particular commitment to girl-led approaches.
• Experience of working in solidarity with marginalised and minoritised population groups, especially girls and young women, and with community and traditional leaders.