Advocacy Officer

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ILGA-Europe

Hybrid
  • Career category: Advocacy/ Policy
  • Job type: Job
  • Experience level: Not specified
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Hybrid
  • Right to work requirements: Anyone can apply
  • Remuneration: €56,815 EUR-€63,371 EUR / yearly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Permanent
  • Deadline: 03/12/2024
  • Location: Belgium, Brussels
Anti-gender/ Anti-rights pushback LGBTQI+ rights/ SOGIESC Movement building
The Advocacy Officer will be actively contributing to ILGA-Europe’s advocacy work aimed at bringing legal, political and social change for LGBTI people across Europe, by working with European institutions to leverage their mechanisms for change, by setting benchmarks for national governments on LGBTI equality, by engaging with governments and civil society at national level to strengthen capacity to translate political commitments into concrete measures, and by acting as a thought-leader on strategic issues for the European LGBTI movement.

We are looking for a person to lead on our work with actors who are central in translating human rights principles, laws and policies into practice to create change in the lived realities of LGBTI people. We are particularly interested in building alliances with organisations and/or institutions who are active and are allies in ensuring that LGBTI people’s needs and fundamental rights are taken fully into account in planning laws, policies to respond to humanitarian and other crisis, addressing socio-economic inequalities, as well as gender-based violence.

At ILGA-Europe we value creative and inclusive approaches to work and management, working across teams and staff participation at all levels in the organisation. While you will report to the Advocacy Director, you will also work collaboratively with your colleagues and external partners, and you will be accountable for the achievement of agreed work plans and priorities.

Your main responsibilities will be spread between four main areas of work:

  1. Developing and implementing effective policy and advocacy strategies with regional institutions, government or other relevant actors to respond to priorities identified by the European LGBTI movement;
  2. Monitoring of developments and assessing opportunities  for  advocacy  of  human  rights  of  LGBT  people  at  European level, as well as set out strategies on how to seize these opportunities; 
  3. Developing  and  implementing  capacity  building and peer learning   for policy-makers,  civil society and practitioners at European and national levels on implementation of political commitments into concrete measures;
  4. Building strategic partnerships and coalitions with other NGOs and relevant actors.

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