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: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 03/01/2025
  • Location: Belgium
LGBTQI+ rights/ SOGIESC
About ILGA-Europe

ILGA-Europe is a driving force for political, legal and social change at European and Central Asian level. Our vision is of a world where dignity, freedoms and full enjoyment of human rights are protected and ensured to everyone regardless of their actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics. ILGA-Europe are comprised of over 700 member organisations throughout the European and Central Asian Regions. From Iceland to Turkey and Kyrgyzstan to Malta, we work together with extraordinary activists to bring about real change for LGBTI people across Europe.

What are the main job functions of the Advocacy Officer ?

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.

What skills, knowledge and abilities are we looking for?

At ILGA-Europe we understand that not all individuals have the same opportunities to engage in paid work within the LGBTI movement, and value the experience brought in from other areas of work and life. To fit this role well, you should be strongly committed to working for human rights and equality, and have competencies and demonstrated experience in:

  • Proven expertise in human rights international standards and equality issues, including as they relate to lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people
  • Demonstrated ability to think strategically
  • Excellent political judgment and understanding of political dynamics and international institutional frameworks
  • Experience and knowledge of the functioning and decision-making processes (in particular in inter-governmental organisations)
  • Building and/or strengthening alliances between actors working in the human rights and social justice sector towards a common goal, including by developing and implementing joint actions or strategies

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