Community Engagement & Partnership Lead

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International Planned Parenthood Federation Europe & Central Asia (IPPF Europe & Central Asia)

  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Experience level: Other (specified in job description)
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: Not Disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Deadline: 04/01/2026
  • Location: Belgium
Sexual & reproductive rights (SRHR) Health
International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) IPPF works in over 145 countries delivering sexual and reproductive healthcare through our IPPF Member Associations (MA). IPPF is a leading advocate of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for all. 

Role Deliverables:

•           To establish purpose driven partnerships with community networks; ensuring they are led by people who have historically been marginalized from the SRHR sector, or who could amplify their work through the IPPF platform at the regional level. Partnerships that go beyond speaking together at regional events to shaping our profile and our work with the MAs and through them with the local excluded community organizations themselves.
•           To drive the engagement of strategic community partnerships and relationships with IPPF, ensuring those we serve have space and the opportunity to challenge and challenge how we think, speak and act to more fully deliver on our promise.
•           To forecast and horizon-scan for trends and growing injustices, identify those groups at the heart of new SRHRJ related struggles and reach out to connect with them/influence IPPF to connect with them.
•           To connect, identify, map and link activists through relationship building, influencing and outreach – ensure IPPF can be the broadest tent possible.
•           To keep abreast of overall political trends in the region (or sub-regions) and beyond, anticipating the opportunities or risks for key groups fighting for their rights and how that should influence IPPF priorities for engagement and type of engagement.
•           To gather and share intelligence to map the opposition that these partners have to deal with, understanding how it shows itself both in their direct context, and how it joins up in macro-opposition strategies, so we deepen our understanding of the landscape in which we are working to inform decisions and priorities for action.
•           To build relationships, profile and presence for IPPF in new fields/topics and new ways.

Profile/Key Skills/Expertise:

•           Lived experience within a stigmatized population an asset; 
•           Experience in community organizing at grassroots, national and regional levels, particularly of communities excluded/underserved by sexual and reproductive health services.
•           Seen as a leader in challenging the status quo, bringing new messages and disruptive thinking to our community.
•           Excellent analytical skills.
•           A proven ability to build consensus.
•           Strong verbal and written communication skills- fluency in English. Other languages Russian/French/Spanish are an asset. 
•           A political ‘nose’, fights for ideals but understands the political economy of a given context and strategizes accordingly.
•           Ability to build momentum, rally partners around the same concern. 
•           Bring issues up and across the Federation.
•           Build authentic relationships and can relate to people from different cultures and backgrounds in a positive, engaging and thoughtful way
•           Inclusive, curious and open to other’s ideas as well as coming up with and articulating their own ideas.
•           Sound judgement, particularly in constrained and pressured situations and environments.
•           Demonstrated ability to think and operate strategically and transform strategies into results.

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