Policy and Advocacy Officer

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Womankind Worldwide

  • Career category: Advocacy/ Policy
  • Job type: Job
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: GBP 39,900 GBP-GBP 42,406 GBP / yearly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 23/04/2026
  • Location: United Kingdom
Movement building
Our Organisation

Womankind Worldwide is a global women’s rights organisation working in partnership with women’s rights movements and organisations to transform the lives of women and girls. We strengthen and support women’s movements in our focus countries in Africa and Asia, and take collective action at regional and global levels, to ensure women’s voices are heard, their rights are realised, and their lives are free from violence.

Areas of responsibility:

1.Policy and Advocacy Operational and Management Support
• Assists the Policy and Advocacy team to respond to the needs and opportunities in the WRO and feminist movement and feminist funding ecosystem context.
• Taking the lead in partner and ally communications in relation to various policy and advocacy opportunities.
• Supports annual operational and budget planning processes.

2.Policy and Advocacy Governance Support
• Schedules monthly Policy and Advocacy meetings, attend and document the said meetings, on a rotational basis with the other P&A Officer.
• Contribute to reporting processes at Womankind to ensure high quality narrative and financial work plans and reports, grant management, monitoring and evaluation, linking and learning, and financial management - in collaboration with other Womankind colleagues;
• Contribute to all necessary or ongoing partner due diligence in collaboration with other Womankind colleagues;

3. Contribution to knowledge and evidence base
• Acts as the Policy and Advocacy Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Liaison to contribute to effective and appropriate technical monitoring, evaluation, and learning processes linked to Policy and Advocacy work in collaboration with the Impact and Learning Manager.
• Working with the Impact and Learning Manager to ensure Policy and Advocacy work is captured in the Policy Programmes and Learning annual reports.
• Support the planning of key policy and advocacy engagement spaces.

4. Representation
• Represents the policy and advocacy team in cross-organisational initiatives and information sharing activities as determined by the policy and advocacy team, and in consultation with the line manager

Person Specification
• A bachelor’s degree qualification in a relevant social sciences field e.g. international development or legal studies, human rights, gender studies, or equivalent experience.
1. At least 3 years’ experience of working in organisations that engage in strategic, partner-centred, evidence-based advocacy with demonstrable results.
2. Experience of supporting the implementation of global advocacy projects and/or programmes to a high standard, for the promotion of women’s human rights and gender equality that are transnational and/or multi-stakeholder in scope;
3. Strong Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Learning Skills.
4. Demonstrable experience of working within multi-disciplinary teams including women’s movements, and/or membership movements, networks or coalitions targeting governments and civil society in the UK, and globally.
5. Experience of working with partner organisations located outside the UK with the ability to work with people from different cultural backgrounds and in different cultural settings;
6. Astute planner who can deliver multiple activities under pressure to strict deadlines and high levels of precision.

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