Director, Gender, Sexuality and Identity (GSI) Program

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Amnesty International USA

Hybrid
  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Development
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Hybrid
  • Right to work requirements: Not specified
  • Remuneration: $91,256 USD-$118,515 USD / yearly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Permanent
  • Deadline: 08/08/2023
  • Location: United States 
Generic (e.g. 'gender focal point' role Human rights
Job Summary
 
The program’s current focus areas are: defending the right to abortion in the USA, ending sexual violence against Indigenous women in the USA, and ending gender-based violence (GBV) in US foreign policy.
 
Essential Responsibilities
  • Ensure that Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA) are integrated into all aspects of the GSI program
  • Sets specific goals and objectives for making human rights impact on GSI programmatic priorities and create and implement a strategy with internal and external stakeholders to achieve those goals and objectives
  • Collaborate with stakeholders in selecting and implementing effective tactics—including advocacy, coalition building, and grassroots activism, media advocacy, social media advocacy, and public education—to achieve the program’s goals and objectives
  • Influence local, state, and federal government officials to achieve the program’s goals and objectives
  • Build and maintain strategic coalition presence and leadership in key advocacy spaces
  • Build and maintain relationships across relevant communities, including with impacted people, legislators, advocates, and allied nongovernmental and policy organizations
  • Conduct evaluations, monitoring and reporting on progress toward the program’s goals and objectives
  • Ensure that the program’s human rights work also helps achieve the organizational goals and objectives in AIUSA’s Strategic Framework
  • Represent AIUSA as a public spokesperson and in the media on relevant programmatic issues
  • Recruit, train, and sustain AIUSA’s members and public in effective activism in support of the program’s goals and objectives by creating useful and compelling actions, training modules, and materials
  • Engage with Amnesty International’s (AI) sections around the world to help achieve the program’s goals and objectives, including inputting on program-related issues to the global AI movement
  • Represent AIUSA with the public, policymakers, and other external groups and individuals
  • Collaborate with and provide support to AIUSA’s country and thematic specialists, especially the member leader-driven coordination groups on LGBTQI+ rights and women’s human rights.
  • Support fundraising efforts for the program and AIUSA
  • Develop and oversee the program’s annual work plan, budget, and any staff assigned to the program
  • Other relevant duties as assigned by the National Director of the Programs
  • Occasional evening and/or weekend availability required
  • This role is hybrid and requires being in close proximity to Washington D.C.

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