Advocacy Consultant

I. GENERAL FRAMEWORK OF REFERENCE

1.1 Background

Fòs Feminista is an intersectional feminist organization centered around the sexual and reproductive rights and needs of women, girls, and gender-diverse people. Led and governed by the Global South, Fòs Feminista works as an alliance of organizations in 40+ countries worldwide to advance sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice. As the connecting fabric of this Alliance, Fòs Feminista orchestrates transnational and transregional action, amplifies partners’ work, and promotes South-South learning and collaboration toward achieving common objectives.

Together with our partners, we provide access to sexual and reproductive health care, including contraception, abortion, and care for victims of sexual and gender-based violence. We also reach young people with comprehensive sexuality education. We recognize that the ability of women, girls, and gender-diverse people to make free and informed choices about sexual and reproductive lives, including to access safe and legal abortion, is central to their life plans and to achieving gender and reproductive justice. As such, we are at the forefront of advocating for sexual and reproductive health and rights from an intersectional lens in national, regional, and global spaces, coordinating with our partners to ensure that diverse experiences, priorities, and voices of the Global South are represented in these spaces.

Throughout the Feminist Futures Free from Violence project, Fòs Feminista and partners aim to enhanced gender equality and empowerment of women and girls and those who have other gender identities in Latin America and the Caribbean, especially in Ecuador, Mexico and Paraguay. By focusing on strengthened prevention and response to gender-based violence in alignment with a theory of change which underlies all the actions, we have identified four key domains of change in which gender power structures operate: 1) Transforming individual beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors; 2) Strengthening SGBV primary prevention at individual, relational, community, and institutional levels to transform cultural norms and practices; 3) Increase access to services and resources, specially the health response to SGBV for women, girls, and those who have other gender identities; and 4) Influencing laws and policies to promote increased government commitment and accountability to prevent and respond effectively to SGBV.

II. SCOPE OF WORK

2.1 Objective & Role of the Consultancy

The Consultant will provide project advocacy support to a large, regional project working to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights and prevention of sexual and gender-based violence in close partnership with local organizations in Ecuador, Mexico and Paraguay.

The Consultant forms an integral part of a small core team to manage, support and monitor the day-to-day implementation of the ongoing project. In close collaboration with local partners and other team members, particularly project programmatic leads, the Consultant will work to ensure that project advocacy targets are met via the successful completion of project deliverables.

Principally, the Consultant will provide significant support to local project partners in the following broad areas:

• Coordinating and documenting project advocacy efforts at a regional level against planned project outputs and outcomes for potential coordination between projects partners.
• Enabling spaces to facilitate dialogues and knowledge exchange with and between local partners.
• Providing guidance to local partners to prepare country reports for international and regional advocacy mechanisms.
• Preparation of one report and summaries of project advocacy activities and results against project targets and indicators.

2.2 Consultant Deliverables

• Participation in 1 Partners meeting

• Monthly report including:

• Regional updated information on SGVB context.

• Contributions for narrative reports for donors.

• Regional and national advocacy proposals developed according to project partners’ workplans.

III. INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT

3.1 Project duration

Limited term consultancy with an estimated commitment of 8-12 hours per week with a project end date of December 31, 2023.

3.2 Project location

Fully remote, based anywhere in the world (preferably in Africa, Asia, and The Americas.) Work will be done virtually. The Consultant must be willing to adjust to different time zones.

3.3 Reporting

The Consultant will report to the SGBV Senior Program Officer, Program Implementation Unit.

IV. EVALUATION METHOD AND CRITERIA

For consideration, a proposal must be submitted in English containing the following documents:

• Updated curriculum vitae that demonstrates professional experience in developing advocacy strategies and plans on sexual and reproductive rights and justice, SGBV, gender equality, youth, men and boys engagement.
• Cover letter explaining the motivation for applying and explaining how qualifications and skill set are suitable.
• Economic offer in USD which includes rates plus all taxes and liens that this type of consultancy requires.

The criteria for the evaluation of the proposals will be based on:

• Professional experience (50%).
• Amount of the financial offer (50%)

The proposal must be sent no later than November 10, 2023.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

Fòs Feminista is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to advancing sexual and reproductive rights and health and dismantling inequities from a feminist intersectional lens. Reproductive justice, racial justice, and diversity are driving forces for us.

Fòs Feminista provides equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to age, race, color, disability, national origin, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital and partnership status, genetic information, veteran status or any other protected category under federal, state and local law.

At Fòs Feminista, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our employees. We strongly encourage applications from all kinds of backgrounds to build a diverse workforce in which all social and minority groups are represented.

While we strongly encourage all current and new employees to be fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus, there is no vaccine requirement for employment with Fòs Feminista.  However, it is currently our policy that employees must show proof of full vaccination to engage in any work-related travel or to attend any work-related in-person gatherings. As appropriate, reasonable accommodations can be made, including, for example, arrangements for employees to participate remotely in any relevant gatherings.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.