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About Fòs Feminista
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 gender-based violence, and we 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.
About the Centers of Learning and Exchange
Keeping in mind the transformative power of feminist solidarity and the creative resilience generated by mutual learning, in 2020 Fòs Feminista established Centers of Excellence to enable cross- learning across the Global South. These were the Centre for Evidence-Based Advocacy (CEBA), the Centre for Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) and Youth Friendly Services (YFS), Center for Legal Responses (CLR), and the Center for Transformative Narratives (CTN).
In 2023, Fòs Feminista extended an invitation to all Alliance partners across the Global South to co-lead existing Fòs Feminista Alliance Centers. Simultaneously, Centers are also in the process of re-strategizing their role and rethinking their objectives in light of the ongoing work across the Alliance. This revamp is intended to amplify our partners’ capacities both regionally and globally and disrupt the dominant North- South flow of capacities, expertise, information, resources, and technologies.
Summary of consultancy
This consultancy is an opportunity to work with the Centre for CSE and YFS, hosted by CIES (Bolivia), Aahung (Pakistan), Women for a Change (Cameroon) and Fòs Feminista to develop a needs assessment, that will:
The insights gathered from this assessment will be essential for the Alliance to strategize its overall efforts and offer clarity on how partners can better collaborate with each other and Fòs Feminista, in order to expand or improve CSE and YFS programs implementation.
Scope of work
The Consultant will support the Center for CSE and YFS hosts in developing a methodology to collect data from the Fòs Feminista Alliance as well as analyze and systematize the data and provide a clear visualization of the current situation and opportunities highlighted by partners, by region, and globally.
The findings from this process will be used by the Center for CSE and YFS to refine the work plan in order to meet the needs of partners and identify resources and expertise currently existing in the Alliance.
In close collaboration with the Center for CSE and YFS, the Consultant is expected to fulfill the following responsibilities:
Key deliverables:
The consultancy will only be considered complete after final approval of the report from the Center co-hosts.
Qualifications, Knowledge, and Skills Requirements
The consultant will ideally meet the following criteria:
Location: This position is fully remote, with no expectation to travel or in-person activities; however, preference will be given to applicants based in the Global South.
Compensation: The total available budget for this consultancy is USD $5,000. A payment schedule based on deliverables will be mutually agreed upon.
Reporting: The consultant will report to the Centre’s Technical Operations Committee.
To Apply: Please submit your CV, including references to previous relevant work, website and/or portfolio, and a cover letter. The cover letter should describe how you meet the requirements for this consultancy. Please also include a brief proposal highlighting your approach to this consultancy, including some ideas about the methodology you would employ, as well as a financial proposal. Please submit your application by September 20, 2024.
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.