Gender and Racial Justice WG Coordinator

We are seeking a current BHRRC Global Team member to convene, structure, and coordinate a Gender and Racial Justice Working Group over an initial period of nine months. The role will include coordinating the Working Group to, for example, undertake relevant internal consultations; co-create strategies for the two strands of our Gender and Racial Justice cross-cutting theme; and co-develop a thematic implementation roadmap (with internal and external components for each strategy).  This work may be done in consultation with an external consultant.

Details

This role is intended to be one additional day of work to an existing schedule, so would need to be agreed in advance with the applicant’s line manager and possible within a five-day work week. If the team member is working part-time, this will be one additional day of work during the week; if the person is already working full-time, there will need to be an agreement with the applicant’s line manager to swap a day of their current work to accommodate the additional day.

Contract type: PT, 7 hours per week, 1 January 2025 – 30 September 2025 (with possibility of extension)

Compensation: GBP 5,625 – 6,000 for 9 months (pro-rated to 7hrs/week of work), depending on experience and adjusted according to location (the range is aligned to London cost of living; if based in another location, the range will be adjusted).

Closing date: 29 November 2024.

TO APPLY: Complete and return this application form via our jobs portal. Interviews to be scheduled for the week of 9 December 2024. If you need any additional support, please reach out to Bea.

About the position

Per our 2025 – 2029 Strategic Steer, Gender and Racial Justice will remain a key cross-cutting issue for all of our global priority programmes. The inequalities in power and opportunity hinder the achievement of shared prosperity that our movement envisions for the world and drive exclusion, discrimination, and oppression. Our work across our global priority programmes must therefore seek to deliver disaggregated evidence of discrimination and its effects; challenge patriarchal and colonial power; and ensure we are guided and informed by feminist and racial justice movements.

The role of the Gender and Racial Justice Working Group coordinator is primarily to convene, structure, and coordinate this Working Group, which will be comprised of limited but representative cross-section of the organisation.

Key objectives for Phase 1 of the Working Group (October 2024 – June 2025) will include:

Outcome 1: updating current Gender Justice Strategy and create implementation plan to:

• enable BHRRC to develop analysis, tools and resources that better integrate and address gender justice in our work and

• enable BHRRC to use our position and platform fully and effectively to support feminist and gender justice analysis in respect of business and human rights

Outcome 2: initiating process of developing a Racial Justice Strategy and implementation plan to:

• enable BHRRC to develop analysis, tools and resources that better integrate, address, and articulate racial justice in our work and

• enable BHRRC to use our position and platform fully and effectively to support racial justice analysis in respect of business and human rights

Outcome 3: developing tools to support regional and international teams in identifying and executing on opportunities to deepen their gender and racial justice work, including through integration of feedback gathered through interviews with international and regional teams plus Gender and Racial Justice Working Group participants.

The successful candidate will have experience and expertise in:

• project planning;

• strategy co-creation;

• leading diverse groups to achieve concrete outcomes;

• working with external consultants; and

• specific expertise in gender and/or racial justice research, analysis, and networks.

Responsibilities will include:

Convening the Gender and Racial Justice Working Group: co-developing a swift and transparent process for identifying participants in the Working Group and a TOR/TORs for the Group based on identified key outcomes. The coordinator will be responsible for regularly convening the Working Group, ensuring specific outputs are identified and achieved to realise the identified outcomes, and overseeing co-creation of strategies and implementation plans with the support of MT and other colleagues.

Developing Gender and Racial Justice Working Group workplan: co**-**creating a nine-month workplan for and with the Working Group with key milestones and outputs identified.

Ensuring collaborative, consultative processes: the coordinator will help create collaborative, respectful space for engagement within the Working Group and collaboration across the organisation, including with functions such as Human Resources, Development, MEAL, as well as consultation with the Global Team, the OLG, and the MT.

Undertaking desktop review and development of best practices recommendations: assessing gender and racial justice lenses and approaches by other organisations with similar needs, structures, and advocacy aims to that of BHRRC, to provide foundation for Working Group discussion and action.

Overseeing key outputs to advance a clear Gender and Racial Justice agenda in our research, analysis, and advocacy: in line with key objectives for this cross-cutting theme, oversee the development of key strategies, implementation plans, inputs, and tools.  External consultant(s) may be retained to support these processes.

Keywords

Gender JusticeRacial JusticeCoordinatorWorking GroupStrategyImplementationAnalysisAdvocacyResearchNetworks