Women’s Rights Programme and Policy Adviser

Position: Women’s Rights Programme and Policy Adviser

Location:  Global Secretatiate (GS) Offices located in Johannesburg or Nairobi

Contract duration:  12 months Fixed term contract

Entry Salary:  Grade D, starting from £39,100.00

Closing date:  13 December 2023 by 15:00 GMT

Job Description

The Role

The Women’s Rights Programme and Policy Adviser connects the women’s rights and feminist alternatives work across the ActionAid International federation, covering up to 45 countries. As part of a Global Women’s Rights Team, they work closely with our internal women’s rights community and other colleagues across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, supporting strategic fundraising, communication and knowledge building and ensuring that our thematic work reflects our system change approach towards a feminist, just transition.

Who we're looking for

We are looking for someone with strong thematic knowledge and experience of feminist programmatic and policy approaches particularly related to care, women’s labour, decent and dignified work, and structural gender-based violence. You are passionate about social justice, a strategic and creative thinker, good with people across cultures and an excellent communicator, able to generate and maintain enthusiasm for a growing radical and exciting area of work. We are looking for someone who has been in a similar role in a women’s rights organization or a broader social justice organization with a strong feminist women’s rights or gender justice focus; preferably covering multiple countries in the Global South.

You should also have strong commitment to ActionAid’s values and ethos, including ActionAid’s feminist leadership principles.

What we offer

ActionAid is committed to providing a welcoming, supportive workplace where we recognise a job well done, encourage close collaboration and sharing power, and where safeguarding standards and feminist leadership are exemplified everywhere. At ActionAid, you can look forward to a fair compensation package and a flexible working environment, including;

• A workplace that embraces feminist principles
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption pay

How to apply

Please click on the "apply” button to start the application process:

Applications close on 15.00 GMT on 13 December 2023**.** Please upload an up-to-date curriculum vitae and a covering letter, clearly explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile.

Please check your application and make sure you meet all the essential criteria listed in the person specification. In addition, your application will be stronger if you meet at least some of the desirable criteria. If you do not meet at least all the essential criteria, please do not apply as we only consider candidates if they meet the essential criteria listed on the job description. We will only consider candidates who have the right to work in the specified locations.

Due to high volumes of applications received, we can only correspond with short listed applicants. Should you not have received feedback on your application within two weeks of the closing date, please consider your application as unsuccessful.

ActionAid International will not consider unsolicited candidates from recruitment agencies. We reserve the right to withdraw any of our vacancies at any time.

About us

ActionAid is a global federation working for a world free from poverty and injustice. We want to see a just, fair and sustainable world, in which everybody enjoys the right to a life of dignity, and freedom from poverty and oppression.  We work to achieve social justice and gender equality, and to eradicate poverty.

All our work is underpinned by a set of feminist leadership principles:  Self-awareness, Self-care and caring for others, Dismantling bias, Inclusion, Sharing power, Responsible & transparent use of power, Accountable collaboration, Respectful feedback, Courage and Zero tolerance against discrimination and abuse of power.

ActionAid International welcomes applications from all sections of the community and promotes diversity.

Our commitment to Safeguarding

ActionAid is committed to recruiting candidates who promote ActionAid’s SHEA and Safeguarding policies and values.

ActionAid will only recruit candidates who are committed to SHEA and Safeguarding and ActionAid’s values, thereby helping to create safer working cultures. As a deterrence measure ActionAid is also committed to deterring candidates who are intending to cause harm from joining ActionAid.

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