Advocacy Program Officer

Summary

Join Equality Now as an Advocacy Program Officer in Mexico or Colombia! This full-time, remote position focuses on advancing sex/gender equality through legal advocacy. You will lead campaigns, collaborate with partners, and represent Equality Now at national and regional levels. Responsibilities include strategic planning, report writing, and building relationships with government officials and civil society organizations. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in human rights or women's rights advocacy, a law degree or equivalent, and fluency in Spanish and English. Equality Now offers a competitive salary, benefits, and a diverse and inclusive work environment.

Requirements

• Five+ years of experience in working on human rights issues or working with women’s movements in campaigning on advocacy in Mexico or Colombia with proven experience in creating and maintaining movement building
• A law degree or a master’s degree in gender/women’s rights, international law/human rights law, or equivalent experience
• Knowledge of and/or one+ year of experience in international and/or regional human rights law/frameworks and advocacy spaces
• Fluent in written and spoken Spanish and strong conversational and writing proficiency in English skills are required
• Strong organizational and planning skills with a drive for results
• Strong experience in monitoring, evaluation and learning
• Ability to work effectively online in a dispersed organization
• Ability to work as part of a team and across teams and collaborate respectfully to achieve shared goals
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work under pressure in a multicultural environment
• Organize, creative and detail oriented skills
• Diligent in documentation and reporting, with an eye to effective knowledge management and information accessibility
• Willingness and ability to travel internationally, depending on the pandemic situation
• Willingness and ability to engage in public speaking and to represent Equality Now at external meetings and in the media, in traditional and social media

Responsibilities

• Support in strategizing, implementing, and evaluating Equality Now’s campaigns to promote legal equality and end sexual violence, digital violence, and harmful practices, with particular responsibility for Mexico or Colombia campaigns
• Coordinate with partners in Mexico or Colombia and EN legal advisors' submissions to regional and international human rights bodies and public consultations
• Contribute to the coordination, drafting, and proofreading of advocacy reports and advocacy letters to government authorities
• Identify and lead on opportunities to lever change through international and regional law. Map out clear advocacy strategies, monitor progress, and advise on adaptation depending on national and regional context
• Direct substantive support to consultative and other meetings, conferences, and the like, including proposing agenda topics, identifying participants, preparing documents and presentations, etc. in the country of focus and at the regional level
• Develop and maintain close ties with a range of legal actors and civil society partners in Mexico or Colombia and with a small percentage of their time at the regional level, to share information, seek input and/or encourage joint action
• Engage through correspondence and meetings with relevant national government and agency officials on active campaigns and leverage the support of global and regional actors
• Represent Equality Now in national coalitions and at conferences and meetings at national or regional level
• Contribute key messages for communications, actions, alerts and reports and letters to key influencers and government authorities
• Assist the Regional Representative in the development of program strategies, campaign documents, work plans and budgets as necessary
• Monitor the work of implementing partners in tracking and following up on work plans, budgets and deliverables for each assigned campaign
• Generate, collect and collate evidence to demonstrate the efficacy of the work, the challenges, the adaptations and the impact
• Supervise consultants, fellows and interns as required
• Provide translation or proofreading as needed

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in Portuguese is a plus
• Support capacity building initiatives including designing of training materials and training is desirable

Benefits

Competitive compensation package, including base salary, savings, health and vacation benefits