Temporary Advocacy Advisor – Parental Leave Cover
Type of Position: Temporary Consultancy, 35 hours/week
Location: This is a remote position. Candidates must have availability to work some hours that overlap with the U.S. Eastern Time Zone.
Position duration: Approximately February 1 to July 12, 2024
Compensation: This is a temporary consultancy position. We request that applicants submit their hourly rate alongside their application.
Women Enabled International (WEI) is now accepting applications for the position of Temporary Advocacy Advisor – Parental Leave Cover. We seek an experienced human rights professional to work with our Programs Team full-time for approximately five months to advance the work of WEI’s Advocacy Advisor while she is on parental leave. The Temporary Advocacy Advisor will work to deepen the understanding of rights at the intersection of gender and disability, ensure the implementation of human rights standards on the ground, and advance WEI’s mission, strategy, and programmatic priorities. This is an exciting opportunity to influence global conversations that impact rights at the intersection of gender and disability and to help translate those global initiatives into action that ensures the dignity and well-being of women, girls, and gender diverse with disabilities worldwide.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The Temporary Advocacy Advisor will play a key role in carrying forward WEI movement-building, research, and advocacy initiatives. This is a temporary position that will extend through July 12, 2024. During this time, based on organizational needs and the experience of the Temporary Advocacy Advisor, this person’s duties will likely include the following:
- Coordinating the Inclusive Generation Equality Collective [LINK]: Coordinative the Collective, a global group of feminists with disabilities and allies advocating collectively for the inclusion of disabled women, girls, and gender-diverse people in gender equality and women’s rights spaces. This is a movement-building and advocacy project. The Temporary Advocacy Advisor will organize monthly full group and working group meetings, liaise with current members and onboard new members, identify opportunities to strengthen members’ capacity for collective advocacy, and facilitate communication within the Collective across its working languages of English and Spanish. The Temporary Advocacy Advisor will also collaborate with Collective members and WEI staff to implement the Collective’s 2024 goals for external advocacy, strategic communications, and external capacity strengthening, particularly as related to the Feminist Accessibility Protocol [LINK].
- Research and advocacy on legal capacity as it impacts sexual and reproductive health and rights: Work with local and global partners to finalize a report documenting recent research on the impact of formal and informal restrictions on legal capacity for women and gender diverse people with intellectual disabilities in Spain. The Temporary Advocacy Advisor may also work with other WEI staff and partners to support research and advocacy impacting the legal capacity–related rights of people with psychosocial and/or intellectual disabilities in Asia, the Pacific, Eastern Africa, and/or the United States of America.
- Advocacy at the United Nations: Support written and oral advocacy with United Nations human rights bodies, The Temporary Advocacy Advisor may also contribute to advancing advocacy strategies in U.N. political and multistakeholder spaces, such as the Commission on the Status of Women, the Beijing+30 and Generation Equality processes, and the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
- Other institutional duties as needed, including supervising interns and supporting fundraising and operations efforts.
SKILLS, EXPERIENCE, AND VALUES
WEI seeks a candidate for this position with a minimum of 5 years’ prior experience on movement building, research, and/or advocacy to advance human rights. For those who meet this criterion, WEI is also seeking candidates who bring:
- Fluency in written and oral communication in English and Spanish is preferred.
- Strong knowledge of disability rights or gender-related human rights frameworks.
- Fluency in rights at the intersection of gender and disability strongly preferred.
- Knowledge of rights related to legal capacity/autonomy and/or sexual and reproductive health and rights preferred.
- Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to work well with individuals and organizations representing diverse disabilities, genders, and multi-marginalized lived experiences in countries and contexts throughout the world, particularly in the Global South.
- Experience organizing or coordinating movements, preferably including disabled women, girls, and gender-diverse people.
- Experience conducting human rights-based research and documentation.
- Collaborative management of partnerships with global and local organizations, with a particular emphasis on the Global South.
- Professional experience working with organizations of people with psychosocial or intellectual disabilities preferred.
- Advocacy experience with local, national, regional, and/or global decision-makers. Knowledge of the United Nations human rights system preferred.
- Availability to travel to or within the United States, Europe, and/or global partner and conference locations up to 20% of work time.
We further seeks candidates who bring:
- Passion for the organization’s vision, mission, and strategic imperative.
- Commitment to WEI’s values, including the ability to work well and collegially with many different colleagues from different backgrounds and in varying time zones; commitment to recognizing and respecting the value and diverse expertise and experiences that all colleagues and partners bring to their work with WEI; and willingness to work in a way that fosters power sharing, collaboration, transparency, accountability, and self- and collective care.
TO APPLY
Interested candidates are requested to file their applications through our application portal. We are committed to making the selection process for this position accessible. If you have any questions or if this application portal is not accessible to you, please send inquiries to [email protected]. We will accept applications through January 1, 2024.
Women Enabled International is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. Whatever your identity, we encourage you to apply. WEI is committed to working with individuals with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations to perform the essential functions of this position due to a disability or medical condition.