Advocacy Coordinator

• Facilitate joint conversations within PU! to promote an understanding of and learn from each of PU! members approaches to advocacy and strategic engagement and identify joint strategies that demonstrate a clear added value of the consortium;
• Lead the development of a strategy and coordinate the implementation of the consortiums joint advocacyand strategic engagement work including supporting PU! members to ensure alignment and coherence of advocacy and communications plans;
• In coordination with the PU! Coordination Committee prepare key messages/positions and contribute to policy debates and discussions related to the Strengthening Civil Society and Power of Women strategic partnershipsof the Dutch MFA including the development of future policies and partnership frameworks;
• Proactively offer innovative ideas and proposed action to PU! Coordination Committee on policy actions and key messages which contribute to the influencing activities targeting the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dutchembassies and other strategic donors and international actors;
• Actively advocate PU! and PU! partners key messages in relevant knowledge and learning spaces and platforms that support LBQTI issues and agendas;
• Provide inputs in the development of PU! annual plans and reports and ensure that intersectional lens iseffectively integrated throughout advocacy and communication activities work plans reports research and analyses;
• Support the PU! Communications Working Group in developing communications products for external positioning and influencing; and;
• Together with the Knowledge and MEL Specialist identify feminist approaches and synthesise best practices and lessons learnt directly linked to advocacy and strategic engagements and amplifying voices of womxn.

• Support PU! members and local partners in the development of context and political analysis advocacystrategies and its implementation that concern LBTQI groups/collectives in pan Africa and MENA regions; lead/coordinate the development of key messages/positions;
• In coordination with PU! members and its partners identify key local national regional/global/internationalspaces for dialogue and influencing and support LBQTI partners in their participation in these spaces;
• Identify capacity strengthening (CS) on advocacy opportunities for LBTQI groups/collectives and support/coordinate with PU! members and/or PU! Coordination Committee for the planning and implementation of CS activities;
• Support crossmovement organising efforts of PU! members and its partners (convenings joint agenda development articulations networking etc.; and;
• Provide the PU! Coordination Committee and when relevant/necessary the PU! Executive Committee with updates/progress including risks and issues.

• Afeministadvocateand/oractivistwithdeepintersectionalknowledgeofgenderandwomxns rights issues especially those affecting LBQT persons;
• StrongembeddednessinfeministsocialmovementsandLBQTInetworksandplatformsand alliances across Africa and internationally;
• ProfoundknowledgeofthePanAfricanpoliticalandsocialmovementscontextdesirable knowledge of broader feminist movements and the interlinkages with LBTQIstruggles
• Minimum5yearsofexperienceinadvocacyandinfluencingandinsupporting/accompanying grassroots feminist movements and LBQTI persons/groups/collectives in Africa andMENAregions;
• Abilitytonavigatespaces/contextsthatareoppressivecommunitiesStateswherecolonial laws are held high and patriarchal systems dominate;
• Stronganalyticalskillssoundjudgementcapacitytothinkstrategically;
• Abilitytoproducehighqualitypolicyandadvocacymaterialshighlevelstrategicdocumentsandadvice;
• Provenprocessfacilitationandcoordinationskillssensitivitytolanguageinequityaptitudefor building trust and addressing tensions and conflict in a way that strengthens partnerships;
• Abilitytotakeinitiativeandleadershipcontributetoquickdecisionmakingandproblemsolve;
• Strongabilitytoworkbothindependentlyandasamemberofaprojectteam;
• Strongverbalandwrittencommunications(Englishpreferred&Frenchideal)negotiationand interpersonal skills;
• Interestandabilitytotraveloccasionally;comfortableworkingacrosstimezones
• Abilitytoworkindependentlyoperateunderpressuremanagemultipletasksdelivertime sensitive highquality work.
• Flexibilityforlearningdifferentapproachestoadvocacyandstrategicengagementsinvery diverse contexts.

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JASS is a feminist movement support organisation that strengthens the voice visibility leadership and collective organising power of women for a just and sustainable world for all. We equip and strengthen the leadership and organising capacity of women leaders and their organisations in Mesoamerica Southeast Asia and Southern Africa.

Our feminist movement building work supports marginalised women leaders (indigenous and rural land defenders sex workers garment workers LBTQI HIV and young activists) in critically unpacking the power dynamics affecting their lives from the personal to the public from the local to the global as to change the systems structures and beliefs that perpetuate inequity injustice and violence. Our approach enables the conditions for women to organise mobilise and transform power in four areas of their lives: Bodies Voice Resources and Safety.

Our commitment to transforming power in the world starts with how we organise and operate internally. Diversity equity and inclusion are at the heart of who we are and how we were founded. We have an intersectional staff and shared leadership structure that represents diverse geographies cultures faiths generations races abilities sexual orientations gender identities and includes activists grounded in countrylevel organising and movements. We strive for internal structures policies and practices that value the range of knowledge held in this diversity and that reflect shared principles and accountability to our mission.