Advisor Full Time

Must haves for eligible candidates:

• Aged under 35 years at the time of application
• Three or more years demonstrated commitment to advancing women’s rights, equality and non-discrimination and feminist movement building;
• Skills in such areas as project management, communications, workshop facilitation, capacity-building, movement building and/or monitoring and evaluation;
• Good command of English is important, as well as at least one of the following languages: Arabic, Turkish, Farsi, Kurdish. [French and/or Spanish are desirable, but not mandatory]
• Located or from the following countries where we do not currently have advisors and/or need more advisory support: Algeria, Tunisia, Mauritania, Morocco, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Western Sahara, or Turkey.

Preferably engaged or working in the following thematic areas:

• Environmental and climate justice;
• Tech Feminism and Digital Security i.e. Access to information technology, applications, web-development etc for activist communities;
• Legal feminism and approaches to justice;
• Safety and security in feminist activism;
• Movement building, community mobilization and social justice organizing;
• Grassroots organization development and leadership;
• Working with girls and adolescents under the age of 18;
• Areas of conflict or post-conflict;
• Experience and/or expertise in migration, the rights of migrants, refugees and people living under occupation;
• Sex worker OR sexual & reproductive health and rights movement. This must include good knowledge of the issues and challenges faced by the sexual rights movement;
• Migration and the rights of migrant community groups;
• Arts for activism such as theater, street art, or music;
• Rights of minority, ethnic, and rural groups
• Rights of people living with disabilities;
• Care economy and domestic worker rights;
• Sexual orientation and gender identity & expression (SOGIE) related issues and a good knowledge of SOGIE organizations and networks on the continent.

Desirable:

• Grant-making, international development, or working with a funding institution (experience grant-making to young women’s groups and/or start-up, small or community-based groups highly desirable);
• Communication experience, such as pitching and writing articles, managing social media, graphic design and/or filming;
• Digital security skills, such as preventing and managing attacks and hacks against activists online via social media, website, and email;
• Resource mobilization experience, such as applying for or receiving monetary grants from a donor or organizing fundraising activities with individuals (ie. events or online crowdfunding);
• Law, finance, accounting and/ or corporate social responsibility

Please review the requirements and criteria below (Advisor Terms of Reference document), and if you are interested, submit your application along with a cover letter and CV via this form ​​ no later than: 22 July 2019

If you have any questions or have trouble accessing the form, please contact [email protected]