Title: Global Accountability and Advocacy Lead

Status: Full time (Term Limited – 2 years)

Annual Salary: $110,000

Classification: Exempt

Job Level: Director

Supervisor: VP of Programs

Direct Reports: Global Accountability Grants and Communications Manager

OVERVIEW

Global Fund for Women envisions a world where movements for gender justice have transformed power and privilege for a few into equity and equality for all. Our mission is to fund and strengthen bold and ambitious gender justice movements to create lasting meaningful change.

Generation Equality Forum, A Feminist Accountability Process

Twenty-six years after the landmark Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action was adopted at the UN, the Generation Equality Forum (GEF) has set forth the largest-ever global funding pledge in support of gender equality. In July 2021, over $40 billion was committed by governments, the private sector, international financial institutions, philanthropy, and civil society to drive investments and action for gender equality and girls’ rights by 2026. Over the next five years, as stakeholders act on their commitments, it is crucial that we hold each other accountable. The multitude of commitments announced at the GEF has the potential to catalyze transformative change. To this end, an intersectional, feminist-led, transformative, inclusive, and transparent accountability process will be essential to the GEF’s success, particularly to ensure that GEF resources are directed in a flexible way towards locally led movements centering on women, girls, and all historically marginalized people, such as girls, young women, women with disabilities, and trans and gender non-conforming activists, rather than disproportionately being awarded to international NGOs and governments.

Global Fund for Women aims to provide strategic support and drive meaningful change towards the realization of the GEF commitments and pledged funds by facilitating and co-implementing an intersectional, feminist, transformative, and inclusive, and transparent accountability process parallel to the official process set up by UN Women. Our strategy is two-fold; setting up a feminist data compilation and analysis process that tracks three levels of accountability—accountability for commitment, accountability for process, and accountability for impact—which would then feed into and support strategic communications, dialogues and bridge-building, and advocacy efforts across a certain sub-set of chosen commitments. Year one of this initiative would be spent co-designing the framework of the initiative with feminist partners and grantees to ensure inclusion, accessibility, and shared ownership and decision-making. After the co-design phase, we will move into two years of implementation with a possible extension pending funding.

JOB SUMMARY

The two key pillars of this accountability initiative focus on: (1) data compilation and analysis and (2) strategic communications and advocacy. In close partnership with each other in a co-leadership model, the Global Accountability and Advocacy Lead will primarily focus on the latter, while the Global Accountability Data Lead will primarily focus on the former.

The Global Accountability and Advocacy Lead will support the weaving together of advocacy strategies with feminist partners and grantees that cut across and connect national, regional, and global spaces and processes. With the Data Lead and Grants & Communications Manager, they will support a steering committee to develop a workplan and timeline for the co-design process, incorporating input from all partners, and hire and manage consultants to support this work as needed. They will act as project manager and collaborate with the Data Lead and Grants & Communications Manager in tool design, in strategic communications and in grantmaking.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

Project Management and Co-Design

• Act as project manager, with responsibility for reporting on budget, project, and donor deliverables
• With the Global Accountability Data Lead:

• Support the steering committee to develop a workplan and timeline for the co-design process
• Hire and manage consultants to support the co-design process, including facilitation, translation, accessibility, communications, data analysis, etc.
• Co-supervise and co-mentor grants & communications manager with data lead
• Facilitate and coordinate with partners to:

1. Develop a set of criteria that will guide the prioritization of commitments and commitment makers for accountability tracking
2. Develop data analysis plans guided by communications and advocacy agenda
3. Determine roles and responsibilities of each partner (who does what) and how we work together (how do we coordinate, provide mutual support, and hold each other accountable) so that the different aspects of the accountability work is integrated (e.g., data and communications and advocacy strategies, thematic focus, national, regional, and global focus, etc.)
4. Map, assess and identify capacity needs (e.g., what tools do we collectively have and can adapt, versus, what tools can each partner develop according to their expertise, and how can we train and learn from each other laterally)

• Ensure accessibility, language and time justice across the entire initiative at all times

External Advocacy

• Act as a spokesperson, bridge-builder and actively advocate in consultation with grantee partners at a Global level and with GEF commitment makers
• Support Global Fund for Women’s work and commitments in the Generation Equality Forum, including engagement on the UN Accountability Working Group, and other spaces as needed
• Manage Global Fund for Women’s GEF Action Coalition commitments externally, weaving together our entire UN advocacy work, with presence at Action Coalitions (1) Technology and Innovation for Gender Equality and (2) Feminist Movements and Leadership and Accountability
• Serve as the thought leader on intersectional feminist accountability
• In collaboration with the Grants & Communications Manager, write and edit high-quality advocacy content, including letters, campaigns, research briefs, factsheets, and other communications content
• Support the Development team by contributing to proposal and report development and cultivating donor relations, as needed.
• Travel internationally, if appropriate, to meetings (estimated once per quarter)

Grantmaking and Grants+

• Outreach to center and support the participation and decision-making of grantee partners and feminist activists in the accountability work
• Award and manage grants with the Grants & Communication Manager
• Nurture and maintain relationships with Global Fund for Women’s grantee partners and support them in connecting their advocacy and policy influencing efforts at the national, regional, and global levels
• Support the strengthening of south-south and cross regional collaboration, exchange, and strategizing between grantee partners
• Network and maintain strategic relationships with relevant stakeholders in allied movements including but not limited to youth, disability, indigenous women, sex workers, LGBTQI, and migration rights, as well as racial, reproductive, economic, environmental and climate justice to advance Global Fund for Women’s feminist intersectional agenda

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

Required

• 8-10 years’ work experience with a minimum of 3 years working in complex international environments with practical advocacy experience.
• in related disciplines.
• Sound knowledge of political realities on gender justice in a variety of global contexts.
• Demonstrated spokesperson and advocacy experience in multilateral processes and spaces at global and regional levels such as the Generation Equality Forum, United Nations Commission on Population and Development, Commission on Status of Women, High Level Political Forum, UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review, World Health Organization’s CSO accountability and engagement platforms.
• Strong relationship and connections to the feminist movements globally.
• Flexibility and willingness to work virtually with a diverse, multilingual and multicultural team on different time zones.
• Strong project management, analytical, writing and presentation skills.
• Oral and written fluency in English and at least one of the other official languages of Global Fund for Women (Arabic, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian)
• Commitment to intersectional feminism and a collaborative spirit.

Preferred

• Experience with designing democratic governance structures for maximum participation and decision-making power for all involved.
• Knowledge of internal and external diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging strategies and processes.
• Thought leader on gender justice advocacy globally, including knowledge of and experience working in feminist accountability processes with other national, regional or global policy spaces.
• Advanced feminist facilitation and mediation skills.
• Experience operationalizing and working within a collective care and healing justice framework.

Global Fund for Women is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, age, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by law. Women, people of color, and LGBTQI candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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