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Senior Women's Protection Adviser

Employer
ActionAid
Location
EC1R 0BJ, London (Greater)
Salary
£40,222 - £41,440 per annum
Closing date
24 Feb 2019

Job Details

ActionAid are recruiting for a Senior Women’s Protection Specialist to manage the provision of high-quality technical support and guidance on women’s protection programming in humanitarian crises.

 

We are looking to recruit an individual with solid proven experience of working in humanitarian contexts on women’s protection within an international development organisation.

Our Senior Women’s Protection Specialist will be responsible for providing input into the development of a new technical and policy identity aligned to ActionAid UK (AAUK)’s new strategic objectives.

You will be responsible for keeping abreast of and leading on global research on women’s protection, with a special focus on situations of protracted crises.

We will look to you to develop evidence of good practice, and to document key learning on all technical areas related to women’s protection in protracted crises.

An important part of this role will be to support in-country responses to meet ActionAid’s humanitarian standards and signatures (shifting power; accountability to affected communities; women’s leadership), in relation to women’s protection and with a feminist perspective.

In order to succeed within this role, you must have proven experience of managing research processes aimed at shaping development programmes or influencing policy.

You must also have proven experience of developing and delivering a training curriculum for building capacity on women’s protection and leadership in humanitarian and protracted crises.

You must have a proven track record of problem-solving and innovation, whilst working with a minimal amount of guidance.

We are keen to receive applications from those with exceptional interpersonal skills and the ability to quickly develop effective working relationships with a diverse stakeholder group.

It is important that you have experience of public speaking and a proven ability to write detailed technical reports and of presenting key messages to a variety of audiences.

To succeed within this role, you must have experience of working at a regional or international level on policy/advocacy issues.

It is important that the post holder has an excellent knowledge of global protection frameworks and approaches, along with a good understanding and track record of the humanitarian architecture and conflict sensitive programming.

We are keen that all applicants are able to demonstrate a commitment to women’s leadership from a feminist perspective.

Please note that this role is being offered as a one year fixed term contract.

Company

ActionAid is an international development charity which works in 45 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Founded in 1972, ActionAid is an international federation and has offices in Johannesburg, Nairobi, Rio de Janeiro, Bangkok and Washington DC, as well as London.

ActionAid UK is part of the international federation and almost all of the people and partners who run ActionAid programmes are from the developing world. This means its staff are on the ground, experiencing poverty at first hand. They see day-to-day how poverty affects people’s lives, and are uniquely placed to give a voice to the women and children who suffer most.

ActionAid’s work has several different components, unified by a commitment to place women and girls at the centre of its work. The charity aims to end hunger by giving millions of people in extreme poverty the skills they need to grow sustainable food, and campaigns to address the causes of hunger.

ActionAid also responds to emergencies and conflicts. It provided emergency assistance to more than 600,000 people in 2015 and trained nearly 46,000 others to protect lives and prepare for emergencies. In total the charity responded to 27 emergencies around the world last year.

Improving access to education is another facet of its mission. 59 million children, more than half of them girls, were out of school in 2013. ActionAid works with more than 5,000 schools across Africa, Asia and Latin America to help over a millions girls and boys get the free, quality education they are entitled to.

Women’s rights and gender equality informs all of ActionAid’s activities. The charity works with communities against female genital mutilation, gender-based violence and forced early marriage.

ActionAid also campaigns for tax justice, fairer wages and more effective aid which can tackle the roots causes of poverty. It estimates that poorer countries lose around $200 billion a year from tax dodging by companies.

A variety of different roles are available at ActionAid including policy adviser, fundraising offer and HR manager. Employee benefits are plentiful, encompassing the opportunity to develop new skills, a pension scheme, childcare vouchers and free advice services.

ActionAid also supports selected UK employees to travel to host countries in order to gain first-hand experience of its in-country work. Frequent secondments, whereby employees work, for a period, in another department or different country in the federation, take place. The charity encourages job shares.

Company info
Website
Telephone
020 3122 0561
Location
33-39 Bowling Green Lane
London
EC1R 0BJ
GB

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