Interim Head of Women's Rights (International Development)

Interim Head of Women's Rights -Technical Unit (IDPP)

Maternity cover (12 months FTC)

Up to £47,000 (negotiable for the right candidate)

Central London

Our client are looking for an exceptional candidate who is passionate about women’s and girls’ rights. You will be taking responsibility for our clients overall technical and thought leadership in line with new strategy and priorities on women’s and girls’ rights.

We are recruiting an interim Head of Women’s Rights Technical and Research Unit to lead a talented group of women’s rights technical and policy advisers to deliver our strategy.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in international development programming and policy work on women’s rights, including at field level and this is an essential requirement for the role.

Our International Development Policy and Practice team is a key delivery partner in our new strategy. The team’s Women’s Rights Technical and Research Unit is comprised of policy and technical advisers who advance programme led learning, policy perspectives to target donors, influencers, academic audiences and policy makers.

A key purpose of the team is the provision of high quality research, technical advice and policy development rooted in our programme and policy work, applying feminist principles to research and analysis.

You will have strong team management experience and will be skilled in motivating and shaping an exciting new function.

If you are inspired to fight the denial of women’s and girls’ rights and remove one of the biggest causes of poverty worldwide, and a grave injustice please get in touch.