National Advocacy Consultancy

I. GENERAL FRAMEWORK OF REFERENCE

1.1 Background

Fòs Feminista is an intersectional feminist organization centered around the sexual and reproductive rights and needs of women, girls, and gender-diverse people. Led and governed by the Global South, Fòs Feminista works as an alliance of organizations in 40+ countries worldwide to advance sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice. Fòs Feminista is both the connective tissue that links these diverse partners in an alliance and an active participant in the broader ecosystem of actors working on sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice (SRHRJ). Fòs Feminista orchestrates transnational and transregional action by connecting partners throughout the SRHRJ ecosystem, amplifying innovative partner-led solutions to SRHRJ issues, and catalyzing funding and political will for an intersectional feminist agenda on SRHRJ.

We recognize that the ability of women, girls, and gender-diverse people to make free and informed choices about their sexual and reproductive lives, including to access safe and legal abortion, is central to their life plans and to achieving gender and reproductive justice. Together with partners in the Alliance, we provide access to sexual and reproductive health care and services, including contraception, abortion, and care for victims of gender-based violence, and we reach young people with comprehensive sexuality education. We are at the forefront of advocating for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) from an intersectional lens in national, regional, and global spaces, coordinating with our partners to ensure that diverse experiences, priorities, and voices of the Global South are represented in these spaces. And we strengthen intersectional feminist movements and organizations by creating and holding space for partners to participate in an international community built on feminist values of sharing power, diversity, mutual learning, and solidarity, and to access resources to strengthen their work.

II. SCOPE OF WORK

2.1 Objective & Role of the Consultancy

The Consultant will provide project advocacy support to a large, regional project working to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights and comprehensive sexuality education implemented in close partnership with local organizations in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Guyana. The project, launched in 2020 and anticipated to run through 2024, aims to improve access to and quality delivery of youth-friendly SRH services and gender-transformative comprehensive sexuality education, and to increase government & civil society responsiveness to the SRHR of young people & especially adolescent girls at local, national, regional & global levels.

The Consultant forms an integral part of a small core team to manage, support and monitor the day-to-day implementation of the ongoing project. In close collaboration with local partners and other team members, particularly project technical leads, the Consultant will work to ensure that project advocacy targets are met via the successful completion of project deliverables.

Principally, the Consultant will provide significant support to local project partners in the following broad areas:

• Coordinating and documenting project advocacy efforts at a regional level against planned project outputs and outcomes and facilitating fluid communication between project partners
• Enabling spaces to facilitate dialogues and knowledge exchange with and between local partners
• Providing guidance to local partners to prepare country reports for international and regional advocacy mechanisms.
• Preparation of biannual, annual, and ad hoc reports and summaries of project advocacy activities and results against project targets and indicators

2.2 Consultant Deliverables

• 1 Partners meeting
• Country’s updated information on SRHRJ context.
• SRH regional report developed
• Report for donors.
• Local partners’ advocacy plans developed according to their projects

2.3 Consultant Profile

A broad diversity of skills, capabilities, expertise, knowledge, attitudes, and experiences will be considered for the role, but the ideal candidate is:

• Passionate and committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice through intersectional feminist approaches
• Unequivocal in their support for abortion rights and improving equitable access to a full range of sexual and reproductive health care for all
• A recognized leader in the region with expertise in SRHR advocacy and social monitoring
• Deeply knowledgeable of the sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice landscape particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean or other areas of the Global South
• Skilled in the organization and facilitation of programmatic and advocacy trainings
• Adept at project management and a self-starter, able to trouble-shoot challenges as they arise and seek swift solutions
• Equally as comfortable working independently as collaboratively in a team
• Conscientious, detail-oriented, able to balance competing priorities and tight timelines
• Bilingual in spoken and written English and Spanish, comfortable designing and delivering presentations and conversing in both languages

Preferably, the consultant will have a master’s degree in public health, international affairs, social development, public policy, or other relevant field and a minimum of 8 years of experience working with civil society organizations in the region managing SRHR advocacy projects, but all types of experience will be considered.

III. INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT

3.1 Project duration

An estimated of 8-12 hours per week, starting April 2023 continuing to December 2023.

3.2 Project location

Fully remote, based anywhere in the world (preferably in Africa, Asia, and The Americas.) The Consultant must be willing to adjust to different time zones.

3.3 Reporting

The Consultant will report to the Associate Director, Program Management, Sustainable Ecosystem unit.

3.4 Compensation & Level of Effort (LOE)

Interested candidates, please, provide an estimated hour rate for this consultancy in US $.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

Fòs Feminista is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to advancing sexual and reproductive rights and health and dismantling inequities from a feminist intersectional lens. Reproductive justice, racial justice, and diversity are driving forces for us.

Fòs Feminista provides equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to age, race, color, disability, national origin, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital and partnership status, genetic information, veteran status or any other protected category under federal, state and local law.

At Fòs Feminista, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our employees. We strongly encourage applications from all kinds of backgrounds to build a diverse workforce in which all social and minority groups are represented.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.