*about fòs feminista*
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.
*the global advocacy for change unit*
*position summary*
the senior global advocacy officer will collaborate in the design and implementation of advocacy strategies that cuts across and connects national, regional, and global spaces and processes to advance sexual and reproductive justice from an intersectional feminist perspective. The officer will work full time with reporting line to associate directors within the global advocacy for change unit (75% of time) and a reporting line to associate directors within the sustainable ecosystem unit (25% of time).
The senior global advocacy officer will have a demonstrated commitment to and alignment with fòs feminista’s principles and values, particularly those related to social justice, equity, and non-discrimination, which are essential to our mandate of advancing srhrj for women, girls, and gender-diverse people—particularly in the global south.
*key responsibilities*
- lead fòs feminista’s work in regional multilateral spaces, including economic commission for latin america and the caribbean, organization of american states and the inter america systems for human rights including working with the associate director, u.s. Global advocacy before, during, and after official negotiations.
- build and nurture relationships with regional actors such as member states, regional un agencies (unpfa, un women, and unesco), and other cso and feminist networks including the networks of networks.
- support fòs feminista’s lac regional partners to engage in global multilateral spaces and processes, including the un commission on women, un commission on population and development, high level political forum, un general assembly working and human rights processes in geneva in collaboration with the associate director, global and multilateral advocacy.
- write and edit high-quality advocacy content, including petitions, letters, meeting requests, research briefs, factsheets, and other communications.
- support coordination of arrangements for in-person and virtual technical briefings, meetings, and side events.
- support the implementation of advocacy capacity building efforts, including advocacy in multilateral spaces, for partners in the fòs feminista’s alliance and for the broader feminist movements.
- nurture and maintain partnership relationships with fòs feminista’s alliance members, focusing on latin america and caribbean and support them in connecting their srj advocacy and policy influencing efforts at the national to the regional and global levels in collaboration with the sustainable ecosystem team.
- contribute to developing feminist knowledge and analysis in accessible communication formats to support advocacy activities and priorities of the fòs feminista alliance.
- working with other team members, support the strengthening of south-south and cross regional collaboration, exchange, and strategizing amongst alliance members.
- network and maintain strategic relationsh