Center for Reproductive Rights
: Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
Date : 2023-03-24
Job Title: Advocacy Adviser, Africa
Department: Global Legal Programs, Africa
Center Background: The Center for Reproductive Rights (the Center) is the global leader in using the power of law to advance reproductive rights as fundamental human rights. Headquartered in New York City, the non-profit, non-partisan organization has regional offices in Bogota, Geneva, Nairobi, and Washington, DC, and a staff of approximately 200 diverse professionals. The Center’s compelling human rights mission and reputation for excellence and cutting-edge legal work has powered its exceptional growth trajectory to an operating budget of over $40 million and won the respect of the world’s leading law firms, as reflected in the additional $29 million annually in donated legal services, representing the work last year of 820 lawyers in 46 countries.
The overarching goal of the Center’s new Strategic Plan sets a high mark for impact: By 2030, half of the world’s population will be living under stronger protections for reproductive rights than they do today. The Center has a track record of success to back up this ambitious goal. Since its founding in 1992, the Center’s game-changing litigation and advocacy, combined with its unparalleled expertise in constitutional, comparative, and international human rights law, have transformed how reproductive rights are understood by courts, governments, and human rights bodies worldwide on issues including maternal health, contraception, abortion, and assisted reproduction. It has won groundbreaking cases before national courts, U.N. Committees, and regional human rights bodies, led the development of historic, proactive legislation advancing robust protections for reproductive rights, and has built the legal capacity of women’s rights advocates in more than 60 countries and counting.
To learn more about the Center for Reproductive Rights, go to www.reproductiverights.org. To learn more about our DEI Organizational Commitments, go here.
The Role: Reporting to the Senior Advocacy Adviser Africa, the Advocacy Advisor for Africa, will support the delivery of the Center’s strategic policy and advocacy objectives, working with key partners to build, strengthen and implement SRHR standards and norms regionally and internationally.
The Advocacy Adviser, Africa will be based in the Nairobi Office.
Primary Responsibilities:
Technical support and Norm building:
Any other relevant duties as may be assigned from time to time.
Qualifications:
Qualifications and Experience:
How to Apply: Please complete the application below to apply. A cover letter and resume must be included in your application. Please include these application materials as attachments.
Deadline for applications: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled. Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply as soon as possible.
Center policy on visa sponsorship for US based positions: Applicants for employment in the US must have valid work authorization that does not now and/or will not in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the US by The Center for Reproductive Rights.
To learn more about our DEI Organizational Commitments, go here. The Center for Reproductive Rights is an equal opportunity employer, committed to inclusive hiring, and dedicated to diversity in our work and staff. We strongly encourage people from all groups and communities to apply.
Please note that all genuine Center openings must be applied through the Center website. The Center does not charge a fee at any stage in the recruitment process (application, interviews, or selection). Nor does it request any medical examinations or bank account inform as part of this process. If someone contacts you on behalf of the Center requesting payment for your application please notify talent@reprorights.org before taking any further action.
Department: Global Legal Programs, Africa
Center Background: The Center for Reproductive Rights (the Center) is the global leader in using the power of law to advance reproductive rights as fundamental human rights. Headquartered in New York City, the non-profit, non-partisan organization has regional offices in Bogota, Geneva, Nairobi, and Washington, DC, and a staff of approximately 200 diverse professionals. The Center’s compelling human rights mission and reputation for excellence and cutting-edge legal work has powered its exceptional growth trajectory to an operating budget of over $40 million and won the respect of the world’s leading law firms, as reflected in the additional $29 million annually in donated legal services, representing the work last year of 820 lawyers in 46 countries.
The overarching goal of the Center’s new Strategic Plan sets a high mark for impact: By 2030, half of the world’s population will be living under stronger protections for reproductive rights than they do today. The Center has a track record of success to back up this ambitious goal. Since its founding in 1992, the Center’s game-changing litigation and advocacy, combined with its unparalleled expertise in constitutional, comparative, and international human rights law, have transformed how reproductive rights are understood by courts, governments, and human rights bodies worldwide on issues including maternal health, contraception, abortion, and assisted reproduction. It has won groundbreaking cases before national courts, U.N. Committees, and regional human rights bodies, led the development of historic, proactive legislation advancing robust protections for reproductive rights, and has built the legal capacity of women’s rights advocates in more than 60 countries and counting.
To learn more about the Center for Reproductive Rights, go to www.reproductiverights.org. To learn more about our DEI Organizational Commitments, go here.
The Role: Reporting to the Senior Advocacy Adviser Africa, the Advocacy Advisor for Africa, will support the delivery of the Center’s strategic policy and advocacy objectives, working with key partners to build, strengthen and implement SRHR standards and norms regionally and internationally.
The Advocacy Adviser, Africa will be based in the Nairobi Office.
Primary Responsibilities:
Technical support and Norm building:
- Lead in engagement with the regional and sub regional human rights mechanisms
- Provide technical support to regional human rights mechanisms and support special Mandates & procedures in executing their mandates as necessary.
- Support partner capacity strengthening for an increased engagement with Human rights mechanisms.
- Deliver a range of influencing activities including events, undertaking publications, drafting position papers and briefings, convening policy dialogue with policymakers, etc.
- Follow key influencing processes and provide briefings and updates as required to relevant Center staff and partners.
- Map out key influencers that the Center should engage with on the SDGs and AU policy processes working closely with the relevant partners and strategic allies.
- Represent the Center and engage with a range of key external stakeholders, including government officials, regional and global institutions, think tanks, academics, private sector and other key advocacy audiences.
- Draft and communicate analysis and insight of key policy and political trends and issues for internal and external audiences.
- Work with the Africa team to deliver the overall policy and campaigns strategy and organizational priorities.
- Track, monitor and evaluate the Center’s influencing strategies and contribute to team planning, budgeting, and annual reporting.
- Lead in implementation of court decisions in the Center’s focus countries in Africa and collaborate with partners for implementation in the focal countries.
- Build relationships with relevant line ministries and legislators in Center’s focus countries in Africa
- Support partner efforts towards national level legislative and policy processes in the focal countries
- Coordinate strategic advocacy partnerships for purposes of implementation
- Support national level implementation of decisions and recommendations from human rights mechanisms (UN & regional)
- Undertake research to document and expose human rights violations/ to communicate impact of our work.
- Develop project agreements, as needed, and monitor activities and expenses relating to them.
Any other relevant duties as may be assigned from time to time.
Qualifications:
Qualifications and Experience:
- Degree in law or other relevant degree required with 5 – 8 years professional and/or relevant experience.
- Knowledge of international human rights, women’s rights, Africa regional and global human rights mechanism.
- Ability to travel and, when required, to work outside normal office hours.
- Demonstrable Experience in :
- Successfully achieving advocacy objectives and achieving policy change, in the context of NGO influencing agenda.
- Designing and delivering successful advocacy strategies.
- Strategic understanding of the political trends, opportunities, and challenges in international development and of the African and international political landscape
- Designing and delivering successful advocacy strategies
- Possess excellent writing, editing.
- Demonstrable behaviors in the areas :
- Live the values of The Centre for Reproductive rights.
- Strong relationship building and networking skills.
- Good oral communication and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate complex policy propositions to a range of audiences (external Strong facilitation and negotiation skills.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills including writing, editing and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate complex policy propositions to a range of audiences (external and internal)
- Be analytical, Creative, and proactive in approach.
- Be good at planning, organizing and work structuring.
- Be Flexible while working in fast-paced diversified work environment.
- Strategic thinking: Applies big-picture thinking while also focusing on the details of implementation.
- Decisiveness: Consistently makes sound decisions in a timely manner supportive of the Center's mission, core values, and strategic objectives. Blends vision and judgment.
- Collaboration: Brings a track record of working effectively with various and diverse individuals and groups, and a willingness to actively listen and invite different views and opinions across all levels of the institution to build alignment in support of a common goal.
- Receives and Provides Direct Feedback: Actively gives and requests feedback to and from peers, supervisors and direct reports (if applicable) about work products, behaviors, values, style and approaches with a view on how this impacts self, other individuals and teams.
- Transparency: Consistently applies openness and honesty in communicating decisions and plans to team members.
- Commitment to learn: Applies a growth mentality to their own and their team’s (if applicable) development. Promotes a culture of learning by modeling inquisitiveness and an openness to viewing mistakes as an opportunity to learn and improve.
- Passion for Coaching, and Mentoring Staff: Empowers and motivates employees and creates opportunities for learning, development, and leadership, with a focus on harnessing skills for the future development of team members. (if applicable)
- Accountability: Follows through on each commitment made to individual contributors, teams and partners and proactively informs others of any delays that occur along the way. Holds team members accountable.
- Integrity: Possesses impeccable integrity and personal and professional values that are consistent with the Center’s high standards and mission.
- Empathy: Serves as an empathetic, approachable leader who engenders trust and confidence. (if applicable)
- Adaptability/Flexibility: Demonstrates comfort with ambiguity and calculated risk.
How to Apply: Please complete the application below to apply. A cover letter and resume must be included in your application. Please include these application materials as attachments.
Deadline for applications: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled. Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply as soon as possible.
Center policy on visa sponsorship for US based positions: Applicants for employment in the US must have valid work authorization that does not now and/or will not in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the US by The Center for Reproductive Rights.
To learn more about our DEI Organizational Commitments, go here. The Center for Reproductive Rights is an equal opportunity employer, committed to inclusive hiring, and dedicated to diversity in our work and staff. We strongly encourage people from all groups and communities to apply.
Please note that all genuine Center openings must be applied through the Center website. The Center does not charge a fee at any stage in the recruitment process (application, interviews, or selection). Nor does it request any medical examinations or bank account inform as part of this process. If someone contacts you on behalf of the Center requesting payment for your application please notify talent@reprorights.org before taking any further action.
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