SRHR & Evawg Officer at African Women’s Development and Communication Network

Main duties and responsibilities:

Policy and Advocacy

1. Design advocacy and influencing strategy for the engagement of men and boys in policy influencing in spaces including the UN Headquarters, African Union, national governments, and local levels.
2. Design and support the implementation of or localizing global campaigns for engaging men and boys in promoting gender equality.
3. Participation in media and presenting the Men-to-Men Strategy on mainstream and social media platforms.
4. Developing a policy framework to increase knowledge on priority issues related to men to men and support stakeholders to translate this into better policies, guidelines, and programming decisions.
5. Developing, collating, and disseminating advocacy resources, and providing advocacy guidance to the project.
6. Identifying key areas for research on relevant policy issues and opportunities to implement such research in collaboration with program and technical staff and other stakeholders.
7. Handling processes for sharing lessons and drawing out experience from field activities, including synthesizing learning from monitoring and evaluation, and responding to policy opportunities emerging from the program work in collaboration with the FEMNET team.

Project Coordination.

1. Provision of technical support to FEMNET members to nurture the Men-to-Men Strategy and Interventions in their countries and programs.
2. Documenting and disseminating reports on the engagement of men and boys in collaboration with FEMNET members and other stakeholders at global, regional, and national levels.
3. Development or updating of training materials and curriculum for the in-country and regional training on Masculinity and gender-based violence;
4. Conducting training and capacity building for men and boys on the Men-to-Men Strategy and social change interventions;
5. Expand the Men-to-Men Constituency to reach non-traditional partners including religious and cultural institutions among others.
6. Developing, connecting, and networking of the Men-to-Men Regional stakeholders with each other and with other progressive initiatives that target men and boys for gender equality.
7. Expand the scope of work with men and boys to include SRHR, economic justice, and Women’s leadership, Information & Communication, Climate Justice & Natural Resource Governance, Resource mobilisation and partnerships and Institutional Capacity Strengthening.
8. Cocreation of interventions with men-dominated sectors and spaces in the target countries.
9. Promotion and showcasing the Men-to-Men Strategy in meetings, forums, and media.
10. Innovate new ways of reaching out to men and boys and engaging them on GBV and social change.
11. Follow the project work plan and proactively contribute to the achievement of the strategic directions of the FEMNET; ensuring adherence to quality and timeliness of the deliverables.

Monitoring and Evaluation.

1. Monitors progress towards established goals of the FEMNET Men to men program. Relates progress to the overarching FEMNET’s Periodic Work Plans and Strategic Plan.

Resource Mobilization

1. Supporting and develop funding proposals for institutional support and expanding the Men-to-Men Strategy, programs, and interventions.
2. Reporting and feedback with different funding partners for engagement of men and boys in promoting SRHR and elimination of all forms of gender-based violence.

5.Minimum Academic Qualifications and Requirements

Academic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Development Studies, Law, Social Sciences, Public Health, Political Science, Humanities Gender, and Law or any other relevant disciplines.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience working with the Women’s Rights Movement, Positive masculinity, or civil society organizations, in Human Rights with a focus on project design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and working in international teams.
• Expertise in working on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRH-R) or Men and boys’ engagement.
• Keen on ensuring ownership by local organisations and finding innovative and creative solutions to realize goals.
• Work experience in a National, regional or international environment.
• Flexible attitude, creative, supports FEMNETs’ and We Lead values, has a progressive and positive view on SRH-R and the leadership of rightsholders.
• Solid technical knowledge of/expertise in SRHR programming and advocacy using a feminist frame of analysis**.**
• A critical understanding of and deep commitment to feminism, social justice, and human rights issues facing women and girls within the continent.
• Bilingual (English and French) will be added advantage.