Regional Community Engagement & Partnerships Lead at International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)

Role Deliverables

• Conduct preliminary data analysis for the purpose of developing new community engagements and partnerships with community networks.
• Organise outreach meetings/events with community partners in support of our aim to provide opportunities for challenge, engagement and disruption.
• Recommend community engagement improvements that optimise the relationship between marginalized groups and IPPF.
• Provide practical guidance on engaging with community partners so those we serve can challenge and disrupt how we think, speak and act.
• Create and maintain regional opposition maps based on gathered/shared intelligence for use in informing decisions and priorities for action.
• Support and enable a safe environment, adhering to the safeguarding reporting and monitoring requirements of this role.
• Collaborate with IPPFAR teams, MAs and Community partners to ensure that the views, and priorities of community groups are included in our work.

Qualifications

• Lived experience within a stigmatized population an asset; an activist who works within and across multiple community networks challenging the system; standing up and speaking out.
• Builds authentic relationships and can relate to people from different cultures and backgrounds in a positive, engaging and thoughtful way.
• Inclusive, curious, and open to other’s ideas as well as coming up with and articulating their own ideas.
• Problem solver.
• Good at organizing themselves.
• Understands how to leverage new technologies and digital spaces to support activism.
• Fluent in written and verbal English; fluency in French and/or Portuguese is an advantage.
• Demonstrates an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding in a local and international context.
• Demonstrates ability and willingness to work in a diverse, multicultural, multilingual and intergenerational environment that is anti-racist and respectful of others.
• An intersectional (pro) feminist passionate about sexual reproductive health care rights + justice.
• Supportive of people’s rights regardless of sexuality or gender identity/expression and supportive of worker’s rights and access to health care in sex work.