Senior Political Advisor

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International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)

  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Development
  • Experience level: Not specified
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Not Specified
  • Right to work requirements: Not specified
  • Remuneration: $86,217 USD-$108,380 USD / yearly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Deadline: 08/09/2023
  • Location: United States 
Sexual & reproductive rights (SRHR) Health
Deliverables:
·       Build Members’ input into the Nexus Initiative’s strategy and annual workplan design and implementation.
·       Manage the Initiative’s coordination activities in New York including, but not limited to strategic planning, execution, and operations.
·       Develop and tailor materials for political advocacy including, but not limited to technical briefings, background documents, key messages, talking points, strategies and tools, joint statements and outreach, and planning scenarios.
·       Play a substantive role in planning, organizing, and supporting follow-up from Nexus meetings and briefing events. 
·       Lead and maintain the Secretariat’s analyses of past voting records and country positions to inform the outreach strategy.
·       Identify opportunities to advance SRHR and gender equality in UN negotiations in New York and Geneva; and advise Members on these opportunities as required.
·       Identify, build, and maintain relationships and networks with a wide range of key stakeholders, including UN missions, UN agencies, subsidiary bodies, functional commissions, civil society organizations, and other key networks, partners, coalitions, bodies, and organizations active in New York to ensure the Nexus Secretariat can effectively contribute to the overall SRHR ecosystem and the advancement of human rights.
·       Track and produce ongoing analyses of global and regional political developments impacting SRHR and gender-related processes in the UN and other international fora, identify opportunities or concerns relevant to Nexus and work with the Director and Nexus Members to adapt the strategy accordingly.
·       Serve as a key Secretariat focal point to backstop and support relevant Nexus working groups.
·       Report and share information and intelligence on UN negotiations in a timely and thoughtful way to Nexus Members.
·       Represent the Nexus Secretariat at international, civil society and UN meetings.
·       Contribute to donor reporting efforts including feeding into the monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) framework and tracker.
·       Perform other related tasks as deemed necessary and appropriate by the Director.
·       Adapt IPPF’s antiracism policies and objectives that enhances Nexus’ internal operations and external engagement.
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Reporting/Management Responsibility:
·       Regularly collaborates with the Nexus Initiative’s Members, the Secretariat’s Director, and colleagues of the Secretariat.
·       At times, assumes matrix management / reporting responsibilities of / to other Members of the Nexus Secretariat based on specific project roles and responsibilities.
 
Expertise/Skills:
·       Expertise developing and executing political advocacy strategies that yield results in multilateral fora, ideally on the topics of SRHR and/or gender equality.
·       Thorough knowledge of UN structures and processes, and ideally of national government structures and processes.
·       Experience working in and with non-governmental organizations as part of coalitions; familiarity with and a commitment to sexual and reproductive rights, reproductive justice, intersectionality, gender equality, women’s and girls’ rights, and human rights.
·       Excellent writing and communications skills and fluent English. Proficiency in other UN official language (particularly Arabic, French, or Spanish) is desirable.

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