Lead: Human Rights Advocacy

Position/Role – Lead: Human Rights Advocacy

Salary : ZAR 1,115 000.00

Role location: Hybrid Working

Link: Lead: Human Rights Advocacy   

Closing date: 10^th October 2024

All applicants need to apply on our website

CONTRACT TYPE:   PERMANENT  

REPORTS TO:    HEAD: GLOBAL ADVOCACY  

DIRECT REPORTS:   advisory – human rights advocacy, and task management of senior advisor: SRHR and gender and advisor: programme. 

TRAVEL REQUIRED:   OCCASIONAL-FREQUENT  

ARE YOU WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR?  

We are at a pivotal moment for human rights, gender justice and the HIV response, facing both significant challenges and also some important opportunities.   

Frontline AIDS has a long history of supporting communities and civil society partners around the world in advancing human rights and gender justice.   To lead this work into its next stage, we are looking for  a high-calibre advocate and manager , who shares our passion for the vital role of communities and civil society, and has experience working in Africa or elsewhere in the global south.  

You will have an excellent understanding of the current human rights context, including the rise of an organised anti-rights movement, with in depth insights into the diverse ways in which community-led advocacy organisations work to influence change in this context.   You will also bring knowledge of community-led monitoring using systems like our Rights – Evidence – ACTion (REAct) tool, and thought leadership on how community data can drive impactful programmes and advocacy.    

You bring go-getter energy to your work, with the confidence and ability to lead and drive high impact activities and influencing opportunities, and a commitment to supporting access to human rights spaces for communities on the frontline of the human rights response.   With excellent  written and verbal  communication skills and a strong sense of strategy, you can also navigate complex political landscapes, influence key decision-makers, and pivot where you need to, bringing others along with you.   

You are also an effective line and task manager.   Y ou enjoy collaborating and co-creating with colleagues and partners, with the inter-cultural and inter-personal competencies needed to develop strong partnerships with a wide range of global actors , building cooperation and achieving results across teams, networks, countries and cultures.   If this sounds like you, we can offer you the chance to join our committed, passionate and supportive Global Advocacy team, and to work in close partnership with dedicated and inspiring community and civil society partners from around the world, to advance a truly collective advocacy agenda at a moment of extraordinary opposition to human rights and gender justice.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES  

1. ACTION and thought LEADERSHIP (10%) 

1. Leading, managing and monitoring the delivery of our current human rights and gender justice workplan situated under Action 3 of the Frontline AIDS Global Plan of Action. 
2. Working closely with a wide network of Frontline AIDS partners through the Action 3 team to foster partner leadership on human rights and gender justice and to support community-led resistance to anti-rights mobilisation, while also maximising the added-value of Frontline AIDS as a global convenor.     
3. Monitoring developments in the external social, legal and policy environment related to Frontline AIDS' human rights and gender justice, in particular the growing anti-rights threat, and provide thought leadership on how we respond to or pre-empt these, informing both ongoing strategy and the develop of our next global strategy, which will be finalised in 2025 to run from 2026-2030. 

2. ADVOCACY LEADERSHIP, COMMUNICATIONS, representation and research (50%) 

1. Driving advocacy engagement with key institutions relevant to the Frontline AIDS human rights and gender justice workplan and to our strategy around resisting the anti-rights movement (eg UNAIDS, Human Rights mechanisms, Global Fund) and with key governments, donors and civil society actors, in collaboration with colleagues and partners in the Action 3, Global Advocacy and Programmes Teams.    
2. Collaborating with Frontline AIDS’ Communications Team to develop and deliver communications and campaigns aimed at achieving human rights and gender justice goals, including growing your personal communications and social media profile.  
3. Representing Frontline AIDS at relevant external events, eg meetings of the Human Rights Council and the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights, International AIDS Conference, ICASA etc. 
4. Overseeing research projects that help to achieve advocacy goals on human rights and gender justice, including working with Frontline AIDS partners to maximise the research and advocacy impacts of community-led data gathered through our our Rights – Evidence – ACTion (REAct) tool, and managing consultants where needed.    
5. Fostering the leadership of Frontline AIDS partners across all of our advocacy, communications, representation and research work, including championing the voices of young people and advocates from marginalised populations, while also leading team efforts to maximise the added value of Frontline Global as a global convenor. 

3. PROGRAMME DELIVERY, DESIGN and funding (20%) 

1. Providing overarching thought leadership, alongside the Lead: Programmes (Human Rights) role, as we develop and strengthen our technical approach to human rights programming, including thinking on how we build on our long track record in products such as the ReACT tool that need to keep pace with our learning and the external environment. 
2. Contributing to the delivery of restricted programmes with a focus on human rights and gender justice, in particular on our LGBT+ REACH programme, by providing strategic input for continuous programmatic impact and improvement and by supporting Frontline AIDS partners in the implementation of national, regional and global advocacy workplans, alongside others .
3. Identifying fundraising opportunities, developing relationships with potential and current donors to sustain interest, writing reports for existing donors and drafting and design of proposals for future programmes. 

4. PEOPLE MANAGEMENT (10%) 

1. Providing highly effective line management to direct reports (currently 2), as well as effective task management with key colleagues in other teams, ensuring a high level of performance and supporting individual development.  

5. Responding to human rights crises (10%) 

1. Where needed, delivering support to Frontline AIDS partners facing human rights crises, convening or contributing to internal crisis response teams or contributing actively to responses led by partners or other actors. 

6. DEVELOPING THE FRONTLINE AIDS CULTURE (cross cutting) 

Frontline AIDS cultural philosophy is that Action Makes the Difference. The attitudes and approach we take at work are guided by our organizational values - Freethinker, Inspired by Difference and Firestarter - and their associated behaviours as detailed in the Frontline AIDS behavioural framework. These behaviours outline what is expected of our staff every day and help Frontline AIDS to be a great place to work.   

Additionally,  All Frontline AIDS staff are expected to support our organizational commitment to becoming an anti-racist organisation, and to ensuring the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults.   

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