South Asia Advocacy Coordinator, POWER Project

Working directly with the International Project Manager and international platforms on women’s rights and resilient livelihoods. This role will involve implementing the advocacy work on women’s rights the raising of the visibility of the intersections of unpaid care work, violence against women and agroecology with regional bodies such as the UNESCAP, FAO and SAARC and influencing other regional stakeholders. The POWER Project aims to promote women’s economic empowerment. This is done through increasing the income of 21,000 women in Ghana, Rwanda and Bangladesh and their ability to control their income, agroecology, better access to markets and reducing, recognising and redistributing their Unpaid Care Work. The project is seeking to recruit an Advocacy Coordinator for South Asia to strengthen its advocacy work who will work 3 Days a week 60% role.
Key responsibilities and linkages

• South Asia Advocacy for POWER project focused on women living in rural areas rights
• Organise and support Regional Advocacy meetings with key stakeholders
• Maintain and support engagement of South Asia feminist movements and agroecological movements
• Participate in regional and international advocacy meetings organized by SAARC, Peoples SAARC, CFS, FAO and UNESCAP and others as and when necessary
• Support and coordinate research on unpaid care work, agroecology and Violence Against Women and Girls.
• Organize seminars, webinars, online debates/ discussion forums on intersections and sharing experiences of POWER
• Disseminate and popularize key experiences of POWER project and impact on women
• Capacity building for rural women in participation of regional and international meetings
• Organise side event meetings during the SAARC agriculture and gender, finance, ministerial meetings by 2020
  To be considered for this role you would need to have:
• Relevant degree or equivalent experience
• Strong advocacy and alliance building skills
• Experience and skills on women’s rights, agroecology and violence against women issues
• Experience of working effectively with a range of stakeholders, alliances, coalitions and network
• Proven facilitation, training and capacity building skills, ideally in supporting partners or colleagues in remote locations
• Comfortable and at ease working with rural women farmers
• Ability to work well in a team and cross-organisationally and rural women
• Ability to work independently and take initiative to ensure successful advocacy outcomes
• Willingness to travel and attend regional and international meetings
• successful track record of achieving advocacy outcomes with South Asia regional actors

If you are keen to have a major influence on our work and help make a better world, submit your motivation letter and resume to hrworkspace@actionaid.org with the title: South Asia Advocacy Coordinator - POWER Project by 7th May 2019.