Policy and Advocacy Officer

The Opportunity

The Plan International Liaison Office to the UN Headquarters seeks to promote and enhance children’s rights by strategically engaging with the UN system, Member States, and the international community in New York.

As the Policy and Advocacy Officer you will be focusing on the areas of gender based violence and economic exclusion of girls and young women.

Your responsibilities will include developing national advocacy strategies and training materials for the delivery of trainings in focus countries with partners in country.

You will develop a reference document on strategic engagement on the High Level Political Forum (HLPF), including guidelines and advocacy strategies for engaging in government/alternative reporting for the HLPF on the issues of girls’ and young women’s economic exclusion and gender based violence.

You will map opportunities and develop an action plan and influencing strategy to address economic exclusion and gender based violence of girls and young women targeted toward UN bodies, Permanent Missions, and institutions.

As well as producing ongoing progress reports, you will meet regularly with Plan International Country Offices and other partners to coordinate activity and to contribute to engagement plans.

The Person

To succeed in this varied role, you must have experience working on economic empowerment, gender based violence, children’s’ rights and gender equality at a global level within an NGO, UN agency, or government department.

You should also have a demonstrated strong understanding of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its related processes, including the HLPF.

With proven experience of producing high quality evidence based policy positions and briefings you will have developed advocacy strategies on related topics in a national and/or international context using a variety of advocacy approaches, policy analysis and positioning.

Experience of external representation and effective relationship building at a senior level and a consultative, collaborative approach will be essential.

For further information please see link below:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/osfaw5tp703zvlu/Role%20Profile_Policy%20and%20Advocacy%20Officer_NYLO.docx?dl=0

Type of Role: Fixed Term Contract

Location: New York, NY, USA

Salary: $60,000 - $65,000

Reports to: Head of Office and UN Representative

Closing Date: Sunday 3 December 2017

Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert early.

Please note that only applications and CVs written in English will be accepted.

A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International's Child Protection Policy.

As an international child centred community development organisation, Plan International is fully committed to promoting the realisation of children's rights including their right to protection from violence and abuse. That means we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. We must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

Plan International operates an equal opportunities policy and actively encourages diversity, welcoming applications from all areas of the international community.

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