EuroMed recruits 01 Program and Advocacy Officer in Headquarters Paris

EuroMed Feminist Initiative (EFI) is a policy network that provides expertise in the field of gender equality, democracy building and citizenship, and advocates for political solutions to all conflicts, and peoples´ rights to self-determination. It encompasses women’s rights organizations from the two shores of the Mediterranean and seeks to correct the gender power imbalances through ending discrimination and oppression of women and bringing about positive change for the whole society.  Headquarters are in Paris, with offices in Amman and Beirut. You can visit our website to know more about our work: www.efi-ife.org

Overall Responsibility of Program and Advocacy Officer in Headquarters Paris

• Supports the development, update, and implementation of EFI’s programs in accordance with short-term and long-term objectives and goals, and in alignment with advocacy objectives help move major initiatives forward and track their impact.
• Supports Syria gender program related advocacy, while contributing to other related advocacy initiatives, monitoring, evaluation and external engagement needs.
• Supports the work in identifying advocacy opportunities that would contribute into the achievement of EFI’s goals and vision.
• Participates actively in communication and dissemination activities as well as in fundraising.

Specific responsibilities are:

Program implementation:

• Supports the implementation and follow up of program activities and budget utilization.
• Coordinates the preparation of events and trainings in Europe.
• Evaluates partners’ proposals and follow up on their activities: support implementation of the evaluation process and data collection and drafts partnership contracts and relevant documents.
• Implements quality investigations and tools to measure project impacts.
• Capitalizes on lessons and knowledge learned to share them internally and with partners.
• Follows up and coordinates the work between program and communication.

Advocacy and External Communication

• Develops strategic partnerships with key constituencies to elicit support for and maximize impact of program objectives.
• Supports the development of EFI strategic advocacy framework and projects´ advocacy action plans.
• Plans and develops advocacy outreach activities and evaluates the results and their impacts.

• Organizes and supports lobbying and advocating actions.
• Develops links with institutional actors and CSOs at National, European and International levels
• Participates, upon request, to the public representation of EFI (medias, institutions, association and professional networks, etc).

Fundraising and reporting:

• Identifies and follow up on opportunities and calls for proposal published by European and International donors.
• Contributes to developing project proposals.
• Supports the contractualization and launching of new projects.
• Supports the reporting process for donors, follows up EFI internal deadlines.

Team Collaboration:

This position reports directly to Program Manager in HQs.

Close collaboration with all project managers, Communication team, and Finance team and logistic team.

Place:

Paris HQ, with occasional travels abroad.

Job requirement:

• Masters degree in social sciences, gender or development studies or peace and conflict. Relevant courses related to gender studies, conflict management, advocacy, women’s economic empowerment, project cycle management are assets. Master degree is desirable.
• Excellent written and oral communication in English and French. Arabic language is an asset.

• Excellent Microsoft Office application.
• A minimum of two years of relevant work experience within development field

Skills-set:

• Prior experience supporting implementation of new program project
• Excellent planning, organizational and reporting skills
• Good understanding of M&E tools and challenges
• Awareness of and sensitive to working in multiple socio-economic settings and with multi-cultural groups
• Knowledge of women’s rights, international law, including human rights, humanitarian law, and regional and international human rights mechanisms.

Competencies:

• A high impact relationship supported by strong interpersonal skills
• Flexibility and team approach to programmatic work
• Analytical and problem-solving approach
• Ability to multi-task effectively and work under pressure
• Ability to communicate in a clear, precise and structured way, presents effectively.

Expériences / Formation

Skills-set:

• Prior experience supporting implementation of new program project
• Excellent planning, organizational and reporting skills
• Good understanding of M&E tools and challenges
• Awareness of and sensitive to working in multiple socio-economic settings and with multi-cultural groups
• Knowledge of women’s rights, international law, including human rights, humanitarian law, and regional and international human rights mechanisms.                                                                                                                                                Competencies:
  • A high impact relationship supported by strong interpersonal skills
  • Flexibility and team approach to programmatic work
  • Analytical and problem-solving approach
  • Ability to multi-task effectively and work under pressure
  • Ability to communicate in a clear, precise and structured way, presents effectively.

Salaire

Open ended contrat – CDI

Comment postuler

Please, send a full application (covering letter, CV,) by email to application@efi-ife.org with in the object line of the email “Program and advocacy officer”.