Advocacy Specialist / Advocacy Specialist

Job Title: Advocacy Specialist: Treaty Bodies

The Advocacy Specialist: Treaty Bodies reports to the Advocacy Senior Manager and is responsible for the day-to-day coordination and delivery of ILGA World’s Treaty Bodies portfolio within the Advocacy Programme.

Key Responsibilities

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

• Implementing ILGA World’s Treaty Bodies advocacy workplan and coordinating the organisation’s daily engagement with the UN human rights Treaty Body system, serving as the organisational focal point for Treaty Bodies-related advocacy.
• Monitoring Treaty Body sessions, reporting cycles, country reviews, Lists of Issues Prior to Reporting (LOIPRs) under the Simplified Reporting Procedure, follow-up procedures, general comments, individual communications, and other developments while identifying timely and strategic opportunities for SOGIESC advocacy.
• Developing and implementing advocacy strategies to advance the human rights of people and communities of diverse SOGIESC through country reviews, normative development, individual communications, and other relevant Treaty Body procedures.
• Providing technical assistance to ILGA World members, regions, LGBTI organisations, and human rights defenders engaging with Treaty Bodies, including advocacy planning, reporting, preparation of written and oral submissions, briefings, and follow-up strategies.
• Coordinating and contributing to ILGA World and joint submissions, shadow report inputs, briefing materials, statements, position papers, and other advocacy products in consultation with affected communities, members, regions, partners, and external legal experts.
• Facilitating the meaningful participation of human rights defenders in Treaty Body processes, which includes organising briefings and engaging with Treaty Body members and OHCHR staff.
• Coordinating ILGA World’s strategic litigation engagement before Treaty Bodies, including identifying appropriate opportunities, supporting individual communications and third-party interventions, and contributing to follow-up on decisions in collaboration with members, partners, and relevant legal experts.
• Monitoring, systematising, and analysing SOGIESC-related concluding observations, recommendations, general comments, jurisprudence, decisions, and other Treaty Body outputs, contributing to compilations, briefings, and analytical resources.
• Supporting ILGA World members and human rights defenders in utilising Treaty Body recommendations, decisions, and jurisprudence in national advocacy, including follow-up and implementation, and documenting relevant results, challenges, and good practices.
• Developing and delivering training, webinars, guidance, and other capacity-strengthening resources to enhance civil society engagement with the Treaty Body system.
• Building and maintaining effective working relationships with Treaty Body members, OHCHR staff, civil society organisations, legal experts, academics, and other relevant stakeholders, while representing ILGA World in relevant meetings, consultations, and external spaces.
• Monitoring and contributing to discussions concerning Treaty Body strengthening, accessibility, effectiveness, and other institutional developments affecting the system.
• Working across ILGA World programmes and advocacy portfolios to foster coherence between Treaty Bodies, the Human Rights Council, Universal Periodic Review, Special Procedures, and thematic advocacy. Ensuring that relevant ILGA World research and monitoring data inform Treaty Body engagement.
• Contributing to planning, budgeting, monitoring, evaluation, and learning, donor reporting, and funding proposals related to the Treaty Bodies portfolio while collaborating with the Communications team to make relevant opportunities, developments, and outcomes accessible to members, partners, and wider audiences.

General Responsibilities

• Actively contributing to promoting and achieving the organisation’s objectives.
• Engaging and collaborating with colleagues across the Advocacy Programme and other ILGA World teams to strengthen a shared organisational culture and ensure coordinated, movement-informed work.
• Ensuring that all activities are carried out with full regard to ILGA World policies.
• Working as a part of the ILGA World staff team.
• Performing other duties as required.

How to Apply

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