WOMEN’S RIGHTS INFORMATION MANAGER

Initiative Overview:
The Women’s Rights Information (WRI) strategic initiative (SI) is one of AWID’s longest standing areas of activity. Over the years it has consistently sourced, commissioned and produced a wide range of women’s rights information from jobs to announcements and analysis in English, Spanish and French, disseminated weekly to currently over 25,000 subscriber through e-newsletters and www.awid.org.

WRI aims to: enhance understanding among women’s rights advocates, organizations and movements of the trends affecting women’s rights globally; increase awareness among women’s rights advocates, organizations and movements of new and emerging women’s rights issues; increase the visibility and recognition by broad women’s movements of the diverse expressions of women’s organizing; increase the coverage of women's rights issues by key information providers of other social movements; and increase understanding of the politics and strategic use of ICTs among women's rights advocates, organizations and movements.

Overview of Position:
The Women’s Rights Information (WRI) Manager is a full-time position reporting to the Director of Communications and Information (DCI) and is responsible for providing leadership for the planning, implementation and evaluation of AWID’s WRI SI, including:

• Providing strategic leadership and management of the development and implementation of WRI strategies and work plans
• Managing the WRI staff and contractors, providing direction, managing performance and overseeing work planning to ensure appropriate alignment with AWID’s outcomes
• Developing, managing and adhering to the budget and other WRI resources, ensuring adherence to financial controls, and financial and organizational policies and procedures
• Making substantive contributions to all the products and activities of the initiative

Qualifications:

• 7 – 10 years experience
• Working in a non-profit development, gender and/or human rights organization (at least 3 years in a leadership capacity with management responsibilities).
• In project management
• Producing information, including research and writing, for diverse audiences
• Working in a multi-cultural team
• Experience working with women’s organizations based in the Global South and/or CEE/CIS
• University degree in social sciences, women’s rights, international development or other related field
• Bilingual: English-French or English-Spanish
• Able to travel internationally (2-3 weeks a year)

How to Apply:
Please send:

• Cover letter (addressing how you meet the necessary qualifications and outlines why you want to work for AWID) and current CV
• The exact source/location you saw the advertisement for this position
• A 500 word essay on “What is the role that information plays in advancing women's rights?”

Fax: +416 594 0330
E-mail: jobs [at] awid [dot] org (please include “WRI Manager” in the subject line of the email)

No phone calls please. Only email and faxed applications will be accepted. The application closing date is Sunday, September 26, 2010. We thank all who apply, but only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. AWID encourages, promotes and supports diversity in all aspects of its work.

To learn more about AWID and our programs, please visit our website at www.awid.org.