CARE seeks an experienced and motivated humanitarian policy and advocacy specialist to coordinate work across the humanitarian system to operationalize the GBV Accountability Framework that was developed by the Real-Time Accountability Partnership (RTAP). As the coordinator of this 12 month project, she/he will have an in-depth knowledge of humanitarian architecture at the field and global level, and experience working with senior UN officials and UN missions in New York. Focus areas are prevention and response to gender-based violence in humanitarian systems and operations, and accountability to women and girls.
The Senior Humanitarian Advocacy and Policy Adviser will work closely with Global Steering Committee members (OFDA, UNFPA, UNICEF, IRC, UNHCR, DFID, UNOCHA, IOM, CARE, NORCAP) to support strategic engagement with senior humanitarian leadership and key bodies such as the Office of the UN Secretary-General (OSG), Special Representatives of the Secretary-General, and Call to Action signatory organizations.
The Senior Humanitarian Advocacy and Policy Adviser is part of the CARE International UN office in New York and reports to the UN Representative and Head of Office. This position will also engage with IASC Principals, Global Cluster Coordinators, UN leadership, regional and country-based Humanitarian Coordinators and other high-level UN officials. The Senior Humanitarian Advocacy and Policy Adviser will also identify and engage with key partners who can significantly support the Global Steering Committee’s influencing goals.
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CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in more than 90 countries. We create local solutions to poverty and inequality and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis. These solutions have a broad range, from clean water to access to education; from microfinance to ensuring that everyone has nutritious food; from agriculture and climate change to disaster response. CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because they have proven to be the best hope for creating lasting change in the world. Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face. We’ve been doing this for over 70 years, since World War II. It started with the world’s first CARE Package® of food for the post-war hungry in Europe. Our work today is as important as ever, we believe that poverty and inequality are historic injustices that we can end within a generation, for good. If you share our core beliefs: poverty is an injustice; poverty is solvable; and together, we have the power to end it, join us.
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