About Fòs Feminista:

Fòs Feminista is an intersectional feminist organization centered around the sexual and reproductive rights and needs of women, girls, and gender-diverse people. Led and governed by the Global South, Fòs Feminista works as an alliance of organizations in 40+ countries worldwide to advance sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice. As the connecting fabric of this Alliance, Fòs Feminista orchestrates transnational and transregional action, amplifies partners’ work, and promotes South-South learning and collaboration toward achieving common objectives.

We recognize that the ability of women, girls, and gender-diverse people to make free and informed choices about their sexual and reproductive lives, including to access safe and legal abortion, is central to their life plans and to achieving gender and reproductive justice. Together with partners in the Alliance, we provide access to sexual and reproductive health care and services, including contraception, abortion, and care for victims of gender-based violence, and we reach young people with comprehensive sexuality education. We are at the forefront of advocating for sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice from an intersectional lens in national, regional, and global spaces, coordinating with our partners to ensure that diverse experiences, priorities, and voices of the Global South are represented in these spaces. And we strengthen intersectional feminist movements and organizations by creating and holding space for partners to participate in an international community built on feminist values of sharing power, diversity, mutual learning, and solidarity and to access resources to strengthen their work.

About the SRHR Index:

In partnership with the Global Women’s Institute at the George Washington University, Fòs Feminista created the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Index to assess the U.S. government’s work on SRHR through U.S. global health assistance and hold it accountable to its commitments. Through an annual review of budget data, policies, and other actions, the SRHR Index provides public access to information from across U.S. government agencies and global health funding silos related to SRHR. The SRHR Index grades the U.S. government’s commitments, leadership at the executive level, funding levels, and actions across a comprehensive set of SRHR issues. The SRHR Index compares what is being done with what can and should be done to promote SRHR through U.S. global health assistance. It is designed to be sensitive to and reflective of both positive actions that promote SRHR and negative actions that hinder SRHR. An overview of the SRHR Index methodology is available here.

Position Summary:

The Policy Research Fellow will support the Global Advocacy for Change Unit (“the Unit”) within Fòs Feminista from March 15 2023 through December 2023. The Policy Research Fellow’s primary responsibility will be to score the data included in the SRHR Index however the Policy Research Fellow may also support critical research and knowledge management support in the development and implementation of the Unit’s policy research portfolios as needed.

The Policy Research Fellow will gain unique insight into the strategic and programmatic components necessary for a global feminist ecosystem to effect positive political change as well as develop a critical understanding of how the global, regional and national policies and normative frameworks affect the health and lives of women, girls, and gender-diverse people worldwide.

Supervisor Relationship:

The Policy Research Fellow will report to the Director of Policy Research.

Key Responsibilities:

• In partnership with other team members, complete the annual grading process for the SRHR Index accountability tool, including
  • Update guidelines on family planning, HIV and AIDS, and maternal and child health;
  • Download and score 2022 policy and budget data for the White House, Congress, Department of State, US Agency for International Development, Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Defense;
  • draft and edit rationales,
  • review the website upload process,
  • develop talking points,
  • conduct actor meetings, and
  • report overall findings to internal and external stakeholders.

Education and Minimum Qualifications:

• Pursuing a Master of Public Health, PhD, or equivalent degree or 3-4 years of experience in research, public health, human rights, or a related field.
• Background or demonstrated interest in global advocacy, social justice, intersectional feminism, sexual and reproductive health and rights, human rights, and/or public health.

Required Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:

• Strong critical thinking and data analysis abilities.
• Precise attention to detail.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills.
• Ability to multitask and organize various projects with overlapping deadlines while working remotely.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office (including Teams/SharePoint), Google Suite, and social media platforms including Twitter.
• Passion for and solid understanding of sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice through an intersectional feminist lens.
• Ability to work in English; Spanish, French, or other language skills preferred.
• Commitment to Fòs Feminista’s mission and values.

Safeguarding Commitments

Fòs Feminista is committed to ensuring that the health, rights and wellbeing of all children, young people, and vulnerable populations, who work and engage with Fòs Feminista’s Team Members and Associated Persons are respected and protected in their interactions with them and requires all its Team Members and Associated Persons to share this commitment.

The successful candidate must:

• Demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding in the United States, in the country of residence, and the international context.
• Sign and adhere to Fòs Feminista’s International Safeguarding Policy and Safeguarding Code of Conduct, including the minimum operating standards for protection from sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA).

Application Deadline: March 10, 2023

Start Date: Mid-March 2023

Location: Flexible, Remote

Salary and benefits: This is a part-time paid fellowship for 20-25 hours per week at $20 per hour based on experience; no benefits.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

Fòs Feminista is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to advancing sexual and reproductive rights and health and dismantling inequities from a feminist intersectional lens. Reproductive justice, racial justice, and diversity are driving forces for us.

Fòs Feminista provides equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to age, race, color, disability, national origin, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital and partnership status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other protected category under federal, state and local law.

At Fòs Feminista, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our employees. We strongly encourage applications from all kinds of backgrounds to build a diverse workforce in which all social and minority groups are represented.

While we strongly encourage all current and new employees to be fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus, there is no vaccine requirement for employment with Fòs Feminista. However, it is our policy that employees must show proof of full vaccination in order to engage in any work-related travel or to attend any work-related in-person gatherings. As appropriate, reasonable accommodations will be made, including, for example, arrangements for employees to participate remotely in any relevant gatherings.

Applications will be considered as they are received, and only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.