**Statement of Work**:
Opportunity Name
Stand for Her Land (S4HL)
Position Name
Global Advocacy Advisor (Consultant)
Date
20 December 2024
Level of Effort Ceiling
Estimated up to 20 days (8 hours per day) per month over 12 months
Start Date
January 1, 2025
End Date
December 31, 2025
Hiring Manager
Center for Women's Land Rights
Location
Remote (preference for Africa based)
**About Landesa**
**About Stand for Her Land**
Stand for Her Land (S4HL) is a global advocacy initiative for the accelerated implementation of women's rights to land in practice. Women's land rights are foundational to gender and climate justice, but women are frequently denied equal rights to land with men. Collective advocacy, led by grassroots women at local, national, and global levels, is a core solution to the challenges of women's land rights, driving political will and supporting equitable, participatory transformation of land rights and governance. Landesa serves as the Secretariat of the S4HL Global Steering Committee, working in collaboration with 6 other global institutions to facilitate resourcing, coordination, and strategic direction for national S4HL Coalitions of grassroots and civil society actors in nine countries.
**Statement of Work**
Landesa seeks a consultant to serve as a Global Advocacy Advisor to several projects under the Center's portfolio. This is a remote position.
On the Stand for Her Land: Collective Advocacy to Realize Women's Land Rights in Uganda, Senegal, and Ethiopia project:
1. Communicate global advocacy priorities and provide guidance for integrating global advocacy priorities into partner and S4HL Coalition priorities.
2. Lead development of and support delivery for strategy for engaging grassroots women and women-led CSOs for BMZ Coalitions.
3. Support Coalition lead organizations to implement strategy for project and Campaign implementation, providing technical guidance as needed.
For the Center for Women's Land Rights:
1. Collaborate with and provide input to Center Director in providing strategic leadership for S4HL Global Steering Committee
2. Support development of advocacy vision and strategy providing key inputs and contributions at the global level.
3. Collaborate with S4HL Secretariat on capacity development for partners at regional, national, and local levels on technical areas for growth (EG Gender Transformative Approaches, using data for advocacy, etc.)
4. Represent S4HL in forums from global to local.
5. Support Global Manager and Center Director in identifying promising future S4HL Coalition countries, laying groundwork and supporting connections between stakeholders where appropriate.
6. Collaborate with Center Director to link S4HL to global agendas and initiatives, including GEF (part of deliverables for BMZ, potential means to pursue follow-on funding, add Coalition countries)
7. Serve as a Resource Development advisor and advocate, communicating with prospective donors and funders to advance S4HL goals and priorities.
On the Equal Stake in the Soil project:
1. Support advocacy strategy development for Coalition members at the national level in Kenya and co-lead advocacy strategy and delivery at the global level
On the Gender Transformative Approaches Enhance Project Learning Initiative:
1. Serve as the Technical Lead, guiding the vision, priorities, and communicating needs to the team to implement the project. Leads technical development and implementation of project.
2. Responsible for tool research and development, testing and discussions with teams, facilitating review workshops and final report development.
**Administrative Guidelines**
The Consultant will be given technical guidance and direction by the Center for Women's Land Rights Director and will collaborate closely with in-country partner organizations and the Center's team including the Project Manager assigned to each project listed above.
International and domestic travel may be required for the execution of project activities and will be reimbursed based on incurred expenses.
**Essential Competencies**
- Required Education and Experience _
- A master's degree or advanced degree equivalent in a related field is required; i.e. law, agricultural economics, gender studies, (feminist) economics, sociology, geography, anthropology, or related field.
- At least 10 years of experience of relevant international development work experience working at the intersection of gender and land tenure, engaging in policy advocacy, movement building, and in the design and implementation of projects, including significant focus on the types of thematic and geographic areas mentioned above; experience with climate change programming preferred.
- Proven experience and understanding of working with local communities in implementation of past project/initiatives.
- Priority will be given to professionals with strong communications skills and a demonstrated ability to work at a distance and take on a v