Employment opportunity
Title: Program Officer – Level I, Advancing Equality through Human Rights Education (PO 1 – AEHRE)
Organization: Equitas – International Centre for Human Rights Education
Location: Montreal, Canada
Status: Full time, 12-month contract, with the possibility of renewal
35 hours/per week
Application deadline: February 20, 2020
Start date: March, 2020
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Are you motivated by challenges? Are you passionate about human rights and interested in supporting Equitas with our programming Advancing Equality through Human Rights Education (AEHRE)? Do you have proven experience in project management? If so, Equitas has an exciting opportunity for you.
Based in Montreal, Equitas is Canada’s most established and active human rights education organization. After recently celebrating 50 years of success in 2017, Equitas continues to deliver innovative human rights education programs to advance equality, inclusion, respect for human dignity, and social change in Canada and around the world.
Under the responsibility of the Program Management Officer (PMO), and working in close collaboration with other members of the Advancing Equality through Human Rights Education (AEHRE) project teams, the Program Officer I supports the planning, development, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of program activities.
The Program Officer I will support the implementation of the AEHRE program, aimed at promoting women’s leadership, capacity building of civil society organizations and the creation of spaces for dialogue among duty-bearers. This program is implemented at the international level and in five target countries: Burkina Faso, Haiti, Kenya, Senegal, and Tanzania.
The PO1 – AEHRE is a member of the Program Unit and the AEHRE team, and works closely with the PMO, the Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Advisor, the Program Officer I – Finance, as well as other Equitas Program Unit, Education, Finance and Administration staff.
Title: Gender Advisor
Organization: Equitas – International Centre for Human Rights Education
Location: Montreal, Canada
Status: Full time, 12-month contract (Leave replacement)
Application deadline: Feburary 3, 2020 (extension)
Start date: February 2020
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Equitas is Canadian non-profit organization dedicated to advancing equality, social justice and respect for human dignity in Canada and around the world through human rights education. The promotion of gender equality is central to Equitas’ mission as well as the human rights-based approach that informs our work and practices. Furthermore, gender equality is central to our Theory of Change and is a priority within the organization’s activities in Canada and internationally.
Equitas is seeking a Gender Advisor who will ensure that our work applies the most-up-to date global perspectives on gender equality and pushes us to be gender transformative in the programs we implement and the actions we take.
Reporting to the Director of Programs, and working in close collaboration with the Management Team, the Gender Learning Team, the Communications team, Programs Teams and Education Team, the Gender Advisor will be responsible for leading efforts to operationalize gender equality throughout all of Equitas’ programming. The Gender Advisor will be responsible for shaping the strategic direction; building internal capacity, including coaching and support for staff and partners; monitoring and evaluation and knowledge sharing to ensure the realization of program-level and organizational-level gender equality outcomes.
