Advocacy Senior Manager

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ILGA World

  • Career category: Advocacy/ Policy
  • Job type: Job
  • Experience level: 10+ years
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Not specified
  • Remuneration: CHF106,000 CHF-CHF106,000 CHF / yearly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Permanent
  • Deadline: 19/09/2025
  • Location: Switzerland, Geneva
LGBTQI+ rights/ SOGIESC
 Overview
The Advocacy Senior Manager leads the newly-formed Advocacy Programme, which integrates ILGA World’s former UN Programme and GIESC Programme into one dynamic and strategic advocacy hub.

The Advocacy Senior Manager is a leadership role within ILGA World, advancing the rights of people and communities of diverse SOGIESC globally. The role ensures ILGA World’s advocacy programme, ensuring that our advocacy work remains intersectional, impactful, evidence-based, and aligned with the organisation’s strategic plan (2025-2029), supporting the human rights of LGBTI people globally.

The Advocacy Senior Manager oversees and strategically guides ILGA World’s  advocacy work, ensuring coherence and impact across all advocacy priorities, including engagements at the United Nations and with multilateral institutions. Working closely with ILGA World’s Director of Programmes, advocacy program staff and consultants, ILGA regions, and member organisations, this role also plays a key part in linking advocacy work with knowledge production and movement strengthening efforts, in collaboration with other ILGA World programmes.

Responsibilities
The Advocacy Senior Manager supports and reports to the Director of Programmes, in the implementation of the Advocacy Programme, and is part of the organisation’s managers team. Specific to this position, this includes to:
  • support the implementation of ILGA World’s advocacy strategy, directing the design and execution of comprehensive advocacy projects, employing rigorous methodologies and maintaining ethical standards
  • develop and implement an annual advocacy operational plan and project plans, manage budgets, and monitor progress across multiple advocacy projects whilst ensuring alignment with ILGA World’s strategy and organisational goals and contributing to shared outputs and timely delivery of impactful results

General

  • Actively contribute to promoting and achieving the organisation’s objectives
  • Engage and collaborate with the management team to strengthen a shared organisational culture and management ethos that reflects ILGA World’s values, balancing organisational priorities with individual and movement needs
  • Perform other duties as required

Requirements
  • A master’s university degree or equivalent in international human rights law or a related field, combined with 12 years of relevant work experience
  • A first-level university degree, in combination with 15 years of relevant and qualifying experience
  • 17 years of relevant and qualifying experience, instead of a master’s or first-level degree
  • A minimum of 12 years relevant and appropriate experience in advocacy management — preferably within an international multilateral, non-governmental organisation, and/or government
  • At least 7 years or more of managing global teams, with a demonstrated ability to foster collaboration and support the work environment in a virtual/online space
  • Proven track record in leading advocacy teams, programmes and projects, including experience with both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies
  • developing and coordinating advocacy coalitions.

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