Volunteer Gender Equality Policy & Strategy Assistant

What will you be doing?

Role Description We are looking for dedicated Gender Equality Policy and Strategy Volunteers to work with the President/CEO to design and write Plans, Policies and Strategies for our 20 critical programmes on women and girls in Africa and the UK.

The role is responsible for shaping the development of the charity’s incipient critical programmes for international health work mostly on women and girls in Africa. Specific Responsibilities The Volunteers are responsible for writing Strategy and Plan of Action on our 20 critical gender equality programmes: i. To support the President/CEO to write Strategy and Plan of Action on the following 20 critical programmes: 1) AHO Strategy and Plan of Action on Girls’ Education 2) AHO Strategy and Plan of Action on Girls’ Health 3) AHO Strategy and Plan of Action on Women’s Health 4) AHO Strategy and Plan of Action on Child Protection 5) AHO Strategy and Plan of Action on Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse 6) AHO Strategy and Plan of Action on Ending Child Marriages 7) AHO Strategy and Plan of Action on Child Pregnancy 8) AHO Strategy and Plan of Action on Teenage Pregnancy 9) AHO Strategy and Plan of Action on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights 10) AHO Strategy and Plan of Action on Child Health 11) AHO Strategy and Plan of Action on Child Bullying and Child Cyber Bullying 12) AHO Strategy and Plan of Action for Children in disasters and emergencies 13) AHO Strategy and Plan of Action for Girls and Women in disasters and emergencies 14) AHO Strategy and Plan of Action for Ending Violence Against Women 15) AHO Strategy and Plan of Action on Mothers’ (Maternal) Health 16) AHO Strategy and Plan of Action on Girls and Women Empowerment 17) AHO Strategy and Plan of Action on Ending Female Genital Cutting (FMC) or known as FGM 18) AHO Strategy and Plan of Action on Ending Gender Based Violence 19) AHO Strategy and Plan of Action on Ending Breasts Ironing 20) AHO Strategy and Plan of Action on Ending Honour Based Violence ii. To produce the final copy that will be added to the website on https://aho.org/publications/

What are we looking for?

Qualifications, Skills and Knowledge A degree development studies such as international development, sociology, women studies, ecnomics, international relations, etc 3 years experience of writing reports at school or authoring/contributing to publications Good broad knowledge of gender equality and the wider health and social determinant of health A passion for gender equality and women empowerment and girl child Knowledge of how genders are affected differently like cancer such as breast cancer for women and prostate cancer for men.

What difference will you make?

The volunteer's impact on the organisation is increasing awareness of the charity through social media marketing to enable it carry out its projects in Africa and the UK. The volunteer will be able to allow the Directors time to concentrate on managing the organisation and reduce stress from the CEO by reducing his responsibilities. The organisation will be able to carry out its activities better with social media and marketing engagement with members, funders and stakeholders. This will increase the morale of the staff if they know that they have support from members to help them do their work. As for the impact on beneficiaries, this will be enormous. Our beneficiaries are people in Africa and UK with health and social care issues. We will be able to understand the issues people face specially for vulnerable populations such as pregnant women and children. We will be able to improve health and well-being for people with myriad conditions such as diabetes, cancers, kidney failure, etc. Having a social media marketer enables us to showcase our work to members and better support to people in humanitarian emergencies facing wars, diseases and starvation such as in South Sudan, Cameroon, Nigeria and Central African Republic and members will be able to donate to the charity. We will be able to improve the welfare of the people in emergency situation. We will also be able to prevent maternal deaths and infant mortality which are high in Africa due to shortage of resources.