[Hiring] Consultant Coordinator, Global Platform for Action to End FGM/C @Equality Now

Role Description

The Global Platform seeks a consultant to provide coordination, governance, membership, and communications support. The assignment will help translate members’ collective commitments into an achievable programme of joint action and strengthen the Platform’s longer-term sustainability.

The consultancy will focus on three priorities, in the following order:

• Strengthening governance and membership arrangements.
• Establishing consistent coordination and communications.
• Supporting resource mobilisation and longer-term sustainability.

Advocacy activities, events, and other requests will be prioritised within the agreed workplan, level of effort, and available budget.

Qualifications

• Relevant coordination experience: A track record of coordinating coalitions, networks, or multi-stakeholder initiatives, including facilitating meetings, maintaining action plans, and supporting delivery across organisations.
• Relevant subject knowledge: An understanding of FGM/C and its connections to gender equality, human rights, and sexual and reproductive health and rights.
• Inclusive facilitation and relationship-building: Experience working respectfully with diverse partners, including grassroots organisations and survivor-led movements, and enabling meaningful participation across regions and time zones.
• Governance and planning skills: The ability to translate consultation and collective priorities into practical governance arrangements, membership processes, and achievable strategic workplans.
• Strong communications skills: The ability to produce clear, accessible written materials, synthesise contributions from multiple stakeholders, and coordinate digital communications. Strong written and spoken English is required; additional languages are an advantage.
• Independent delivery: The ability to organise the assignment, exercise sound judgement, manage competing priorities, and deliver agreed outputs within the available time and budget.
• Experience supporting resource mobilisation, donor reporting, joint advocacy, or online events would be an advantage.
• Relevant professional, community-based, and lived experience will be valued. Applicants should demonstrate a commitment to feminist principles, safeguarding, and respectful engagement with survivors.

Requirements

• Review existing governance documents, membership arrangements, communications channels, and relevant commitments.
• Prepare an inception workplan within the first month, setting out deliverables, milestones, dependencies, and a realistic allocation of the available consultancy time.
• Facilitate consultation on, and prepare a final draft of, the Platform’s membership terms of reference.
• Develop practical guidance on membership, decision-making, and the respective responsibilities of members and the Core Group.
• Establish an organised membership database using an agreed system.
• Coordinate monthly Core Group meetings, including scheduling, preparation, and follow-up.
• Develop and implement a proportionate communications schedule covering the internal listserv, public mailing list, and social media channels.
• Facilitate the development of a three-year strategic workplan, including objectives, priority actions, indicative responsibilities, and resource requirements.
• Provide secretariat support for the Platform’s engagement with the FGM/C Donor Working Group.
• Submit a short quarterly progress report summarising completed deliverables, progress against the workplan, challenges, and decisions required.

Benefits

• The total consultancy fee is USD 26,000, payable in thirteen monthly instalments of USD 2,000, subject to satisfactory delivery of the services.
• Travel and other reimbursable expenses are separate from the consultancy fee and must be approved in writing before they are incurred.

Company Description

The Global Platform for Action to End FGM/C is a consortium of civil society organisations, champions, survivors, and grassroots representatives working together to accelerate the abandonment and prevention of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C).

Established following consultations initiated at the 2019 Women Deliver conference in Vancouver, the Global Platform brings together members across regions to exchange knowledge, strengthen collaboration, and advance collective advocacy.

Its Global Call to Action to End FGM/C, launched in November 2019, calls for urgent, coordinated action to end FGM/C.

The Global Platform works across intersecting movements, including those addressing sexual and gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and child, early, and forced marriage.