Easy JobConsultancy Opportunity: Coordinator, Global Platform for Action to End FGM/C
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Consultancy Opportunity: Coordinator, Global Platform for Action to End FGM/C
Duration: 13 months, anticipated from 15 November 2026 to 15 December 2027
Estimated level of effort: Equivalent to three (3) days per week
Location and availability: This is a remote consultancy open to applicants globally, with applications particularly encouraged from consultants based in Asia and Africa. The Consultant must be able to coordinate across time zones and participate in agreed meetings with the Platform’s international membership.
About the Global Platform:
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.
Purpose of the Consultancy:
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 priorit