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Advocacy Senior Manager

On-site, Work must be performed in or near Geneva, GE, Switzerland
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  • Details

    Job Type:
    Full Time
    Start Date:
    November 1, 2025
    Application Deadline:
    September 19, 2025
    Education:
    Other Education Requirement
    Experience Level:
    Managerial
    Salary:
    CHF 106,000 / year
    This position requires relocation to Geneva, Switzerland
    Cause Areas:
    Human Rights & Civil Liberties, LGBTQ

    Description

    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 sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristics (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.

    Follow this link to read more about responsibilities, requirements, performance of duties, remunerations & benefits, and find out how to apply.

    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 sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristics (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…

    Benefits

    • The position is advertised at 100% of a full-time position
    • ILGA World remunerates under a three-tiered salary matrix structure. The annual salary being offered for the post is 106,000 CHF for the 100% position.
    • In addition, ILGA World offers 35 days between legal holidays (“bank holidays”) and annual leave and contributions to health care costs
    • ILGA World operates under a flexible working system that – among others – includes flexible working hours
    • The weekly working time is 37.5 hours on a 100% position.
    • The position is advertised at 100% of a full-time position
    • ILGA World remunerates under a three-tiered salary matrix structure. The annual salary being offered for the post is 106,000 CHF for the 100% position.
    • In addition, ILGA World offers 35 days between legal holidays (“bank holidays”) and annual leave and contributions to health care costs
    • ILGA World operates under a flexible working system that – among others – includes flexible working hours
    • The weekly working time is 37.5 hours on a 100% position.

    Level of Language Proficiency

    Ability to work in proficient English (mandatory) and ideally Spanish. Other UN languages — more specifically, French, Arabic, Russian or Mandarin — are also welcome.

    Ability to work in proficient English (mandatory) and ideally Spanish. Other UN languages — more specifically, French, Arabic, Russian or Mandarin — are also welcome.

    Location

    On-site
    Geneva, Switzerland

    How to Apply

    The application for this position needs to be submitted online here: https://recruitment.ilga.org/node/74

    We recommend you download the application form in Word format from here, prepare your application and copy/paste it into the application form.

    Should there be well-founded reasons why this was not possible, you may submit the application form as well by e-mail to recruitment (a) ilga (dot) org. Rename this file SURNAME_Name_Advocacy_senior_manager.docx (for instance: SMITH_John_Advocacy_senior_manager.docx) before you submit it.

    Should you have questions in regard to this call, please reach out to recruitment (a) ilga (dot) org.

    The application for this position needs to be submitted online here: https://recruitment.ilga.org/node/74

    We recommend you download the application form in Word format from here…

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