Director, Latin America Program

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The Director for Latin America is the important thing instigator in setting and guiding implementation of the RRI Coalition’s technique for the Latin America Area throughout the numerous nations of Mesoamerica and South America. The Director ought to possess political savvy, diplomacy, flexibility, downside fixing talents, and a confirmed capability to speak successfully throughout a number of cultures with numerous actors starting from civil society organizations, Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendant Peoples and Native Neighborhood organizations, girls’s and youth organizations to authorities businesses. 

The Latin America Director can have the chance to work with a coalition of key grassroots organizations, civil society organizations, donors and worldwide businesses centered on RRI’s mission – to assist native communities’ Afro-descendants Peoples and Indigenous Peoples’ struggles towards poverty and marginalization by selling coverage, market and authorized reforms that safe their rights to personal, management and profit from their land, forests and different pure assets. The Latin America Director proactively leads the technique improvement and implementation of RRI’s Latin America program and ensures accelerated achievement of RRI’s targets within the area. The Latin America Director additionally leads nation and regional planning processes with RRI’s Companions and Collaborators to prioritize their collective targets, agree on the very best methods to achieve these targets, and develop concrete plans for motion and engagement. Furthermore, the Director helps the implementation of this technique in collaboration with RRI Companions and Collaborators in Latin America and the secretariat employees/the Rights and Assets Group (RRG). The Latin America Director’s work will probably be supported by Regional Facilitators primarily based in Latin America to help Companions and Collaborators to construct new working relationships, and by a Regional Affiliate. The Latin America Director can be a member of RRG’s Senior Administration (SMT) crew and can contribute to donor engagement in-country, and at regional and international ranges.

The Director additionally contributes to RRI’s international methods, actions, and outreach and ensures that its international information informs strategic motion in Latin America and vice versa. These obligations require efficient and proactive decision-making to hyperlink strategic engagement and actions within the Latin America area to the coalition’s broader targets and imaginative and prescient and thematic areas agreed to by its members. The Latin America Director reviews to RRG President and Sr. Director of applications who’s the direct supervisor.

The Director will interact carefully with the previous Director for Latin America who will probably be transitioning to steer RRI’s Gender Justice Program full-time. The previous Director will play an advisory position, particularly through the preliminary transition interval.

This can be a full‐time place primarily based in Washington, DC.

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