Bilingual Community Engagement & Partnership Lead for Americas and the Caribbean (ACRO BCEPL)

Location: Regional, Americas and the Caribbean, with a preference for Mexico or Trinidad and TobagoAnnual Gross Salary: Salary is location-based in line with IPPF's regional compensation structure.

• Mexico: MXN$1,069,148 - MXN$1,443,350 gross per year
• Trinidad and Tobago: TTD$556,980 - TTD$668,376 gross per year

Contract: 3 years (fixed term), with a 3-month probation period

Context of Role

shall identify and nurture alliances with communities, prioritizing collaboration, communication, and connection. Through their own experience and networks, the role supports regional advocacy and communication strategies, supporting affiliates in advancing their Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights advocacy efforts.

The role will operate through the External Relations (ER) branch works with affiliates and secretariat teams to ensure IPPF’s services and partnerships are developed with, and centered in, people, including historically marginalized populations.

Role Purpose

(ACRO BCEPL) is responsible for building, nurturing, and sustaining meaningful relationships and partnerships between IPPF and its stakeholders. This role focuses on fostering trust, increasing participation, and ensuring that community voices, those who have been historically excluded, are heard and integrated into organizational initiatives. The role

plays a critical role in ensuring IPPF remains responsive, inclusive, and connected to the communities it serves. Success in this role will be measured by increased participation, stronger partnerships, and demonstrable community impact.

Deliverables

Stakeholder Mapping and Engagement
 

• Develop and implement community engagement strategies aligned with organizational goals.
• Connect, identify and link stakeholders through relationship building and outreach.
• Establish partnerships with communities led by people historically marginalized.
• Conduct data analysis to develop new community engagements, recommend improvements and identify opportunities to strengthen partnerships with local groups, institutions, and stakeholders.
• Horizon scanning and forecast trends, keeping IPPF abreast of trends to anticipate opportunities or risks for communities, while identifying injustices at regional level, reaching out to groups at the heart of new sexual and reproductive rights-related struggles.

Relationship Building
 

• Serve as the primary liaison between IPPF and community members.
• Cultivate long-term relationships with volunteers, partners and local leaders.

Program Development
 

• Activist mapping by connecting, identifying, and linking activists through relationship building and outreach
• Design and manage outreach programs, workshops, and events that encourage active participation.
• Ensure programs reflect diversity, equity and inclusion principles.
• Support ER advocacy and communication strategies at regional level, while supporting the affiliates to advance their Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) advocacy efforts at national levels/territories

Communication
 

• Organize meetings and events with community partners to provide opportunities for engagement and disruption.
• Support communication strategies by writing and reviewing texts in collaboration with the External Relations team to make excluded voices heard.
• Partner with IPPF teams and affiliates to ensure the views and priorities of community groups are integrated into all work.
• Create clear and engaging communication materials (newsletters, social media, reports).
• Represent the organization at community meetings, forums, and public events.

Monitoring & Evaluation
 

• Track engagement metrics and feedback to assess program effectiveness.
• Adhere to all safeguarding reporting and monitoring requirements.

Essential Skills

• Fluent in both English (C1) and Spanish (C2) is essential
• Be an experienced activist with track record of active participation in advocacy strategies at the national and international level, across multiple community networks across the Americas and the Caribbean
• Have a proven track record in community organizing at grassroots, national, and regional levels, particularly with underserved communities.
• Champion anti-racism and anti-sexism, and be deeply committed to anti-racist and de-colonial values.
• Act as a role model for safeguarding and creating safe spaces for people.
• Leverage new technologies to support activism.

Why Join Us?

IPPF offers meaningful work, an inspiring environment, professional growth, and the chance to make a lasting impact on the lives of individuals and communities around the world. Working for IPPF offers a compelling value proposition

How to Apply:

About IPPF:

International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) is a global sexual and reproductive health service provider and one of the leading advocates for universal access to sexual, reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for all. We are a worldwide movement of 149 national organisations working with and for communities and individuals and, together, have delivered more than 1 billion cumulative services over the last 6 years.  

We are now looking for people to join us and make our Come Together–Strategy 2028, a reality. Revolutionising IPPF, placing it in a stronger position to support SRHR for those who are left out, locked out or left behind. Come Together commits IPPF to shaping laws, policies and norms through feminist action and international solidarity; and to strengthen the federation adding new drive for real and lasting impact.

Action is urgent. We have delivered. We have stood for justice and equality. We commit to more daring and feminist action that secures choices about our bodies, sexual lives, and well-being. Everyone should enjoy a pleasure-filled and healthy sex life and a life free from violence, shame or criminalisation. We know love is love. And we come together in support of women, youth, and people who are marginalised and excluded. Through the care we deliver, the actions we take, and the solidarity we foster.     IPPF is an equal-opportunity employer. As a leading global human rights organisation focused on equality, empowerment, ending discrimination, and poverty eradication, we internally reflect social justice principles. We, as IPPF, strongly oppose racism in all its forms and resolutely go for a cultural change that will shift the existing imbalances in power and process.  

We are a multi-cultural, multi-lingual, intergenerational and diverse work environment.  Applications are particularly encouraged from women, people living with HIV, people living with disability and people with diverse SOGIESC.  

IPPF is committed to the safety and protection of children, young people and vulnerable adults and our safer recruitment and selection procedures reflect this commitment.  We expect all employees, volunteers, contractors and partners to share this commitment, and anyone employed by IPPF agrees to sign up to our Code of Conduct and Safeguarding (Children and Vulnerable Adults) Policy.   IPPF has been made aware of various fraudulent vacancy announcements circulated via e-mail from websites falsely stating that they are issued by or in association with IPPF.  These correspondences, which may seek to obtain money from the recipients of such correspondence, are fraudulent, and IPPF does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview, meeting, processing, training or any other fees).