Advocacy Manager

About Alliance for Girls

Alliance for Girls (AFG) is a powerful, community-driven alliance made up of over 120 girl and gender-expansive youth-serving organizations and leaders all working to advance gender equity and ensuring every girl and gender-expansive youth in California, especially those of color, can thrive. AFG creates communities where girls and gender-expansive youth of color and the organizations that serve them are valued, respected, and safe.

AFG works to shift systems, narratives, and structures that serve as barriers to girls and gender-expansive youth of color’s ability to live the lives they want. In accordance with AFG’s  strategic plan, our model includes youth-led research, storytelling, community building, and systems change advocacy.

The Advocacy Manager leads AFG’s advocacy programming and activities, working closely with AFG’s youth research and community engagement teams to uplift policy and program recommendations grounded in data on girl and gender-expansive youth. This role manages and implements AFG’s collective advocacy strategies and programs in collaboration with member organizations and their girls and gender-expansive youth to shift systems, narratives, and structures at the institutional, local, district, county, and sometimes state level.

The Advocacy Manager is supervised by the Director of Community Engagement.

We're seeking an experienced advocate and organizer who shares AFG's commitment to centering youth voice, building collective power, and creating sustainable change. We know there are many paths to developing advocacy expertise—through formal employment, grassroots organizing, lived experience navigating systems, or community leadership.

• Develop, lead, and execute youth-informed advocacy projects to advance the rights of girls and gender-expansive youth, especially those of color, at the institutional, local, and state levels. For more information about AFG’s advocacy approach, please refer to AFG’s Advocacy Theory of Action
• Manage and implement AFG’s school-based project, Reclaiming Safety:
  Changing School Culture to Prevent Gender-Based Violence, at Skyline High School and Madison Park Academy in collaboration with The Unity Council’s Latinx Mentoring and Achievement Program.
• Identify, join, and sometimes build strategic advocacy coalitions with AFG’s member organizations and youth leaders, employing community organizing, coalition building, and cultural/narrative strategy approaches, to advance systemic change in alignment with youth-driven policy recommendations.
• Play a lead role in designing AFG’s advocacy strategies each year, drawing from lessons learned and feedback from the AFG community, youth, and the team.
• Foster intergenerational and youth-centered organizing and advocacy spaces where girls and gender-expansive youth of color feel belonging and safe enough to share their stories, ideas, and solutions.
• Track and monitor key legislation and public budgets affecting girls, gender-expansive youth, organizations, and policymakers who AFG and its members could engage and collaborate with to help center the voices of girls and gender-expansive youth of color in the policy making process.

• Use participatory processes to organize community events and town halls in collaboration with AFG’s Programs team and youth researchers to engage girls, gender-expansive youth, member organizations, and interested community members in developing data-driven recommendations and solutions to issues that matter most to them.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships and collaborate closely with AFG member organizations, girls and gender-expansive youth, Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) school staff and administration, government officials, community coalitions, and institutional partners.
• Identify and uplift public speaking opportunities for girls and gender-expansive youth of color to share their solutions directly with key decision-makers.
• Train youth and members in advocacy, community engagement, storytelling, and advocacy strategy…