About Us Just Associates is an International feminist movement building support organization that works in three regions, namely MESO America, Southern Africa and South East Asia. JASS Southern Africa builds, mobilises and leverages the collective power of women to demand their rights, address their practical needs, and promote democracy in their communities. We do this through: leadership development based on feminist popular education, strategic actions, and participatory research and knowledge production. We strengthen women’s movements and organisations, creating safe spaces for them to share experiences, build their analysis, and develop effective strategies promoting wellbeing, safety and security. In Zimbabwe specifically, a centrepiece of our work is Heart-Mind-Body (HMB) initiative – a three-fold approach that rebuilds, rejuvenates, and retools women’s activism with self-care, shared political analysis, and new ways of working together for influence. Founded in 2009, the Institute for Young Women Development (IYWD) is a young feminist organisation with proven experience in promoting the participation of young women to inform and influence socio-economic and political decision-making processes. The IYWD is committed to mobilising and strengthening the voice and power of young women in marginalized communities to challenge the systems and norms that oppress them. Anchored in young women's lives and demands, we envision a society where all young women have a voice, are respected, and are able to live a life of dignity. Through community organizing, raising political consciousness, movement- building, documentation and thinking alongside marginalised young women we create pathways to imagine a better future and promote and defend rights and wellbeing. Consultancy Services to develop a Feminist Security Strategy Just Associates Southern Africa (JASS SNA) and Institute for Young Women Development (IYWD) are seeking to engage a consultant to develop a Feminist Security Strategy for their joint 3-year project titled “What Women Want: Building grassroots women’s collective power against gender-based violence in Zimbabwe”. The project is covering 3 provinces of Zimbabwe- Manicaland, Mashonaland East and Mashonaland Central. Each province will have two target districts except Mashonaland Central, which will have four (six districts in total). The objective of the engagement is to develop a Security Strategy in cooperation with the women and girls who work with both JASS and IYWD to define and prioritize information assurance and security initiatives that the organisations must implement to enhance the protection of information, participants, staff, beneficiaries and others related to the project. Developing the security strategy will include risk identification and mitigation strategy for the project related to security threats. Summary of Consultancy Services The goal of the engagement is to develop a Feminist Security Strategy that embodies women’s self and collective care in order to support the two organizations implement the program by enhancing protection of information, participants, staff and foresee all the possible risks that might bring those mentioned to security threats. Developing the security strategy will include risk identification and mitigation strategy for the consortium related to security threats. The engaged expert will have to organize a two-day workshop with JASS and IYWD staff and targeted communities in regard to produced Security Strategy in order to provide necessary information. Under the supervision and in close co-operation with the two organisations the consultant will implement the following tasks: Creation of the Security Strategy (a) Based on the assessment, drafting the methodology for developing Security Strategy and submission to JASS and IYWD for approval (b) Finalizing the methodology and conducting needed research in existing organisations’ strategies and policies; Conducting the one 2-day workshop with staff and IYWD and JASS members (a) Selection of the workshop dates in coordination with the JASS and IYWD (b) Based on the adopted methodology and workshop schedule, conducting the workshop (c) Conduct the evaluation of the workshop (d) Report on the conducted workshop and the conducted work. Qualifications Minimum university degree in Human Rights /Social Sciences or other relevant field; Extensive experience (at least 5 years) experience in developing security strategies; Extensive knowledge of civil society sector in Zimbabwe; Extensive experience in working with diverse groups that are part of the feminist movements locally and internationally; Extensive experience on building capacities; Excellent inter- personal communication skills including experience of Feminist Popular Education; Proven and demonstrated broad knowledge of and ability to utilize principles, methods, techniques and systems to develop security strategy; Excellent communication and written skills in English language including Zimbabwean local languages