Senior Director, Collective Action

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Women Deliver

Remote (global)
  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Development
  • Experience level: Other (specified in job description)
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Remote (global)
  • Right to work requirements: Anyone can apply
  • Remuneration: $185,000 USD-$200,000 USD / yearly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Permanent
  • Deadline: 14/03/2024
  • Location: Remote (global)
Movement building
Supporting Colleagues:

  • Mentor and support a diverse team of professionals and foster a collaborative and inclusive team culture that encourages innovation and impact.
  • Manage the process of a transition to matrixed staff planning and collaboration where key professionals are contributing to several work streams and initiatives with colleagues of different levels being in lead roles.
  • Be responsible for creating the process for team performance and mutual accountability, and responsiveness to partners and stakeholders.
Influence and Thought Leadership:

  • Advocate for gender responsive SRHR policies at national, regional, and global levels through the work in the issue areas.
  • Amplify the voices of Emerging Leaders and partners in advocacy efforts.
  • Provide creative leadership within and outside the organization to drive progress and impact in these areas.
  • Engage internally and externally as a feminist leader, supporting WD’s decolonization process.
Technical Support and Learning:

  • Oversee the design, planning, implementation, and reviews for all three workstreams and the three issue areas.
  • Ensure that each workstream and issue area has an effective and appropriate Outcome Framework.
  • Support gathering data for monitoring and reporting to ensure accountability to key stakeholders.
  • Support using insights to drive continuous learning and moments of reflection and planning.
  • Support colleagues to develop and implement strategies to mobilize resources, including funding, for issue area activities.
Building Partnership and Engaging Stakeholders:

  • Build and maintain strategic partnerships with leaders, advocates, policymakers, and organizations directly impacted by the work in the issue areas.
  • Cultivate relationships with donors and partners to support the financial sustainability of these initiatives. • Represent Women Deliver at relevant forums, conferences, and events and in media where needed.

Candidate Profile
Supporting and Mentoring:

  • Experience in mentoring and supporting a diverse team of professionals, fostering collaboration, and achieving results will be necessary.
  • Experience with matrixed and collaborative management will be of great value.
Collaborating with Partners and Stakeholders:

  • Strong ability to build and maintain strategic partnerships with a diverse range of stakeholders.
  • Ability to motivate, inspire partners and to effectively managing the collective actions.
Advocacy and Policy Knowledge:

  • Amazing advocacy skills, ability to influence global policy, standards and norms.
  • Knowing how to navigate the global gender equality landscape.
Resource Mobilization:

  • Experience in fundraising, and resource mobilization especially with institutional fundraising, including securing major grants from ODA governments and large foundations.
Impact Measurement and Learning:

  • Experience in using various approaches to tracking, measuring initiative outcomes and impacts.
  • A real desire for learning in order to be more effective.
Communicating with others:

  • Excellent verbal communication skills with a variety of different audiences – from activities to member state governments and donors is necessary.
  • Being a great writer would be a big asset, but being competent in Women Delivers internal working language (English) is a must.
Committed to Social Justice:

  • Particularly with a passion for advancing gender equality, girls’ and women’s rights, and comprehensive SRHR.

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