Program Manager - Gender Race and Power

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Open Society Foundations

  • Location: Senegal, Kenya, South Africa
  • 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: No
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: Not Disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 31/05/2024
  • Location: Senegal, Kenya, South Africa
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) Racial justice
Opportunity Description 
The Gender, Race and Power Opportunity focuses on advancing locally-rooted gender and racial justice policies, leaders and organizations, and connecting these efforts to cross-regional and global goals.  Areas of exploration will include identifying, supporting, and connecting these efforts across the Global South and leveraging them to advance democratic principles.   

Role Purpose
The aim of opportunities is to dynamically organize staff, strategies, and budgets around the demands of each opportunity. It balances the need for sustained attention to complex problems and demands rigorous planning and evaluation, while also providing leaders with the autonomy to pursue radical ideas and approaches. 
The Program Manager is a leader with deep understanding and recognition of the gender and racial justice fields and will be responsible for day-to-day liaison and coordination with grantee and partner organisations. 

Key Responsibilities 
As Program Manager, you will: 
  • Support the Director of Programs to deliver on the opportunity’s outcomes with professionalism
  • Deliver on day-to-day liaison with grantees to ensure the opportunity is designed, launched, implemented, and exited according to the outcomes defined
  • Work collaboratively with other members within the opportunity team and with colleagues across OSF to ensure the opportunity is effectively leveraging OSF’s capabilities to reach the agreed outcome
  • Effectively manage the grant-making process by communicating with grantees for proposal submission, assisting in grant record preparation, grants processing, payments, reporting, and other related processes
  • Build a strong understanding of the gender and racial justice fields and partnerships, in developing and designing the grant selection processes
  • Manage relationships with partners, in close coordination with Geographic Policy Groups as relevant, and work with them to achieve OSF’s strategic objective through the opportunity
  • Work collaboratively in developing, assessing, and revising program strategies
  • Work with leadership to maintain grant-making practice aligned with OSF's approach to grant-making and in compliance with organizational and external standards and regulations
  • Assist in the construction, maintenance, and assessment of grant making portfolio(s), sharing responsibility for strategy design with manager
  • Contribute to larger opportunity strategy
  • Process and oversee progress of consultant contracts
  • Monitor progress implementation, project risks, and other relevant status updates and communicate to Director of Programs regularly

Qualifications 
  • Educated to a degree-level (or equivalent)
  • Multiple years’ experience (in one or multiple organisations) where proficiency in the gender and racial justice fields has been comprehensively developed 
  • Extensive expertise in the specific topic area as set out in the “Opportunity Description” above 
  • Prior working experience of operating within the non-profit community (for example multi-lateral, NGO, foundation or ambassadorial working environments)
  • Fluent in local language where the role is based
  • Relevant expertise in topic area (thematic and/or geographic) specific to the opportunity
  • An excellent knowledge of English is required.

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