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Solidarity & Support Programme Intern - Francophone
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Urgent Action Fund Africa (UAF)
Remote (local)- Location: Central Africa, East Africa, Northwest and Northeast Africa , Southern Africa
- Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
- Job type: Internship
- Humanitarian or Development: Development
- Experience level: 0-5 years
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: Remote (local)
- Right to work requirements: Anyone can apply
- Renumeration: Not Disclosed
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Deadline: 30/09/2024
- Location: Central Africa, East Africa, Northwest and Northeast Africa , Southern Africa
Who we are
Urgent Action Fund (UAF-Africa) is a feminist, Pan-African, rapid response fund committed to transforming power relations through resourcing African feminists and womn human rights defenders and their formations as an act of solidarity. We are a part of the ecosystem of feminist and womn’s movements in Africa and globally. In character, we are bold, courageous, proactive, responsive, creative, rigorous, curious, alert, agile, imaginative, grounded, consistent, and reliable. As a rapid response Fund, we are ready, alert, and agile to respond to and prioritise the urgent needs of womn in various movements.
Specific Responsibilities
Grantmaking and reporting
• Act as the initial interface with the grantees and provide prompt and suitable communication with the applicants.
• Review of grant requests up to the point of preparing checklists for the grantmaking team to review.
• Correspondence with grantees, advisors, and fiscal sponsors.
• Liaise with formal/informal advisors and endorsers on grant proposals.
• Conduct data entry of all inquiries, requests, and grants on the grantmaking database.
• Complete due diligence research of potential grantees
• Completion and filing of grant related paperwork.
• Assist with drafting of grant making activity reports.
• Assist in the documentation process and tracking of grantmaking indicators.
• Assist in drafting of country reports as assigned.
• Carry out research for outreach missions and other UAF-Africa purposes as assigned.
• Assist in preparations and logistics for outreach and networking missions.
• Where applicable, provide language translation of grant requests and communication material within all UAF-Africa programmes.
• Performing any other duties as may be assigned by the supervisor and/or the manager.
Qualifications
Degree in Social Sciences, Women’s Studies, Political Sciences, International Development, Law or
related fields.
Fluency in French/English required.
• 2 years’ experience grantmaking processes is required.
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to multitask.
• Excellent communication skills
• Flexibility and willingness to travel on the African continent and beyond as and when required.
• An understanding of gender equality and women’s rights issues, particularly in politically unstable and post conflict African settings
• Familiarity with the women’s rights development needs in Africa
• Passionate about UAF-Africa’s mission, committed to teamwork, and achieving results and building effective teams.
• Excellent inter-personal, public speaking, writing and negotiation skills.
• Experience working in a virtual work environment an added advantage.
• Experience working with salesforce or any other grantmaking software tool.
Urgent Action Fund (UAF-Africa) is a feminist, Pan-African, rapid response fund committed to transforming power relations through resourcing African feminists and womn human rights defenders and their formations as an act of solidarity. We are a part of the ecosystem of feminist and womn’s movements in Africa and globally. In character, we are bold, courageous, proactive, responsive, creative, rigorous, curious, alert, agile, imaginative, grounded, consistent, and reliable. As a rapid response Fund, we are ready, alert, and agile to respond to and prioritise the urgent needs of womn in various movements.
Specific Responsibilities
Grantmaking and reporting
• Act as the initial interface with the grantees and provide prompt and suitable communication with the applicants.
• Review of grant requests up to the point of preparing checklists for the grantmaking team to review.
• Correspondence with grantees, advisors, and fiscal sponsors.
• Liaise with formal/informal advisors and endorsers on grant proposals.
• Conduct data entry of all inquiries, requests, and grants on the grantmaking database.
• Complete due diligence research of potential grantees
• Completion and filing of grant related paperwork.
• Assist with drafting of grant making activity reports.
• Assist in the documentation process and tracking of grantmaking indicators.
• Assist in drafting of country reports as assigned.
• Carry out research for outreach missions and other UAF-Africa purposes as assigned.
• Assist in preparations and logistics for outreach and networking missions.
• Where applicable, provide language translation of grant requests and communication material within all UAF-Africa programmes.
• Performing any other duties as may be assigned by the supervisor and/or the manager.
Qualifications
Degree in Social Sciences, Women’s Studies, Political Sciences, International Development, Law or
related fields.
Fluency in French/English required.
• 2 years’ experience grantmaking processes is required.
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to multitask.
• Excellent communication skills
• Flexibility and willingness to travel on the African continent and beyond as and when required.
• An understanding of gender equality and women’s rights issues, particularly in politically unstable and post conflict African settings
• Familiarity with the women’s rights development needs in Africa
• Passionate about UAF-Africa’s mission, committed to teamwork, and achieving results and building effective teams.
• Excellent inter-personal, public speaking, writing and negotiation skills.
• Experience working in a virtual work environment an added advantage.
• Experience working with salesforce or any other grantmaking software tool.
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