Funded Initiative Coordinator – Komboa Initiative

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African Women's Development Fund (AWDF)

Remote (local)
  • Location: Central Africa, East Africa, Northwest and Northeast Africa , Southern Africa
  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Development
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Funds
  • Remote option: Remote (local)
  • Right to work requirements: Anyone can apply
  • Renumeration: $40,536 / yearly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 29/07/2024
  • Location: Central Africa, East Africa, Northwest and Northeast Africa , Southern Africa
Movement building
Background 

As a pan-African feminist fund, the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) resources, strengthens and upholds women’s rights and feminist organisations and movements across Africa, in order to make gender justice a reality for all on our continent and worldwide. 
Job Summary 

As part of our new strategy, AWDF is building on our approach of strengthening movement and funded partners to a more transformative and de-colonised approach which gives feminist and women’s rights activists, organisations and collectives in Africa the ownership and space to make transformative choices and impact their communities across the continent. 

The Funded Initiative Coordinator – Komboa Initiative is responsible for supporting the implementation of AWDF’s resourcing strategy to strengthen and uphold African women’s and feminist organisations and movements. The role is responsible for the delivery of the resourcing strategy under a defined funded initiative and the relevant fund sub-strategies and priorities that guide how AWDF will help the feminist movement achieve, including:

  • Strategic, responsive support to African WR and feminist organisations and movements (e.g. holistic, longer term, increased flexibility)
  • Increase our reach to more, diverse women’s and feminist movement actors across Africa 
  • Adopt and promote more feminist processes and approaches
  • Build infrastructure for movements to respond better to change
The role will work in close collaboration with all the clusters and under the leadership of the Director of Partnerships and Philanthropy in a matrix management arrangement with the Programme Manager - Resourcing. The Resourcing team follows a matrix management and cross-cluster operational model. The post-holder will therefore work with and be supported by various clusters and teams.

The role will share an Assistant who will work across the three funded initiatives and the Strategic Implementation Partners Cluster. It will also lead all aspects of the resourcing sub-strategies/ priorities including budgeting/financial management, leadership and staff development, policy development and strategic planning under a defined funded initiative.

Qualifications 

  • A degree in gender studies or related discipline and at least 6 years of professional experience in a similar role. 
  • The post requires at least 6 years of working experience in participatory and more transformative approaches to organisational strengthening and leadership development
  • Experience working in or with different types of entities (i.e. CBOs, NGOs etc.)
  • Work experience around feminist and women’s rights funding and philanthropy, experience of working with feminist or African women’s bilateral and foundation funders. 
  • An in-depth knowledge of African women’s rights issues and concerns, strong analytical, writing and editing skills and external representation skills.
  • Excellent written and spoken English. Working knowledge of French, Arabic or Portuguese will be a distinct advantage. 

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