Programme Coordinator: WBP

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WoMin African Alliance

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: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Remote (local)
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: Not Disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 28/08/2024
  • Location: Central Africa, East Africa, Northwest and Northeast Africa , Southern Africa
Climate & Environmental justice
1 Leading WoMin’s contributions to the building of an African climate justice movement that is anti-capitalist and ecofeminist in nature Accountability to WoMin Programme Manager
- Lead WoMin’s team in contributing to and supporting the building of the African Climate Justice Collective (ACJC) which may include the building of popular and educational resources, facilitate meeting spaces, popular education, workshops, trainings and campaigns 
- Lead WoMin’s efforts to identify, brief and garner the support of groups and movements across the continent to join and build the ACJC

2 Provide strategic leadership to WoMin’s Women Building Power efforts generally 
- Offer consistent analysis, knowledge and strategic guidance to all WoMin’s work gathered under Women Building Power
 – green extractivism, climate debt, ecofeminist just transition, and energy/ wider development alternatives - Ensure that each area of work has clear and solid ecofeminist and anticapitalist analysis, and strategies which respond to a rapidly shifting context for work

3 Supporting and contributing to organizing, movement building, convergences and campaigns addressing WoMin’s leading WBP work - green extractivism and climate reparations
- Provide oversight and direct support to the green extractivism work in South Africa and the linking up of these efforts on the continent unifying work on hydro dams, gas, green hydrogen, rare earth minerals and other critical/strategic minerals extraction
- Lead the building of new partnerships, alliances and convergences, which centre working class and peasant women, hand in hand with the green extractivism (GE) and climate reparations (CR) coordinators

4 General responsibilities 
- Support the WoMin director in fundraising for WBP, including proposal development and funder outreach and relationship building 
- Ensure that the WBP strategies and operational plans are aligned to WoMin’s overall political strategy and objectives.

Skills and Qualifications:
Education: Honours level degree in relevant field (Development Studies, Political or Social Sciences) or equivalent accumulated work experience. Note: WoMin does not privilege degrees over work experience. Experience: 
• A minimum of 10 year’s working experience in some or all the areas of responsibility outlined in the job profile in the not-for-profit sector  
• A minimum of 10 years’ experience working on some or all these issues: environment, energy, climate justice and the extractives sector 
• At least 10 years’ experience in programmes/projects development, management and coordination 
• Must have experience working to support people’s organizing and women’s movement building in particular 
• Fluency in written and spoken English (any other language (French) will be an added value

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