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- 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: Nationals-only contract
- Remuneration: $87,000 CAD-$95,000 CAD / yearly
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Deadline: 12/12/2024
- Location: Canada
Movement building
ABOUT THE EQUALITY FUND
The Equality Fund is transforming the way that resources—and power—flow into the hands of women, girls and gender expansive people worldwide. Designed by feminists for feminists, it is a model for sustainably resourcing feminist movements everywhere, through global grantmaking, gender-lens investing, policy advocacy, and feminist philanthropy. Launched in 2019, the Equality Fund has committed $86 million in grantmaking to individual organisations, feminist and women’s rights funds, feminist convenings and feminist crises responses to date, which flows to more than 800 organizations working across 100 countries.
SCOPE & RESPONSIBILITIES
Partnerships in Grantmaking
- Maintains good knowledge of trends in geographies where EF works and thematic specialization. The Equality Fund supports and strengthens feminist organizations and movements through feminist grantmaking, accompaniment, amplification, knowledge building, and mutual learning. Areas and issues where Equality Fund is looking to strengthen expertise include African feminist movements, youth movements, disability movements, and climate justice;
- Supports development of programming and collaborations within EF and with external partners and stakeholders to advance the work of women’s rights and feminist organizations and movements, sister funds, and strengthen the feminist funding ecosystem;
- Oversees and manages all aspects of designated grantmaking portfolios, including grantmaking plans, writing and/or contributing to docket preparation, receiving and reviewing grant reports, and collaborating with the grants operations and finance teams;
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
- Contributes to EF’s feminist monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems in collaboration with the Learning and Impact team;
- Work closely with the Learning and Impact team and other global programs staff to document progress, lessons learned, and success stories and report to funders;
- Supports other program needs as required;
Other horizontal organizational activities
- Supports and liaises with other EF teams as required to develop various products including events/media needs to promote the work of the EF and to maximize opportunities for grantee partners;
- Participates in the onboarding of new staff members;
- Acts in accordance with our policies around nurturing a safe and respectful work environment; never engaging in harassment, coercion, sexual exploitation or abuse of any form, or anything else contrary to our code of conduct.
QUALIFICATIONS
- At least 5 years of programmatic grantmaking experience; other relevant professional experience in international development, programming for gender equity, program design, and implementation is an asset
- Knowledge of and experience working on global feminist issues relating to women, girls, and trans rights in the global majority and current trends relating to gender equity, the rollback of rights, women’s rights, social justice, and international development
- Substantive knowledge of and experience with African feminist movements and networks
- Demonstrated ability to integrate in-depth knowledge of intersectionality and awareness of complex power dynamics
- Demonstrated success in building positive, trust-based relationships
- Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills in English plus professional working competency in written and spoken French required.
- Ability to work and communicate with diverse audiences and stakeholders including activists, donors, and community members
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