Board of Directors

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Whose Knowledge?

Remote (global)
  • Career category: Advocacy/ Policy, Finance, Fundraising/ Grant management, Human Resources (HR), Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Volunteering
  • Humanitarian or Development: Development
  • Experience level: Other (specified in job description)
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Remote (global)
  • Right to work requirements: Anyone can apply
  • Remuneration: Volunteer position
  • Work schedule: Part-time/ Pro-rata
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 13/01/2025
  • Location: Remote (global)
Movement building
About Whose Knowledge?

Whose Knowledge? is a global and translocal feminist initiative working to center the histories, knowledges, imaginations and leadership of communities marginalized by intersecting structures of historical and ongoing power and privilege. Our focus is on those we call the “minoritized majority” of the world—women, LGBTQI+ communities, Indigenous and caste-oppressed peoples, working-class folks, and communities from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Pacific Islands and the Caribbean, and their diasporas.

Our goal: To transform the internet into a knowledge infrastructure that reflects the full richness and textures of human knowledges, languages, and ways of being and doing.

We exist to: Resist and challenge Big Tech (Silicon Valley and other dominant tech spaces) and Big Knowledge (academia, publishing, GLAM or memory institutions); and to reimagine and prototype alternative ways of amplifying our knowledges through feminist, anti-colonial technologies.

We do this by: Working in solidarity and shared leadership with the communities we serve to share their knowledges, build digital tools, and support advocacy for a just, feminist and decolonized internet.

Why join our board

As a board member, you will support us to make connections between different contexts and struggles, and help us leverage WK? ‘s strengths in a constantly evolving and complex environment. You will have the opportunity to contribute to liberatory presents and futures where tech and knowledge infrastructures reflect equity, justice, and multiple lived expertises. You’ll help ensure sound fiduciary systems while reimagining and practising governance and accountability structures that challenge patriarchal and colonial-capitalist norms.

Time commitment: Approximately 10 days annually, including five board meetings
Location: Primarily remote, with one annual in-person meeting
Compensation: This is an unremunerated voluntary role, with all expenses related to travel for Board work covered.

Is this you?

We are seeking visionary leaders aligned with our feminist and anti-oppressive politics and our commitment to liberatory knowledge, technology, and social justice. We are currently looking for 3-4 individuals, one of whom will fill the role of Treasurer, who can bring diverse skills and experiences to our board. If any of the criteria below sound like you, please tell us you’re interested!

  • Political alignment with our feminist values and a commitment to a just and liberatory internet through the centering of the knowledges, imaginations and leadership of the minoritized majority of the world.
  • Experience in accountability for and with communities and movements, including a background in non-profit governance, human rights, gender justice, or technology justice. We’re especially interested in those who bring transformational perspectives on governance and have experience with alternative structures that challenge traditional governance systems.
  • We aspire for our Board to reflect plural and intersectional identities, backgrounds and expertise, particularly in terms of gender, sexuality, age, geography, ability, class and lived experience. Additionally, we seek Board members with experience relevant to Whose Knowledge?’s focus and priorities.
  • For our Treasurer role we seek someone with experience related to financial oversight and fiduciary responsibility (US based 501c3 and UK based CIC).

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