Programme Assistant – CBO / NGO Entities Cluster

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African Women's Development Fund (AWDF)

Hybrid
  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Experience level: 0-5 years
  • Organisation type: Funds
  • Remote option: Hybrid
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: $23,244 USD-$40,677 USD / yearly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 27/03/2025
  • Location: Ghana
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, to make gender justice a reality for all on our continent and worldwide. Over the past 24 years, AWDF has awarded approximately USD100 million to women’s rights and feminist organisations throughout Africa (and in selected Middle Eastern countries through one of our initiatives). Through its grantmaking, programmatic and advocacy work, AWDF has supported work that has led to changes in law and policy, social norms and movement-building for gender justice. 

Summary of Duties 
Strategy Implementation 

  • Support the implementation of the CBO/NGO entities sub strategy, priorities and approaches in alignment with the new AWDF Strategic Framework
Leadership and people development and management

  • Contribute to a team culture that values collaboration internally, cross functionally, a team of independent thinkers that feel empowered, a team that reflects the feminist principles and values of AWDF.
Programme Management 

  • Contribute to all aspects of the planning and implementation of the priorities, approaches and initiatives of CBO/NGOs;
  • Input to the development of planning, learning, monitoring, reporting as it relates to the CBO/NGO cluster priorities and approaches as well as agreed results frameworks for funded initiatives
Budget management 

  • Support effective resource expenditure for the work of the CBO/NGO cluster
  • Follow organisational financial policies
Relationship management

  • Support and participate in relevant initiatives, working groups and collaborations to exchange knowledge and advance shared goals to influence the donor community
  • Support and contribute to the identification of priorities to resource and support partners, influencing, etc.
Programme monitoring and learning

  • Assist with the collation and analysis of data and information, and contribute to learning about AWDF’s approaches to resourcing CBO/NGOs;
  • Contributing to learning about how and what we are doing is contributing to the diverse women-led CBO/NGOs outcome level impact.
  • Assist with portfolio level monitoring and evaluation and accompaniment and CBO/NGO funded initiative partners and ensure quality learning by and among partners
Other

  • The role holder will from time to time be required to carry out any other duties that are within the scope of the job

Qualifications 

  • A degree in gender studies or related discipline and at least 1 year professional experience in a similar role.
  • The post requires at least 1 year working experience in participatory and more transformative approaches to feminist philanthropy.
  • Experience of working in or with different types of entities and movements, particularly CBOs and NGOs and/or feminist or women’s rights movements
  • Professional experience around African and feminist organisational and movement strengthening, experience of working with African women’s and feminist organisations, an in-depth knowledge of African feminist and women’s rights priorities, approaches, issues and concerns
  • 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 will be a distinct advantage. 

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