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About GAGGA
The Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA) is a vibrant and diverse network, established in 2016, involving women’s funds, environmental justice funds, NGOs, and women-led community-based organisations (CBOs), joining forces to strengthen the nexus of women’s rights, gender, climate, and environmental justice at local, national, and regional levels in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Latin America, Europe and globally. 

The Role
The Alliance Coordinator will coordinate the technical, operational and strategic operations of the GAGGA Alliance, ensuring the timely and effective fulfilment of plans and expected results, and guaranteeing the integration and cohesion of the various programme elements and working groups. You will establish key connections and propose ways to leverage opportunities within the various strategies of the GAGGA Alliance. In addition, you will lead advocacy initiatives and strengthen resource mobilisation strategies for GAGGA.

Strategic management and internal coordination: Ensuring the implementation of GAGGA’s strategies and plans, providing strategic oversight and guidance, identifying opportunities for strengthening and establishing key links to position GAGGA.

Advocacy: Coordinate, facilitate and participate in collective advocacy processes aimed at influencing governments, investors and donors based on GAGGA’s advocacy framework. This includes regional and international level advocacy, as well as targeted influencing of bilateral and philanthropic donors.

Resource mobilisation support: Oversee the alliance’s resource mobilisation strategy and collaborate closely with the Donor Engagement Officer, the Fundraising Working Group (FWG) and the Steering Committee (SC) to secure financial and diverse resources. Offer ongoing support in the management of relationships with donors, strategic allies and other important actors, facilitating the strengthening of alliances that favour the objectives of the Alliance.

Operational oversight: Ensure GAGGA’s strategic plans, budgets and daily activities are implemented effectively to maximise the efficient use of available financial, operational and human resources.

Supervision: supervise the GAGGA Coordination Unit members, providing support, feedback and timely evaluations.



Key Knowledge and Skills
Master’s degree in a related field (public policy, political science, gender studies, environmental/climate studies, or related field).
Ten years of general experience in international development.
Proven experience (at least five years) in coordinating, developing, and implementing influencing processes for gender, environmental and/or climate justice.
Knowledge about key advocacy processes relevant to Global South women’s rights, feminist, environmental and climate justice movements, including target actors (specifically governments, investors and donors).
Proven track record in fundraising and partnership development.
Expertise in working with international multi-actor, multi-cultural and multi-level programmes.
Experience in enabling diverse organisations to work together at different engagement levels (local, national and international).
Strong commitment to women’s rights, gender, environmental and climate justice; knowledge of working with community-based organisations from these movements in the Global South is an asset.
Strong social skills and competence to work in multi-cultural environments, promoting respect and cooperation and ability to build trust across multi-actor collaboration as the basis for joint actions.
Willingness to work virtually.
Fluency in English and Spanish;