Request for Proposal: Feminist Digital Security and Holistic Protection Training

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Equality Fund - Fonds Égalité

Remote (local)
  • Career category: Information Technology (IT), Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Consultancy
  • Experience level: Other (specified in job description)
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Remote (local)
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: $60,000 CAD-$80,000 CAD / budget
  • Deadline: 10/08/2025
  • Location: Canada 
Movement building
BACKGROUND 


The Equality Fund is transforming the way that resources—and power—flow into the hands of women, girls, and trans 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 $100 million and, as of 2025, supports over 1000 organizations working in 100 countries globally.





SCOPE OF WORK 

The Equality Fund is seeking a consultancy team to provide training to support grantee partners in advancing their digital security and holistic protection through feminist values and praxis. 


The training will bring forward good practices for digital security and holistic protection, centering collective care and healing justice as an underpinning value and core activity of the sessions. The facilitator will support participants to explore key topics and themes. 

The training will assess grantee partners’ current capacity to determine relevant content and approaches. This assessment will serve as a baseline for determining existing knowledge and skills, and will be useful in helping to measure capacity built over the duration of the training and beyond. The training will then provide grantee partners with support to develop a digital 
security strategy, analyzing any gaps in their approaches, and helping to set up activities and actions that will help improve systems and strengthen organizations for their future work. Throughout the training, the Consultant will make recommendations to participants to strengthen digital security strategies. At the end of the training, the Consultant will share recommendations with the Equality Fund (and other donors) to help improve responses and sustainable protections. 

The training will be delivered to a collective of partners facing various security risks, and therefore must be developed and implemented with the highest levels of protection for the identities and information of the participants. The successful Consultant must therefore agree to certain security protections, as outlined in their contract agreement.

SELECTION CRITERIA 
  • Relevant tertiary qualification, for example, information technology, development studies, social sciences, or women’s/gender studies.
  • Track record of successful consultancies that have focused on women’s rights, gender justice in particular, and experience in digital security and in healing justice and collective care, preferably in the Global South. Knowledge of philanthropy and donor spaces is an asset. 
  • Experience facilitating virtual participatory meetings with activists and civil society groups.
  • Experience developing participatory training approaches. 
  • Strong understanding of women’s and LGBTQI movements and experience working with grassroots/diverse organizations — Strongly Preferred. 
  • Proven written and oral communication skills in English. Bilingual Consultants (French, Spanish, Russian) are encouraged to apply. 
  • Highly efficient and flexible approach to work, with ease in collaborating with others. 
  • Highly organized, analytical, adaptive, and responsive to feedback and changes in direction when needed. 
  • Demonstrated commitment to intersectional feminist approaches and commitment to gender, racial, economic, and global justice. 
  • Ability to work with limited supervision, as part of a small team, and independently. 
 

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