Director of Grantmaking and Feminist Partnerships

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Womankind Worldwide

Hybrid
  • Location: United Kingdom, Kenya
  • Career category: Fundraising/ Grant management
  • Job type: Job
  • Experience level: Other (specified in job description)
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Hybrid
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: £76,408 GBP / yearly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 22/08/2025
  • Location: United Kingdom, Kenya
Movement building
About Womankind Worldwide

Womankind Worldwide is a global women’s rights organisation working in partnership with women’s rights movements and organisations to transform the lives of women and girls. We strengthen and support women’s movements in our focus countries in Africa and Asia, and take collective action at regional and global levels, to ensure women’s voices are heard, their rights are realised, and their lives are free from violence. Currently, Womankind has staff based in Kenya and the UK.


The Role

We are seeking a bold, strategic and values-driven feminist leader to join our Senior Management Team at a pivotal moment in Womankind’s journey. You will share our vision for a world where all women, girls and people of all genders enjoy equal rights and freedoms and live with joy, choice and dignity.

Bringing deep and lived experience of working in partnership with women’s rights organisations and feminist movements, you will understand the global inequalities and local realities that shape the lives of girls, women and people of all genders particularly in Africa and Asia. You will champion transformative change in the face of complex global challenges.

As an experienced leader, you will bring sharp strategic thinking and the courage to challenge traditional models of power in development and philanthropy. You will lead and inspire our programmes and learning work, advocate for flexible, trust-based grant making and decolonial partnership approaches rooted in mutual respect, solidarity and shared power. You will be excited by transformational funding models that shift power to women’s rights organisations and movements, enabling them to lead change on their own terms.

As a member of the Senior Management Team, you will play a critical role in driving the strategic direction of the organisation to achieve our 2030 Feminist Future Strategy. You will bring a whole-organisation mindset, contributing to the leadership of our feminist culture, collective wellbeing, anti-racism work, and organisational sustainability.

You will lead with curiosity and a commitment to learning, creating spaces for reflection and innovation across the organisation which works in a multi-location environment.

Essential Experience and Skills

  • Significant senior leadership experience in working alongside feminist movements, women’s rights organisations, or allied social justice movements including demonstrable commitment to feminist analysis and practice.
  • Proven track record of designing, delivering and managing transformative programmes, partnerships, and/or grant-making initiatives that advance women’s rights and gender justice.
  • Experience in strategic leadership and organisational development within vision and values driven organisations.
  • Knowledge of decolonial, trust-based funding and partnership approaches including the development and management of flexible funding strategies.
  • Proven experience of developing proposals for institutional funders and large trusts and foundations.
  • Significant experience of managing, developing and motivating a team within a remote/hybrid working environment including strong people management skills, supporting staff wellbeing and performance management.

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