Feminist Knowledge Leadership Coordinator
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Urgent Action Fund Africa (UAF)
Remote (local)- Location: Central Africa, East Africa, , Southern Africa
- Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
- Job type: Job
- Experience level: 5-10 years
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: Remote (local)
- Right to work requirements: Anyone can apply
- Remuneration: Not Disclosed
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Location: Central Africa, East Africa, , Southern Africa
Organisational profile
Urgent Action Fund-Africa (UAF-Africa) is a feminist and pan-African Rapid Response Fund committed to transforming power relations through resourcing African feminists and womn human rights defenders and their formations as an act of solidarity. Recognizing the need to move resources rapidly on a continent where opportunities and threats arise and decline quickly, UAF-Africa uses a Rapid Response Grantmaking mechanism to support unanticipated, time-sensitive, innovative, and unique initiatives that promote womn’s agency in peace and political participation, social and economic power building as well as natural resources governance and stewardship. The Fund works to support African Womn Human Rights Defenders (AWHRDs), particularly in the feminist and womn’s rights movements, in their actions, which enable them to support and sustain themselves, each other, and their work before, during, and after urgent situations.
Position Overview
UAF-Africa seeks a Feminist Knowledge Leadership Coordinatorto consolidate learning from its work and that of its constituencies: inter alia WHRDs, feminist and women’s rights formations, feminist and women’s rights students and academics as well as feminist and social justice practitioners contributing to the struggle for women’s rights. Being a feminist learning organisation, UAF-Africa values different ways of knowing and different forms of knowledge: theoretical, conceptual, practical, and experiential. Through connecting theory and practice, the Knowledge Leadership Coordinator will lead the development, facilitation, and oversight of UAF-Africa’s Knowledge Leadership strategy, knowledge production processes, and deliverables. They will drive UAF-Africa’s quest to produce and publish justly researched and written, relevant, and contemporary knowledge from the ground, and from African women and their communities.
Documenting the contexts, lived realities, and the organising, activism, and work of feminist activists; development of research that makes the case for the work and wellbeing of feminist activists; pilot and incubate special projects (currently the African Feminist Republik Registry) to apply learning and meet the needs that emerge through our work and the work of movements.
Role-specific Skills and Experience
• A minimum of 7-9 years’ experience in women’s studies, research, and academic skills in feminist ideology.
• Minimum 2- 3 years in a supervisory role.
• Sound Research experience, knowledge of feminist documentation methodologies, coordination skills
• In-depth knowledge of women’s rights issues, particularly within the context of Africa.
• Progressive gender equality/women’ rights and or social justice experience and knowledge at the international level, particularly work experience in developing countries.
• Sound understanding of the politics of providing feminist and women’s rights strategic resourcing support.
• Proficiency in written and spoken English, French or Arabic linguistic skills are an added advantage.
• Database Management skills.
• Knowledge of feminist holistic security and care.
• Interest in and passion for advancing feminist documentation and knowledge generation.
Urgent Action Fund-Africa (UAF-Africa) is a feminist and pan-African Rapid Response Fund committed to transforming power relations through resourcing African feminists and womn human rights defenders and their formations as an act of solidarity. Recognizing the need to move resources rapidly on a continent where opportunities and threats arise and decline quickly, UAF-Africa uses a Rapid Response Grantmaking mechanism to support unanticipated, time-sensitive, innovative, and unique initiatives that promote womn’s agency in peace and political participation, social and economic power building as well as natural resources governance and stewardship. The Fund works to support African Womn Human Rights Defenders (AWHRDs), particularly in the feminist and womn’s rights movements, in their actions, which enable them to support and sustain themselves, each other, and their work before, during, and after urgent situations.
Position Overview
UAF-Africa seeks a Feminist Knowledge Leadership Coordinatorto consolidate learning from its work and that of its constituencies: inter alia WHRDs, feminist and women’s rights formations, feminist and women’s rights students and academics as well as feminist and social justice practitioners contributing to the struggle for women’s rights. Being a feminist learning organisation, UAF-Africa values different ways of knowing and different forms of knowledge: theoretical, conceptual, practical, and experiential. Through connecting theory and practice, the Knowledge Leadership Coordinator will lead the development, facilitation, and oversight of UAF-Africa’s Knowledge Leadership strategy, knowledge production processes, and deliverables. They will drive UAF-Africa’s quest to produce and publish justly researched and written, relevant, and contemporary knowledge from the ground, and from African women and their communities.
Documenting the contexts, lived realities, and the organising, activism, and work of feminist activists; development of research that makes the case for the work and wellbeing of feminist activists; pilot and incubate special projects (currently the African Feminist Republik Registry) to apply learning and meet the needs that emerge through our work and the work of movements.
Role-specific Skills and Experience
• A minimum of 7-9 years’ experience in women’s studies, research, and academic skills in feminist ideology.
• Minimum 2- 3 years in a supervisory role.
• Sound Research experience, knowledge of feminist documentation methodologies, coordination skills
• In-depth knowledge of women’s rights issues, particularly within the context of Africa.
• Progressive gender equality/women’ rights and or social justice experience and knowledge at the international level, particularly work experience in developing countries.
• Sound understanding of the politics of providing feminist and women’s rights strategic resourcing support.
• Proficiency in written and spoken English, French or Arabic linguistic skills are an added advantage.
• Database Management skills.
• Knowledge of feminist holistic security and care.
• Interest in and passion for advancing feminist documentation and knowledge generation.
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