Senior Programmes Officer - Bilingual

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African Women's Development Fund (AWDF)

Remote (local)
  • Career category: Fundraising/ Grant management, Partnership
  • Job type: Job
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Funds
  • Remote option: Remote (local)
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: USD 32,493 USD-USD 44,690 USD / yearly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Not specified
  • Deadline: 31/07/2026
  • Location: Ghana
Movement building
Job Summary 
The Senior Programme Officer (SPO) is responsible for leading the design and implementation of AWDF’s resourcing strategy for diverse feminist movement actors and organisations.

The Senior Programme Officer (SPO) provides strategic leadership for a portfolio of feminist actors and initiatives, leading grantmaking, partner engagement and accompaniment, learning and knowledge generation, and portfolio management. The role is responsible for shaping, implementing, and continuously evolving AWDF’s resourcing approaches to ensure they are feminist, responsive, trust-based, and grounded in the lived realities of partners and feminist movements across the continent, while contributing to organisational and sector-wide thought leadership on feminist resourcing and movement strengthening.

The role ensures that AWDF's grantmaking, accompaniment, and partnership approaches:

  • Strengthen women's rights organisations and feminist movements through flexible, holistic and longer-term resourcing and accompaniment. 
  • Expand AWDF's reach to diverse, emergent, and non-traditional feminist actors across the continent. 
  • Advance feminist, decolonised, and trust-based approaches to philanthropy and resourcing. 
  • Build movement infrastructure and collective capacities that enable feminist actors to adapt, respond, and thrive in contexts of change and crisis. 
  • Remain responsive to the diverse realities, priorities, and aspirations of feminist movements. 
  • Are grounded in feminist, intersectional, and movement-centred principles. 
  • Are strategically aligned with AWDF's organisational priorities and broader resourcing strategy.

Essential Knowledge and Experience 
  • Ability to apply feminist and social and gender justice principles in development and organizing within the African context.
  • Expertise working with and in coalitions, cross-regional engagement, multi-stakeholder interests and dynamics
  • Expertise using frameworks like intersectionality, social exclusion analysis
  • A team player who is proactive and can take initiative
  • Excellent track record in delivering against targets
  • Ability to develop strong, long-term external relationships with diverse
  • Excellent leadership and people management skills, the ability to motivate and build an effective team and experience of distance management;
  • Strong interpersonal skills, high levels of personal integrity and professional credibility and experience of building strong and credible relationships with diverse stakeholders including colleagues, donors and feminist movement actors
  • Confidence in communicating the impact of programme results to a wide and expert audience
  • Organisation, planning and management skills and the ability to work to tight deadlines

Qualifications 
  • The post requires at least 6 years working experience in participatory and more transformative approaches to feminist philanthropy, grantmaking or movement resourcing.
  • Experience working across formal and informal movement entities (i.e. emergent and non-traditional collectives, CBOs, NGOs and/or strategic implementing partners) and/or feminist or women’s rights movements.
  • Professional experience around feminist organising, 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. 
  • AWDF will consider applicants who can demonstrate the necessary competencies through experience. Excellent written and spoken English. Working knowledge of French is required.  

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