Women Building Power for Climate Justice Lead

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WoMin African Alliance

Remote (local)
  • Career category: Advocacy/ Policy, Fundraising/ Grant management, Monitoring & Evaluation /MEAL, Partnership
  • Job type: Job
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Remote (local)
  • Right to work requirements: Not specified
  • Remuneration: Remuneration not disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 25/10/2026
  • Location: West Africa
Climate & Environmental justice Movement building
About the Organisation
WoMin, launched in October 2013, is an African ecofeminist alliance which works alongside organisations of women, peasants and mining-impacted communities, and in partnership with other sympathetic organisations, to make visible and publicise the impacts of extractives on peasant and working-class women; to support women’s organising, movement-building and solidarity; and to advance, in alliance with numerous others, an African post-extractivist, ecologically just, womencentred alternative to the dominant destructive model of development.

About the Job
To lead WoMin’s WCJ team and its contributions to building and strengthening an African women’s movement for climate justice, which holds a progressive Pan African ecofeminist politics at its core; and to the building of key women-led and ecofeminist organizing efforts, convergences and campaigns addressing 'false green energy solutions' primarily, specifically gas and oil in West Africa, with some support to climate reparations, and the wider energy alternatives held in the commons.

Requirements
Education
  • Relevant postgraduate qualification in Social Sciences, Development Studies, Human Rights, Gender Studies, Environmental Studies or a related field, although relevant work experience is equally valued.

Experience
  • 8–10 years’ relevant experience, preferably in the non-profit sector, including at least 5 years in programme/project development, management and coordination.
  • Proven experience supporting people’s organising and women’s movement building, with a strong feminist/women’s rights orientation.
  • Demonstrated experience in campaigning, advocacy, network and alliance building, ideally at sub-regional or Pan-African level.
  • Strong political and analytical understanding of power, inequality and intersecting forms of exclusion, with experience in report/proposal writing; participatory research, facilitation and popular education are highly desirable.

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