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The Director of CIJ’s Digital Suppression Program will lead CIJ’s critical work in changing Big Tech’s discriminatory digital suppression of women’s health information worldwide. This person will: lead, inspire, and support CIJ’s team; represent CIJ with partners, both in established engagements and with CIJ’s presence at global convenings and beyond; oversee CIJ’s research and advocacy programs, and drive partnerships; and be a spokesperson for CIJ’s digital suppression work alongside other CIJ team

members. This Director will also drive critical fundraising for the organization and this digital suppression work.

Furthermore, in terms of strategy development, this Director will update, expand and newly develop CIJ programs and strategies considering the current moment that we are in – making sure that the voices and needs of CIJ’s stakeholders are heard, and that the strategic shifts needed due to political and legal changes are leveraged in CIJ’s strategies, to create maximum impact.

We are seeking a highly effective fundraiser, strategic leader, and experienced team manager with an understanding of and passion for tech policy, digital rights, and women’s health and/or sexual and reproductive health rights. This Director will drive fundraising, partnerships, programs, and operations – and it is a plus if this candidate has experience in financial management.

● Organizational Leadership: Provide strategic direction and leadership to CIJ’s team, ensuring alignment with the organization’s mission and goals. Support and co-create a positive, empowering team culture.

● Fundraising and Partnerships: Lead and expand CIJ’s fundraising efforts across major gifts, foundation grants, and individual giving, in collaboration with CIJ’s grant writing team member(s). Support relationships with donors and partners to create and renew support.

● Team Development: Recruit, mentor, and manage staff and volunteers, fostering professional growth and collaboration.

● Financial Oversight: Oversee CIJ’s financial health, including budget development, long-term planning, and financial reporting, in collaboration with team, bookkeepers and accountants.

● Program Development: Drive the implementation of high-impact research and advocacy campaigns, ensuring CIJ’s work aligns with its mission and values.

● Communications and Visibility: Serve as an ambassador for CIJ, elevating the organization’s profile through public speaking, donor engagement, and more.

Who we are
Urgent Action Fund-Africa (UAF-Africa) is a consciously feminist and womn’s human rights panAfrican Fund, registered in Kenya and Zimbabwe. Operating as a virtual organisation, the Fund boasts of strategic presence in Africa’s five sub-regions- East Africa: Nairobi- Kenya, KampalaUganda; North Africa: Cairo- Egypt; Southern Africa: Harare- Zimbabwe, Lilongwe- Malawi, Antananarivo- Madagascar, Johannesburg- Pretoria & Cape Town- South Africa, GaboroneBotswana; West Africa: Abuja -Nigeria and Parakou- Benin, Lomé, Togo; West/ Central Africa: Yaoundé & Douala Cameroon. Recognising the need to move resources rapidly on a continent where opportunities and threats arise and decline quickly, UAF-Africa uses a Rapid Response Grant making mechanism to support unanticipated, time sensitive, innovative, and unique initiatives that promote women’s agency in democratic governance, economic, environmental and climate justice, natural resources governance and conflict transformation while protecting their personhood, integrity, and rights.

Specific Responsibilities
Financial Operations and Management Support
• Preparation of payment vouchers upon validation of underlying documents.
• Updating QuickBooks.
• Carrying out monthly bank, cash, and credit card reconciliations.
• Monitor cash/bank balances for effective reporting.
• Filing monthly returns such as PAYE, NSSF, NHIF, and ensuring compliance with statutory regulations, e.g., NGO returns
• Assisting in liaising with HR to ensure the timely preparation of payroll and other staff entitlements. 
• Assist in the computation of various financial reports in a timely way and the required format.
• Assist with the project audits and institutional audits processes, and implement audit recommendations in day-to-day delivery. • Assist with the preparation of annual budgets, proposal budgets, and donor financial reports. 

Grantsmaking Support
• Grants administration- assist in the timely voucher preparation of sub-grants awarded upon validation of underlying documents, and inform the grantmaking team
• Assist with initiating the payment instructions at the bank for all grants awarded after verifying the underlying documents to support the payments.
• Assist in updating the grantmaking database. Generate data & reports from the database as a source of information for complementary portfolios. 

Other Responsibilities
• Providing periodic reports for internal/external communications to the team and other stakeholders.
• Work with the Operations team in ensuring the smooth running of the Nairobi office and staff working virtually across the African continent.
• Maintaining open and fluid communications with all vendors and contractors.
• Any other responsibilities as assigned within the portfolio.

Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Studies or equivalent 
• CPA Part II or equivalent Skills and Experience 
• Minimum of 3 years’ relevant work experience working in or with organisations in Africa, preferably womn’s rights or social justice-oriented organisations 
• Familiarity with grantmaking is an added advantage. 
• Experience working with QuickBooks software is an added advantage 
• Excellent written and verbal communications in English. French linguistic abilities would be plus 
• Strong analytical, presentation, planning and organisational skills 
• Ability to perform detailed work, frequently of a confidential nature and/or to handle a large volume of work systematically, optimally and accurately 

JOB PURPOSE
CHEVS is co-implementing a transformative "Safe to be Me” project - a 3-year VAWG prevention program for diverse women and girls in Nigeria. The intervention will aim to address both IPV and non-partner sexual violence, especially sexual harassment at the University of Lagos in Nigeria, targeting the university administration, lecturers, non-teaching staff, students, including LBT persons and their partners in schools and out of school. The project aims to strengthen community resilience by addressing key barriers facing LBT persons, such as invisibility and exclusion within the broader priority agenda setting in research, policy formulation, and mobilisation within the women's rights and LGBTI spaces around VAWG prevention and response programming in Nigeria.

The primary objective of this project is to shift harmful norms, values, beliefs, behaviours and attitudes towards positive norms on gender and gender relations, contributing to a university environment where diverse girls and young women experience less violence and where LBT students experience less societal shame and abuse. The Project Officer - Violence Prevention will co-lead and represent CHEVS in planning, implementing, coordinating, and overseeing the Safe To Be Me project in Lagos State.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
● Lead the day-to-day implementation of the VAWG prevention programme in the selected tertiary institution in Lagos State.
● Co-facilitate awareness campaigns on IPV and non-IPV violence affecting LBQT persons.
● Engage in the co-development of VCAT curriculum and other project-related resource materials.
● Co-facilitate the planning, coordinating, and implementing project-related workshops, events, and other activities, ensuring quality, relevance, and impact.
● Build and manage partnerships with campus authorities, student associations, LBQT organisations, and service providers.
● Coordinate regular update and maintenance of project-related databases.
● Facilitate engagements with the LBT community in Lagos State.
● Support the establishment of referral pathways and survivor-centred support services.
● Co-facilitate financial accountability processes within the project.
● Collect and document data, stories, and lessons to inform programme adaptation and advocacy
Monitor pre-, during, and post-activity engagements in the University of Lagos and environs.
● Monitor progress against programme objectives and provide regular reports to the Program Manager.
● Identify and mitigate risks to ensure project sustainability and effectiveness.
● Implement safeguarding policies for direct and indirect beneficiaries of the project.
● Co-facilitate institutional reviews on policies related to VAWG.

Requirements
• CHEVS is degree agnostic, valuing practical experience and community-based expertise over formal degrees. We believe that the individuals from the communities we serve are the true experts in their own liberation and development. Therefore; relevant experience is sufficient. 
• At least 2 years of experience in programme management, with a preference for violence prevention and LBQT advocacy and programming. 
• Proven leadership in managing projects. 
• Excellent coordination, communication, and problem-solving skills. 
• Fluency in Yoruba is a plus, but not a necessity. 
• Experience in leading teams is an advantage. 
• Experience in non-profit or feminist organisations is an advantage. 
• Demonstrated cultural competence.