Sustaining Defenders: Programme Intern
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Urgent Action Fund Africa (UAF)
- Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
- Job type: Internship
- Humanitarian or Development: Development
- Experience level: 0-5 years
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: No
- Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
- Remuneration: Not Disclosed
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Location: Kenya
Organisational profile
Urgent Action Fund-Africa (UAF-Africa) is a feminist, 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.
Specific Responsibilities.
• Acknowledging, populating and assigning grant requests.
• Responding to grant inquiries made to the Fund in consultation with the supervisor and the SD Portfolio team.
• Sending out decision details of reviewed grants for example, grant declines.
• Organizing and participating in due diligence and capacity-strengthening meetings with grantee partners.
• Providing logistics support in organizing events including convenings and webinars.
• Providing support in organizing outreach and networking missions.
• Data entry of all inquiries and requests in the grant-making database.
• Support the Sustaining Defenders: Programme Manager in organizing portfolio meetings.
• Support in conducting research and documentation of key contextual issues
• Support in developing periodical reports including responding to queries arising from grant matrices and other spaces related to the Portfolio
• Providing analyzed thematic data, and trends analysis for the Sustaining Defenders Portfolio
• Carrying out research for outreach missions and other events.
• Where applicable, provide language translation of grant requests and communication material within all UAF-Africa Programmes
• Performing any other duties as may be assigned by the supervisor
Qualifications
• Degree in Social Sciences, Women’s Studies, Political Sciences, International Development, Law or related fields.
• At least 2 years experience in project management providing administrative, analytical, and technical support.
• Demonstrate high levels of integrity and confidentiality. • Excellent organisational skills (including organising processes) and ability to multitask.
• Excellent written and verbal communications in English. French is a plus.
• Good time management skills and ability to produce quality work with minimal supervision.
• Ability to organise oneself and complete assignments on time.
• Understanding of the Feminist and women’s human rights sector required.
• Teamwork and ability to work in a diverse team.
• An understanding of gender equality and womn’s rights issues, particularly in Africa.
• Demonstrated understanding of a feminist political analysis and familiar with feminist movement building.
• Passionate about UAF-Africa’s mission, committed to teamwork, and achieving results
• Ability to perform detailed work, frequently and/or to handle a large volume of work systematically, optimally, and accurately. • Able to identify project needs, develop a detailed timeline for completion, oversee schedules, and milestone management.
• Ability to organise, categorise, and synthesize information from a range of datasets existent within and outside the Fund.
• Ability to contribute on a team and coordinate assignments to achieve common goals.
• Excellent interpersonal, public speaking, writing, and negotiation skills.
• Flexibility and willingness to travel on the African continent and beyond as and when required.
• Experience working in a virtual work environment is an added advantage.
Urgent Action Fund-Africa (UAF-Africa) is a feminist, 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.
Specific Responsibilities.
• Acknowledging, populating and assigning grant requests.
• Responding to grant inquiries made to the Fund in consultation with the supervisor and the SD Portfolio team.
• Sending out decision details of reviewed grants for example, grant declines.
• Organizing and participating in due diligence and capacity-strengthening meetings with grantee partners.
• Providing logistics support in organizing events including convenings and webinars.
• Providing support in organizing outreach and networking missions.
• Data entry of all inquiries and requests in the grant-making database.
• Support the Sustaining Defenders: Programme Manager in organizing portfolio meetings.
• Support in conducting research and documentation of key contextual issues
• Support in developing periodical reports including responding to queries arising from grant matrices and other spaces related to the Portfolio
• Providing analyzed thematic data, and trends analysis for the Sustaining Defenders Portfolio
• Carrying out research for outreach missions and other events.
• Where applicable, provide language translation of grant requests and communication material within all UAF-Africa Programmes
• Performing any other duties as may be assigned by the supervisor
Qualifications
• Degree in Social Sciences, Women’s Studies, Political Sciences, International Development, Law or related fields.
• At least 2 years experience in project management providing administrative, analytical, and technical support.
• Demonstrate high levels of integrity and confidentiality. • Excellent organisational skills (including organising processes) and ability to multitask.
• Excellent written and verbal communications in English. French is a plus.
• Good time management skills and ability to produce quality work with minimal supervision.
• Ability to organise oneself and complete assignments on time.
• Understanding of the Feminist and women’s human rights sector required.
• Teamwork and ability to work in a diverse team.
• An understanding of gender equality and womn’s rights issues, particularly in Africa.
• Demonstrated understanding of a feminist political analysis and familiar with feminist movement building.
• Passionate about UAF-Africa’s mission, committed to teamwork, and achieving results
• Ability to perform detailed work, frequently and/or to handle a large volume of work systematically, optimally, and accurately. • Able to identify project needs, develop a detailed timeline for completion, oversee schedules, and milestone management.
• Ability to organise, categorise, and synthesize information from a range of datasets existent within and outside the Fund.
• Ability to contribute on a team and coordinate assignments to achieve common goals.
• Excellent interpersonal, public speaking, writing, and negotiation skills.
• Flexibility and willingness to travel on the African continent and beyond as and when required.
• Experience working in a virtual work environment is an added advantage.
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