Programme Assistant – Resourcing

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African Women's Development Fund (AWDF)

Remote (local)
  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Organisation type: Funds
  • Remote option: Remote (local)
  • Right to work requirements: Anyone can apply
  • Remuneration: USD 23,244 USD-USD 31,960 USD / monthly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 29/05/2026
  • Location: Central Africa
Movement building
Background 
As a Pan-African feminist fund, the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) resources, strengthens and upholds women’s rights and feminist organisations and movements across Africa, to make gender justice a reality for all on our continent and worldwide. Over the past 25 years, AWDF has awarded approximately USD100 million to women’s rights and feminist organisations throughout Africa (and in selected Middle Eastern countries through one of our initiatives). Through its grantmaking, programmatic and advocacy work, AWDF has supported work that has led to changes in law and policy, social norms and movement-building for gender justice. 

Summary of Duties 

Strategy Implementation 

  • Provide administrative and coordination support for the implementation of AWDF’s grant-making strategy guidelines and approaches in alignment with the new AWDF Strategic Framework
  • Support the coordination and documentation of feminist accompaniment approaches.
  • Contribute to the development of a cohort of partners that is inclusive, feminist, trust-based, collaborative and responsive, and which increasingly includes longer-term support.

Leadership and people development and management

  • Contribute to the effectiveness of the Resourcing unit and AWDF programmes. 
  • Contribute to a team culture that values collaboration internally, cross functionally, a team of independent thinkers that feel empowered, a team that reflects the feminist principles and values of AWDF.
 
Programme Management

  • Contribute to all aspects of the planning and implementation of the priorities of the resourcing unit.
  • Input to the development of planning, learning, monitoring, reporting as it relates to the resourcing priorities and approaches as well as agreed results frameworks for funded initiatives.
  • Support and contribute to collaborative learning and cross pollination across the wider Programmes Units and Teams.

Budget Management 

  • Support effective resource expenditure for the work of the Resourcing unit.
  • Follow all administrative and financial policies and ensure all administrative and financial tasks comply with organisational policies and procedures.
 
Relationship Management 

  • Support and participate in relevant initiatives, working groups and collaborations to exchange knowledge and advance shared goals to influence the donor community.
  • Support and contribute to the identification of priorities to accompany and resource and support partners, influencing, etc.

Programme Monitoring and Applying Learning

  • Assist with the collation and analysis of data and information and contribute to learning about AWDF’s approaches to resourcing WROs and feminist movements.

Other
  • The role holder will from time to time be required to carry out any other duties that are within the scope of the job.

Qualifications 
  • A degree in gender studies or related discipline and at least 1 year professional experience in a similar role. 
  • Excellent written and spoken English and Portuguese
  • 1 year working experience in participatory and more transformative approaches to feminist accompaniment, movement strengthening and philanthropy
  • Experience of working in or with women’s rights organizations and/or feminist movements including non-traditional actors and collectives, individual activists, emergent and non-traditional collectives and/or feminist or women’s rights movements.
  • In-depth knowledge of African women’s rights issues and concerns, strong analytical, writing and editing skills and external representation skills

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