Resourcing Women's Rights Manager - AWID

Deadline: 20 March 2016

Location: Global

Organization: AWID

Overview of the Program:

Building on eight years of AWID’s Where is the Money for Women’s Rights? (WITM) initiative, the Resourcing Women’s Rights (RWR) program focuses on the politics and practices around resources for women’s rights organizing and movements. The program aims to equip feminist and women’s rights groups, organizations and movements with relevant information resources and accountability tools to advocate for more and better funding, and to generate stronger commitment among diverse funders and in relevant global policy frameworks to resource women’s rights and gender justice. We advance these aims through research and offering strategic knowledge and convening spaces for activists, advocates and funders to analyze, reflect and jointly strategize on funding trends and resource mobilization strategies as well as through targeted advocacy.

Overview of the Position: 

This is full-time position responsible for providing leadership for the planning, implementation and evaluation of AWID’s Resourcing Women’s Rights program. Given the upcoming AWID Forum in May 2016, current priorities heavily revolve around the program’s contribution towards the Forum and feeding insights from that process into forthcoming strategic planning.

The RWR Manager is responsible for:

• Collaboratively (with RWR team members) developing the overarching vision and strategy of the Resourcing Women’s Rights program and supervising the development and implementation of its related projects and activities, ensuring alignment to the strategy
• Managing program staff and contractors, providing direction and coaching, managing performance and overseeing work planning to ensure appropriate alignment with AWID’s strategic goals and priorities ;
• Supporting the  development of quality team building, work processes, and work products as aligned with AWID’s principles and vision; and
• Developing, monitoring and adhering to the program budget, ensuring adherence to financial controls, and financial and organizational policies and procedures.

This position reports to the Director of Feminist Movement Building and has 2-4 direct reports. The location of the role is flexible.

Qualifications

Experience:

• 7 to 10 years experience:
• Working in a non-profit development, gender, human rights and/or funding organization (at least 4 years in a leadership capacity)
• In project management, research, and/or advocacy
• Experience working with women’s organizations based in the Global South and/or Central and Eastern Europe
• Experience working in a multi-cultural team

Academic Qualifications:

• University degree in social sciences, women’s rights, not-for-profit administration, international development, or other related field

Expertise & Skills:

• Demonstrated capacity to network and build strategic alliances internationally with women’s or other civil society organizations and other external stakeholder groups
• Demonstrated capacity with advocacy (strategies aiming to influence the policy and/or practice of select actors), external relations and negotiations
• Strong project management experience; ability to develop, monitor and evaluate an operational plan with multiple projects, multiple deliverables and deadlines. Ability to plan, organize and lead the implementation of plans and processes
• Strong financial management acumen; knowledge of accounting procedures and protocols, budgeting and financial analysis
• Experienced in human resource management; ability to work with a diverse and virtual staff team and engage team members, build consensus, proactively de-escalate and resolve conflict
• Demonstrated capacity to think strategically and analytically, with expertise in complex problem solving, decision making and critical thinking skills, displays good judgment
• High comfort and tolerance to manage stress and role demands
• Strong public speaker – able to convey information clearly, concisely and in a compelling way
• Strong interpersonal skills and the proven ability to provide leadership to a virtual team and to work in a team environment with staff, contractors, and consultants
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

Knowledge and Other Requirements:

• Familiarity with the current funding landscape for gender equality and women’s rights and its diversity, including characteristics of different funding sectors
• Relationships both with key donors for gender equality and women’s rights, and international and/or regional women’s organizations and networks
• Familiarity with elements of feminist theory and women’s rights frameworks
• Able to travel internationally (approx. 6-8 weeks per year)
• Committed to the principles and values of feminism, anti-oppression

Assets:

• Training or facilitation experience
• Demonstrated experience mobilizing resources for women’s rights
• Multilingual – Spanish, French, Arabic or Russian ideal
• Familiarity with the funding landscape in BRICS countries and other emerging economies
• Courses or certificates in project management, program design and evaluation, or non-profit fundraising

Responsibilties: 

RWR Program Management

• Responsible for the collaborative development and implementation of RWR strategies and related work planning, including the development, monitoring of indicators and other mechanisms to evaluate the work of the program and appropriate delegation to program staff
• Ensure the timely and effective implementation of deliverables, including all activities, reports and evaluations
• Provide appropriate leadership, support, training and mentoring for effective project management and work planning
• Ensure strategic alignment, information-sharing and maximum synergy between the RWR program and other AWID programs by actively participating in managers meetings and liaising with other program managers as required
• Strategically contribute content expertise to the Forum preparatory process and program by actively liaising with Forum team as required
• Provide leadership and share information and knowledge on RWR strategic priorities among internal and external stakeholders

Knowledge Building and Research

• Proactively identify relevant knowledge gaps on funding trends, as related to RWR’s strategic objectives and oversee development of research proposals accordingly to address those gaps
• Oversee and monitor the research design and implementation to advance RWR’s strategic objectives as they relate to:
• Updating analysis of the funding landscape for women’s organizing (looking at bil/multilateral agencies, large private foundations, international NGOs, corporate foundations, individual donors, and/or women’s funds)
• Producing region-specific (or sector-specific) analysis of funding challenges and opportunities for women’s organizations
• Other priorities identified

Advocacy, Alliance-Building and Strategic Convening

• Collaboratively (with RWR team) develop and oversee implementation of the RWR advocacy strategy in close consultation with the Director of Feminist Movement Building Program, Executive Director and other Program Managers as relevant to ensure smooth coordination in AWID’s advocacy and outreach to external actors
• Advance RWR’s strategic objectives by networking and sharing information with relevant external stakeholders (donors and women’s organizations) in different select spaces and regions of the world
• Advance RWR’s strategic objectives by convening, as appropriate, relevant external stakeholders (donors and women’s organizations) in different spaces or regions of the world, taking advantage of existing meetings (for example the Commission on the Status of Women or funders conferences) as well as AWID-organized events like Forum
• Strategically advocate with relevant donors, in collaboration with appropriate program partners, for greater quality and quantity funding for women’s rights and gender equality (and in particular for women’s rights organizations)
• Prepare and deliver public presentations, articles and/or other media as required to convey highlights from RWR research or other messages in line with the programs strategic objectives for external audiences
• Provide opportunities for AWID member engagement in program activities, as appropriate and feasible, in line with AWID’s membership strategy

Information sharing and dissemination

• Oversee development and implementation of a communications and information dissemination strategy (with input from the Women’s Rights Information, Communications & Technology team) that effectively defines the target audience(s), the method of preferred communications, development of a dissemination schedule, identification of information “brokers” that will leverage AWIDs reach
• Approve all content sourced and produced by team members prior to public dissemination or posting on awid.org
• Ensure timely, relevant updates are made (in English, French and Spanish) with a feminist analysis to RWR-related content on awid.org
• Oversee the social media strategy of the RWR program, ensuring that Feminist Resource Mobilization Hub on Facebook as well as #fundher are properly and widely used and utilized

Financial and Human Resource Management

• Manage RWR staff (2-4 direct reports) and annual program budget of approximately $600,000
• Review, amend and ensure effective and timely implementation of individual work plans of RWR staff to advance program objectives; providing regular feedback performance and support
• Facilitate RWR team coordination meetings as a means to ensure information is shared among team members, to provide guidance and coaching to the team, to ensure that deliverables are being met and the RWR team work plan is up to date and being followed
• Implement and adhere to internal financial controls and reporting requirements

Organizational Processes and Leadership

• Maintain professional conduct, confidentiality and ethical standards
• Work with Directors and other managers to address programmatic, human resource, financial, legislative issues as they arise to ensure that AWID is effective in achieving its outcomes and as well as undertaking itself as a strong feminist organization
• Participates actively in organizational meeting venues and committees
• Participate in Board of Directors meetings (as requested and appropriate) 

To learn more about AWID and our programs, please visit our website, here.

How to apply:

Please submit, in English- a cover letter and résumé in Word or PDF format, addressing how you meet the necessary qualifications and outlining why you want to work for AWID, to jobs@awid.org by Sunday, March 6, 2016. Please include “RWR – Program Manager – [your name]” as the subject line of your email.

We thank all those who apply, but only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. No calls please. AWID encourages, promotes and support diversity in all aspects of its work.