Programme Assistant - Resourcing (Bilingual) - Short term

The African Women’s Development Fund

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About The Position

The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is seeking a highly motivated Programme Assistant - Resourcing (Bilingual) for a short-term consultancy. This role is ideal for someone passionate about women's rights in Africa, excited about African feminisms, and embracing African gender diversity. AWDF is a Pan-African feminist fund that resources, strengthens, and upholds women’s rights and feminist organizations and movements across Africa. With a history of awarding approximately USD100 million to women's rights organizations, AWDF launched Lemlem, a ten-year strategic framework (2023-2033), to advance gender equality and justice for girls, women, and gender-diverse people. The Programme Assistant will provide crucial administrative and programmatic support to the efficient operation of AWDF’s resourcing work, collaborating closely with Programmes units, particularly the Resourcing Unit, to support grant-making processes, partner engagement, and compliance. This role will also support learning, monitoring, and evaluation processes to inform grant-making approaches and facilitate adaptation. Key functions include budgeting/financial support, data gathering, program administration, and implementing resourcing/grant-making guidelines.

Requirements

Significant experience in monitoring, evaluation, and learning, preferably within feminist, social justice, human rights or movement-led contexts.
Strong technical skills in MEL design, implementation and analysis (qualitative and quantitative).
Demonstrated people management or leadership experience.
Strong relationship-building skills and experience working with diverse stakeholders.
Deep understanding of feminist, intersectional and power-aware approaches to impact and learning.
Excellent facilitation, writing, and communication skills.
Expertise in producing knowledge on women’s rights for NGOs/activists, policy and/or donor audiences.
Experience of developing or managing information systems (for example, virtual or physical libraries or archives) and in using multiple communication and knowledge production formats (film, audio, visual/graphics) desirable.
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.

Responsibilities

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.
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.
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.
Participate in small group discussions to collect information and learning on the diverse partner organisations and funded initiatives AWDF works with/is implementing.
Support the screening and reviewing of applications received to resource women’s rights organisations, groups, collectives and movements.
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.
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.
Establish and nurture relationships with colleagues as an integral element of communication and relationship management.
Assist with the collation and analysis of data and information and contribute to learning about AWDF’s approaches to resourcing WROs and feminist movements.
Contribute to learning about how and what we are doing contributing to the diverse women-led activists, collectives and organisations in Africa and, where relevant, outcome level impact under AWDF’s funded initiatives.
Assist with portfolio level monitoring and evaluation and accompaniment to partners and ensure quality learning by and among partners.
Support timely and effective tracking and learning about how what we are doing is contributing to the work of WROs and feminist movements.
Coordinate aggregation and analysis of information to ensure the Partnerships and Voice Directorate deliver on internal and external reporting requirements (Board, donor, accountability, project reports etc.).
The role holder will from time to time be required to carry out any other duties that are within the scope of the job.