Program Manager - Gender

About the role

Our work on gender justice looks to support organizations that aim at qualitative and substantial changes in lives of women and girls and help them take control of their future. We partner with large, mid-sized and small organizations to support work that looks to:

• Strengthen mechanisms to ensure girls & women come together and can assert themselves.
• Capacitate women and girls collectives to claim their rights, collectively fight safety concerns, discrimination & abuse.
• Support girls and women in building critical knowledge, skills and attitude needed to navigate lives within families and community.
• Improve girls and womens access to public spaces, public good and services.

Responsibilities

• Identify potential partners within the specific geography.
• Ensure compliance with specific grant proposals so that they meet the Foundations guidelines and requirements, and are a well-drafted request, complete in all aspects
• Review all completed proposals to ensure that required information has been provided. Ensure that the story of the grantee organisation comes through clearly.
• Lead the efforts on the due diligence process and partner engagement from both programme and finance lens.
• Post approval, provide support to the partners to ensure that the financial resources reach them in time.
• Ensure compliance with the grant making system through the entire lifecycle of a grant.
• Supplement the research and development of frameworks, models, and theories around the operating area.
• Initiate relationships with civil society organisations in order to further the organisations understanding of an area.

What we are looking for

• Candidates who have deeply engaged with issues of gender justice and worked with adolescent girls/ young women in areas of gender based violence, child marriage, violence, leadership and livelihoods etc.
• Bachelors degree required; Masters degree desirable
• Should have made significant and long-lasting contributions in his/her area of specialisation
• High level of self-motivation, initiative, and creativity
• Willingness to travel extensively for work
• Substantial knowledge of organisational and project management
• Ability to work with minimal supervision, and solve problems independently or collaboratively a needed
• Minimum 10 - 15 years of experience