Are you passionate about women’s rights in Africa, and embrace African women’s diversities?
Do you have experience of managing funding from governmental donor agencies?
Are you ready to contribute to building a cutting-edge grants portfolio advancing activism around African women’s bodily rights, economic justice, political voice and leadership?
The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is a pioneering grantmaking foundation headquartered in Ghana. AWDF was founded by and for African women. Since 2001 we have awarded over 26 million USD in grants to support leading women’s rights organisations and feminist movements across Africa.
As AWDF’s grantmaking expands, we are looking for a dynamic, proactive and experienced Programme Officer – Grants who will work in the Grants Department to help grow our work and manage an exciting portfolio of grantees.
She will need to be:
organisations, ideally in the context of grantmaking
Job Summary
As a Programme Officer, you will play a critical role in the Grants Department with a primary responsibility for grants assessment and management, outreach with the team to grow the grants portfolio, knowledge production in selected areas, and contributing to monitoring, learning and evaluation. Reporting to the Grants Manager, you will work in close collaboration with other Grants Programme Officers and Administrators, and with staff in communications, knowledge management, fundraising, finance, administration and overall management.
Working knowledge of French or Arabic will be an advantage.
Essential Knowledge and Experience
management systems / databases preferred
are expected
Qualifications
How to apply
Qualified candidates should send a cover letter and CV of not more than 3 pages to by email to: Grace Amenyogbeli, Human Resources Manager grace@africlub.net/awdf with “Application for position of Programme Officer- Grants” as the subject line
Applications should reach AWDF no later than 13 January2017.
Only short listed candidates will be contacted for additional information and interviews.
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