Are you passionate about gender justice, climate action, and energy democracy? Do you have the drive to support transformative change and amplify the voices of African women in the fight for a just and sustainable future?
If so, WoMin African Alliance invites you to apply to join our dynamic team as Programme Coordinator: Women Building Power!
The successful candidate will specifically be responsible for the following Key Performance Areas:
- Leading WoMin’s contributions to the building of an African climate justice movement that is anti-capitalist and ecofeminist in nature.
- Providing strategic leadership to WoMin’s Women Building Power efforts generally.
- Supporting and contributing to organising, movement building, convergences and campaigns addressing WoMin’s leading Women Building Power work – green extractivism and climate reparations.
- Participating in and representing WoMin at various regional and international platforms to advance WoMin’s conceptualisation of and approach towards an African Ecofeminist Just Development Alternative.
We hope to have the person in place by 2 September 2024. The detailed job profile on our website contains further information about the post and the candidate we are looking for. We hope to recruit a person who speaks and writes fluently in English but is also able to work in Portuguese or French. Our preference will be for a candidate outside of South Africa.
Application Closing Date: 14 August 2024
Ideal start date: 2 September 2024
Location: Remote anywhere on the African continent with significant travel
Term: 5 years, full time at 40 hours a week
Probation period: 3 months
Salary: Salaries at WoMin are dependent on applicable salary scales, internal pay policies and budget. This is a senior position in WoMin, and the candidate assumes responsibility for the political direction of the Women Building Power (WBP) Programme.
Benefits
- Contribution to staff purchasing their own medical aid, which is necessary given we run a distributed organisation.
- Leave provision: Paid time off (20,04 vacation days per year; a three-year leave cycle offering 30 sick leave days in total, which equates to 10 sick days per annum; plus, compassionate and family responsibility leave, and paid public holidays applicable in the host country).
- Remote work and flexible work arrangements given our commitments as a feminist organisation.
- Full coverage of data costs for working from home.
- Please submit your curriculum vitae, a cover letter and a sample of your writing to recruitments@womin.africa by close of day Wednesday, 14 August 2024.
