Manager – Building Feminist Economies
Application Closing Date: 28 March 2021 at 23:00 EST
Location: Flexible / Remote (candidates in the Global South are strongly encouraged to apply)
Term: full time – 35 hours a week
Organization: Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)
Salary: The starting gross annual salary for this tier role is $66,850.00 USD
Benefits: Group medical and life insurances. Paid time off (20 vacation days, 15 sick days, 5 personal days and up to 12 paid holidays). Contribution to retirement savings. Remote work and flexible work arrangements.
Overview of the organization:
The Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) is a global, feminist, membership, movement-support organisation. Our mission is to support feminist, women’s rights and gender justice movements to thrive, to be a driving force in challenging systems of oppression, and to co-create feminist realities. AWID envisions a world where feminist realities flourish, where resources and power are shared in ways that enable everyone, and future generations, to thrive and realize their full potential with dignity, love and respect, and where Earth nurtures life in all its diversity.
The position and profile
AWID is looking to hire a committed individual as the Building Feminist Economies (BFE) Initiative Manager that will provide vision, analysis and programmatic leadership to the activities of the initiative. The BFE initiative is rooted in the realization that gender justice within the existing global economy is impossible to achieve, and aims to strengthen feminist efforts to challenge corporate power and to transform the economy on local and global levels. The initiative aims to deepen our understanding of corporate power and the ways movements and communities are resisting the neoliberal model, as well as to amplify the feminist and just economic visions, models and practices. The team positions its work as an effective contribution to bringing about just economies where people and nature can thrive.
In this role, you will provide strategic leadership for the development, planning and implementation of AWID’s work with feminist movements globally in challenging corporate power and transforming the economy on local and global levels. You will be making substantive contributions direction in key areas of work, including feminist bailout/post-COVID economic recovery and feminist economic realities. You will be responsible for effective development, strategic direction, oversight and implementation of a broad range of activities, which may encompass research knowledge building, campaigning and strategic communications, convenings, cross-movement alliances and collaborative advocacy strategies in global processes and spaces. You will hold, develop, and maintain relationships with BFE partners and allies, AWID members and various feminist and economic justice movements. You will lead, manage and support the BFE team in alignment with AWID’s shared leadership values/culture.
As the right candidate, you will be understanding of AWID’s values, and be sensitive to upholding them in the way you take up the responsibilities of the role.
Successful applicants will have significant experience in a similar leadership role, in a non-profit feminist, social justice, or human rights organization(s). You should have demonstrated capacity with developing and coordinating research and advocacy initiatives and/or influence strategies collaboratively, while working in or with organizations based in the Global South, in a transnational perspective. You should have a strong understanding of economic justice issues from a feminist perspective within global and regional contexts. You would be someone who can thrive in a virtual environment working with diverse communities and movements across the globe, motivated to take on challenges and collaboratively find innovative and creative solutions.
How to apply
Please submit in English, a current CV, along with a cover letter explaining how you meet the requirements of the role, why you want to work for an global feminist organization and how you would further AWID’s goal of building a resilient and impactful feminist organization. Please include “Manager – Building Feminist Economies” in the subject line of the email and submit to [email protected] by 28 March 2021 at 23:00 EST. Please see the detailed Job Description
We thank all those who apply, but only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. No calls/emails please. To learn more about AWID and our programs, please visit our website at www.awid.org.
People from and based in the Global South, women; trans, non binary and intersex persons; persons with disabilities and other candidates from historically oppressed groups, of all ages, are strongly encouraged to apply for this position.
AWID is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at AWID are based on organisational needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex, pregnancy, age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression. If contacted in relation to an employment opportunity, please advise AWID of the accommodation measures, if required, which would enable you to be interviewed in a fair and equitable manner. All information received in relation to accommodation measures will be treated in confidence.
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