Feminist Knowledge Leadership Coordinator at Urgent Action Fund-Africa

Responsibilities

• Responsible for ensuring the strategic coherence, collaborative development, and timely production and dissemination of UAF-Africa knowledge products.
• Oversight and management of the knowledge leadership portfolio staff and consultants.
• Managing knowledge development planning, including defining priorities and assessing key knowledge needs and opportunities.
• Tracking the resulting knowledge development projects, including staying in touch with each process, ensuring projects are on target and time.
• Managing Research and Feminist Knowledge products, including coordinating with an internal UAF-Africa team on overall direction and key editorial and content decisions, conceptual design, and organization of materials.
• Coordinating, facilitating, and supporting dedicated transnational learning across UAFAfrica’s key constituencies and stakeholders from which key thematic threads and trends are uplifted, distilled, and systematically tracked and documented as part of UAF-Africa’s
• Trends Analysis Reports.
• Facilitating deeper cross-functional integration and conceptual coherence across UAFAfrica, especially in collaboration with the Sustaining Defenders, MEAL,
• Communications & Media, and Transformative Partnerships & Philanthropy programmes using shared learning and language, impact stories, and knowledge consolidation.
• Developing feminist knowledge production tools that enable WHRDs to document their experiences using multi-media and creating dissemination methodologies that are just and security focused.
• Coordinating UAF-Africa’s contribution within the UAF Sister Funds network and other consortium’s collaborative research initiatives that sustain WHRDs worldwide.
• Oversee knowledge production of the Feminist Republik platform.
• Support the planning of the Feminist Republik Festival, including the thematic focus, development of concept notes and agenda, selection of consultants to support the planning process, and selection of healers, among other tasks.
• Flexible and willing to perform other tasks as assigned, in a fast-paced, team-oriented work environment.

Other Responsibilities

• Support the development of periodic strategic reports for internal/external communications to the team and other stakeholders.
• Assist with programmes, public outreach, press releases, and public presentations of
• UAF-Africa’s work, especially on collaborative initiatives.
• Develop partnership packages and presentations.
• Any other responsibilities as assigned by the Programmes Director.

Academic Qualifications

• Master’s degree in social sciences, Women’s Studies, Political Sciences, International Development, Law, or related fields.

Professional qualification in a related field

Role-specific Skills and Experience

• A minimum of 7-9 years’ experience in women’s studies, research, and academic skills in feminist ideology.
• Minimum 2- 3 years in a supervisory role.
• Sound Research experience, knowledge of feminist documentation methodologies, coordination skills
• In-depth knowledge of women’s rights issues, particularly within the context of Africa.
• Progressive gender equality/women’ rights and or social justice experience and knowledge at the international level, particularly work experience in developing countries.