Associate Director, Sang pour Sang Project

This position is subject to funding approval

About Fòs Feminista
Fòs Feminista is as an intersectional feminist organization centered around the sexual and reproductive rights and needs of women, girls, and gender-diverse people. Led and governed by the Global South, Fòs Feminista works as an alliance of organizations in 40+ countries worldwide to advance sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice. As the connecting fabric of this alliance, Fòs Feminista orchestrates transnational and transregional action, amplifies partners’ work, and promotes South-South learning and collaboration toward achieving common objectives.
Together with our partners, we provide access to sexual and reproductive health care, including contraception, abortion, and care for survivors of gender-based violence, and we reach young people with comprehensive sexuality education. We recognize that the ability of women, girls, and gender-diverse people to make free and informed choices about sexual and reproductive lives, including to access safe and legal abortion, is central to their life plans and to achieving gender and reproductive justice. As such, we are at the forefront of advocating for sexual and reproductive health and rights from an intersectional lens in national, regional, and global spaces, coordinating with our partners to ensure that diverse experiences, priorities, and voices of the Global South are represented in these spaces.
Fos Feminista, Equipop, PSI Europe, and the Global South Coalition for Dignified Menstruation (GSCDM) have formed a strategic consortium to advance feminist agendas and movement strategies for achieving menstrual health and dignity (MHD). Working in alliance with partner organizations in ten countries in Africa, Asia Pacific and the Caribbean, the Sang pour Sang project aims to transform the structural drivers of menstrual discrimination so that women, girls, and gender-non-conforming people in all their diversity have the information, services, and supplies, and infrastructure they need to exercise their right to menstruate with dignity, free of shame, taboos, fear, embarrassment, pain, social exclusion, discrimination, and violence.

Preferred location: Remote, based in West or Central Africa.

Position Summary:
Fòs Feminista is seeking a highly motivated and French-speaking professional with experience in SRHRJ and large-scale government-funded projects to manage a 3-year collaboration with the French Development Agency (AFD) focused on South-South promotion of menstrual health and dignity. The Associate Director-Sang pour Sang, will directly oversee the successful implementation of the project, including ensuring quality and compliant tracking and reporting, managing the relationship with the donor, supporting coordination of the project across consortium members, and leading an internal team within Fos Feminista focused overall project coordination.
The Associate Director will bring a demonstrated commitment to and alignment with Fòs Feminista’s principles of social justice, equity, and non-discrimination, which are essential to our work on advancing sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice for women, girls, and gender-diverse people—particularly in the Global South. This role requires strong political acumen and an ability to build effective coordination and communication processes across relevant members of the Fos Feminista team and leadership, consortium member teams, and partners included in the project to ensure alignment and timely execution of project goals and deliverables.

Supervisory Relationship:

The Associate Director reports to Chief Advocacy Officer under the Global Advocacy for Change unit. The Associate Director will supervise the Program Officer, MEL Officer, and Partner Organization Finance Officer.

Key Responsibilities:

· Develop and guide efficient project deliverable timelines and clarity of roles across Fos Feminista’s teams including the Sustainable Ecosystems, Global Advocacy for Change, Resource Mobilization and Communications, Business Intelligence, Evaluation and Research, Finance and Accounting, and Office of the CEO
· Support the Chief Advocacy Officer in facilitating coordination and collaboration among consortium and project partners to ensure the project harnesses the unique and complementary strengths of each partner towards achieving the project’s goals.
· Provide ongoing support and accompaniment to in-country project partners and consortium members to ensure successful coordination, information flow, monitoring and evaluation, reporting and financial management for the project implementation.
· Build relationships with relevant members of AFD and stay abreast of AFD priorities and key spaces to be able to leverage opportunities for advocacy, engagement, and the visibility of the Sang pour Sang project.
· Serve as the institutional liaison to AFD on behalf of the consortium, holding responsibility for formal communication and the timely submission of consolidated grant impact and financial reports aligned with the AFD’s standards and guidelines.
· Coordinate the “Feminist Implementation Advisory” in collaboration with consortium partners to ensure that the in-country partners are actively engaged in the design, implementation, and assessment of the project.
· Lead the programmatic work with project and consortium partners on menstrual health and dignity, ensuring it is on track with the strategic priorities of the project and aligned to those of Fós Feminista.
· Support project partners to engage in regional and global multilateral spaces and processes, including United Nations in New York and at regional levels in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Asia & the Pacific.
· Collaborate with the Business Intelligence, Evaluation and Research (BIER) team on tracking achievements, results, and impact of the project and to foster the collaborative learning and exchange of knowledge within Fos Feminista and across consortium and project partners, linking the project’s impact with Fòs Feminista’s strategy and accountability and learning framework.
· Collaborate with, and provide input and content to, Fòs Feminista's Communications unit to ensure the development and implementation of a strategy to amplify the project and disseminate transformative messages on menstrual dignity.
· Supervise the core project team, including a Project Officer, MEL Officer, and Partner Organization Finance Officer, as well as consultants brought on to support the implementation of the project activities and reports.

Qualifications, Knowledge, and Skills Requirements:

· A master’s degree in Public Policy, Public Health, Social Sciences or a related field.
· At least 10 years of relevant working experience in SRHRJ with a feminist lens across a range of countries and regions, ideally specific experience on menstrual health and dignity.
· Strong relationship and connections to the feminist and SRJ movements, ideally in at least one of Sang pour Sang’s priority regions: Francophone Africa, Asia and the Pacific and Latin America and the Caribbean region.
· Demonstrated expertise in supporting intersectional feminist agendas for lobby and advocacy on SRJ in advocacy spaces at local, regional, and global levels
· Demonstrated expertise in complex project management, grants management and Ample experience on grantmaking, organizational planning, and communications with partners organizations.
· Previous experience of managing a multi-country and multi-partner consortium funded by a government.
· Existing knowledge and experience of working on AFD-funded projects would be highly desirable.
• Demonstrated cultural competency and a commitment to anti-racism, including to a process of self-reflection and transformation around implicit bias.
• Flexibility and willingness to work virtually with a diverse and multicultural team.
• High degree of fluency in French and English language is required, and Spanish is desirable.
• Excellent writing and presentation skills in French and English for quality and compliant reporting on deliverables.
· Strong strategic thinking skills with a high degree of emotional intelligence
· Well-developed interpersonal skills for high-level collaboration with donors, partner organizations, and external stakeholders.
· Ability to travel internationally to visit with partners and accompany the project.

Safeguarding Commitments
Fòs Feminista is committed to ensuring that the health, rights, and well-being of all children, young people, and vulnerable populations who work and engage with Fòs Feminista's Team Members and Associated Persons are respected and protected in their interactions with them and requires all its Team Members and Associated Persons to share this commitment.

The successful candidate must:

● Demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding in the United States and the international context.
● Sign and adhere to Fòs Feminista’s International Safeguarding Policy and Safeguarding Code of Conduct, including the minimum operating standards for protection from sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA).

Location: This position is remote and must be based in francophone Africa.
Compensation: Fòs Feminista offers generous compensation consistent with competitive salaries and a benefits package that includes private health coverage, life insurance, retirement benefits, paid sick, vacation leave and parental leave, holidays, and flexible working arrangements.
The annual salary is USD $56,864.24.
While salary is calculated in USD, payment may be made in local currency.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement
Fòs Feminista is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to advancing sexual and reproductive rights and health and dismantling inequities from a feminist intersectional lens. Reproductive justice, racial justice, and diversity are driving forces for us.
Fòs Feminista provides equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to age, race, color, disability, national origin, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital and partnership status, genetic information, veteran status or any other protected category under federal, state and local law.
At Fòs Feminista, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates our employees' diverse voices and experiences. We strongly encourage applications from all backgrounds to create a diverse workforce in which all social and minority groups are represented.
Applications will be considered as they are received, and only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.