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About Fòs Feminista
Fòs Feminista is 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. Fòs Feminista is both the connective tissue that links these diverse partners in an alliance and an active participant in the broader ecosystem of actors working on sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice (SRHRJ). Fòs Feminista orchestrates transnational and transregional action by connecting partners throughout the SRHRJ ecosystem, amplifying innovative partner-led solutions to SRHRJ issues, and catalyzing funding and political will for an intersectional feminist agenda on SRHRJ.
We recognize that the ability of women, girls, and gender-diverse people to make free and informed choices about their sexual and reproductive lives, including to access safe and legal abortion, is central to their life plans and to achieving gender and reproductive justice. Together with partners in the Alliance, we provide access to sexual and reproductive health care and services, including contraception, abortion, and care for victims of gender-based violence, and we reach young people with comprehensive sexuality education. We are at the forefront of advocating for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) 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. And we strengthen intersectional feminist movements and organizations by creating and holding space for partners to participate in an international community built on feminist values of sharing power, diversity, mutual learning, and solidarity, and to access resources to strengthen their work.
Position Summary
In 2021, Fòs Feminista launched a three-year Diversity, Inclusion, and Justice (DIJ) Plan which provides a roadmap for Fòs Feminista to build an inclusive and equitable work environment for everyone we work and engage with. To support implementation of the DIJ Plan, we are seeking to hire a collaborative team player with well-developed communication and project management skills to join our team.
The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Officer will be a supportive member of the larger human resources team and the Office of the CEO, focusing on Fòs Feminista’s overall diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) strategies, programs, advancements, and retention. The incumbent will support the implementation of the DIJ Plan by helping to organize and track internal and external initiatives to meet our commitments. In collaboration with multiple stakeholders, the DEI Officer will: promote intersectional diversity across Fòs Feminista’s teams; identify how unconscious bias impacts the day-to-day work of team members and implement relevant interventions/trainings; and develop systems and processes for integrating DEI across Fòs Feminista’s work and working culture.
The DEI Officer will have a demonstrated commitment to and alignment with Fòs Feminista’s principles and values, particularly those related to social justice, equity, and non-discrimination, which are essential to our mandate of advancing SRHRJ for women, girls, and gender-diverse people—particularly in the Global South.
Supervisory Relationship
The DEI Officer reports to the Chief of People, Inclusion and Culture and works closely with key internal stakeholders to support strategic decision-making as well as to manage projects with teams across the organization and external DEI consultants.
Key Responsibilities
The DEI Officer will be responsible for supporting Fòs Feminista to achieve its DEI objectives, including by:
Minimum Qualifications and Education
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Safeguarding Commitments
Fòs Feminista is committed to ensuring that all employees respect and protect the health, rights, and wellbeing of all children, young people, and vulnerable populations with whom we work. We require all employees to share this commitment.
The successful candidate must:
Location: This is a remote position and preference will be given to candidates based in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region.
Fòs Feminista offers generous compensation consistent with regionally competitive salaries and a benefits package that includes health coverage, life insurance, retirement benefits, and paid vacation and sick days, and holidays. The proposed salary for Latin America and the Caribbean region is US$ $27,810/annually.
Note: While salaries are 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 health, rights, and justice and dismantling inequities from an intersectional feminist 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, color, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender expression or identify, health status, history of conflict with the law, migrant status, national origin, parental or pregnancy status, partnership status, political belief, poverty, race, religion, sexual identity of orientation, sex, genetic information, veteran status, or any other protected category under federal, state, and local laws.
At Fòs Feminista we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our employees. We strongly encourage applications from all kinds of backgrounds to build a workforce that is diverse and inclusive of people who are from marginalized or excluded groups.
While we strongly encourage all current and new employees to be fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus, there is no vaccine requirement for employment with Fòs Feminista. However, it is currently our policy that employees must show proof of full vaccination to engage in any work-related travel or to attend any work-related in-person gatherings. As appropriate, reasonable accommodations can be made, including, for example, arrangements for employees to participate remotely in any relevant gatherings.
We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.