Fòs Feminista Alliance Coordinator

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.

Position Summary
Fòs Feminista is currently looking to hire a bilingual (English and French) Alliance Coordinator that will provide organizational and project administrative support.

Key Responsibilities
• Provide support related to the preparation of contracts, sub-grant agreement, collection of support information, processing of disbursements and monitoring of all parties involved.
• Support the preparation of contracts, collection of support information, processing of disbursements and monitoring of all parties involved.
• Fulfill purchase order requests, ensuring accuracy and completion of the information before sending for signatures.
• Comply with procurement policies by gathering, drafting, and sending for signatures all necessary materials.
• Organize and schedule internal meetings, consultations, workshops, brainstorming sessions, as required, and prepare briefing notes, minutes, follow up where required.
• Coordinate and manage staff travel arrangements including reservations, itineraries, ground transportation and processing related travel expense reports.
• Support the production of short language translations as needed and manage the engagement of contractors for translations and interpretations services in line with our language justice commitments.
• Fulfill requests, collect, and file the necessary documentation to create our new partners as entities and vendors in our system.
• Liaison between staff and travel agency for transportation and lodging.
• Calculate and request per diem amounts for staff travel.
• Support staff in completing expense reports post-travel.
• Support in the preparation, processing and tracking of:
- Procurement
- Consultant and vendor contracts
- Vendor contract preparations
- Activity budgets

Minimum Qualifications and Education
• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field
• At least 3 years of professional working experience

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
• Ability to work in a fast-paced virtual environment with a demonstrated ability to meet multiple tasks and concurrent deadlines.
• Experience in program support and administrative procedures in an international not for profit organization.
• Comfort using Microsoft packages including Word, Excel, Power Point, Teams, Sharepoint, OneDrive, and Windows.
• High degree of verbal and written fluency in English and French required. Spanish/or Portuguese highly desirable.
• Ability to work independently as well as part of virtual and interconnected teams.
• Knowledge of sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice issues in Asia & the Pacific, Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean is a plus. 
• Demonstrated commitment to Fòs Feminista’s values and mission.
• Strong writing and presentation skills for reporting on deliverables.
• Commitment to intersectional feminism and a collaborative spirit.

Location: Remote. Strong preference will be given to candidates based in Colombia or the LAC region. Qualifified candidates based in the global South are encouraged to apply.

Compensation: The annual gross salary is USD $ 21, 430.18 payable in local currency.Fòs Feminista offers generous compensation consistent with competitive salaries and a benefits package that includes private health coverage, life insurance, retirement benefits, paid vacation, sick and parental leave, holidays, and flexible working arrangements.

Safeguarding Commitments
Fòs Feminista is committed to ensuring that the health, rights and wellbeing 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.
• 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).
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 the diverse voices and experiences of our employees. We strongly encourage applications from all kinds of backgrounds to build a diverse workforce in which all social and minority groups are represented.
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.

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