Partner Organization Finance Officer, 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.

Position Summary
Fòs Feminista is seeking a highly motivated and bi-lingual (French & English-speaking) professional with experience in SRHRJ/Gender/Human rights to support the implementation of a large-scale government-funded project focused on South-South promotion of menstrual health and dignity. The Partner Organization (PO) Finance Officer will support and assists the team in developing and implementing donor and Fòs Feminista policies and procedures related to partners’ finance affairs, accounting, management of restricted projects, and automated financial systems. Provides technical accompaniment and capacity building to partners in financial leadership, management and analysis, budget development, and other initiatives to enhance partners' financial sustainability.

Supervisory Relationship
The PO Finance Officer reports to the Director, Partner Organization Finance and Risk Management and Associate Director, Sang Pour Sang Project.

Key Responsibilities
Sub-Grants Management:
• Responsible for financial management of sub-grant lifecycle for the Sang pour Sang project.
• Work with the Associate Director Sang Pour Sang to support partners (sub-grantee) in developing their project budgets and reporting models based on donor requirements.
• Oversee the financial components of due diligence process, and provide technical financial oversight of the grants to partners.
• Support the strengthening of partners’ program implementation by proactively understanding programmatic strategy and objectives, identifying implications, and working closely with the program technical team, under the Associate Director’s leadership, to address critical issues, mitigate risk, and ensure compliance.
• Provide financial grants management-related training and accompaniment to the Sang pour Sang project team and consortium partners as required.
• Promote and facilitate knowledge-sharing on financial management best practices among partners.

Institutional Financial Advising/Capacity Building:
• Provide strategic insight to help Partners develop strategies to meet long-term financial sustainability goals.
• Serve as a trusted advisor for Partner by supporting the analysis and reporting of financial results, implement new technologies that streamline and automate the reporting and budgeting process; guide decisions regarding policies, strategies, and procedures.
• Promote and facilitate the design and implementation of sound financial practices related to Partners’ financial management, budgeting, financial analysis, and risk analysis.
• Participate in visits to partner organizations to support the financial management of grant-funded projects.

Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, accounting, economics. MBA or advanced accounting degree desirable
• At least 3-5 years of relevant working experience in a grantmaking/sub-awarding institution.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
• Grant management and sub-grant/award management experience in an international organization required.
• Demonstrated working experience on governmental (bilateral) funding.
• Experience managing Partner relationship, especially in the global south.
• Working proficiency in English and French required (both written and spoken).
• Understanding of financial management processes and practices.
• Demonstrated experience with using Excel and/or accounting packages.
• Essential traits include being systematic, organized, deadline-oriented, self-motivated, able to multi-task, and working well in a team-oriented environment.

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 we strongly encourage applications from candidates based in the Global South (LAC and Francophone Africa).

Compensation: The annual salary is USD $ 31,614. 82. While salary is calculated in USD, payment may be made 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 sick, vacation leave and parental leave, holidays, and flexible working arrangements.

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.

Keywords

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