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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 victims 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 seeking a highly motivated impact professional with experience working with incubators, accelerators or impact investing funds in a project management and/or facilitation role to support the implementation of Fòs Feminista’s work in social enterprise and gender lens impact investing as a key strategy for amplifying South-led innovation and bolstering partners’ financial sustainability. The incumbent will have commitment to and alignment with Fòs Feminista’s principles and values of social justice, equality, and non-discrimination which are an essential to our work advancing the Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice for women, girls, and gender-diverse people—particularly in the Global South. The Senior Officer – Social Enterprise and Impact Investing will have an instrumental support role in coordinating the Innovation and Social Enterprise Lab (the Lab), a collaborative learning platform for partner organizations to build their business skills and develop sustainable strategies for expanding access to sexual and reproductive health and rights for women, girls, and gender-diverse people. The incumbent will lead in curating existing programs and tools that best cater to partners’ needs, including facilitating the Lab’s Incubator Program, through which Fòs Feminista works with cohorts of three to five partner organizations over six-month periods to validate, build, and launch new ideas for social enterprise models using lean innovation and human centered design.
The Senior Officer – Social Enterprise and Impact Investing will also play a support role in the implementation and monitoring of the Feminist Impact Fund (the Fund), currently a $2.5 million gender lens debt fund through which Fòs Feminista offers low-interest loans to support partners to launch social enterprise models and innovative solutions.
Supervisory Relationship
The Senior Officer – Social Enterprise and Impact Investing reports to the Director of Financial Sustainability and Innovation who manages the Innovation and Social Enterprise Lab team
Key Responsibilities
Minimum Qualifications
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Familiarity and/or experience working with Human-Centered Design, Design Thinking, Lean Innovation or similar methodologies
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to tailor communications to a wide variety of audiences from different backgrounds and experiences and develop executive content and material
Well-developed interpersonal skills for high-level collaboration with staff, Partner Organizations, and Board of Directors
Strong analytical skills with the ability to maneuver spreadsheets and assess financial models
Excellent presentation and facilitation skills (including abilities in PowerPoint/slide development)
Ability to liaise and engage with multidisciplinary teams and vendors (including subject matter experts and consultants, graphic designers, web developers)
Ability to network extensively and manage relationships effectively
Proven ability to work virtually and independently, managing multiple concurrent workstreams and prioritizing across competing tasks
Comfortable working in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment (a self-starter, flexible, and resourceful)
Proven ability to be a creative problem solver and manage and grow a program or area of work
Solid understanding of and commitment to sexual and reproductive health and rights through an intersectional feminist lens
Demonstrated commitment to anti-racism and other forms of oppression, including to a process of self-reflection and transformation around implicit bias
High degree of fluency in English, with fluency in at least one of Fòs Feminista’s other core language (preference for French, Portuguese, or Spanish)
Location: The location of this position is remote, and we strongly encourage applications from candidates based at the Global South.
Fòs Feminista offers generous compensation consistent with competitive salaries in the General Counsel’s country of residence, and a benefits package that includes health coverage, retirement benefits, and paid sick leave, vacation, and holidays. The proposed salary for each region is as follows:
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:
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 our policy that employees must show proof of full vaccination in order to engage in any work-related travel or to attend any work-related in-person gatherings. As appropriate, reasonable accommodations will be made, including, for example, arrangements for employees to participate remotely in any relevant gatherings.
Applications will be considered as they are received and only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.