Senior Partner Organization Finance and Social Enterprise Officer

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

The Senior Partner Organization Finance and Social Enterprise Officer supports and assists the Sustainable Ecosystem Unit teams in the development and implementation of donor and Fòs Feminista policies and procedures as they relate to Partner Organizations finance affairs, accounting, and automated financial systems. Provide technical accompaniment to partner´s Board Members, Executives and Staff in financial leadership, financial management, financial analysis, budget development and other initiatives aimed to enhance the financial sustainability of partners including but not limited to social enterprise initiatives.

The Senior Partner Organization Finance and Social Enterprise Officer will have a demonstrated commitment to and alignment with Fòs Feminista’s principles and values of social justice, equity, and non-discrimination, which are essential to our work advancing sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice for women, girls, and gender-diverse people—particularly in the Global South.

Supervisory Relationships

The Senior Partner Organization Finance and Social Enterprise Officer reports to the Director Financial Sustainability and Innovation, and Director of Partner Organization Finance and Risk Management.

Key Responsibilities

Sub-Grants Management:

• Responsible for financial management of sub-grant lifecycle from proposal development, through closure.
• Align and partner with program technical teams to build budgets at the Fòs Feminista and sub-grantee level and develop the reporting models required to facilitate the completion of grants and subgrants based on donor requirements.
• Support subgrantee programs by proactively understanding programmatic strategy and objectives, identifying implications, and working closely with the program technical teams to address critical issues, mitigate risk and ensure compliance.
• Provide financial grants management-related training to program staff and new personnel, at the local level and globally.

Institutional Financial Support:

• Provide strategic insight to help Partner Organizations develop financial strategies to diversify revenue generating streams, identify strategic cost efficiencies, plan for reserve accumulation, identify capital needs and other funding gaps to meet its long-term mission impact and financial sustainability goals.
• Serve as a trusted advisor for partner organizations supporting the analysis and reporting of results; identify resource opportunities and develop action plans; implement new technologies that streamline and automate the reporting and budgeting process, provide guidance on financial policies, strategies, and procedures.
• Identify financial needs of POs and promote sound financial practices in management and budgeting
• Visit, when conditions allow, partner organizations to support fiscal management of grant-funded projects and debt-funded initiatives in coordination with local teams.
• Support Partner Organizations in developing the three-year investment plans alongside facilitation of the finance modules in the Social Enterprise Incubator Lab program.
• Support the social enterprise team in the due diligence processes of the Feminist Impact Fund ie. developing the financial model and drafting the investment memo for the partner organization.
• Assist in regular collection of data and tracking of key impact metrics.

Education and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, accounting, economics, or public health administration; MBA or advanced accounting degree highly desirable
• At least 5 years of working experience working with non-profit organizations and /or social enterprises to help them build business models, financial projections, and outline growth plans

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Understanding of the global cultural context related to sexual and reproductive healthcare provision through intersectional lens
• Strong commitment to anti-racism, including to a process of self-reflection and transformation
• Advanced oral and written skills in Spanish and English (French and Portuguese desired)
• Ability to use word processing, spreadsheet, and database software programs
• Essential traits include being systematic, organized, deadline-oriented, self-motivated, able to multi-task and work well in team-oriented environment
• Knowledge of basic accounting principles
• Demonstrated experience with using Excel

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:

• 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).

Location: This is a remote position and preference will be given to candidates based in the 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$37,080 /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 F__ò__s 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 in order 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.

Applications will be considered as they are received and only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.