Senior Program 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 Program Officer plays as the Technical and Financial Lead as well as Project Manager of a large, government-donor funded project operating across Bolivia, Ecuador, Guyana, and Perú focused on advancing and advocating for improved and expanded delivery of sexual and reproductive health care services and comprehensive sexuality education (CSE), particularly among young people. This role is principally responsible for driving project implementation and reporting in line with Fós Feminista’s role in the project, coordinating a multi-organizational team in ensuring project deliverables are met and impact is achieved and documented per the restrictions of the grant. This position will be hired until July 2024 when the project will end.

The Senior Program 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 Relationship

The Senior Program Officer reports to the Associate Director of Program Management within the Sustainable Ecosystem unit. The Senior Program Officer will be responsible for managing the performance of consultants related to the project as needed.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure a measure of project-wide coordination, cohesion, and synthesis balanced across multiple different project partners in multiple countries, languages, and time zones
• Identify any project technical accompaniment needs together with partners as they emerge and resolve - or create a plan to resolve – as efficiently and collaboratively as possible.
• Support partners in the design, development, execution and monitoring of project activities.
• Drives day-to-day project management processes for project and offers a measure of coordination and project burden alleviation across local partners
• Ensure project deliverables are met in close collaboration and consultation with project team, in particular with project monitoring and evaluation (M&E) team
• Contribute financial analysis and monitoring specifically from a programmatic and technical perspective to complement the financial analysis and monitoring led by the project financial team.
• Contribute M&E analysis and follow-up specifically from a programmatic and technical perspective to complement the M&E analysis and follow-up led by the project M&E team.
• Coordinate project reporting and annual Work Plan development in close collaboration with project team and partners, identifying and securing needed inputs and resources in advance, tracking and clearly communicating expectations and commitments.
• Represent Fòs Feminista externally to project partners, donor, etc.
• Contribute to internal and external organizational technical plans and strategic processes as needed

Education and Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in any non-profit management, Social Sciences, Public Health, or related field; MBA or advanced degree highly desirable
• At least 5 years of professional experience in senior roles and project management related work, including responsibilities on budget monitoring and meaningful use of monitoring and evaluation data.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledgeable of the sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice landscape particularly in Latin America.
• Proficient in spoken and written English and Spanish, comfortable designing and delivering presentations, conversing routinely in both languages, and preparing donor reports in restrictive programmatic language in English
• Comfortable working independently and as a team member with initiative and flexibility; ability to work effectively and accurately under pressure and manage multiple processes, and deadlines simultaneously.
• Well-developed interpersonal skills for collaboration with donor, partner organizations, and external stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and communication skills
• Ability to liaise and engage with multidisciplinary teams and external stakeholders
• Proven ability to work virtually and independently, managing multiple concurrent workstreams and prioritizing across competing tasks
• Experience working in multicultural settings with high degree of intercultural awareness and understanding
• Experience in advocacy youth SRHR as well as organizational planning, and communications with partners organizations.

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 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$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 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 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.