Senior Program Officer, Project Management

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.

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.

Supervisory Relationship

The Program Officer for Project Management will report to the Associate Director, Program Management.

Position Summary

The Senior Program Officer for Project Management will support the implementation of Fòs Feminista’s programmatic initiatives to advance SRHRJ in collaboration with partners in Latin America and the Caribbean. Working closely with a multidisciplinary team from several units, the Senior Program Officer will be responsible for coordinating planning, partner engagement, and tracking of deliverables for donor-funded initiatives. This role will also support the establishment of efficient systems and processes for internal project management.

Key Responsibilities

• Co-coordinate, support, monitor, and document the implementation of programmatic initiatives in Latin America and Caribbean, with specific focus on decriminalization and access to legal and safe abortion.
• Co-create and adapt systems and processes for more effective and efficient project management.
• Track and report on status of project deliverables and action items arising from meetings with partners and donors.
• Facilitate internal information-sharing and coordination across units for programmatic initiatives.
• Support coordination of logistics for in-person and virtual technical briefings, meetings, and events.
• Support partners to implement project activities and to strengthen their project implementation capacities.
• Maximize and coordinate opportunities for partners’ articulation and capacity sharing with regional and international networks, platforms, and working groups.
• Contribute to developing feminist knowledge and analysis in accessible communication formats to support project activities and priorities of the Fòs Feminista Alliance.
• Other tasks, as required.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience discipline.
• 5-7 years of program or project management experience.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Highly-organized, detail-oriented self-starter who also has strong collaborative spirit.
• Excellent planning and time management skills.
• Ability to conceptualize needs for and support the creation of processes, tools, and systems to facilitate project management.
• Strong writing and presentation skills for reporting on deliverables.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to manage shifting priorities, demands, and timelines.
• High degree of fluency in English and Spanish language is required; Portuguese highly desirable.
• Flexibility and willingness to work virtually with a diverse and multicultural team.
• 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
• Relationship and connections to the feminist and SRHRJ movements globally, including the Latin America and Caribbean region, is a plus.

Location

This position is fully remote and to be based in Colombia. Candidates from Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities are encouraged to apply.

Compensation

Fòs Feminista’s generous benefits package includes private health insurance and life insurance. Fós Feminista is committed to ensuring that all Team Members receive a minimum of 11.37% employer contribution toward their retirement (this percentage can be more if mandated by local laws). Team members will also be entitled to 23 paid vacation days, 12 paid sick days, paid parental leave, holidays, and flexible working arrangements. The proposed salary is US$38,192.40.  While salary is calculated in USD, payment may be made in local currency.

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 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).

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 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.