Job Summary
The Feminist Crisis Response Program Officer will lead grantmaking and strategic initiatives that reflect feminist principles in crisis response. This position focuses on supporting feminist movements and grassroots organizations globally, with emphasis on the MENA region, and advancing Global Fund for Women’s evolving Feminist Crisis Response strategy to address systemic inequalities and empower marginalized communities globally.
The Feminist Crisis Response Program Officer will manage a portfolio of crisis response grants, facilitate coordination with feminist funds in various collaborative spaces, and provide technical and strategic support for Global Fund for Women’s philanthropic initiatives. This person will also contribute to donor engagement and advocacy efforts to promote feminist crisis response principles and mobilize resources.
Key Responsibilities
Grantmaking and Thematic Strategy
- Manage a portfolio of crisis response grantees, including reviewing applications, facilitating grant processing, monitoring, and conducting regular check-ins.
- Develop grantmaking priorities and strategies aligned with Global Fund for Women’s crisis response objectives and organizational priorities.
- Provide technical guidance and support to grantees, enhancing their feminist crisis response capacity.
Philanthropy Networks - Coordination, Collaboration, and Learning
- Coordinate with feminist funds, ensuring alignment with collective goals and fostering a participatory environment.
- Organize and facilitate events, webinars, and working groups to share knowledge and best practices in feminist crisis response with donors and grantees
- Support the dissemination of key learnings to inform Global Fund for Women’s broader strategies and advocacy efforts.
- Build and maintain trust-based relationships with grassroots feminist organizations and national, regional and global feminist funds, with an emphasis on the MENA region.
Advocacy and Donor Engagement
- Develop advocacy materials and donor education content to promote feminist crisis response principles.
- Represent Global Fund for Women in feminist and humanitarian spaces, advocating for the inclusion of feminist approaches in grantmaking and crisis response policies and practices.
- Provide technical support to Global Fund for Women’s philanthropic initiatives, enhancing coordination and collaboration among global funders for feminist movements.
- Contribute to proposals, reports and communication materials, ensuring they reflect the evolving needs and priorities of feminist movements in crisis contexts.
Key Skills / Ways of Doing
- 5+ years of experience in feminist funding spaces, including grantmaking or program management, with a strong preference for experience working in the MENA region.
- Strong relationships with grassroots feminist organizations, feminist funders and feminist movements globally.
- Demonstrated experience in managing grant portfolios.
- Deep understanding of systemic inequalities and feminist principles in crisis response.
- Knowledge of humanitarian and philanthropic trends, especially in the MENA region.
- Demonstrated experience working with women and LQBTQI rights organization and feminist funds.
- Strong project management skills, with the ability to meet deadlines and handle competing priorities.
- Fluency in English; proficiency in Arabic or other regional languages is highly desirable.
- Ability to work effectively across time zones and diverse cultural contexts.
- Understand and embrace feminist, community-centric funding/fundraising principles.
- Ability to travel nationally and internationally.
Key Talents / Ways of Being
- Strong interpersonal skills: attentive listening and observation, transparency, emotional intelligence, collaboration, and clear communication
- Strategic, forward-thinking self-starter with the ability to productively provide and receive feedback
- Attention to detail and excellent problem-solving, project management, and creative-thinking skills.
- Exhibit organization, flexibility and time management of daily tasks and long-term projects in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to elicit input from stakeholders to facilitate decision-making and make decisions on behalf of team/organization, as appropriate.
Organizational Relationships
Internal: Works closely with the Feminist Crisis Response team, Programs team, Development team, Communications team and Grants Operations staff. Reports to the Feminist Crisis Response Manager.
External: Develops and maintains strategic relationships with partners, advisors, donors, and networks.
Why Join Global Fund for Women?
Global Fund for Women is an equal-opportunity employer and is dedicated to fostering an inclusive, equitable, and transformative feminist crisis response. This role offers a unique opportunity to support systemic change and amplify the voices of the most marginalized in crisis contexts globally.
Salary Range of $50,000 - $100,000
*This range is reflective of our high-market geo and will vary based on the candidate’s place of residence.
