Director of Grantmaking and Feminist Partnerships

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Womankind Worldwide

Hybrid
  • Location: United Kingdom, Kenya
  • Career category: Fundraising/ Grant management
  • Job type: Job
  • Experience level: 10+ years
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Hybrid
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: £76,408 GBP / yearly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 22/08/2025
  • Location: United Kingdom, Kenya
Movement building
About Womankind Worldwide

Womankind Worldwide is a global women’s rights organisation working in partnership with women’s rights movements and organisations to transform the lives of women and girls. We strengthen and support women’s movements in our focus countries in Africa and Asia, and take collective action at regional and global levels, to ensure women’s voices are heard, their rights are realised, and their lives are free from violence. 

Responsibilities

1. STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP

• Serve as a key member of the Senior Management Team, contributing to whole-organisation leadership, strategic decision-making, and culture-building. 
• Drive the implementation of Womankind’s 2030 Feminist Future Strategy, ensuring our grant making, partnerships and learning advances our vision and strategic goals. 

2. FEMINIST PARTNERSHIPS & PROGRAMMES LEADERSHIP 

• Lead our feminist partnership approach with women’s rights organisations and feminist movements, grounded in mutual respect, solidarity, and shared power. 
• Champion decolonial, trust-based grant-making practices, enabling flexible, responsive, and sustainable funding. 

3. TEAM LEADERSHIP 

• Lead, manage, support and develop a multi-disciplinary and geographically dispersed team, fostering inclusive ways of working in line with our strategic goal to value our team and organisational values. 
• Ensure team members have relevant skills and knowledge, support professional development, and foster cross-organisational learning and collaboration. 

4. COMMUNICATIONS, REPRESENTATION, NETWORKING AND PROFILE BUILDING 

• Advocate for feminist approaches within international development, philanthropy, and donor communities. 
• Represent Womankind in external spaces to influence systems change and resource mobilisation for feminist movements. 

5. MONITORING, EVALUATION AND LEARNING 

• Oversee the organisation’s learning, monitoring and evaluation processes to ensure programmes and grant making are delivering meaningful, feminist change.
• Lead development of innovative approaches to learning, feminist evidence-building, and impact measurement. 

6. SAFEGUARDING AND RISK MANAGEMENT 

• Ensure safeguarding is embedded across Womankind’s grantmaking and programmes, centering the safety, dignity and agency of women, girls and gender-diverse people. 
• Work collaboratively with partners to develop feminist, context-specific safeguarding approaches, addressing risks in ways that are supportive and non-punitive. 

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS 
• Significant senior leadership experience in working alongside feminist movements, women’s rights organisations, or allied social justice movements including demonstrable commitment to feminist analysis and practice. 
• Proven track record of designing, delivering and managing transformative programmes, partnerships, and/or grant-making initiatives that advance women’s rights and gender justice. 
• Experience in strategic leadership and organisational development within vision and values driven organisations. 
• Knowledge of decolonial, trust-based funding and partnership approaches including the development and management of flexible funding strategies. 
• Proven experience of developing proposals for institutional funders and large trusts and foundations. 
• Significant experience of managing, developing and motivating a team within a remote/hybrid working environment including strong people management skills, supporting staff wellbeing and performance management. 
• Experience of working within a Senior Management Team, operating at Board level. 
• Credible and effective external representative. 

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