People, Operations & Movement Coordinator
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Mobilizing Activists around Medical Abortion Network (MAMA Network)
Remote (local)- Location: Central Africa, East Africa, Northwest and Northeast Africa , Southern Africa
- Career category: Human Resources (HR)
- Job type: Job
- Experience level: 5-10 years
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: Remote (local)
- Right to work requirements: Anyone can apply
- Remuneration: Remuneration not disclosed
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Location: Central Africa, East Africa, Northwest and Northeast Africa , Southern Africa
About MAMA Network
Mobilizing Activists around the Medical Abortion Network is a collaboration of grassroots activists and feminist groups based in Sub-Saharan Africa, seeking to expand access to safe Medical Abortion.
MAMA is a regional movement working to share evidence-based and stigma-free information about self-managed medical abortion and sexual and reproductive health and rights directly with women at the community level. MAMA membership is currently 74 groups in 24 African countries, with plans to deepen our impact and expand our reach over the next years.
Your Responsibilities will include
Spearhead the Network’s Governance
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Lead the roll-out of MAMA’s new governance structure, including setting up new governing bodies and strengthening the movement coordination.
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Manage MAMA’s governance operations, including coordinating meetings, retreats, evaluations, All Members Council and SAAC sessions.
Spearhead our People & Culture Processes
- Oversee efforts to build a strong MAMA Coordinators team, including recruitment, onboarding, capacity building, teambuilding, culture, and connection initiatives, as well as managing any consultants or team members supporting these activities.
- Oversee the design, implementation and iteration of relevant strategies & systems for capacity development, teambuilding, connection and care, etc
Operations Oversight
- Overall coordination of all organizational & programmatic operations, ensuring alignment of workplans, program activities and timelines.
- Lead our annual review and planning and the quarterly workplan reviews.
Coordinate our Strategy and Finance Processes
- Co-Lead the annual budgeting process, fostering alignment to strategic priorities.
- Host Quarterly Finance Meetings, facilitating team decisions on re-allocations in line with strategic priorities and ensuring follow-up.
Who we are looking for:
- You have at least 7-10 years of relevant experience with the following key competencies:
- Human-Centered Process Design: You design and implement efficient, goal-driven systems that center people’s real needs.
- Systems Thinking: You naturally see how people, teams, and processes connect within a bigger ecosystem.
- Operations Leadership: You have coordinated a wide range of organizational processes,
- Strong Facilitation: You have a track record in guiding collective conversations, reflections and processes.
- Excellent Coordination: Demonstrated ability to translate collective decisions into clear next steps and ensuring follow-through and action tracking in a busy team without top-down control. You have clear written communication, incl. documentation and synthesis.
- Strategic Leadership: You have been involved in the strategic management of organizations or networks, including the design, implementation and review of mid-term Strategic Plans, ideally participatory or co-created processes.
- Financial Management: You have worked with budgets, grants, and financial decision-making at an organizational or network level. While finance training is not required, analytical thinking and affinity to spreadsheets is crucial
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