Programme Manager: STAND

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Womankind Worldwide

Hybrid
  • Career category: Advocacy/ Policy, Fundraising/ Grant management, Monitoring & Evaluation /MEAL, Partnership, Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Experience level: Other (specified in job description)
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Hybrid
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: GBP 57,933.01 GBP-GBP 61,571.91 GBP / yearly
  • Work schedule: Part-time/ Pro-rata
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 11/10/2026
  • Location: Kenya
Movement building
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. Currently, Womankind has staff based in Kenya and the UK. This position can be based in Kenya or the UK. 

ABOUT THE STAND PROJECT
Strengthening Activists and Defenders: A Global Feminist Initiative to Strengthen Women Human Rights Defenders (STAND) is a Norad-funded, three-year project working across six countries (Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nepal, Uganda and Zimbabwe) to protect and strengthen feminist movements of Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) in a climate of shrinking civic space and rising anti-rights backlash. Womankind leads the STAND partnership, working with seven implementing partners including AWN (Afghanistan), EWLA (Ethiopia), YWLI (Kenya), WHR (Nepal), WIPC (Uganda) and WCoZ (Zimbabwe).

Role Purpose:

The STAND Programme Manager leads the day-to-day coordination of the STAND partnership at Womankind, ensuring the project is delivered to a high standard across all six countries, on time, within budget and in line with donor requirements. Working closely with the seven STAND partners and Womankind's Grantmaking and Feminist Partnerships (GFP), Fundraising & Marketing (F&M), Finance, Policy and Advocacy (P&A), and Communications teams, the role holder coordinates, financial monitoring, programme reporting, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) implementation and cross-country learning. Strategic, contractual and high-risk matters are escalated to the Director of Grantmaking and Feminist Partnerships. The role ensures that feminist, safeguarding and risk-aware approaches are embedded throughout the project, working in coordination with relevant Womankind's teams.

Qualification and training:
  • A relevant degree or equivalent professional experience in international development, gender studies, human rights, social sciences, or a related field.
  • Training or demonstrated learning in feminist approaches to MEL, programme management and Grantmaking; women's rights, gender equality, or human rights defence (formal or informal).
  • Safeguarding training or demonstrated experience applying survivor-centred and trauma-informed approaches.
  • Training or practical experience in programme/project cycle management, ideally with statutory or institutional donors.

Essential Experience:
  • Experience managing multi-country, donor-funded programmes or consortia throughout the project cycle, including work planning, partner coordination and reporting against shared outcomes and deadlines.
  • Experience managing substantial multi-partner budgets and forecasts, with a strong understanding of statutory donor compliance and reporting requirements. Experience with Norad or a similar donor would be an advantage.
  • Demonstrable MEL experience, including tracking results, supporting partners to generate and use evidence, and coordinating cross-country learning and exchange.
  • Direct experience working with WRO’s, feminist movements and/or WHRDs.
  • Experience managing programme risk and adapting delivery in politically sensitive, insecure or rapidly changing contexts.
  • Experience applying safeguarding and ethical data-management principles, including the secure handling of sensitive information and survivor-centred responses to risk.

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