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About Fòs Feminista
Fòs Feminista is a global intersectional feminist organization advancing the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women, girls, and gender-diverse people. Led and governed by the Global South, Fòs Feminista works through a constellation of affiliated organizations, legal entities, strategic partnerships, and movement relationships with around 200 civil society partners across 40 countries.

Our work integrates advocacy, grantmaking, research, movement-building, sexual and reproductive healthcare, and innovative finance to strengthen feminist organizations and movements worldwide. Operating across multiple jurisdictions and institutional structures, Fòs Feminista brings together legal, political, philanthropic, and movement strategies to advance gender justice and achieve lasting systemic change.

Position overview
Fòs Feminista is seeking a Chief Operating Officer to provide strategic and operational leadership across the organization. 
Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer and serving on the Strategic Management Team (SMT), the COO will translate strategy into coordinated plans, sound resource decisions, effective institutional systems, and accountable implementation.
The COO will integrate People, Inclusion, and Culture; Business Intelligence, Evaluation and Research; and Legal Affairs. The Chief Financial Officer will report to the COO for operational integration and fiduciary responsibilities while retaining a direct relationship with the CEO. The role requires a leader who can move between strategy and execution and work across functions, regions, and cultures.

Leadership profile
The successful candidate will be a senior organizational leader with the judgment, experience, and relational capacity to work across multiple functions and institutional contexts. They will combine strategic perspective with disciplined execution and lead through coordination, trust, and influence as well as formal reporting relationships.
They will bring:
•    Demonstrated experience in a senior executive or enterprise-wide role in a complex international nonprofit, philanthropic, social-impact, or other mission-driven organization.
•    Experience leading or integrating several functions, such as finance, people and culture, operations, legal or compliance, organizational data, strategy implementation, or business development.
•    Strong financial literacy and experience using budgets, forecasts, and analysis to guide decisions and connect strategy with measurable results.
•    Experience working across countries, cultures, legal environments, or distributed teams and building productive relationships with senior colleagues, boards, staff, partners, donors, and advisers.
•    Experience leading change, strengthening systems without unnecessary bureaucracy, supporting functional leaders, and fostering collective accountability, with excellent judgment in sensitive matters.
•    A clear commitment to feminist principles, sexual and reproductive health and rights, racial and gender justice, and leadership from the Global South.
•    An understanding of partnership-based organizations and systems responsive to partner priorities.