The Foundation
We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, wexe2x80x99re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.
The Team The mission of the Global Policy & Advocacy (GPA) division is to understand and shape the public policy debates affecting the foundation's work, build support for its major program and policy objectives, and develop partnerships and alliances that can advance the foundation's objectives nationally and globally. The Africa team implements its responsibility through direct country engagement to deploy interventions and delivery models, and by building the partner architecture to replicate successful interventions and models across multiple countries.
Your Role
As a Senior Program Officer (SPO), Womenxe2x80x99s Economic Empowerment (WEE) on our team, you will lead a portfolio of investments and direct advocacy within our Gender Equality Policy, Advocacy and Communications (GE PAC) team focused on advancing womenxe2x80x99s economic empowerment on the African continent with a focus on key countries (currently Kenya and Nigeria), as well as globally. You will also play a significant role as a key member of GE PAC in furthering a new, all-of-foundation effort to center womenxe2x80x99s economic power (agency, autonomy, decision-making) in our policy and advocacy approaches and investments.
The postholder will focus on building relationships and partnerships across our advocacy and communications divisions and will work closely with all internal collaborators and key external partners and governments to support our WEE advocacy goals. You will work most closely with the WEE team within the Gender Equality Division as the Program Strategy Team (PST) that leads the technical and programmatic interventions, as well as across the Africa Regional Offices.
The WEE PST has an approved strategy organized around five levers (care, digital, data, markets and capital). You will maintain and develop key grants that will help to implement this approved strategy with policy, advocacy and communications expertise. This includes finding and building/maintaining trusted relationships and making grants to organizations critical to advancing these priorities as well as participating in direct advocacy to multilateral institutions, donors and priority countries.
You will also support briefings, learning sessions, and advocacy activities by the foundationxe2x80x99s leadership. You will work to generate the awareness, resources, partnerships, and policy changes vital to achieve success in the following ways: galvanizing civil society in donor and developing nations to increase political commitment to WEE and to deliver on policy and resource outcomes; understanding and shaping international and regional financing channels for global development issues and supporting the evidence base to drive sound decision-making; and influencing policymaker decision making through increased visibility and understanding of solutions to womenxe2x80x99s economic empowerment grounded in gender-sensitive data.
The post holder may be based at the foundationxe2x80x99s office in Johannesburg or in another foundation office location in Africa deemed more appropriate at the time of hire. This position is a hybrid role, reporting to the Deputy Director Gender Equality PAC, and coordinating closely with the Director for Program Advocacy & Communications in Africa.
What You'll Do
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