Background

The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is a pioneering grantmaking foundation headquartered in Accra, Ghana. AWDF was founded by and for African women. Since its founding in 2001, AWDF has continued to support a growing portfolio of grants to leading women’s rights organisations and feminist movements across Africa, while also supporting knowledge generation, capacity building, movement building and donor advocacy around African women’s activist histories, movement resourcing needs, and more recently, feminist futures.

Job Summary

The Movement Building Officer (MBO) plays a critical role in the Programmes Team contributing to initiatives that support feminist movement building in Africa, particularly in French speaking countries. This includes supporting AWDF’s role as host of the African Feminist Forum, network and alliance building and diversification (linguistic and geographical), connecting women’s rights organisations (WROs) with each other...