Work Remotely as a Programme Coordinator at WoMin African Alliance (remote anywhere in Africa): Apply Now!!

Are you passionate about climate justice for African women? Are you keen to support organising for the climate debt to be settled? Are you concerned about the new green scramble for Africa?

If so, WoMin African Alliance has extended the deadline for you to apply to join their team as 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒎𝒎𝒆 𝑪𝒐𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒓: 𝑾𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏 𝑩𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑷𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑪𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑬𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒚 𝑱𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆! We are looking for a dynamic, creative Women Building Power (WBP) for Climate and Energy Justice Coordinator to steer our work in this area from an explicitly ecofeminist and anti-capitalist perspective. Application Closing Date: 28 August 2024

Ideal start date: 1 October 2024

Location: Remote anywhere on the African continent with significant travel

The WoMin African Alliance team is growing! Are you passionate about climate justice for African women? Are you keen to support organising for the climate debt to be settled? Are you concerned about the new green scramble for Africa? 

If so, WoMin African Alliance has extended our deadline for you to apply to join our team asProgramme Coordinator: Women Building Power for Climate and Energy Justice!

• Ideal start date: 1 October 2024
• Location: Remote anywhere on the African continent with significant travel
• Term: 5 years, full time – 40 hours a week
• Probation period: 3 months

Salary:

Salaries at WoMin are dependent on applicable salary scales, internal pay policies and budget. This is a senior position in WoMin, and the candidate assumes responsibility for the political direction of the Women Building Power for Climate and Energy Justice (WBP) Programme.

Benefits:

• Contribution to staff purchasing their own medical aid, which is necessary given we run a distributed organisation. 
• Leave provision: Paid time off (20,04 vacation days per year; a three-year leave cycle offering 30 sick leave days in total, which equates to 10 sick days per annum; plus, compassionate and family responsibility leave, and paid public holidays applicable in the host country). 
• Remote work and flexible work arrangements given our commitments as a feminist organisation.
• Full coverage of data costs for working from home.

Programme Coordinator: Women Building Power for Climate and Energy Justice

WoMin is looking for a dynamic, creative Women Building Power (WBP) for Climate  and Energy Justice Coordinator to steer our work in this area from an explicitly ecofeminist and anti-capitalist perspective. 

The successful candidate will specifically be responsible for the following Key Performance Areas:

• Leading WoMin’s contributions to the building of an African climate justice movement that is anti-capitalist and ecofeminist in nature.
• Supporting and contributing to organising, movement building, convergences and campaigns addressing WoMin’s leading Women Building Power work – green extractivism, and climate reparations.
• Deepening partnerships with friends and allies at the Pan African and global levels for collaboration and solidarity and leading a WoMin team of three in this programme area.
• Participating in and representing WoMin at various regional and international platforms to advance WoMin’s conceptualisation of and approach towards an African Ecofeminist Just Development Alternative.

We hope to have the person in place by 1 October 2024 but are willing to wait until December should a longer notice period be required. The job profile contains further details about the post and the candidate we are looking for. We hope to recruit a person who speaks and writes fluently in English but is also able to work in Portuguese or French. Our preference will be for a candidate outside of South Africa.

Please see detailed job profile in:

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ENGLISH
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FRENCH
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PORTUGUESE
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About WoMin:

WoMin, launched in October 2013, is an African ecofeminist alliance which works alongside organisations of women, peasants and mining-impacted communities, and in partnership with other sympathetic organisations, to make visible and publicise the impacts of extractives on peasant and working-class women; to support women’s organising, movement-building and solidarity; and to advance, in alliance with numerous others, an African post-extractivist, ecologically just, women-centred alternative to the dominant destructive model of development.

WoMin is an all-women feminist organisation, headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, with staff based across the continent.

How to Apply

Please submit your curriculum vitae, a cover letter and a sample of your writing to [email protected]create new email by close of day Wednesday, 28 August 2024.

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