Urgent Action Fund-Africa is Looking for a Remote Knowledge Leadership Programme Intern: Apply Now!
Application Deadline: Ongoing
Urgent Action Fund-Africa is Looking for a Remote Knowledge Leadership Programme Intern: Apply Now!
About Urgent Action Fund-Africa
Urgent Action Fund (UAF-Africa) is a feminist, Pan-African, rapid response fund committed to transforming power relations through resourcing African feminists and women’s human rights defenders and their formations as an act of solidarity. UAF-Africa is a part of the ecosystem of feminist and womn’s movements in Africa and globally. In character, UAF-Africa is bold, courageous, proactive, responsive, creative, rigorous, curious, alert, agile, imaginative, grounded, consistent, and reliable. As a rapid response Fund, UAF-Africa is ready, alert, and agile to respond to and prioritise the urgent needs of womn in various movements.
Registered in Kenya and Zimbabwe and operating as a virtual organisation, the Fund boasts of strategic presence in Africa’s five sub-regions- East Africa: Nairobi & Makuyu- Kenya, Kampala- Uganda and Addis Ababa- Ethiopia; North Africa: Cairo- Egypt; Central Africa: Southern Africa: Harare – Zimbabwe, Lilongwe & Blantyre – Malawi, Antananarivo, Madagascar, Johannesburg & Cape Town- South Africa, and West Africa: Abuja-Nigeria, Parakou & Cotonou- Benin, Yaoundé and Douala Cameroon, Lomé, Togo.
Recognising the need to move resources rapidly on a continent where opportunities and threats arise and decline quickly, UAF-Africa uses a Rapid Response Grant-making mechanism to support unanticipated,
time-sensitive, innovative, and unique initiatives that promote women’s agency in democratic governance, economic, environmental and climate justice, natural resources governance and conflict transformation while protecting their personhood, integrity, and rights.
Objective of the Feminist Knowledge Leadership Program
The objective of the Knowledge Leadership programme is to work with others to build a culture of learning within and external to UAF-Africa for deeper consciousness, consistently theorising and articulating a feminist, pan Africanist perspective and translating this to solidarity and action.
Position Overview
The Feminist Knowledge Leadership Programme Intern will support the knowledge leadership programme to ensure that documentation, learning, research and information management projects (ongoing and new) are timely executed. The Knowledge Leadership Programme Intern reports directly
to the Knowledge Leadership Senior Programme Manager.
Specific Responsibilities
- Provide logistical support in organising physical and online meetings;
- Respond to queries from different partners in consultation with the Supervisor;
- Collect and upload data collection forms from Registry partners;
- Support any other pieces of work as needed.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in womn’s studies, social sciences or related fields.
- Proficiency in written and spoken English and French are mandatory. Arabic or Portuguese language skills are an added advantage.
- Previous research experience focusing on womn’s rights, human rights or social justice issues generally is an advantage.
Skills and Experience
- At least 1 year experience in research and knowledge generation.
- Excellent organizational skills and ability to multitask.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Flexibility and willingness to travel on the African continent and beyond as and when required
- An understanding of gender equality and womn’s rights issues, particularly in politically unstable and post-conflict African settings.
- Passionate about UAF-Africa’s mission, committed to teamwork, and achieving.
- Results and building effective teams.
- Excellent inter-personal, public speaking, writing and negotiation skills.
- Experience working in a virtual work environment an added advantage
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