African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET)

Job Description for the Position of Programme Manager

1. Purpose of the Position
The Programme Manager is responsible for the management of all programmes
and projects of the African Women’s Development and Communication Network
(FEMNET) including for contributing to their conceptualisation, overseeing
their implementation according to FEMNET’s contractual obligations and
internal policies and reporting on them. The Programme Manager is
responsible to the Executive Director and works in collaboration with her
and the Financial Administrator in particular.

2. Responsibilities of the Position

2.1 Responsibilities relating to the Executive Board and Board of
Trustees

· to assist the Executive Director and Financial Administrator with
the preparation of half-yearly narrative reports and quarterly financial
reports for the Executive Board and Board of Trustees;
· to ensure the preparation of programme and project documentation
for meetings of the Executive Board and Board of Trustees;
· to assist the Executive Director as may otherwise be required in
implementing the strategic directions received from the Executive Board and
Board of Trustees.

2.2 Responsibilities relating to the Executive Director and Programme
Management

to assist the Executive Director with the preparation of new
programme/project proposals, including their budgetary aspects in
collaboration with the Finance Administrator;
to assist the Executive Director with fundraising for new
programmes/projects as may be required;
to supervise staff members responsible for on-going programme/project
implementation to ensure that programmes/projects are executed in
accordance with FEMNET’s contractual obligations and internal policies;
to ensure the timely preparation of narrative and financial reports for
on-going programmes/projects according to FEMNET’s contractual obligations
in collaboration with the staff members responsible for on-going
programmes/projects and the Finance Administrator;
to assist the Executive Director with administrative functions as may be
required;
to deputise for and represent the Executive Director in her absence/stead
as may be required.

3. Qualifications, Skills and Experience for the Position

· demonstrated interest and experience in gender and development
and/or women's human rights in Africa;
· a degree in a relevant social science;
· demonstrated training and/or experience in programme/project
management, including programme/project conceptualisation, development,
fundraising, implementation, monitoring and evaluation;
· demonstrated training and/or experience in human resource and
financial management;
· knowledge of grant-making around gender and development and/or
women’s human rights in Africa;
· demonstrated ability to fundraise for gender and development
and/or women’s human rights in Africa;
· demonstrated capacity to communicate and work in both English and
French.

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African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET)

Job Description for the Position of Advocacy Officer

1. Purpose of the Position
The African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) focuses
primarily on advocacy around regional and international policies relevant
to the development, equality and other human rights of African women.
FEMNET’s advocacy and representational work during regional and
international policy negotiations needs to be backed up by research and the
dissemination of strategic information before, during and after such
regional and international policy negotiations. This is particularly so
given that expectations of FEMNET in this respect have grown­both among
FEMNET’s constituencies and its funders.

2. Terms of Reference

2.1 Objectives

to enable the African women’s movement to develop and use regional and
international law and policy in advocacy for the development, equality and
other human rights of African women;
to encourage research on the mainstreaming of the African women’s
movement’s concerns in regional and international law and policy;
to raise awareness about and maintain effective and communications with
FEMNET’s constituencies on advocacy for African women’s development,
equality and other human rights at the regional and international levels;
to enhance the African women’s movement’s capacity to influence governments
and inter-governmental organisations (IGOs) to develop and implement
policies that promote the rights of African women as provided for in
national, regional and international human rights instruments.

2.2 Activities

managing the advocacy programme’s projects, particularly those on the
Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) and the African Union (AU);
undertaking and/or commissioning research in support of the advocacy
programme’s projects;
coordinating and facilitating the advocacy programme’s advocacy and
lobbying activities on behalf of FEMNET’s constituencies at the regional
and international levels;
liasing with the Communication Officer to sustain communication with
FEMNET’s constituencies on the developments within the advocacy programme;
conceptualising new projects for the advocacy programme in consultation
with the Executive Director;
fundraising for the advocacy programme’s projects;
coordinating the advocacy programme’s training activities for FEMNET’s
constituencies;
monitoring, evaluating and reporting on the advocacy programme’s projects
on a quarterly basis and as may be otherwise required;
advising the Executive Director as to any needs relating to advocacy.

2.3 Requirements

· a degree in social sciences;
· knowledge of and experience in research and advocacy for African
women’s human rights at the regional and international levels;
· analytical, creative, strategic and problem-solving skills;
· the ability to simplify, summarise and communicate complex
information, including presentation skills in both English and French;
· good communications, interpersonal and networking skills,
including the ability to work with a diverse range of people and
organisations at the national, regional and international levels;
· diplomatic, lobbying and political skills, including knowledge of
the differing political contexts within Africa (anglophone, arabophone,
francophone and lusophone);
· pro-activeness and self-motivation with the ability to work within
a team environment;
· good time management skills, including the ability to work to
deadlines;
computer literacy, including electronic networking skills;
programme/project development, fundraising, implementation, monitoring,
evaluation and report-writing skills.

2.4 Remuneration

this position is a regional position and compensation shall be commensurate
with FEMNET’s other regional positions.

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African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET)

Job Description for the Position of Translator

1. Rationale
The African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) focuses
primarily on advocacy around regional and international policies relevant
to the development, equality and other human rights of African women.
FEMNET’s advocacy work is supported by FEMNET’s communication work. As a
pan-African network, it is imperative that FEMNET be able to communicate in
both English and French.
The scope of the Regional Secretariat’s communication work in support of
its advocacy work has expanded beyond the production of five bilingual
newsletters a year. FEMNET’s communication work now includes the production
of a bilingual monthly electronic bulletin as well as the management of
bilingual listserves to service FEMNET’s Board of Trustees and Executive
Board, FEMNET’s national focal points, FEMNET’s general membership as well
as members and partners involved in different programmes/projects of
FEMNET. It also includes the translation of all of FEMNET’s
programme/project outputs.
FEMNET’s needs with respect to translation have thus also grown, as have
the knowledge and skills levels of FEMNET’s translator.

2. Terms of Reference

2.1 Objectives

to ensure that FEMNET’s communication work is able to be disseminated in
both English and French in an equitable and timely manner;
to ensure that FEMNET’s other programme/project outputs are available to
both its anglophone and francophone constituencies in an equitable and
timely manner.

2.2 Activities

assisting the Executive Director and all programme staff with
interpretation and translation as may be required to maintain communication
with FEMNET’s constituencies;
ensuring the availability of all of FEMNET’s communication products in both
English and French;
ensuring the availability of all of FEMNET’s other programme/project
outputs in both English and French;
managing the outsourcing of FEMNET’s interpretation and translation work as
may be required, including the sourcing of financing to support such
outsourcing;
ensuring the maintenance of quality of FEMNET’s interpretation and
translation work, including remaining up to date with the concepts and
issues with which FEMNET engages in both English and French (ie. a basic
knowledge of and skills in FEMNET’s programme/project areas must be
maintained).

2.3 Requirements

· a degree in social sciences;
· additional professional qualifications in interpretation and/or
translation between English and French;
· knowledge of and experience in research and advocacy for African
women’s human rights at the regional and international levels;
· the ability to simplify, summarise and communicate complex
information, including presentation skills in both English and French;
· pro-activeness and self-motivation with the ability to work within
a team environment;
computer literacy, including electronic networking skills.

2.4 Remuneration

this position is a regional position and compensation shall be commensurate
with FEMNET’s other regional positions.

Those interested in any of the three positions are hereby invited to
apply by submitting a letter of application, together with a detailed CV
and with copies of supporting documentation and three references to:

African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET)
P O Box 54562
Nairobi 00200
Kenya
Tel: (254) 20.3741301/20
Fax: (254) 20.3742927
Email: [email protected]
URL: www.femnet.or.ke