Learning & Innovations Programme Officer
Deadline: 09 August 2013 Urgent Action Fund-Africa (UAF-Africa), with offices in Nairobi, Kenya and Harare, Zimbabwe; seeks a Learning & Innovations Programme Officer who will translate UAF-Africa’s 2011-2015 strategic plans into innovative and effective development initiatives and results. Guided by feminist principles and values, UAF-Africa advocates for women’s equality, not only as a matter of human rights, but also as a fundamental prerequisite for social justice, global security, and sustainable peace. UAF-Africa supports women activists in Africa through Rapid Response Grant making in four categories: defense of women’s rights in conflict and post conflict situations, escalating socio-political violence or repression; potentially precedent setting legal actions; and protection of women’s human rights defenders. UAF-Africa’s Rapid Response Grant-making is a unique funding model that allows urgent and timely financial response to women’s rights organisations for st...