Associate Director Global And Latin America - Emilia Romagna, Italia - Co-Impact

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Associate Director Global and Latin America
Mexico or Brazil (Remote)
Full time
$150000 per annum

Who We Are CoImpact is a global organization that supports locallyrooted coalitions in Africa Asia and Latin America to transform key systems at scale with a core focus on advancing gender equality and womens leadership.

We bring together funders from around the world to partner with initiatives that are working to improve education health and economic opportunity for millions of people by addressing the root causes of social inequities so that systems work better for everyone.

For more information please visit and read our Handbook.

Where You Fit Together with your team you will support program partners (grantees) to develop effective strategies for systems change to advance gender equitable outcomes womens leadership and gender equality at scale while strengthening organizational capabilities to achieve lasting results; and contributing to improved learning and practice among partners at CoImpact in global development and philanthropy.

Reporting to the Global and Latin America Director of Programs you will support the program team across multiple areas particularly the sourcing vetting and recommending of grants supporting program partners and project management during the design phase of their work.

You will have a mix of grant management research team coordination projectmanagement and administrative responsibilities.

You may be asked to support account leads across different grants and may be the team point person for critical crosscutting issues.

You will need to demonstrate excellent organizational ability strong analytical skills and strategic instincts robust problemsolving skills excellent interpersonal and communication skills a high level of personal initiative and a kind and collaborative spirit and supportive approach including the ability to work well in a distributed diverse deepthinking and fastpaced environment.

This role will provide a valuable opportunity to gain insight and experience at one of the leading edges of philanthropy and social change and to learn stretch and grow with the potential to take on added responsibility over time.

You bring a commitment to feminist values gender justice intersectionality as well as an abiding curiosity and humility and desire to learn.

You are motivated by looking for root causes seeking justice and solving social problems at the systems level and at scale.

The Role

Core responsibilities will include:
Strategy Development and Implementation Supporting the Global and Latin America Program Director as a close thought partner in the development of the strategy ideating and executing priority specific strategy and plans (e.g. unpaid care climate change narrative work etc) and annual program plans.

Identify trends areas of opportunity problem areas and other insights (around program partner support and sourcing of new ideas) and share with the Program Director on a regular basis to adapt plans accordingly.

Making grants and managing the Global and Latin America portfolio.

This includes having grantmaking experience assessing strategic alignment to ensure that the right organizations are identified accompanying potential Program Partners in proposal development and preparing grant recommendation memos guiding and supporting due diligence processes.

All with key input from the Program Director and leadership to ensure movement through the grantmaking process in a seamless manner.

Serve as account lead for a select number of grants.

Providing support to Program Partners including thought partnership communicating clearly and in a timely fashion the expectations from a CoImpact grant accompaniment on organizational strengthening connections to other actors and collaborations across the LatAm portfolio and across regions.

Support the Program Director and the Learning Measurement and Evaluation team to provide support to the Program Partners identifying research grant opportunities drawing out crosscutting themes and lessons and disseminating them and in measuring and tracking our impact at a meta level through the work of our Program Partners.

Bring a feminist lens to CoImpacts system change approach throughout its operations:
from organizational culture selection and support of Program Partners to our approach.

Team Coordination and Representation Serve as a liaison and coordinator with other Coimpact teams to ensure flow and sharing of information and decision making for the region as needed and based on consultation with the Program Director.

Represent Coimpact and the Program Director in important external meetings and convenings including building relations with regional funders in consultation with the Program Director.

Support the team (Program Assistant and Program Managers) in their growth and development.

Managing consultants including drafting Terms of Reference and Statements of Work management of relationships timelines deliverables and overall alignment with outcomes and strategies.

Help foster a culture in line with CoImpact values and serve as a trusted colleague that demonstrates organizational values (outcomesfocused program partnercentered; beginners mindset; draw from unity in diversity and build trusting partnerships.) Perform other reasonable responsibilities and duties as requested by the Program Director.

Qualifications 10 plus years professional experience and extensive knowledge of advancing gender equality (with a feminist and intersectional lens) and at least one of our areas of sectoral focus (education health and economic opportunity).

Significant experience working directly with seniorlevel staff. Experience in grantmaking lived experience and knowledge of Latin American context and linkages to feminist/womens rights networks strongly preferred. Track record of increasing responsibility.

Masters degree or equivalent in a relevant area (preference to specialty in Education Health and/or Economics with focus on gender studies gender and development international womens rights sociology and similar degrees.) At least 5 years of experience managing a team and mentoring staff to deliver strong results within a positive work culture.

Prior experience in client service/consulting roles may also be helpful. Prior exposure to an array of different working contexts stakeholders etc. Fluency in English and a second language (Portuguese and/or Spanish required). Right to work in Mexico or Brazil (as we are unable to sponsor a visa).


Required Skills Strategic Agility:
Ability to spot highpotential opportunities and facilitate the design of strategic approaches backed by evidenceinformed analysis


Work Maturity:
Ability to collaborate and work effectively with line manager and other colleagues demonstrate emotional intelligence communicate clearly seek assistance when appropriate is proactive independent practices sound judgement and is solution oriented


Decision Making :
Ability to listen well integrating gender analysis see perspectives from different sides making good judgements based on values and principles balancing data experience and risk


Working with People:
Experience with motivating contributing to and managing collaborative teams to work productively effectively and inclusively.

Managing Action with Purpose and Values:
Ability to motivate colleagues and get things done in accordance with core purpose and values


Results Orientation:
Evidence of delivering results through developing strategic coherence project management skills strong leadership the ability to manage multiple responsibilities and work effectively remotely and independently


Interpersonal Savvy:
Great at making and fostering relationships inside and outside the organization keen intercultural appreciation inclusive style comfortable around senior leaders can represent CoImpact well


Dealing with Ambiguity:
Ability to shift gears comfortably; decide and act without having the total picture; can comfortably evaluate and handle risk and uncertainty


Learning Orientation:
Intellectually curious; seek and work with evidence demonstrated an openness to new ideas and a diversity of perspectives; unafraid to admit and learn from failure


Strong Moral Compass:
Impeccable personal ethics and integrity kind and caring


Communications:
excellent written and oral communication skills including the ability to effectively manage and influence a variety of relationships in a multicultural environment

Global Flexibility:
Given the global nature of the organization working across time zones a willingness to be flexible with working hours and international travel


Feminist leadership:
Demonstrated ability to collaborate equally and effectively with colleagues in remote and diverse teams. Demonstrating an infectious enthusiasm for horizontal collaboration and partnership. Recognizing the value in fostering an environment that promotes shared communications efforts and results.


Language Proficiency:
Fluency in English as well as at least one other major language spoken in Latin America (Spanish and/or Portuguese)


Perspective:
Sense of humor and ability not to take oneself too seriously.

Benefits CoImpacts compensation philosophy is guided by the following three principles:


Equity and Fairness:
Our approach to compensation and benefits is designed to ensure that our global team is treated equitably regardless of location and without regard to gender race or nationality


Transparency:
We want CoImpacts employees to understand our salary structure and to feel confident that they are paid equitably and potential job applicants to have an understanding of how the role for which they are applying will be compensated


Accountability:

As stewards of the philanthropic resources entrusted to us so that we can support our program partners we are accountable to our donors and our board to our staff and to the general public.

In accordance with that philosophy we include the salary for each position in our job postings to ensure equity within the organization and for all candidates we will not negotiate the salary or benefits.

The salary for this role is US $150000 per year (paid out in local currency where applicable) plus a generous benefits package including a significant allowance for paid time off.

Application Details
Please apply online here by submitting a resume and a cover letter by March 25th 2024.

In your cover letter please confirm that you are authorized to live and work in Mexico and/or Brazil as relevant.

Because we are a small team we regret that we can only respond to applicants selected for an interview.

We also regret that we are unable to participate in informational calls prior to interviews. Thank you for your understanding.