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Global Finance Program Deputy Director

The Sunrise Project Inc
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Fully Remote in US, EU or Asia
Closing Date:
Friday, 31 January 2025
Open

The Deputy Director plays a critical leadership role, supporting Program Directors and over 60 program staff to maximize their potential and execute strategies for impactful outcomes. This position involves managing people and processes to ensure effective leadership, fostering a vibrant and supportive culture across the Global Finance team, and overseeing systems and resources to achieve program objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

Manages the people and processes to ensure effective implementation of Sunrise Inc’s Global Finance Program, with accountability for ensuring Program Directors and Project Leaders have the systems and resources in place to execute strategies and projects effectively.
Working closely with the Program Director, the Deputy Director coordinates the overall strategic planning, forecasting, and financial management processes for the Global Finance program.
Oversees budgets, manages risk, and ensures compliance obligations associated with the program.

Key Requirements:

Significant leadership skills and experience in a similar or related role, including unpaid, grassroots, or lived experience.
A track record of managing high-performing teams across diverse cultures, with a strong understanding of what it takes to create a healthy, vibrant, and inclusive organizational culture.
Demonstrated experience and excellent skills in organizational management, with the ability to identify areas of operational improvement, implement new systems or processes, and ensure they are maintained and continually improved as the organization evolves.

Global Finance Program Director

The Sunrise Project Inc
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Fully Remote in US, EU or Asia
Closing Date:
Friday, 31 January 2025
Open

The Program Director plays a pivotal role in shaping the strategic direction of this program. Working closely with the Deputy Director, they oversee a team of Program Directors and over 60 staff members, ensuring impactful outcomes across various initiatives. This includes developing global strategies to shift the financial system, identifying new opportunities for real-world impact, and addressing cross-cutting issues.

Key Responsibilities:

Oversees Sunrise Inc’s Global Finance Program Strategy, with accountability for developing the program’s overall strategy and priorities, ensuring the program has clear objectives, measures, and achieves outcomes that align with Sunrise Inc’s mission and values.
Supports Program Directors and Project Leaders to design high-impact strategies that drive real-world change, actively identifying and cultivating synergies within and between different strategies, and fostering a vibrant, inclusive, and collaborative culture that enhances the program’s collective impact.

Key Requirements:

Significant leadership skills and experience in a similar or related role, including unpaid, grassroots, or lived experience.
Finance sector knowledge and expertise, specifically an understanding of the role that private and public finance and financial regulation play in accelerating the energy transition.
Demonstrated ability to analyze power and apply an understanding of how effective campaign strategies achieve real-world change.

Fund Lead

Social Justice Initiative
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Johannesburg, South Africa
Closing Date:
Friday, 10 January 2025
Open

We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Fund Lead to drive the establishment and management of the Gender Justice Participatory Grantmaking Fund. As Fund Lead, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the fund's structure, facilitating stakeholder engagements, and ensuring effective grant management and impact tracking.

Key Responsibilities:

Set up and facilitate engagements with stakeholders to define the fund's focus, establish the participatory grantmaking (PGM) structure, and determine operational and selection processes.
Lead the development of the PGM structure, including drafting founding documentation, securing approvals from SJI and anchor funders, and appointing decision-making members.
Organize workshops and secure necessary approvals from stakeholders.

Key Requirements:

Degree in project management or equivalent experience.
Proven experience in leading multiple projects across various contexts.
Experience managing and being accountable for large budgets.

Communications Coordinator - Consultancy

Life After Coal
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South Africa (remote working model)
Closing Date:
Monday, 13 January 2025
Open

The Communications Coordinator must be an experienced, dynamic and passionate communications professional who will provide strategic and creative communications leadership to the campaign, directing media relations for key media events, and generally to manage, protect, and nurture the Life After Coal campaign’s public profile.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead the Life After Coal communications team, in collaboration with the communications staff of all three partner organisations
Fully engage with and create an implementation plan for the LAC Communications Strategy
Produce communications materials in line with the communications implementation plan, using both existing and new materials

Key Requirements:

At least 10 years’ experience in strategic communications work. A background in the social and/or environmental justice sector is preferred
Relevant undergraduate qualification, i.e. in journalism, communications, English, or media studies
A knowledge of fossil fuels and their impact on local communities.

Junior Coordinator - Consultancy

Life After Coal
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South Africa (remote working model)
Closing Date:
Monday, 13 January 2025
Open

The Junior Coordinator must be dynamic and passionate campaigner and organiser who would like to learn and grow as a coordinator within the Life After Coal campaign. The Junior Coordinator will report to the Campaign Coordinator and the campaign management team, and will work closely with the Life After Coal team, which is a small team with members working on a consultancy basis.

Key Responsibilities:

Coordinating campaign work, publication plans, service providers and partnerships with community-based organisations;
Organising and planning meetings, workshops and events to support campaign objectives;
Working closely with the LAC communications team to implement communications plans and update LAC social media;

Key Requirements:

At least 2 years of experience in organising, outreach, social justice advocacy, or related fields, including events management and planning experience;
An understanding of civil society or community organising
A sensitivity to inequality, social issues, and the needs of communities impacted by environmental degradation and injustice, and a passion for social and environmental justice

Monitoring and Reporting (M&R) Officer

Economic Development Partnership
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Cape Town, South Africa
Closing Date:
Monday, 6 January 2025
Open

The Monitoring and Reporting (M&R) Officer will play a critical role in the implementation of the Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Learning Framework at the organisational, programme and project levels. The Officer will work closely with the Operations team, including Programme Leads and Project Leads, and the technical team leads to develop monitoring and evaluation frameworks, collect and analyse data and produce reports to assess the impact and effectiveness of the EDP initiatives. The ideal candidate will have a passion for socio-economic development and a commitment to using data to inform decision-making and drive social change.

Key Responsibilities:

Organisational monitoring and evaluation
Monitoring and reporting
Cross-functional support
Evaluation
Team support

Key Requirements:

Relevant three-year qualification
At least five years of experience in monitoring and evaluation, data analysis and reporting
Strong analytical and quantitative skills
Good understanding of organisational and programme Theories of Change

Country Coordinator, DRC

International Environmental Activist Organisation (anonymous)
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
Closing Date:
Friday, 6 December 2024
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The Country Coordinator role for an international environmental activist organization involves leading the administration of the Country Office and participating in the Senior Leadership Team to ensure governance, accountability, and strategic alignment. The position requires managing the development and execution of annual work plans, overseeing operational systems, and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead and manage the administration and operations of the Country Office in alignment with the organization's strategic goals.
Develop and oversee the implementation of annual work plans and budgets.
Ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, and financial requirements within the region.

Key Requirements:

A Master’s degree or a Bachelor’s degree with significant leadership experience.
Minimum of 5 years’ experience in management positions, with at least 3 years in an international context.
Previous experience working with NGOs, including managing campaign projects.

Executive Assistant

Hlanganisa
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Rosebank, Johannesburg (100% office-based role)
Closing Date:
Friday, 6 December 2024
Placed

The Executive Assistant will provide professional and high level executive assistant support to the CEO’s office; by building and maintaining professional relationships with Hlanganisa stakeholders and to ensuring that executive office administrative systems function effectively.

Key Responsibilities:

Relationship Management
Professional support
Calendar Management
Meetings Management
Travel Arrangements
Office Admin and filing

Key Requirements:

Related Tertiary Gradate qualification
5 – 7 years’ working experience, with a minimum of 3 years in a similar position working with an executive leader
Intermediate/advanced level of computer literacy and proficiency (MS Word; PowerPoint); Intermediate level of Excel

Community Manager x6

African Parks
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Bangweulu, Zambia; Iona, Angola; Odzala, Congo; Chinko, Congo; Boma, South Sudan and Badingilo, South Sudan
Closing Date:
Friday, 29 November 2024
Closed

The Community Manager will coordinate all community-level activities in the relevant National Park and the surrounding landscape. Working closely with the Landscape Coordinator, Land-use Manager, and Park Managers, Community Manager and Tango Manager will help develop and implement strategies to build a strong constituency for conservation using AP’s 3E+ Strategy. This role also involves contributing to the Land Use Management Plan (LUMP) and supporting the Tango program, ensuring benefits for both local communities and wildlife.

Key Responsibilities:

Supervise and manage the Community Department, including its teams (community/ Eco staff), budgets, and operations (vehicles, infrastructure, logistics in collaboration with the FOM, LEM, Tang Manager and relevant departments).
In collaboration with relevant stakeholders, understand, develop, and implement AP’s 3E+ SOPs and a community engagement strategy in the relevant National Park and its surrounding areas.
Work closely with local government, NGOs, and other stakeholders to align conservation efforts with community needs.

Key Requirements:

Minimum of 5 years of experience in managing community-focused conservation or development projects, ideally in remote or post-conflict areas
Proven experience with community conservancies, land use planning, and sustainable development initiatives.
Demonstrated experience working within hierarchical systems of tribal or ethnic groups, and the ability to establish communication across all levels

Operations Manager

Service Dining Rooms (SDR)
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Cape Town, South Africa
Closing Date:
Monday, 2 December 2024
Interviewing

SDR is looking for an Operations Manager to oversee their crucial mission in Cape Town. This vital role combines strategic leadership with a hands-on approach to support the vulnerable, managing daily operations and a dedicated team to provide nutritious meals. With a commitment to empathy, resilience, and innovation, this position is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact and continue an enduring legacy of community service.

Key Responsibilities:

Overall responsibility for the day-to-day running of SDR
Managing a small core team of 5 to 10 permanent staff members who plan, prepare, and serve meals every weekday
Ensuring the cleaning and preparation of the premises for the next day’s service
Daily interactions with homeless adults and members of vulnerable communities who eat at SDR’s premises

Key Requirements:

Energetic and self-motivated and have a calling to work with those in need
Able to deal with vulnerable adults and people who have suffered from various types of abuse, have substance addictions, have criminal records and/or are difficult to work with
Have a relevant tertiary qualification – diploma or degree
Social Worker registration would be an advantage

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