Do you want to be part of a team that strengthens sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) worldwide? Are you skilled at building trust-based partnerships, driving impactful programs, and mobilizing resources? If so, this might be the perfect opportunity for you! We are now looking for two International Program Managers to help expand our efforts in Latin America and Asia. 

Do join us in advancing global SRHR!

Your role

As an International Program Manager, you will play a key role in managing and strengthening partnerships to advance SRHR. 

Your responsibilities will include:

• Develop projects and partnerships, contributing to resource mobilization for SRHR in line with RFSU’s priorities.
• Project-management of partnerships across a number of countries in alignemnt with feminist intersectional grantmaking principles and contributing to a continous advancement of SRHR.  
• Facilitating exchanges between partners, allies, and the broader SRHR community, including UN agencies and embassies at the national, regional, and global levels.
• Representing RFSU externally, contributing to the expansion of RFSU's network and allies advancing SRHR. 

This role requires international travel. For the Asia International program position, RFSU has partnerships in Cambodia, Sri Lanka, and with regional partners. For the Latin America international manager position, RFSU works with partners in Bolivia, Central America, and is looking to identify new partnerships in Guatemala and with regional organizations.

Who we are looking for

We believe you:

• have at least 5 years of experience in managing international partnership in alignment to feminist intersectional grantmaking principles in Asia or Latin America. 
• have worked with project cycle management, assessing proposals, contracting, monitoring, analyzing results, and reporting to donors. 
• have documented experience of program development and proposal writing.
• hold a university degree in social sciences, gender and social justice studies, international development or a related field.
• are a strong communicator and skilled in building and deepening trust-based relationships, fostering international collaboration.
• have experience working within the development aid sector or with civil society 

For this role, you need to feel comfortable using English in your everyday work, and be able to read and write at an intermediate level. For the Latin American position, you also need to be able to communicate easily in Spanish, and read and write at an intermediate level. You need to be willing to learn Swedish, as it’s the organisation's first language, and will be supported by RFSU to do so.

The personal qualities we are looking for is a person with integrity, accountability with ability to work independently in line with RFSU’s values and principles.  

RFSU has an active anti-racism programme. We strive for a more equal and inclusive organisation and to integrate the work in all parts of the organisation. The aim is to increase our own knowledge of intersectional feminist and anti-racist perspectives. It is about recognising and challenging power hierarchies that limit access to sexual rights for certain groups. We want to create an inclusive culture where more people with different perspectives and experiences want to and can get involved in RFSU.

 

The position is a permanent position on full-time starting as soon as possible. Permanent positions start with a 6-month probationary period. 

 

RFSU has a collective agreement that includes an occupational pension, as well as benefits such as a 37.5-hour working week, goal-oriented working hours, wellness allowance, wellness hour and the possibility of subsidised lunch (Edenred).

 

Our office is located on Södermalm in central Stockholm. We have a flexible approach where those who can have the opportunity to work from home, to facilitate work-life balance.

 

Application and recruitment process

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