Do you want to help build a more equal world where the rights of LGBTQI people are respected? Do you have experience working in international development cooperation, human rights, or civil society strengthening? Then you may be the colleague we are looking for.
RFSL is seeking an International Program Manager to support partner organisations in the EaP region, with a strong focus on capacity strengthening and sustaining long-term partnerships. You will play a key role in ensuring quality, relevance, and results in advancing LGBTQI movements in a dynamic and sometimes restrictive regional context.
About RFSL and the International Unit
RFSL (the Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Rights), founded in 1950, is one of the world’s oldest non-profit organizations working on advancing LGBTQI rights. RFSL’s mission is to ensure LGBTQI individuals’ human rights are respected both nationally and internationally. Our international work focuses on supporting partner organizations in Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa through regranting and partnerships, capacity-strengthening and facilitating access to international advocacy platforms.
Your role with us
As International Program Manager, you will work closely with partner organisations across the EaP region. In this role, capacity strengthening is the primary focus and main contribution to the programme. Your primary responsibilities will be to plan and implement capacity-strengthening initiatives that support activists, grassroots groups, and established organisations. It includes managing scholarship grants, facilitating access to relevant international events, supporting professional skills building of individual activists, organising and facilitating capacity strengthening activities such as training, workshops and gatherings.
You will be responsible for monitoring and evaluating capacity strengthening activities to ensure that they remain relevant, responsive, and adapted to the region’s rapidly changing contexts. Building trusted, long-term relationships with partners is central to the role.
Through your work, you will help ensure that funds are used efficiently and responsibly to achieve project objectives and deliver impact.
You will be part of the International Unit, based in Stockholm, and report to the Head of Program. This is a permanent position with a six-month probation period.
Key responsibilities
- Maintain a close dialogue with partners to identify needs, strengths, and opportunities for capacity strengthening and professional development, and plan the support activities accordingly;
- Assess and review requests for scholarships and capacity strengthening support, prepare agreements, decision memos, disbursements in accordance with internal and donor-specific requirements;
- Carry out procurement of services and goods in accordance with internal and donor-specific requirements;
- Organise and implement capacity-strengthening activities such as online and in-person workshops, trainings, courses, gatherings;
- Facilitate access to international events;
- Communicate and coordinate with external stakeholders and trainers in providing safe and high quality support to partners;
- Support partners in complex environments where LGBTQI organisations face additional barriers, including identifying safe and viable ways to channel support.
- Work closely with the Head of Program, Controller, and Finance Team on financial follow-up;
- Contribute to annual reporting processes with donors, such as narrative reports, financial and audit processes, documenting impact and change, etc.
- Contribute to the on-going monitoring and evaluation processes in the program, by documenting the impact of the capacity strengthening work and in accordance with the PMEL framework.
- Support the drafting of new program applications and proposals for funding.
- Coordinate with other funders and donors in the region.
- Contribute to unit-wide processes, internal meetings, and cross-organisational activities at RFSL.
- Participate in and contribute to RFSL’s federation-wide activities and events.