Senior Program Officer, Sub-Saharan Africa

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🌐 Ghana, Kenya, +1 more countries – Remote

🇬🇭 Ghana – Remote 🇰🇪 Kenya – Remote 🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

💵 $85.8k - $130.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

✨ Program Officer

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Wikimedia Foundation

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2003

🤝 Non-profit

📚 Education

📱 Media

💰 $2.5M Grant on 2019-09

Non-profit • Education • Media

Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to the growth, development, and distribution of free, multilingual content. It provides the essential infrastructure for free knowledge, including hosting Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that is created, edited, and verified by a global community of volunteers. Supported primarily through donations, Wikimedia Foundation promotes collaborative projects that aim to share knowledge reflecting human diversity and strives to protect everyone's right to access free and open knowledge.

📋 Description

• Implement the Community Resources grantmaking strategy considering community needs, opportunities, movement trends, and regional geopolitical and cultural context • Analyze regional and global patterns to shape funding rationales and priorities • Design program activities with colleagues to achieve significant, scalable impact • Manage, implement, and monitor the regional grant portfolio for strategic and impact alignment • Lead annual grant planning, identify and support grantees, review proposals, and co-develop funding rationales • Conduct financial and narrative organizational assessments • Collaborate across Foundation teams to implement funding programs and objectives • Represent the Foundation internally and externally as an ambassador for regional knowledge and priorities • Build, onboard, and develop regional funding committees • Set committee agendas and facilitate inclusive funding deliberations • Synthesize committee feedback into funding recommendations and decisions • Provide feedback to applicants and grantees • Build and sustain relationships with communities, grantees, applicants, and partners across Sub-Saharan Africa • Support conflict resolution and sensitive discussions • Support organizational strengthening of grantee partners and connect them with best practices and resources • Design and support convenings, collaborations, and knowledge sharing • Engage philanthropic spaces and leaders to strengthen grantee support • Review grantee progress through conversations, reports, and site visits • Review and approve grant reports and provide guidance • Identify trends, gaps, and opportunities from grantmaking data • Share learnings with colleagues, committees, and movement partners • The Wikimedia Foundation operates Wikipedia and other Wikimedia free knowledge projects

🎯 Requirements

• Solid knowledge of trust-based philanthropy or community-based grantmaking • Experience in participatory decision-making structures • Experience in grantmaking, particularly in an international context • Experience in nonprofit capacity building as a funder, consultant, or nonprofit leader • Strong strategic and analytical skills and creative problem-solving ability • Excellent organizational skills and judgment; ability to prioritize work, manage time and multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and maintain attention to detail and accuracy • Skills in facilitating, motivating, coordinating, and supporting volunteer communities • Ability to negotiate the chaotic and contentious nature of free-thinking communities • Open and transparent communication style; ability to engage publicly in a non-polarizing way • Experience managing high-complexity projects and stakeholders • Willingness to accommodate frequent interactions across time zones • Proven English proficiency in written and spoken communication, including public speaking and producing widely distributed written material • Demonstrated commitment to equity, inclusion, and diversity • Global perspective, with significant experience living or working internationally • Ability to make 1–3 international trips each year when circumstances allow • Preferred: experience working with online communities, particularly in the free knowledge movement • Preferred: passion for or experience contributing to Wikipedia/Wikimedia projects • Additional language proficiency is an added value

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote-first organization • Compensation adjusted to country of hire for applicants outside the US • Equal opportunity and inclusive workplace • Disability accommodations during the application process • Employer of Record hiring for non-US employees