Program Manager, First Response Fund (FRF)

The Equality Fund is Canada’s main feminist fund advancing gender equality via grantmaking, feminist philanthropy, investing, and advocacy. With over $100M CAD in grants distributed throughout 100 international locations, we assist grassroots feminist organizations reworking lives and communities globally.

About the First Response Fund (FRF)

The First Response Fund is a brand new international pooled fund at the moment in its design section, resourcing feminist-led humanitarian responses. Anchored by a community of 12 feminist and ladies’s funds and coordinated by Prospera, the FRF prioritizes core, versatile funding to girls’s rights and women-led organizations (WROs/WLOs) in ODA-eligible international locations, guaranteeing their life-saving companies are supported throughout humanitarian crises.

The FRF is hosted on the Equality Fund and displays a transformative shift towards localization, fairness, and feminist humanitarianism.

About the Role

As the Program Manager, you’ll lead the FRF Secretariat via its launch and three-year pilot section. Reporting to the Co-VP of Global Programs, you’ll handle the strategic implementation, stakeholder coordination, and day-to-day execution of FRF’s grantmaking technique.

This is a high-impact alternative for a humanitarian skilled who’s obsessed with gender justice, localization, and power-shifting in emergency response contexts.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate the design-to-implementation transition of the FRF pilot
• Lead operations throughout governance, useful resource mobilization, grantmaking, and MEL working teams
• Ensure easy functioning of the Advisory Group, composed of feminist funders, WROs, and humanitarian leaders
• Develop and handle annual work plans, grant dockets, and budgets
• Provide strategic and operational management to a rising group (Program Officer, Financial Analyst, MEL Lead)
• Manage donor relationships and contribute to funding proposals and reviews
• Facilitate assist and accompaniment for FRF grantees
• Ensure alignment with feminist ideas, safeguarding insurance policies, and humanitarian requirements

Who We’re Looking For

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of humanitarian coordination expertise
• Proven monitor report with humanitarian tasks and feminist organizations
• Demonstrated understanding of humanitarian frameworks, ideas, and finest practices
• Familiarity with Global South-based civil society and intersectional feminist funding fashions
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder administration expertise
• Excellent challenge administration and management skills
• Fluency in English; Spanish, Arabic, or French as a second language is a robust asset
• Comfortable working remotely with versatile hours and occasional journey (2–4 journeys/12 months)

Why Join the Equality Fund?

• Flexible distant work atmosphere
• Competitive wage and advantages bundle together with:
  • 4 weeks trip
  • Paid sick go away
  • Parental go away top-up
  • Group RRSP
  • Birthday go away
  • Medical advantages
• A values-driven office rooted in feminist management, radical love, and accountability

How to Apply

Apply right here: Equality Fund Application Portal
Deadline: July 6, 2025 at 11:59 PM ET

Please add your resume and canopy letter. In your application, spotlight your expertise in humanitarian programming, dedication to feminist values, and readiness to guide inside a posh, multi-stakeholder initiative.

Recruitment Process

• Initial application screening
• 15–30 minute telephone interviews (as wanted)
• Virtual interview with advance questions
• Second-round interviews with potential assignments
• Reference checks and background verification (centered on safeguarding-related points)

No AI is utilized in screening or choice.

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