Ford Foundation
Program Officer
Description
The Ford Foundation’s West Africa Office seeks a dynamic, innovative Program Officer to be a part of a team that is driving and shaping the foundation’s social justice work in West Africa.
The Program Officer should be well-versed in programmatic linkages between gender-based violence and natural resources and climate change and help think through and make grants that improve the ways of working with the governments of the focal countries to advance these two strands of work and enhance engagements with civil society organizations in policy making and governance issues. They will also focus on other intersectional priority areas of the Office of West Africa: disability, youth and polarization. The ideal candidate would have a multidisciplinary and international background, strong social science research experience, and an understanding of the West African context especially Nigeria, Ghana and Senegal in that order.
The Program Officer is responsible for the development of grant portfolios and all related activities, based on the strategies and approaches defined in the Foundation’s Thematic areas and regional context. They ensure grantmaking strategies are developed to support the Foundation’s strategic development framework: building strong and impactful institutions, supporting the leadership of people and supporting impactful projects.
The Program Officer will be based at the Ford Foundation’s Lagos office and will report to the Foundation’s Regional Director. They will build relationships with colleagues in West Africa and in the Foundation’s other regional offices and the New York office.
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