Chief Operating Officer

AboutFòs Feminista

Fòs Feministais a global intersectional feminist organization advancing the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women, girls, and gender-diverse people. Led and governed by the Global South,Fòs Feministaworks through a constellation of affiliated organizations, legal entities, strategic partnerships, and movement relationships with around 200 civil society partners across 40 countries.

Our work integrates advocacy, grantmaking, research, movement-building, sexual and reproductive healthcare, and innovative finance to strengthen feminist organizations and movements worldwide. Operating across multiple jurisdictions and institutional structures,Fòs Feministabrings together legal, political, philanthropic, and movement strategies to advance gender justice and achieve lasting systemic change.

Position overview

Fòs Feministais seeking a Chief Operating Officer to provide strategic and operational leadership across the organization.Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer and serving on the Strategic Management Team (SMT), the COO will translate strategy into coordinated plans, sound resource decisions, effective institutional systems, and accountable implementation.The COO will integrate People, Inclusion, and Culture; Business Intelligence, Evaluation and Research; and Legal Affairs. The Chief Financial Officer will report to the COO for operational integration and fiduciary responsibilities while retaining a direct relationship with the CEO. The role requires a leader who can move between strategy and execution and work across functions, regions, and cultures.

Position within the organization

Reports to: Chief Executive Officer

Leadership body: Strategic Management Team

Direct and functional oversight:

• People, Inclusion, and Culture
* Business Intelligence, Evaluation and Research• Legal Affairs• Chief Financial Officer, within the dual-reporting arrangement described above

Principal responsibilities

1. Executive leadership and strategic execution• Serve as a strategic partner to the CEO and an active member of the SMT, contributing to the development, review, and implementation of organizational strategy.• Translate priorities into annual and multi-year plans that connect responsibilities, timelines, resources, and measures of progress.• Help SMT assess opportunities and challenges in relation to mission impact, finances, organizational capacity, risk, and effects on partners; monitor progress and address barriers.• Support organizational continuity, assume responsibilities delegated by the CEO, and representFòs Feministawith the Board, partners, donors, advisers, and other external actors as appropriate.

2. Organizational integration and performance• Act as a principal integrator across strategy, finance, people, evidence, legal affairs, resource mobilization, and operational capacity.• Strengthen cross-unit planning, clarify responsibilities and decision points, and ensure that organizational gaps and matters without a clear institutional owner are addressed.• Lead policy development, integrated systems implementation, the responsible use of AI, and major organizational change to improve efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

3. Financial stewardship and organizational sustainability• Provide executive oversight of financial planning and performance with the CFO and CEO, connecting budgets, forecasts, staffing, fundraising projections, program commitments, and organizational priorities.• Support budgets, financial scenarios, and resource-allocation recommendations; monitor performance, sustainability, and risks; and ensure that SMT receives timely analysis.• Ensure strong systems for financial controls, restricted funding, grants and contracts, audits, procurement, and compliance while protecting the CFO’s professional and fiduciary responsibilities, including direct access to the CEO and, where appropriate, the Board.

4. Connection with resource mobilization
* Align revenue strategies and major proposals with organizational priorities, delivery capacity, financial forecasts, commitments to partners, realistic costing, and risk analysis.• Strengthen coordination throughout the funding cycle; support governance and performance monitoring of the Feminist Impact Fund; and assess the funding portfolio’s effect on longer-term sustainability.• Join selected donor discussions when institutional, financial, or operational questions require executive participation. Fundraising strategy, donor cultivation, and revenue generation remain with Resource Mobilization and the CEO.

5. People, inclusion, and culture
* Provide strategic leadership to People, Inclusion, and Culture and ensure that recruitment, performance, compensation, development, succession, and staff well-being support the mission and strategy.• Strengthen management practice, organizational design, workforce planning, accountability, and team development while