Programmes Choreographer
About Numun Fund
Numun Fund’s mission is to mobilise and redistribute diverse resources to build a growing ecosystem of feminist tech activism, strengthening the power of social justice movements and building technology for the world they want.
The Numun Fund team is currently a fairly small, interrelated, committed, and highly adept team that helps create a collaborative workspace for individual and collective accountability, creativity, and impact. The work is remote, and team members connect to workspaces online while remaining grounded in their own realities. This means that factors such as time justice, the rhythms of care, and differences in access to technology are being folded into how they work. Numun Fund is the first dedicated fund for feminist tech activism for, in and led by the Larger Majority World.
About the Role
The Programmes Choreographer supports Numun Fund’s grantmaking across its full lifecycle. The role focuses on grant administration across Numun’s grant streams, ensuring values-aligned, timely communication, effective processing, and administration to meet programmatic objectives.
The fund supports key aspects of grantmaking, including maintaining relationships with nodes and advisory circles, managing information systems, and coordinating calls and events.
The Programmes Choreographer works closely with Programme Weavers as part of the grants team. The role also interfaces with finance and organisational functions, working closely with the Finance Choreographer and Organisational Choreographer.
Duties and Responsibilities
Grantmaking administration
Working in close collaboration with Programme Weavers and the finance team:
- Conduct due diligence processes for grants, including sanctions checks, social media research, and reference follow-ups
- Support administrative processes for grant contracting, including document collection and verification, reference requests, and drafting support for grant agreements
- Support administrative processes for grant disbursement
- Manage and update grant and administrative trackers throughout the contracting and disbursement process
- Liaise with the Finance Choreographer and Organisational Choreographer as needed for grantmaking administration
Grant information and workspace management
- Contribute to an operating rhythm that fosters good organisational habits and rituals, including supporting information flow, trust, accountability, responsiveness, learning, and care.
- Support Programme Weavers in managing and filing grantmaking-related information spaces and documents in the relevant platforms.
- Support with the implementation and maintenance of grants management software and the integrity of data, especially managing data entry of all proposals received, grants made, reports received, and grants closed.
- Work with the Tech Weaver to ensure the security and integrity of data and workspaces in the operationalisation of related policies and protocols.
Participatory grantmaking, relationship building, learning, and impact
- Support with maintaining relationships with and facilitating connections between feminist tech communities and women, trans, and nonbinary-led groups, with an intersectional lens.
- Support Programme Weavers in the design and implementation of participatory grantmaking plans for grant streams for the full lifecycle – from development to learning.
- Support Programme Weavers in implementing LEAF (learning, evaluation, and accountability framework) plans for grant streams.
- Working with team members to ensure language justice and documentation needs are met.
- Coordinate meetings of grantmaking advisory circles, learning conversations, and other grantmaking-related meetings, including scheduling and documentation.
- Support Programmes Weaver in logistics and administration needs of grant-related events, including node meet-ups and field visits.
What Numun offers
- Work rhythm: The work is remote, and team members connect to shared workspaces online while remaining grounded in their own contexts. This includes integrating time justice, rhythms of care, and varying levels of access to technology into ways of working. Accountability, interrelatedness, impact, and well-being are key values.
- Leave: 25 days per annum, and 13 days of public holidays, plus wellness days.
Skills and Experience
- Minimum three years of experience in grantmaking administration, including undertaking due diligence in grant-making processes
- Minimum three years of experience in general administration, including using information management, filing, etc
- Excellent listening, written and communication skills, with sensitivity to cultural communication differences and the ability to communicate directly and effectively with others
- Strong organisational skills, detail-oriented with the ability to meet deadlines, manage competing priorities, and work cooperatively, effectively and accurately under pressure
- Proficiency in and enthusiasm for online technology and information management systems, with some experience in grantmaking management systems
- Strong relationship management skills, displaying an understanding of how to cultivate transparent, collaborative and equitable partnerships with all stakeholders, especially with nodes of organisers on the ground (grantee-partners).
- A high level of self-motivation and ease at taking initiative and working independently, and as part of a remote team across time zones
- Clear communicator, including good writing skills in English
- Committed to open and participatory processes
- Clear feminist politics and/or a critical understanding of systemic and structural power, particularly from a Larger World (aka Global South) standpoint.
- Curiosity and conviction in resourcing feminist movement organising, and/or feminist technology work, particularly in the Larger World.
- Ability to travel internationally.