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Fundraising Senior Specialist (FRSS) Fundraising Senior Specialist (FRSS)
Terms of Reference for Contractor Mandate
The Fundraising Senior Specialist (FRSS) is responsible for coordinating, including tracking, prompting, and reporting on the execution of World YWCA fundraising plans. The FRSS will play a key role in systemising and coordinating a system for the “science” of fundraising (research, prospect management, data management, contact tracking) and also coordinating the completion of written documents (introductory or follow-up emails or letters, letters of intent, proposals, one-pagers, etc.) The FRSS will work closely with internal World YWCA teams and sometimes with strategic partner individuals or organisations to pursue funding opportunities.
This role will be new to the World YWCA in 2025 and is anticipated to be transitional. It will establish key relationships internally and externally, build out internal fundraising systems, and establish a rhythm(s) of work, all foundational goals. Completion of tactics to pursue funding will occur concurrently.
This position is ideal for someone curious, enthusiastic about the World YWCA mission, efficient, and experienced in collaboration. They also like to take the best of others and orchestrate many parts to conclude an opportunity, application, description, etc.
Work Environment:
This mandate will be part of a global, remote team that works during various time zones. Teaming in the remote World YWCA environment requires engagement via email, a secondary texting software platform, an internal community social platform, and audio-visual platforms. This mandate may involve occasional travel. This role requires flexibility in balancing availability to deliver on the mandate. All team members are expected to make a constant effort to enhance their cross-cultural communication skills, their awareness to cross-cultural barriers and opportunities, and a conscientious approach to what it takes for a team to thrive in a remote, global, cross-cultural team setting.
This position may involve occasional travel for fundraising support purposes. Flexibility in work hours will be required at times.
Engagement Terms:
Location: Remote (with occasional travel).
Contract Type: Contractor mandate (12-month term, deliverables-based, renewable based on performance and funding). – Contractors must have the right to work remotely in their country of operations. The World YWCA is formally incorporated in Geneva, Switzerland.
Compensation Range: CHF 7500-9000 per month (inclusive of tax and dependent on location, and commensurate market).
Application closing date: March 16, 2025
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Movement Building Assistant (MBA) Movement Building Assistant (MBA)
Terms of Reference for Contractor Role
The World YWCA is seeking an executive and solutions-oriented Movement Building Assistant (MBA) to support the advancement of movement-building efforts within the World YWCA and the global YWCA movement.
The MBA will assist the World YWCA secretariat, governance structures, and the global movement in continuing the modernisation and transformation of management and governance toward excellence, in alignment with Goal 2035 as outlined in the Strategic Framework 2024–2027. This role is pivotal in fostering communication and accountability across YWCA entities and leaders, as well as with external stakeholders, while contributing to movement & capacity building efforts.
Reporting directly to the Director of Movement & Capacity Building and Accountability (DMCBA), the MBA will collaborate with other World YWCA secretariat team members, Board members, contractors, consultants, and external partners. Additionally, the MBA will cultivate and manage key relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure seamless coordination and progress toward organisational goals.
Work Environment:
This mandate will be part of a global, remote team that works during various time zones. Teaming in the remote World YWCA environment requires engagement via email, a secondary texting software platform, an internal community social platform, and audio-visual platforms. This role requires flexibility in balancing availability to deliver on the mandate. All team members are expected to make a constant effort to enhance their cross-cultural communication skills, their awareness to cross-cultural barriers and opportunities, and a conscientious approach to what it takes for a team to thrive in a remote, global, cross-cultural team setting.
Engagement Terms
Location: Remote (with limited to no travel).
Contract Type: Contractor mandate (12-month term, deliverables-based, renewable based on performance and funding) – Contractors must have the right to work remotely in their country of operations. The World YWCA is formally incorporated in Geneva, Switzerland.
Compensation Range: CHF 3000–4500 per month (inclusive of tax and dependent on location)
Application closing date: March 16, 2025
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Marketing and Communications Senior Specialist (MCSS) Marketing and Communications Senior Specialist (MCSS)
Terms of Reference for Contractor Role
The World YWCA seeks a visionary, feminist, and solutions-driven Marketing and Communications Senior Specialist (MCSS) to lead and strengthen our global communications and engagement strategy, amplify the voices of women and young women worldwide, and enhance the visibility and impact of the World YWCA movement. This role is essential to implementing the World YWCA Strategic Framework 2024–2027, ensuring our advocacy, engagement, and initiatives are communicated powerfully, inclusively, and aligned with YWCA values and feminist principles.
The MCSS will lead efforts to position the World YWCA Secretariat and the global YWCA movement as a powerful voice for change by enhancing external visibility, elevating advocacy efforts, and strengthening internal communications. This role combines strategic planning, creative storytelling, social media management, and team capacity building to support the organisation’s work toward Goal 2035, mobilising 100 million young women and girls to transform power structures and end gender inequality.
The MCSS will work remotely, report to the Senior Director of Strategy and Operations, and collaborate with other World YWCA team members, contractors, consultants, and external partners. The MCSS will support the implementation of key communications priorities outlined in the Strategic Framework 2024–2027, which was adopted at the World Council in 2023. The MCSS will also manage relationships with external consultants and service providers to achieve specific deliverables across campaigns and initiatives.
The mandate holder must excel at managing multiple projects, coordinating with diverse stakeholders, and using innovative tools and strategies to deliver impactful results. The MCSS must also embrace World YWCA’s core values of equity, inclusion, and respect for intersectional diversity.
Work Environment:
This mandate will be part of a global, remote team that works during various time zones. Teaming in the remote World YWCA environment requires engagement via email, a secondary texting software platform, an internal community social platform, and audio-visual platforms. This role requires flexibility in balancing availability to deliver on the mandate. All team members are expected to make a constant effort to enhance their cross-cultural communication skills, their awareness to cross-cultural barriers and opportunities, and a conscientious approach to what it takes for a team to thrive in a remote, global,
Engagement Terms
Location: Remote (with limited travel).
Contract Type: Contractor mandate (12-month term, deliverables-based, renewable based on performance and funding) – Contractors must have the right to work remotely in their country of operations. The World YWCA is formally incorporated in Geneva, Switzerland.
Compensation Range: CHF 5500–6500 per month (inclusive of tax and dependent on location) cross-cultural team setting.
Application closing date: March 16, 2025
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Information and Technology Senior Specialist (ITSS) Information and Technology Senior Specialist (ITSS)
Terms of Reference for Contractor Mandate
The World YWCA seeks a visionary, feminist, and solutions-driven Information and Technology Senior Specialist (ITSS) to advance our global operations, enhance digital tools, and strengthen our digital and technological systems. This role is essential to implementing the World YWCA’s Strategic Framework 2024–2027, ensuring technology is leveraged to amplify our advocacy, organisational efficiency, and global reach. This mandate is critical in the organisation’s efforts to improve internal and external systems, including fostering digital safety, improving data workflows, advancing user-centred platforms, and optimising communication tools that align with the World YWCA’s values and mission.
The ITSS will work remotely, report to the Senior Director of Strategy and Operations, and collaborate with other World YWCA team members, contractors, and external service providers. The ITSS will support the implementation and strengthening of the technology and systems work that forms the basis of several plans for the Strategic Framework 2024-27, which was passed at the World Council in 2023. The ITSS will use their judgement to coordinate tech support through the World YWCA service provider.
The position holder must be able to prioritise their work according to adapting factors, communicate effectively both orally and in writing, and complete their work under pressure and time constraints. The ITSS must be able to work collaboratively with the global roles in World YWCA to ensure integration across the priorities, key initiatives and yearly work plans.
This mandate will be part of a global, remote team that works during various time zones. Teaming in the remote World YWCA environment requires engagement via email, a secondary texting software platform, an internal community social platform, and audio-visual platforms. This role requires flexibility in balancing availability to deliver on the mandate. All team members are expected to make a constant effort to enhance their cross-cultural communication skills, their awareness to cross-cultural barriers and opportunities, and a conscientious approach to what it takes for a team to thrive in a remote, global, cross-cultural team setting.
Engagement Terms
Location: Remote (with limited to no travel).
Contract Type: Contractor mandate (12-month term, deliverables-based, renewable based on performance and funding). – Contractors must have the right to work remotely in their country of operations. The World YWCA is formally incorporated in Geneva, Switzerland.
Compensation Range: CHF 6000-7000 per month (inclusive of tax and dependent on location).
Application closing date: March 16, 2025
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Lead of Engagement and Impact (LEI) Lead of Engagement and Impact (LEI)
Terms of Reference for Contractor Mandate
The Lead of Engagement and Impact (LEI) is a contractor mandate that supports the implementation of strategic engagement, knowledge management, and impact initiatives at the World YWCA. Reporting to the Senior Director of Global Engagement and Impact, this mandate is key part in strengthening advocacy efforts, content development, and digital knowledge-sharing strategies across the movement.
The LEI, will be a key thought leader and a member of the Senior Team. The LEI will focus on ensuring everything we do within the YWCA movement and with the external partners is based on evidence-based research, with strength in content standardisation, advocacy impact measurement, and engagement strategy implementation.
The mandate requires knowledge-building, research, content leadership, trends, human-rights principles and approaches, and communication expertise while ensuring alignment with Goal 2035, movement strengthening, and visibility enhancement. Collaboration across various leadership levels and teams—including other team members and Executive Leadership—will be critical to success.
The LEI reports directly to the Senior Director of Strategy and Operations, providing leadership to the entire organisation.
This mandate will be part of a global, remote team that works during various time zones. Teaming in the remote World YWCA environment requires engagement via email, a secondary texting software platform, an internal community social platform, and audio-visual platforms. This mandate may involve occasional travel. This role requires flexibility in balancing availability to deliver on the mandate. All team members are expected to make a constant effort to enhance their cross-cultural communication skills, their awareness to cross-cultural barriers and opportunities, and a conscientious approach to what it takes for a team to thrive in a remote, global, cross-cultural team setting.
Engagement Terms:
Location: Remote (with occasional travel).
Contract Type: Contractor mandate (12-month term, deliverables-based, renewable based on performance and funding) – Contractors must have the right to work remotely in their country of operations. The World YWCA is formally incorporated in Geneva, Switzerland.
Compensation Range: CHF 6000-7000 per month (inclusive of tax and dependent on location)
Application closing date: March 16, 2025
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Consultancy: External End Evaluation Consultancy: External End Evaluation
Summary ToR External End Evaluation
Assignment: External End Evaluation of the Young Women for Awareness, Agency, Advocacy C Accountability (YW4A) Programme
Responsible to: World YWCA- YW4A consortium lead
Programme implementation countries : Egypt, Kenya, Palestine, South Sudan
Total programme budget: € 11,153,066.35
Programme implementation period: 1 January 2021 – 31 December 2025
Evaluation start date: Mid-March 2025
Evaluation end date: December 2025
Evaluation purpose: End-term evaluation that covers the whole YW4A programme implementation period, to evaluate the programme from a programmatic and a partnership collaboration perspective
Evaluation objectives:
To assess the coherence, effectiveness and sustainability of the YW4A programme in its efforts to strengthen the advocacy capacity of women’s rights organisations and faith-based organisations, to promote the leadership of young women, and to catalyse changes in social norms, laws and policies toward greater fulfilment of young women’s rights, in Egypt, Kenya, Palestine and South Sudan, between 2021 and 2025.
- To assess the validity of the causal pathways linking strategies, short-term outcomes and intermediate outcomes in YW4A’s Theory of Change, as well as its underlying assumptions and its adequation to the different country contexts.
- To assess the collaboration between partners at different levels, including consortium, technical and implementing partners, women’s rights organisations, faith-based organisations, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Embassies, and the extent to which the collaboration was lead from the South, locally owned and centred on the young women.
- To identify lessons that can inform the sustainability of the changes the programme has contributed to, and the design and implementation of future programmes on young women’s rights and participation.
Evaluation target audience:
- YW4A consortium, implementation and technical partners will use the learnings from the evaluation to inform future proposals and interventions.
- Young women in the target countries and areas, especially those who are members of the Young Women Reference Groups, will use the insights generated by the evaluation to reflect on their own experiences with the programme and how to leverage potential changes achieved.
- The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs will use the evidence generated by the evaluation to inform themselves about the outcomes of the programme and the functioning of the partnership.
Methodology: Contribution Analysis, or other evaluation methodology appropriate to assess the causal pathways of the programme’s Theory of Change, using feminist, gender transformative, participatory and mixed methods approaches, and a variety of data sources.
Total evaluation budget: € 65,000.- (including VAT)
Deadline to submit applications: 17 February 2025; 5 PM CET