Re- Advertisement- Sustaining Defenders Programme Intern (Francophone)

**Who we are**

Urgent Action Fund-Africa (UAF-Africa) is a consciously feminist and women’s human rights pan- African Fund, registered in Kenya and Zimbabwe. Operating as a virtual organization, the Fund boasts of strategic presence in Africa’s five sub-regions- East Africa: Nairobi- Kenya, Kampala-Uganda; Southern Africa: Harare- Zimbabwe, Lilongwe- Malawi, Antananarivo- Madagascar, Johannesburg, Pretoria & Cape Town- South Africa, Gaborone- Botswana; and Central Africa: Yaoundé & Douala - Cameroon. Recognizing the need to move resources rapidly on a continent where opportunities and threats arise and decline quickly, UAF-Africa uses a Rapid Response Grant making mechanism to support unanticipated, time sensitive, innovative, and unique initiatives that promote women’s agency in democratic governance, economic, environmental and climate justice, natural resources governance and conflict transformation while protecting their personhood, integrity, and rights.

**Position Overview**

The Intern will help provide timely financial and technical responses to the needs of women’s rights organizations and women activists, aiming to advance women’s rights across Africa. This will involve effective research, evidence collection, translation, data entry, management, and engagement with grantees within the Sustaining Defenders’ portfolio.

**Specific Responsibilities**

- Serve as the initial point of contact for applicants and provide prompt communication.
- Receive, acknowledge, and assign grant applications for review by the grants review committee.
- Support in coordinating with the Fund’s advisors and endorsers to provide the necessary information, including endorsements on grant proposals.
- Complete due diligence research of potential grantees, including organizing online due diligence meetings.
- Support in communicating grant decisions to grantee partners, including documenting the decisions in the grantmaking database.
- Conduct data entry of all inquiries, request