Who we are
Animal Advocacy Africa (AAA) works to prevent the spread of industrial animal agriculture in Africa and to address the harms it already causes – by finding and developing the people and organisations who can make the biggest difference for animals on the continent. For more information on our work, please browse our website. We especially recommend reading the yearly reviews on our Blog and skimming the Programmes section.
The people who thrive at AAA care deeply about farmed animals and want to help them as effectively as possible. In practice, that means following the evidence even when it points somewhere unexpected, and being willing to change your mind, including about our own programmes.
If you meet most of the essential criteria and the work excites you, please apply. We’d rather see your application than have you rule yourself out. If you’re not sure which role fits best, you can flag interest in more than one.
All roles are full time and remote. Start dates staggered from December 2026 through March 2027. Salaries are defined based on responsibilities, location, and personal circumstances. For the sake of cost-effectiveness and mission alignment, we typically do not meet industry-equivalent salaries. For the same reasons, some of our leadership team sacrifices parts of their salary. Staff are encouraged to do so but not expected. We are open to hiring from Africa, Europe and most other regions, as long as you can work at least 3 hours each weekday that overlap with roughly 8am to 5pm in European and African time zones (about UTC+0 to UTC+3).
Programme Manager (closing 25th October)
Reports to: Executive Director, working very closely with the Director of Strategy, Research & MEL
Target start: December 2026, Jan 2027 if needed, later for the right candidate
Purpose: Own the design and delivery of our in-depth programmes end to end: the country fellowships and careers programmes that are the deep end of our talent funnel.
Responsibilities
- Own the design and delivery of our in-depth programmes end to end: cohort-based fellowships that support participants to found new organisations and develop their careers, and targeted careers programmes.
- Working closely with the Director of Strategy, Research & MEL, who holds functional authority over programme content and strategic design.
- Manage the Programme Coordinator, including their priorities and development.
- Implement participant selection: assessing and scoring candidates.
- Deliver programme content and in-person components.
- Hold the supportive relationship with participants, alumni and incubated organisations, including accompaniment through career transitions and early organisational stages.
- Coordinate with local partners, Effective Animal Advocacy (EAA) group leads and external capacity builders supporting our participants.
- Feed programme learnings back into design for subsequent cohorts.
Essential
- Experience designing and delivering programmes with cohorts of participants: fellowships, accelerators, training programmes or similar.
- Demonstrated management experience, or clearly demonstrable capability, since this role manages others from early on.
- Strong organisational skills and comfort holding many moving parts at once.
- Able to work in close partnership with a colleague who holds design authority while retaining clear ownership of delivery.
- Strong interest in effective animal advocacy and in the African context.
- Ability to travel for roughly two weeks per year.
Desirable
- Experience in incubation, entrepreneurship, or start-up environment.
- Experience in one of our priority careers paths.
- Experience working across multiple countries or in African contexts.
- Comfort with data tools and AI-supported workflows.
- Arabic (strong plus), French, or another regionally relevant language.
Our Hiring Process
- Application form — only 20-30 minutes, if you have your up-to-date CV or LinkedIn profile at hand.
- Asynchronous interview — a short set of questions you complete in your own time.
- Test task — a single, role-specific task.
- Interviews — two stages.
- Work trial — with the winning candidate.
We move quickly between stages and aim to keep you updated on the timing at each step.