WOMEN WIN
Programmes Manager (Ignita)
Women Win is recruiting a Programmes Manager (Ignita).
About Women Win
Founded in 2007, Women Win is a global women’s fund guided by the vision of a future where every girl and woman exercises their rights. We collaborate with diverse partners to increase the assets, access, voice, and agency of women, girls, and gender expansive people around the world. We invest in and support a global portfolio of partners while influencing cross-sector stakeholders and brokering unusual partnerships. Women Win works to advance girls’ and women’s rights amidst the scarce resources currently available for feminist movements.
Who We Are
We take our mission seriously — and we take play just as seriously. We’re driven by purpose, energised by change, and we believe that joy, curiosity, and genuine care for one another are just as essential as technical excellence. The people who thrive here are those who can hold complexity with creativity — and who find their best work happens in collaboration with others.
About Ignita
Ignita operates as a feminist intermedium providing safe and responsive infrastructure to resource feminist movements to drive change. We steward a portfolio of approximately 20 projects and partnerships, including fiscal hosting, incubation, and intermediary grantmaking. Simultaneously, we invest in ecosystem-building initiatives including network membership, learning communities, collaborative innovation, and shared infrastructure.
Our work centres solidarity, trust-based relationships, and movement accountability rather than transactional service provision. Ignita works closely with other teams within Women Win, particularly Finance and Operations, to deliver on Ignita’s feminist intermedium ethos.
Position Summary
The Ignita Programmes Manager manages a portfolio of fiscal hosting partnerships and initiatives, serving as the primary contact for hosted partners while ensuring legal and fiscal compliance. This role sits at the intersection of partner support and internal coordination, translating Women Win policies into practice.
This position requires comfort with complexity and ambiguity, navigating tensions between compliance requirements and the flexibility partners need. The ideal candidate is an excellent problem solver who brings rigor to operational excellence, enabling stability, structure and coherence. With a deep affinity for systems and processes, this role contributes to the operational backbone that allows feminist initiatives to access resources and flourish.
Working with a diverse portfolio of 20+ partnerships—from emerging collectives to established organisations—the Manager contributes to evolving best practices in fiscal hosting while being part of a learning culture that values experimentation and growth.
The role reports to the Ignita Director and works closely with Ignita, Finance, Operations, and wider Women Win teams.
Core Accountabilities
Programmes and Partnership Management
• Manage relationships with fiscally hosted initiatives throughout the partnership lifecycle, ensuring care, mutual learning, and collaboration
• Deliver onboarding processes, budgetary oversight, contractual management, and ensure legal and fiscal compliance
• Maintain and improve grant management procedures (due diligence, agreements, systems) to meet partner and funder needs
Stakeholder Engagement and Portfolio Growth
• Network within feminist and philanthropic ecosystems to stay current on fiscal hosting innovations and standards
• Align with the Influence Team to identify opportunities, support intake processes, and maintain resource mobilisation documentation
• Represent Women Win and the Ignita brand externally as needed
Learning Mindset & Team Support
• Manage and support Ignita team members, ensuring collaboration across Women Win teams, funders, and partners
• Foster a learning culture by proactively sharing innovations, experimenting with new approaches, and exploring decolonised and feminist working methods
Ignita Strategy
• Contribute to Ignita strategy development by researching funding landscapes and ecosystem trends
• Translate strategic priorities into operational plans and day-to-day practice
About You
Education
At least a university degree in a relevant field (e.g. Gender, International Development, Human Rights, Business Administration, etc.)
Experience
• 6–10 years in philanthropy, fiscal hosting, international development, women’s rights, or international business
• Feminist mindset with solid understanding of grassroots organisations and feminist movements
• Financial management acumen; direct experience with fiscal hosting or incubation preferred
• Demonstrated experience in grantmaking, programme design, and overseeing finance/compliance in nonprofit or fiscal hosting settings
• Strong judgment in applying organisational policies — distinguishing non-negotiable requirements from areas of appropriate flexibility
• Excellent project management and relationship-building skills across diverse stakeholders
• Cultural awareness and ability to work remotely with international teams
• Proactive, motivated attitude with the ability to work independently and collaboratively
Travel
Approximately 20% travel, including Women Win team meetings and retreats.
Languages
Fluency in English and one additional language (oral and written). Additional languages are a plus.
Location
Expected to work mainly CET hours. Home base is flexible.
Working Hours
Full-time (40 hours).
Salary
Manager-level position aligned with Women Win’s global pay equity policy. Salaries are based on the organisational salary scale reflecting competency expectations and role complexity. Women Win provides its best offer upfront and standardises benefits for fairness.
Benefits
• 25 days of paid vacation annually
• 3 shutdown weeks annually
• Monthly wellbeing allowance
• Remote and flexible working arrangements
• Home office contribution
To Apply
Applications are open. The deadline is Thursday 12 March 2026, 17:00 CET.
Please send the following to [email protected]:
• CV (English)
• Cover letter (max 1 page) addressing:
- An example illustrating your experience in programme/grantmaking design and/or financial or compliance oversight. Describe your role, the complexity involved, and what you learned
- A situation where you exercised judgment in applying organisational policies — how you balanced accountability with flexibility, and what you might do differently
- What draws you to Ignita’s feminist intermedium model
- Your available start date
Notes
Women Win strives to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and encourages applicants from all backgrounds to apply.
We are unable to sponsor work permits or provide individual feedback to applicants not shortlisted.
If you require a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please contact [email protected].
We do not accept agency resumes.