Grantmaking and Movement 
Support Director

About ADD International.

ADD is a participatory grant-maker for disability justice. Our Vision is for a world in which ableism no longer exists, and in which disabled people can access their full rights and experience justice. Our Mission is to resource disability justice activists and organisations, nurture lived-experience leadership, and influence fairness in funding so that disability justice movements thrive.

Our work is rooted in supporting disability rights activists in Africa and Asia to realize the changes they want to see. We are getting back to our roots by sharing more power and resources directly with them. We are transforming to become a participatory grant-maker in order to move more funding directly to disability justice activists. Crucially, we will also give disability justice activists greater decision-making power on who should receive funding and how funding should be spent.

Job Purpose.

Grantmaking and Movement Support Director is a senior-level role that focuses on leading the organisation’s Grantmaking initiatives and supporting disability justice movements to achieve strategic goals.

Your role will be to have overall oversight of ADD International’s Participatory Grant Making, Movement Support and Leadership Academy. You will manage and develop a new team that includes our Head of Participatory Grant Making and Movement Support, our Head of Learning and Impact and our Disability Rights Leadership Programme Manager.  You will be able to shape this team over the coming few years as our new strategy develops.

You will work closely with the Co-CEO`s and our other Directors to lead ADD. As a key member of ADD’s Senior Leadership Team (SLT) you will take responsibility for helping shape that process and working closely with other Directors on it as it unfolds. The role will involve a significant amount of international travel.

Role Description

The Grantmaking and Movement Support Director will oversee the development, implementation, and evaluation of the organisation’s participatory grantmaking strategy, ensuring alignment with our strategic framework Mtiririko. This role will also provide strategic leadership in supporting movements and coalitions and driving systemic change through the Global Disability Leadership Academy.

Leadership of Participatory Grantmaking Strategy and Oversight

• Develop and lead the organisation’s participatory grantmaking strategy, framework and priorities
• Ensure transparent, equitable, and impactful participatory grantmaking processes.
• Oversee the review, selection, and monitoring of grantees to ensure alignment with organisational goals.
• Manage the grant portfolio and allocate resources effectively to maximize impact.

Movement Support and Advocacy

• Build and nurture relationships with grassroots movements, networks, and coalitions.
• Coordinate the provision of technical and strategic support to movements to strengthen their capacity and sustainability.
• Facilitate collaboration and learning among grantees and partners to amplify collective impact.
• Represent the organisation in high-level discussions and forums related to movement building and social justice.
• Oversee the running and function of the Global Disability Leadership Academy.

Leadership and Team Management

• Develop and lead the Grant Making and Movement Support team by providing guidance and mentorship.
• Be a key member of SLT responsible along with your peers and our Co-CEOs for the achievement of our organisational objectives.
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive working environment.
• Collaborate across departments to integrate grantmaking and movement support strategies with organisational goals.

Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning

• Oversee the development of activist centred approaches to track grant outcomes and measure impact.
• Ensure the collection of insights and lessons from supported movements to inform strategy.
• Lead reporting to funders, board members, and other stakeholders on participatory grant making and movement support activities.

Resource Mobilisation and Partnership Building

• Work closely with the Director of Funding, Communications & Transformative Partnerships to identify and cultivate funding opportunities to secure funding and expand the organisation’s impact.
• Represent the organisation in public forums and donor engagements to advocate for its mission.

Safeguarding Responsibilities and Level

We are committed to ensure we are a safe organisation, delivering safe programmes that ensure we do no harm to people we work with. Our processes ensure all posts are graded, based on interaction with children and vulnerable adults. This post is a Level 3 post, see outline of all levels below:

• Level 1 – HQ based, no real direct access to children/vulnerable adults;
• Level 2 – a travelling role, possible access to children/vulnerable adults but unlikely to be alone;
• Level 3 – regular access to children/vulnerable adults including on their own, or lead responsibility for safeguarding within office/location.

In addition to the responsibilities listed above, this role like all at ADD will also have specific responsibilities relating to safeguarding:

• Ensure our approaches to Safeguarding are relevant and appropriate to the grant making, movement support and leadership academy work we are undertaking
• Ensure familiarity, and compliance with, ADD’s child and vulnerable adult safeguarding policy and undertake training as required. In particular:
  • Contribute to creating and maintaining an environment (including within ADD and our grant making approaches) that prevents safeguarding violations and promotes the implementation of ADD’s policy;
  • Report any concerns or suspicions regarding safeguarding violations by an ADD staff member or associated personnel to the appropriate staff member.
• Ensure the team is fully briefed and trained on ADD’s safeguarding policy and respond appropriately to any safeguarding concerns they might raise.
• Take responsibility for ensuring our transition to a participatory grant maker is done in a way that does no harm and is respectful to the people and organisations with whom we work.

All posts at senior management level are required to provide police checks for the countries in which they are based/have worked.

All level 3 posts will be required to undertake regular police checks (or equivalent depending on location).

Person Specification

• Strategic leadership skills and the ability to develop strategic priorities based on the overall organisational strategy and follow through and implement them
• A proven track record in managing grant portfolios, programmatic initiatives, or movement-building strategies.
• Significant experience in working with disability justice organisations and understanding the dynamics of social movements.
• Ideally you will also have practical experience in the strategic leadership of participatory grant making initiatives
• Strong leadership and team management skills and experience, with the ability to develop, inspire and mentor a diverse and geographically dispersed team.
• The ability to cope with a good deal of complexity and to be both thoughtful and pragmatic avoiding perfectionism from becoming an obstacle to improvement
• Excellent strategic thinking and organisational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across diverse sectors and stakeholders, including maintaining relationships with a range of peers and partners in our work
• Deep understanding of social justice, equity, and inclusion principles.
• Experience of disability and the challenges faced by disabled people in the global south, and the role of activists and disabled people led organisations in solving these;
• Experience of safeguarding policy and practice related to children and/or vulnerable adults
• Clear commitment to the transformation of INGOs role in southern civil society, and the moving of resources and power and an understanding of how you can contribute to re-imagining the role of INGOs;
• Excellent communication and engagement skills in English;
• Ability to oversee budgets and understand complex financial information and make decisions based on it

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