Title: | African Diaspora Partnerships Manager |
Location: | United States of America, city flexible |
Position: | Full-time, Exempt |
Team: | Programs |
Position Reports to: | Regional Director, Africa |
This role is designed to move financial resources from the African diaspora to Thousand Currents’ African community-based partners.
We are looking for an African Diaspora Partnerships Manager who knows that Africans around the globe are the only ones that can transform African communities and understands that the concept of “international aid and “development” must be eliminated. The ideal candidate is determined to channel and connect diaspora resources with social movements working on economic justice, food sovereignty, and climate justice in Africa. Additionally, the African Diaspora Partnerships Manager is creative, resourceful, and a self-driven organizer who enjoys building connections and relationships with people – be it over a dinner, a conference, a community center, or a side meeting at a multilateral convening.
The African Diaspora Partnerships Manager is responsible for integrating Africans In the Diaspora (AiD) into the Thousand Currents’ Africa program* and engaging the African diaspora to learn more about Thousand Currents’ Africa program, partners and alliances. They will build and implement an AiD strategy that a) develops the program’s African diaspora outreach, philanthropic engagement, and communications activities, and b) conceptualizes and implements activities focused on raising funding from the African diaspora to support the work of Thousand Currents’ Africa program partners.
*Note: Africans in the Diaspora and Thousand Currents merged in 2017, making Thousand Currents the first U.S.-based funder to rearrange its structure to include diaspora engagement. Africans in the Diaspora is now held within the Africa program at Thousand Currents.
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