[Hiring] Chief Operating Officer @Fos Feminista

Role Description

Fòs Feminista is seeking a Chief Operating Officer to provide strategic and operational leadership across the organization.

• Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer and serving on the Strategic Management Team (SMT).
• The COO will translate strategy into coordinated plans, sound resource decisions, effective institutional systems, and accountable implementation.
• Integrate People, Inclusion, and Culture; Business Intelligence, Evaluation and Research; and Legal Affairs.
• The Chief Financial Officer will report to the COO for operational integration and fiduciary responsibilities while retaining a direct relationship with the CEO.
• The role requires a leader who can move between strategy and execution and work across functions, regions, and cultures.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in a senior executive or enterprise-wide role in a complex international nonprofit, philanthropic, social-impact, or other mission-driven organization.
• Experience leading or integrating several functions, such as finance, people and culture, operations, legal or compliance, organizational data, strategy implementation, or business development.
• Strong financial literacy and experience using budgets, forecasts, and analysis to guide decisions and connect strategy with measurable results.
• Experience working across countries, cultures, legal environments, or distributed teams and building productive relationships with senior colleagues, boards, staff, partners, donors, and advisers.
• Experience leading change, strengthening systems without unnecessary bureaucracy, supporting functional leaders, and fostering collective accountability, with excellent judgment in sensitive matters.
• A clear commitment to feminist principles, sexual and reproductive health and rights, racial and gender justice, and leadership from the Global South.
• An understanding of partnership-based organizations and systems responsive to partner priorities.
• Professional fluency in English is required; Spanish, Portuguese, or French is an asset.

Requirements

• Strategically minded and attentive to implementation, able to move between organizational detail and long-term questions and create clarity in ambiguous situations.
• Collaborative but prepared to make difficult decisions, hold colleagues accountable, respect their expertise, and listen across differences.
• Transparent, reliable, calm under pressure, and committed to shared leadership, sound delegation, and collective governance.

Benefits

• Generous compensation consistent with competitive salaries.
• Benefits package that includes private health coverage, life insurance, retirement benefits, paid sick, vacation leave and parental leave, holidays, and flexible working arrangements.
• The annual salary is up to USD $220,000.

Safeguarding Commitments

• Demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding in the United States and the international context.
• Sign and adhere to Fòs Feminista’s International Safeguarding Policy and Safeguarding Code of Conduct, including the minimum operating standards for protection from sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA).

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

Fòs Feminista is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to advancing sexual and reproductive rights and health and dismantling inequities from a feminist intersectional lens. Reproductive justice, racial justice, and diversity are driving forces for us.

Fòs Feminista provides equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to age, race, color, disability, national origin, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital and partnership status, genetic information, veteran status or any other protected category under federal, state and local law.

At Fòs Feminista, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our employees. We strongly encourage applications from all kinds of backgrounds to build a diverse workforce in which all social and minority groups are represented.