Weaving Liberation is looking for a full-time Digital Justice Fund Lead to work with the team to help advance its work to support and resource digital justice organising in Europe.
Position details
- Position type: Full-time contract (32 hours a week)
- Duration: 12 months with possibility of extension
- Fees for the contract: EUR 60,000 gross annually, inclusive of all taxes and fees associated with the contract (e.g. VAT)
- Location: Remote, CET timezone +/- two hours.
- Deadline for applications: 15 June (end of day wherever you are in the world).
Weaving Liberation is an ecosystem-building and regranting initiative focussed on supporting and resourcing digital justice organising. We coordinate the implementation of “A vision for digital justice organising in Europe”, a programme of activities that will help create the conditions for racial, social, economic, environmental, transfeminist, disability, migrant justice groups to work towards liberatory digital futures.
We work across three key areas of the programme:
- uplifting and generating collective, community-centered knowledge;
- creating organising spaces for cross-movement practice and solidarity; and
- redistributing resources to advance the work of movements at the intersection of tech and justice.
We primarily do this through partnerships with others to: co-design convening spaces like our Knowledge and Imagining Retreats, Digital Liberation Retreats and other cross-movement spaces, develop and disseminate resources on key digital justice issues, and engage in advocacy to make the case for digital justice, cross-movement building and resource justice.
Our team of four staff are based in different locations across Europe. Weaving Liberation has a four-day work week, working Mon-Thurs.
This year, we are excited to be designing and launching the Digital Justice Fund - Europe’s first participatory regranting fund to resource racial, social, economic, environmental, transfeminist, disability, migrant justice groups working at the intersection of technology and justice. We are looking for a Fund Lead to join our team and bring the Digital Justice Fund to life.
Responsibilities for this role include:
- Lead on the design, management and implementation of our participatory grantmaking work and associated measurement and evaluation approach.
- Be the primary contact for the Grantmaking Committee and support their involvement in the fund design and implementation process.
- Work in partnership with our Communications Lead to develop and implement a communication and outreach strategy.
- Proactively manage timelines and the grantmaking budget.
About you
- Demonstrated experience in grantmaking, with a strong commitment to participatory and reparatory approaches to resource mobilisation and distribution practices.
- Experience in community engagement and management.
- Understanding and demonstrated experience of developing anti-racist, feminist and/or anti-colonial approaches to wealth redistribution.
- Clear communicator, including English language skills in oral and written form. Other languages considered a plus.
- Proactive approach to spotting and responding to opportunities that could advance our work.
- Proficiency in managing budgets and timelines.
- Attention to detail.
- Comfortable working autonomously in small, remote teams.
The following is appreciated :
- Understanding of the current landscape of digital justice / feminist tech work.
Recruitment process
- Shortlisting of candidates
- First-round interviews, expected to take place the week of 30 June.
- At this stage, if you advance, we will share a short task ahead of the final-round interviews
- Final-round interviews, expected to take place the week of 14 July.
- We aim to finalise the position by end-July 2025 at the latest.
The deadline for applications is 15 June (end of day, wherever you are in the world).