4 virtual Board meetings + 1 in person retreat per year – Global – Closes 13th January 2025

Whose Knowledge? (WK?) is seeking to expand and enrich our Board of Directors by bringing in new members, with lived and learnt experience and expertise from different backgrounds, communities and movements. We are looking for 3-4 committed humans to join our Board, who share our values and dreams, starting in early 2025. This is a unique opportunity to shape and contribute to what governance and accountability mean for a feminist collective that works at the intersections of knowledge and tech justice, across the world.

About Whose Knowledge?

Whose Knowledge? is a global and translocal feminist initiative working to center the histories, knowledges, imaginations and leadership of communities marginalized by intersecting structures of historical and ongoing power and privilege. Our focus is on those we call the “minoritized majority” of the world—women, LGBTQI+ communities, Indigenous and caste-oppressed peoples, working-class folks, and communities from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Pacific Islands and the Caribbean, and their diasporas.

Our goal: To transform the internet into a knowledge infrastructure that reflects the full richness and textures of human knowledges, languages, and ways of being and doing.

We exist to: Resist and challenge Big Tech (Silicon Valley and other dominant tech spaces) and Big Knowledge (academia, publishing, GLAM or memory institutions); and to reimagine and prototype alternative ways of amplifying our knowledges through feminist, anti-colonial technologies.

We do this by: Working in solidarity and shared leadership with the communities we serve to share their knowledges, build digital tools, and support advocacy for a just, feminist and decolonized internet.

Why join our board

As a board member, you will support us to make connections between different contexts and struggles, and help us leverage WK? ‘s strengths in a constantly evolving and complex environment. You will have the opportunity to contribute to liberatory presents and futures where tech and knowledge infrastructures reflect equity, justice, and multiple lived expertises. You’ll help ensure sound fiduciary systems while reimagining and practising governance and accountability structures that challenge patriarchal and colonial-capitalist norms.

Time commitment: Approximately 10 days annually, including five board meetings (virtual, with one in-person annual gathering).
Location: Primarily remote, with one annual in-person meeting
Compensation: This is an unremunerated voluntary role, with all expenses related to travel for Board work covered.

Is this you?

We are seeking visionary leaders aligned with our feminist and anti-oppressive politics and our commitment to liberatory knowledge, technology, and social justice. We are currently looking for 3-4 individuals, one of whom will fill the role of Treasurer, who can bring diverse skills and experiences to our board. If any of the criteria below sound like you, please tell us you’re interested!

• Political alignment with our feminist values and a commitment to a just and liberatory internet through the centering of the knowledges, imaginations and leadership of the minoritized majority of the world.
• Experience in accountability for and with communities and movements, including a background in non-profit governance, human rights, gender justice, or technology justice. We’re especially interested in those who bring transformational perspectives on governance and have experience with alternative structures that challenge traditional governance systems.
• We aspire for our Board to reflect plural and intersectional identities, backgrounds and expertise, particularly in terms of gender, sexuality, age, geography, ability, class and lived experience. Additionally, we seek Board members with experience relevant to Whose Knowledge?’s focus and priorities.
• For our Treasurer role we seek someone with experience related to financial oversight and fiduciary responsibility (US based 501c3 and UK based CIC).

We are deeply committed to building a board that reflects the richness and complexity of the communities we serve. We believe that a governance and accountability structure enriched by multiple voices and intersectional expertise, leads to more thoughtful, informed, just and liberatory strategies, decisions, and practices.

How to apply

Whilst we are an international and multilingual organisation, our operating language is English.

1. Submit Your Application: Please send a cover letter and resume detailing your alignment with Whose Knowledge?’s mission and values, along with your relevant experiences and why you wish to be a board member. Applications should be emailed to jobs@whoseknowledge.org by 13 January 2025.
2. Initial Screening: We will review applications, with an emphasis on alignment with our mission, relevant experience, and commitment to our values and principles.
3. Interviews: Shortlisted candidates will be invited to participate in one or more interviews with our team. This is an opportunity for us to learn more about your background, interests, and vision, and for you to get a deeper understanding of Whose Knowledge? and our board’s role.
4. Final Selection: Selected candidates will be offered a position on the board, with orientation and onboarding provided to ensure a smooth transition into the role.
5. Onboarding and Start Date: New board members will join the board in the first quarter of 2025 with onboarding continuing through the second quarter, to build relationships and start our collaborative work.

Join us in creating a just and liberatory internet!

Deadline for this position is past due, we are not receiving more applications.

Whose Knowledge? (WK?) is a global, multilingual campaign and collective to centre the leadership, imaginations, histories and knowledges of those we call the “minoritised majority” – all peoples marginalised by historical, ongoing and intersecting structures of power and privilege – including women, LGBTQI+ communities, indigenous peoples, working class folks, and those from Africa, Asia and the Pacific Islands, and Latin America and the Caribbean, and its diasporas.

Hours: 20-30 per week, to be determined based on availability
Hourly rate: $47.25 per hour
Contract type: self-employed contract
Duration: 1 year with renewal potential
Application deadline: 18 December 2022 (end of your day)
Potential start date: 15 January 2023

Job Description

The Resources and Reparations Lead (aka Fundraising Lead) will guide, support and work alongside the WK? team to sustain, diversify and inspire resources aligned with WK? strategy, politics and mission. They will also serve as a member of the global WK? team with shared responsibility for ensuring WK?’s strategic impact in the advancing knowledge justice for marginalized communities globally.

Candidates must bring strong feminist leadership skills and a commitment to working from an intersectional feminist collective approach, as well as a significant track record in building impactful donor and philanthropic partnerships and expanding and diversifying resource streams, including through individual fundraising.

For Whose Knowledge?, “fundraising” in the current socio-economic landscape is a political act, rooted in an understanding of justice and reparations. We seek supporters and funders who are excited to be part of our extended community, committed to shared visions of just and equitable knowledge and tech futures. The Resources and Reparations Lead will have the opportunity to expand this community of support, in solidarity with our work and that of our communities.

This is a one year position, at $47.25/hour for 20-30 hours per week, depending on the candidate’s availability and interest. The position is likely to be renewed, based on resources and mutual chemistry.

Whose Knowledge? strives for equitable and reparative pay principles, so folks are paid the same across the world, no matter their location, with no more than 3x difference between the bottom and top of our payment scale. We offer a monthly wellness allowance for all team members.

Responsibilities

• Cultivate and sustain (and support others in WK? to build) relationships and collaboration with current and prospective donors, including leading co-creation of the development of a long term resource renewal strategy that accompanies WK?’s strategic plan.
• Support WK? in trends analysis and mapping of funders, identifying potential global and regional funders and diverse revenue streams, and defining strategies that sustain and increase (financial) resources for WK? in ways consistent with our mission and values;
• Engage and support WK? team, Board, programmatic staff, and broader community of practice around their roles in ensuring the success of our resource mobilisation efforts;
• Ensure WK?’s pipeline of prospective donor allies is refreshed and activated; develop and maintain relationships with current and prospective donors and find regular and compelling ways to share and invite them into WK? work;
• Stay informed of the fundraising landscape, relevant trends and opportunities; draw on and build relationships with donors and funders; ensure WK? is proactively engaging and educating in different philanthropic spaces;
• Investigate opportunities and coordinate the development and submission of compelling funding proposals, defining clear processes and ensuring conceptualization moments provide opportunities for learning and strategy clarification;
• Work with team, advisors, and allies to support the role of WK? in engaging donors and funders in our work, and influencing them on the needs and priorities of feminist knowledge and tech justice communities and movements.
• Leverage and co-coordinate WK? events, contributions to donor influence spaces, and relationships to share lessons and strategies with our partners, communities and movements on strategic funding needs and priorities;
• Represent WK? and work with our partners and communities to contribute to collective conversations that influence philanthropy towards more just and reparative processes and outcomes, especially for feminist knowledge and tech infrastructures.
• Ensure internal organization, efficiency and ongoing capacity strengthening of our resource mobilization efforts and systems across WK?.
• Ensure regular communication and coordination across communications, grants and programme teams through regular meetings to share and plan together to link and strengthen the collective’s goals and functions, aka our dreamings and doings;
• Ensure deep accountability and learning across the team in our resource mobilisation efforts.

Qualifications and attributes of our ideal candidate

• We are looking for someone with the experience and expertise to be our Resources and Reparations Lead; along with the skills (embodied and learnt), the ideal candidate is committed to WK? values with a deep desire to listen to, learn from, and collaborate with our diverse team. For this reason, we will strongly prioritize qualified candidates whose lived and professional experiences align with the feminist values, cultures and principles of WK?.
• We are looking for a candidate with a significant track record in developing genuine philanthropic (funder and donor) relationships over time and securing (financial) resources from a range of sources, including mission-aligned foundations, progressive governments and individual donors;
• Preferably, experience in building and engaging in strategic partnerships, e.g. consortiums, to access and expand funding and influence donors;
• Knowledge of the global donor landscape for the intersections of feminist and social justice work; an understanding of the related tech philanthropy landscape would be ideal;
• Excellent writing skills and capacity to conceptualize, write and edit compelling proposals;
• Excellent planning, strategic thinking, problem-solving and analytical skills;
• Ability to self-manage, prioritize, be resourceful, and adapt in a fast changing environment with multiple demands;
• Ability to work remotely, across time zones, with flexibility in working hours as needed.

Please submit a CV and a cover letter highlighting relevant skills and experience for this position with Subject: Resources and Reparations Lead to jobsATwhoseknowledgeDOTorg. The deadline for applications is 18 December 2022 (end of day, wherever you are in the world). We will be interviewing candidates on a rolling basis, and hope to finalise the position by middle to end January 2023.