Global: Programme Officer for Sub-Saharan Africa - Sigrid Rausing Trust

The Sigrid Rausing Trust is a UK-based human rights funding organisation, with an annual grant-making budget of approximately £18 million. It is seeking to employ an Africa Programme Officer, who will assist the Trust to increase its human rights grant-making in Sub-Saharan Africa, within its priority areas of civil and political rights, women's rights, minority rights and social and economic rights. The programme officer will be responsible for developing a strategy for grant-making in parts of the region. S/he will be the first point of contact for organisations applying for funding from the region and will be responsible for all aspects of grant-making for the portfolio. S/he will be located at our offices in London but will travel regularly to the region.
Please send a cover letter and your CV, either by email to [email][email protected]; or by mail to Diana Clarke, Sigrid Rausing Trust, Eardley House, 4 Uxbridge Street, London W8 7SY. Please clearly mark the application "Africa programme officer position." Deadline for receipt of applications is 2nd April 2008.