Deadline: 02 March 2026
The International Trans Fund (ITF) is the only trans-led global funder dedicated to advancing safety, dignity, and justice for trans people worldwide. We envision thriving, interconnected trans movements that are resourced, resilient, and rooted in transfeminist principles, advancing safety, freedom, and liberation worldwide. Our mission is to mobilize sustainable resources for trans-led organizations and movements worldwide by strengthening collective action and bridging critical funding gaps.
Our grantmaking is led by a global panel of trans activists, grounded in the belief that trans people best understand the needs and priorities of our movements. Since 2017, ITF has invested over USD $10 million in 271 trans-led grassroots organizations across 103 countries. Our work is rooted in transfeminist principles and a deep commitment to human rights, collective care, and movement-building.
About the Role
ITF is seeking a part-time Economic Empowerment Officer to advance its strategic vision within the “Resourcing Trans Movements for Autonomy” and “Capacity and Capability Building” focus areas. The role focuses on participatory learning and collaboration, documentation, data analysis, and storytelling related to trans-led and trans-centered economic alternatives, as part of the project Empowered Trans-Led Economies: Building Alternatives. Through this work, the project aims to strengthen the sustainability of trans-led organizations, document what works, and leverage additional funding to scale proven models.
This project is funded by a key ITF partner and represents a critical opportunity to advance ITF’s strategic outcome of resource diversification, particularly through exploring alternative financial instruments and mechanisms for moving capital (e.g., impact investment and other forms of alternative financing). ITF anticipates that the Economic Empowerment Officer will significantly strengthen the organization’s capacity to resource trans-led movements by applying the learning generated through this project and its focus areas.
This role will primarily support the project’s grantmaking, capacity-building and MEL (Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning) work, including the relationship-building with grantee partners and funders, in close collaboration with ITF staff to co-create learning processes and stories of change, and to ensure that knowledge generated through ITF’s work meaningfully supports trans-led movements.
This is a critical, movement-facing position that will pilot ITF’s strategy for economic empowerment, taking into consideration its specific potential in resource generation and diversification for trans communities, within and beyond the project Empowered Trans-Led Economies Building Alternatives.
The position is part-time over approximately 23 months, with workload fluctuating in line with program timelines and key learning moments. There is a possibility that this role will continue, funding dependent.
- Organization: International Trans Fund (ITF)
- Position Type: Part-time, fixed-term (April 1, 2026 – February 29, 2028)
- Reports to: Deputy Director (or designated Project Lead)
- Application Deadline: March 2, 2026
What This Role Focuses On
At the heart of this role are the following interconnected priorities:
- Participatory learning and collaboration:
- Designing and implementing a robust MEL framework that will track outputs, outcomes, and long‑term impact, generating actionable insights for the field of trans‑led economic justice.
- Ensuring that MEL processes are co-created with partners, grounded in care, accessible, and relevant to movements themselves and to the project’s Community of Practice on economic empowerment.
- Capacity-building in economic empowerment: Facilitating and developing activities to strengthen organizational capacity of trans-led groups to implement and scale sustainable economic empowerment and livelihood strengthening initiatives.
- Data analysis, storytelling, and narrative: Capturing stories of change, collective journeys, and movement knowledge in ways that honor trans experiences and strengthen advocacy, visibility, and solidarity.
Key Responsibilities
The Economic Empowerment Officer will be responsible for the following, with a primary focus on the Empowered Trans-Led Economies: Building Alternatives project, while also contributing to the longer-term goal of strengthening ITF’s capacity to design and implement economic empowerment initiatives beyond this project:
Participatory MEL Design and Implementation
- Designing MEL frameworks relevant to the project that align with ITF’s values, donor requirements, and movement realities.
- Developing participatory MEL tools (surveys, reflection guides, learning conversations, qualitative methods, etc.) specific to the project.
- Designing and administering baseline and endline learning processes with partners where relevant.
- Ensuring ethical, accessible, and trauma-informed approaches to documentation and data collection.
Capacity-Building, Learning and Collective Reflection
- Facilitating collective reflection spaces with grantee partners and stakeholders, including participation in the project’s Community of Practice convening for grantee partners.
- Facilitating and delivering relevant capacity-building trainings for grantee partners.
- Supporting learning processes connected to convenings, regional gatherings, and other capacity-strengthening initiatives.
- Synthesizing project learning to identify cross-regional patterns, emerging themes, and strategic insights, informing the development of economic empowerment within ITF’s grantmaking and philanthropic advocacy.
Storytelling, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Production
- Capturing stories of change and movement narratives with partners.
- Producing thoughtful reports, learning briefs, and synthesis documents for internal and external audiences.
- Developing case studies that highlight partners’ journeys, contextual challenges, and organizing strategies.
- Contributing MEL-informed content to ITF publications, including annual reports and communications materials.
Collaboration and Accompaniment
- Working closely with the Deputy Director and program staff on the project, including supporting resource mobilization to secure complementary funding for economic empowerment initiatives.
- Supporting ITF in shaping and integrating economic empowerment within its broader resourcing approaches.
- Building respectful, trust-based relationships with grantee partners.
- Contributing to a culture of care, reflection, accountability, and collective learning within ITF.
Who We Are Looking For
We strongly encourage trans, non-binary, and gender-diverse candidates to apply.
The ideal candidate will bring:
- Demonstrated experience in grantmaking, accompaniment, and organizing related to the project’s focus areas:
(i) Social enterprises and cooperatives: Seed funding and governance support for member‑owned businesses;
(ii) Entrepreneurship incubation: Accelerators offering business training, mentorship, and market linkages;
(iii) Microfinance and savings groups: Low‑barrier credit, rotating savings, and digital finance solutions; and
(iv) Skills & vocational training: Technical and digital skills aligned with local market demands (e.g., tailoring, IT services, sustainable agriculture). - Strong skills in both qualitative and quantitative methods (e.g. participatory tools, storytelling, surveys, case studies).
- A clear commitment to participatory approaches that center community knowledge and agency.
- Experience within social justice and human rights contexts, and working with grassroots or community-led organizations, particularly in the Global Majority.
- Familiarity with feminist, intersectional, and/or transfeminist frameworks.
- Strong writing and synthesis skills; communicates complex ideas accessibly.
- Alignment with ITF’s values of trans leadership, care, accountability, and justice.
Practical Details
- This is a part-time, 23-month fixed-term role (April 1, 2026 – February 29, 2028).
- The role will support ITF’s economic empowerment area, fundamentally in the implementation of a specific project but aiming to develop the area beyond it.
- The position is fully remote; we welcome applicants based in different regions.
- Compensation will be offered as $65,000 annual part-time salary (pro-rated to 3 days a week), benchmarked against ITF’s internal pay framework.
How to Apply
Applicants are invited to submit:
- Your CV or resume.
- Responses to the required questions explaining your motivation for the role, highlighting experiences related to the project’s focus areas on economic empowerment, and community-building work done with trans movements.
Applications must be submitted via BambooHR.
ITF is committed to being an inclusive and accessible organization. We recognize that not all candidates will meet every requirement listed, and we strongly encourage applicants from marginalized communities, particularly trans people from the Global Majority, to apply.