About Every Woman
Every Woman (EW) is a coalition of women’s rights activists across 165 countries working to end violence against all women and girls by advancing international law. We unite grassroots advocacy and global diplomacy to strengthen global norms and standards and hold governments to their commitments, creating a safer, more just world for all.
EW’s diplomatic efforts focus on supporting strong laws that are the foundation of a safer, more just world. With rates of violence against women and girls intensifying, EW supports the urgent need for global solutions, starting with stronger international laws. International law creates binding commitments on governments, providing a solid legal foundation for action and a tool for activists to push for implementation and change.
Our coalition is built around advancing the end of violence against all women and girls through collective power and care. As women’s rights activists and frontline experts, we face an increasingly hostile world. This work is being defunded, and activists are targets of abuse and threats designed to discredit work. To sustain and strengthen the collective impact, we support each other through shared learning and collective well-being.
The Opportunity
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Every Woman combines senior-most leadership, strategy, and public storytelling with entrepreneurial grit to bring the vision and mission to life of delivering real-world transformation for women's and girls’ safety worldwide.
For Every Woman, feminist values alignment is not an added benefit – it is essential to the success of the next CEO. This leader must not only advance the mission externally, but also embody the principles that sustain trust, credibility, and collective power across a global coalition. The next CEO must lead in a way that shares power responsibly, centers equity, values transparency, strengthens well-being, and turns collective insight into action. In a movement-based organization working across cultures, geographies, and power dynamics, how the CEO leads is as important as what the CEO delivers.
The role has four (4) direct reports overseeing a team of ten individuals.
External 65% | Internal 35%
- Relationship based fundraising 40% (external)
- Strategy, new initiatives, subject matter expert 25% (internal)
- Public voice and storyteller 20% (external)
- Community Builder 15% (10% internal + 5% external)
Strong candidates will offer:
- Academic Preparation: Every Woman supports substituting lived leadership experience for academic attainment. A bachelor’s degree is a minimum, a master’s degree is desired/preferred, and any relevant lived experience/work experience that is relevant is meaningful (e.g. including women’s rights, human rights, prevention of violence against women, or other closely related leadership experience).
- Fundraising Success: 7–10 or more years of successful fundraising experience, including responsibility for annual fundraising totals of $5 million or more.
- Campaign Leadership: 7–10 or more years of leadership experience in women’s international human rights campaigns.
- Communications/Spokesperson Experience: 7–10 or more years serving in a communications leadership role, or the equivalent, with demonstrated success in securing major media attention for human rights and/or women’s rights issues; engaging and mobilizing support through social media channels; and contributing strong writing, publication, public speaking, and major media experience.
- Commitment to the Issue: 7–10 or more years of demonstrated commitment to women’s rights, human rights, prevention of violence against women, or closely related issues.
Compensation and Benefits
Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience. The salary range for this role is $200,000-225,000 with a generous benefits package
This position is remote. We welcome applications from inside and outside of the United States, recognizing that over 90% of the fundraising comes from within the US. This is a full-time role. Because global grassroots often engage beyond the traditional 9-5 workday, a willingness to work flexible, sometimes odd hours is a must. Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 30-35% of the time.
All applicants must be legally eligible to work in the United States and not require sponsorship to be considered for this position.