Cultural Heritage Coordinator and District Human Rights Officer — MASC Foundation (Palma, Cabo Delgado)

About the position

The MASC Foundation — Civil Society Support Mechanism — has been working since 2007 alongside communities, government, civil society organisations, and businesses to ensure governance works and development reaches everyone. It does this by awarding grants to local initiatives, training community organisations, and running its own programmes across several provinces. Now, it is opening two positions for a project in Palma district, Cabo Delgado: one to coordinate the cultural heritage component and another to manage human rights at the district level.

These are distinct roles with separate selection processes — each has its own requirements and application subject line. The duty station is Palma district, with regular travel to communities across the project area. Read both descriptions carefully and apply for the one that best fits your profile; making the right choice at the start saves everyone weeks. In the email subject line, use the official job title exactly as published by the Foundation.

Position A — Cultural Heritage Component Coordinator: your responsibilities

• Map and document community cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible, alongside those who preserve and live it.
• Engage communities in identifying and valuing their own heritage, ensuring clear consent for everything that is shared.
• Identify risks and impacts of project activities on this heritage and propose ways to mitigate them.
• Maintain liaison with local authorities, community leaders, and cultural institutions working in the region.
• Conduct community consultations, awareness-raising sessions, and capacity-building activities.
• Write up-to-date reports and technical notes for the component.
• Document best practices, challenges, and success stories — through text, testimonials, and audiovisual materials.

Position B — District Human Rights Manager: your tasks

• Manage, at the district level, the daily work of promoting and protecting human rights.
• Support each community to map their main conflicts and refer them to those who can resolve them.
• Promote sessions on rights, citizenship, equality, and participation, with guaranteed space for women, youth, and other vulnerable groups.
• Strengthen community grievance and complaint mechanisms, building on existing ones instead of replacing them.
• Document and refer cases of rights violations, following project procedures.
• Connect communities, authorities, civil society organisations, and project partners within the same work framework.
• Prepare periodic reports with collected information, results, and lessons learned from interventions.

What we are looking for in you

In both positions, the work lives between the community and the computer. One day you are in a meeting in Palma listening; on another, those voices turn into a report that partners will read and use. You enjoy working with people and don't mind that the road and the field notebook are part of the same week.

Anyone who knows Cabo Delgado knows that the sensitivity with which each story and each right is handled is part of the trade. Information about culture and rights is treated with respect, consent, and discretion — always. If this is how you usually work, you will fit right in with a team that measures success by the quality of tasks, fulfillment of the plan, and the strength of engagement with communities.

What MASC Foundation offers

• A role with direct impact on communities in the Palma district, in a project with its own team and regular coordination meetings.
• Periodic evaluation with criteria stated in the announcement: what you deliver, how you execute the plan, the quality of documents you produce, and coordination with communities and partners.
• An employer present in Mozambique since 2007, active in grantmaking, capacity building, and community programmes.
• Remuneration: figures are not stated in the official announcement.

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How to apply

Send an email to propostas@masc.org.mz with your updated CV and a letter of interest. State the position you want in your email subject:

• Position A (Cultural Heritage) — Subject: VAGA – Coordenador/a da Componente de Cultural Heritage (Património Cultural)
• Position B (Human Rights) — Subject: VAGA – Gestor/a Distrital de Direitos Humanos

Deadline: 14 September 2026. Apply for a single position — the one that matches your background and experience. The Foundation advises in advance: only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Before writing your letter, the application letter guide shows you the structure evaluators expect; and the complete 2026 CV guide prepares the document that opens your application.

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