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Howami Ltd

We help young menstruators improve mental health and menstrual literacy through embodied game-based app experiences.

About us

Howami is a UK-based social impact company, building a new approach to menstrual wellbeing for young people, helping them understand the whole lived experience of their menstrual cycle and develop greater emotional intelligence, agency and self-understanding.

We have now launched Million Moons, our global storytelling and fundraising initiative, gathering menstrual cycle stories to create a living cultural archive while helping fund the development and growth of the Howami Digital Tools.

We are at an exciting stage: the vision is no longer simply an idea. Million Moons is live, our work is tangible, and we now need to build the financial resource around it that will allow it to grow.

The opportunity

We are looking for a curious, resourceful and self-driven person to help us find and pursue funding opportunities over the next three months.

This is broader than traditional grant research.

We want someone who is excited by the challenge of asking:

Where could resource for this work come from and how do we get ourselves into that room?

That might include:

- Small and large grants
- Research funding and collaborations, particularly around menstrual health, menstrual cycle experience and young people
- Innovation and technology-for-good funding
- Corporate Social Responsibility and corporate partnerships
- Philanthropic foundations and individual philanthropy
- Global funds and international opportunities
- Women’s health, youth, wellbeing, education and social-impact funds
- Creative approaches to corporate engagement from speaking to teams to being featured within company networks or newsletters
- Opportunities we haven't thought of yet

What you would actually do

You would help us identify promising opportunities, assess which are genuinely worth pursuing, build a clear pipeline and importantly, help us act on them.

You won't be starting from scratch.

We already have previous grant applications, organisational information, impact thinking, research, partnerships, messaging and a substantial body of work that can be repurposed. Our team can provide the specialist information needed for applications.

We need someone who can confidently harvest what already exists and turn it into opportunity.

Grant-writing experience would be brilliant, but it isn't essential if you are a strong writer and quick learner.

We'd love to meet someone who is

Curious, tenacious and comfortable finding their own way through a problem.

Someone who enjoys research but doesn't stop at creating a spreadsheet of possibilities.

Someone who can spot an opportunity, make connections between seemingly unrelated things and think beyond traditional funding structures.

Someone with excellent people skills who would feel increasingly confident approaching potential partners, funders and stakeholders.

And someone who believes that systems can be challenged and changed. Someone who is excited by the possibility of putting meaningful resource behind work with significant social impact.

The bigger picture

Our immediate focus is growing Million Moons: filling the moon with stories, building participation and creating enough financial stability to support the operational costs of keeping the platform growing safely.

Beyond this sits our larger ambition: building the Howami young-person tools and supporter portal, creating a new ecosystem of menstrual-cycle awareness and support.

The role could initially focus on UK and EU opportunities or expand internationally depending on the person, their experience and where the strongest opportunities emerge.

You will be working collaboratively with our CEO, Nikki Berridge.
There is considerable freedom here, however, setting clear goals and communicating them is important.
If you are someone who likes being handed a meaningful mission, existing resources and a supportive team and then being trusted to explore what might be possible, we'd love to hear from you.

Minimum Hours per Week:

4-6 hours per week

Duration:

3-5 months