Associate Director – Strategy and Learning

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October 22

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ClimateWorks Foundation

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Charity • Environment • Non-profit

ClimateWorks Foundation is a global platform dedicated to accelerating climate solutions through philanthropy. With a mission to end the climate crisis, it amplifies the impact of philanthropy by collaborating with grantmakers and implementing partners worldwide. ClimateWorks supports climate solutions across a variety of sectors including transportation, food and agriculture, forests, and sustainable finance. Since 2008, it has granted over $1. 8 billion to more than 850 organizations in over 50 countries. The foundation seeks to bend the emissions curve and advance a thriving planet for all living beings.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2008

🤲 Charity

🤝 Non-profit

📋 Description

• Provide assistance to up to 10 program and service teams in developing strategies along with tools and methods to track their progress. • Support teams to develop progress tracking tools and report on progress (e.g., results reporting, dashboards). • Facilitate collaborative design of inputs to proposal and reporting processes (e.g., theories of change, KPIs, outcomes, indicators and other metrics, etc.). • Support the development of program-level strategies and solutions, including designing the processes and timelines to support strategy development. • Collaborate with program leads, programs leadership, and philanthropic partnerships to determine a cycle of program strategy development. • Provide input on survey design and other data collection tools. • Support reporting on grants. • Maintain a high degree of knowledge about relevant strategy, research, and learning in the climate change ecosystem. • Participate in working groups of funders and grantees to discuss and take action on issues related to monitoring and reporting. • Ensure excellent responsiveness and dialogue with funding partners. • Work collaboratively with other ClimateWorks teams to respond to grantee perception report findings and support an effective process of reporting for our own grantees. • Manage a small group of external consultants focused on programmatic strategy and evaluation. • Support the implementation of the ClimateWorks-wide results/impact framework. • Support the learning process, including providing analysis and recommendations, emerging from end-of-year reviews, grantee perception surveys, organizational health surveys, and more. • Provide analysis of knowledge products (e.g., evaluations, qualitative findings, surveys etc.) as an input into yearly planning and strategy development. • Support efforts to enable decision making, including synthesizing and summarizing operational and programmatic data. • Design and support in-person and virtual meetings and workshops on a variety of strategic learning topics. • Produce reports, memos, presentations, or other materials to communicate learnings to a variety of stakeholders. • Provide analyses or summaries of learning products. • Support the development of improved knowledge management practices across the foundation. • Support deepening incorporation of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion approaches into the Planning team, including in our metrics and results frameworks.

🎯 Requirements

• 10 years of relevant professional experience focused on monitoring, learning, evaluation, and/or strategy development. • Experience working in a climate change-related field, and lived experience in communities directly affected by climate change, ideally in the geopolitical south. • Experience designing strategies and managing evaluations in climate change-related fields. • Ability to provide strategic discretion in the process of proposal writing and reporting to funders. • Experience managing contracts and grants effectively and guide the work of consultants. • Excellent analytical skills and demonstrated ability to synthesize information into meaningful conclusions. • Understanding of advanced concepts related to monitoring and evaluation, including design of evaluations and impact studies, and results frameworks. • Advanced knowledge and application of research methodologies. • Strong organizational and project management skills, excellent attention to detail and ability to set priorities and complete projects in a timely manner. • Exceptional communications skills, both written and oral, and demonstrated experience in facilitating cross-team conversations and learning. • Ability and willingness to do the day-to-day project management aspects of the role. • High levels of proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint.

🏖️ Benefits

• Healthcare Plans: • Multiple options available through Kaiser & UHC • HMO - 100% coverage for employee and dependents • POS - Employee pays difference beyond HMO coverage (3 out of 4 POS options are at 100% coverage for employee and dependents) • Dental –100% coverage for employee and dependents • Vision – 100% coverage for employee and dependents • Fertility Benefit • Fertility care through Carrot Fertility. Access to on-demand doctor-approved content, pregnancy support, and virtual chats with medical, legal, and regulatory experts. • Disability Benefit (long and short-term) • Life Insurance (3x base salary up to $750k for employee only) • PTO • 20 days (1st year) • 25 days (2nd - 8th year) • 30 days (9th year) • Holidays • 11 Observed and 2 floating • 401k Plan • After 6 months of service, CWF automatically contributes 9% of gross earnings per pay period to retirement fund* • After 6 months of service, CWF matches 100% of employee contributions up to a max of 6% of gross earnings per pay period*