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Thousand Currents

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 1999

🤲 Charity

🌍 Social Impact

🤝 Non-profit

Charity • Social Impact • Non-profit

Thousand Currents is a registered 501(c)(3) charity that supports bold solutions for climate, food, and economic justice by moving resources to grassroots movements in the Global South. For nearly four decades, Thousand Currents has invested more than $31 million in over 1,000 grassroots and movement formations. The organization values collective power and change, developing long-term relationships with visionary grassroots movements led by women, youth, Black, Afro-descent, and Indigenous Peoples. Thousand Currents influences philanthropic giving towards climate justice, economic systems based on ecological regeneration, and food sovereignty, putting communities at the center of decision-making regarding food systems and policies.

📋 Description

• The Program Manager, Africa advances Thousand Currents’ regional strategy by stewarding relationships with movement partners and supporting movement-led solutions advancing food sovereignty, climate justice, and economic justice across the continent. • Identify and build relationships with movements and movement support organizations advancing systems change in food sovereignty, climate justice, economic justice, agroecology, stewardship of the commons, and energy democracy. • Draw on political analysis, ecosystem knowledge, research, convenings, and trusted relationships to assess alignment and inform partnership recommendations. • Accompany movement partners through relationship-centered engagement rooted in trust, humility, accountability, and solidarity. • Steward a portfolio of movement partners through regular communication, site visits, proposal and report review, accompaniment, and ongoing learning and reflection. • Support movement resilience through flexible grantmaking, movement strengthening resources, learning opportunities, emergency support, and ecosystem connections. • Support the implementation of regional initiatives and collaborative cohorts advancing movement-led solutions in key thematic or geographic areas. • Facilitate peer learning, convenings, collaboration, and relationship-building among movement partners and allied organizations. • Work collaboratively with Grants Operations colleagues to support grantmaking timelines, documentation, and partner information systems. • Contribute political, ecological, and movement analysis to regional planning, ecosystem mapping, and strategic discussions. • Engage the work with curiosity, reflection, and a commitment to collective learning. • Collaborate with Learning colleagues and movement partners to document insights, lessons, challenges, and evolving strategies. • Support partner-centered learning processes that strengthen movement practice and collective sensemaking. • Support partner participation in convenings, learning exchanges, campaigns, and organizational events. • Represent Thousand Currents in selected meetings, gatherings, and movement spaces to strengthen relationships and ecosystem connections. • Show up fully for organizational activities, including staff meetings, retreats, and training.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience working with grassroots movements, movement support organizations, or social justice ecosystems in Africa. • Proven experience working alongside African social movements to advance energy democracy or stewardship of the commons. • Experience contributing to institutional storytelling, donor communications, or strategic learning processes • A capacity to see systemic wholes, recognizing how local, grassroots struggles for self-determination intersect with global political and economic structures. • Demonstrated knowledge of movement organizing related to food sovereignty, climate justice, economic justice, agroecology, stewardship of the commons, and/or energy democracy. • Experience building and stewarding relationships across cultures, geographies, and power differences with humility and accountability. • Strong political analysis and understanding of movement ecosystems and systems change approaches in the African context. • Experience facilitating collaboration, learning processes, convenings, or movement accompaniment. • Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, including strong written and verbal English communication. • Rigorous organizational and project management skills, paired with the self-motivation to hold complex initiatives from seed to fruition and ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously. • Familiarity with collaborative digital tools and remote work environments. • Flexible and proactive. • Comfortable working in a fast‑paced, dynamic environment with a remote, geographically dispersed team. • Ability to travel as needed (both nationally and internationally) and to engage virtually across time zones. • High learning orientation, sound judgment, attention to detail, and openness to feedback. • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, remote, and geographically dispersed work environment. • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent lived and professional experience.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health, Dental, and Vision cost reimbursement or stipend for employee + dependents, and out of country medical travel insurance for employee • 10 paid annual holidays + open paid time off policy allowing flexible time off • Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave • Up to $1,000 stipend to set up work space • Up to $2,000 per fiscal year in wellness stipend, $1,500 per fiscal year for work from home expenses, and up to $2,000 per fiscal year for learning and development • Retirement contribution paid monthly as a 4% salary boost • Possibility of sabbatical leave after seven years of employment