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🕒 May 14

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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

• Build and steward a portfolio of transnational movement partners working across agroecology, stewardship of the commons, and energy democracy. • Support transnational movement building, movement narrative power, convergence and global influencing to shift the global rules that shape what's possible at the grassroots. • Work collaboratively with regional teams across Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as Grants Operations and Learning teams ensuring that resources move smoothly, risks are managed responsibly, and movement leadership is centered in everything we do. • Identify politically and values-aligned movements through networks, relationship-building, desk research, gatherings, and ecosystem mapping. • Build and steward a portfolio of movement partners that serve as the backbone of transnational movement organizing. • Develop respectful, ongoing partnerships through regular communication, check-ins, and engagement with partner work. • Lead a cohort of partners working collaboratively to advance movement solutions globally. • Steward financial, intellectual, and relational resources to strengthen movement resilience using various strategies, including accompaniment, responsive support, movement capacity and movement ecosystems support, and connecting partners. • Coordinate and collaborate across global movements to support movements to come together, build narrative power, and engage in the global spaces where global policies are set and resources are contested. • Develop clear analysis of global context and power analysis related to the strategic focus areas to inform partnership and movement convergence. • Participate in and support movement convergence. • Leverage insights on collective agendas and action to advance movement priorities. • Identify and support the infrastructure that strengthens the movement ecosystem with a focus on narrative power, political education, and strategic analysis. • Coordinate movement partners and Thousand Currents' participation in strategic platforms, preparing briefs, schedules, and identifying opportunities to amplify movement voices. • Serve as a bridge between movements and funder coalitions; plan partner convenings, peer learning, and funder connections. • Synthesize learning from movements into knowledge that shapes strategy and strengthens partnerships. • Represent Thousand Currents in meetings, gatherings, and global fora, sharing analysis, amplifying partner stories and impact, and identifying opportunities to build strategic alliances.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of demonstrated experience working with or within social movements, particularly in the Global South, on issues related to food sovereignty, agroecology, climate justice, energy democracy, land and commons, or related fields. • A grounded political analysis of global systems and the role of movements in transforming them. • Experience stewarding partnerships built on trust, accompaniment, and solidarity. • Strong relational skills and cultural humility; able to build rapport across geographies, languages, and contexts. • Strong project management and problem solving skills. • Strong attention to details. • Highly motivated and passionate about movement building. • Skilled at synthesis with demonstrable ability to make sense of complex movement landscapes and translate them into clear analysis for diverse audiences. • Comfort with the rhythms of movement work: convenings, emergent strategy, intentional trust building, fast turnarounds. • Excellent written and verbal communication in English; additional languages (especially Spanish, French, Portuguese) strongly preferred. • A learning orientation and a sense of humor. • Ability to work effectively in a fully remote, tech-forward environment, using digital tools to communicate, collaborate, and manage work. • Comfortable working in a fast‑paced, dynamic environment with a remote, geographically dispersed team. • Ability to maintain momentum through uncertainty and to adapt within rapidly changing priorities. • Ability to travel as needed, both nationally and internationally and to engage virtually across time zones. • Experience engaging with transnational movement organizing, engaging global spaces engagement with philanthropies in climate justice, economic justice, and food sovereignty is considered an added advantage.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health, Dental, and Vision cost reimbursement or stipend for employee + dependents • Out of country medical travel insurance for employee • 10 paid annual holidays + open paid time off policy allowing flexible time off with supervisor pre-approval • 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 • Up to $2,000 per fiscal year for learning and professional development • Retirement contribution paid monthly as a 4% salary boost • Possibility of sabbatical leave after seven years of employment