Program Manager – Global Programs

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🕒 May 14

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $97k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

📋 Program Manager

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Thousand Currents

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 1999

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🏥 Healthcare

🤲 Charity

Food & Beverage • Healthcare • Charity

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 • Identify politically and values-aligned movements through networks, relationship-building, desk research, gatherings, and ecosystem mapping • 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 • Develop analysis of global context and power related to strategic focus areas • Participate in and support movement convergence and advance collective movement priorities • Identify and support infrastructure strengthening the movement ecosystem, including narrative power, political education, and strategic analysis • Coordinate movement partners' and Thousand Currents' participation in strategic platforms • Prepare briefs and schedules and identify opportunities to amplify movement voices • Serve as a bridge between movements and funder coalitions • Plan partner convenings, peer learning, and funder connections • Surface emerging patterns, tensions, and insights from across the portfolio • Collaborate with the learning team to curate learning processes among partners • Synthesize learning into briefs, reports, and contributions to the Transnational Movement Organizing Strategy • Translate movement insights into donor proposals, reports, and external communications • Coordinate partner participation in events and external platforms, including travel logistics • Represent Thousand Currents in meetings, gatherings, and global fora • Share analysis, amplify partner stories and impact, and identify strategic alliances • Stay current on food, climate, and economic justice, systems change, and movement-building • Participate in staff meetings, retreats, training, and organization-wide activities • Manage personal administration, including receipts, reimbursements, scheduling, travel planning, filing HR paperwork, and related tasks

🎯 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 • 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 • 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 adapt within rapidly changing priorities • Ability to travel as needed, both nationally and internationally, and engage virtually across time zones • Availability to travel and maintenance of a valid passport is required • Additional languages, especially Spanish, French, and Portuguese, strongly preferred • Experience engaging with transnational movement organizing and philanthropies in climate justice, economic justice, and food sovereignty is an added advantage • Thousand Currents is unable to provide visa sponsorship or relocation assistance

🏖️ 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