Director, Global Food Sovereignty – Movements Program

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🔥 16 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $105k - $115k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Mirkin Solutions

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1 - 10 employees

👥 HR Tech

🤝 B2B

📋 Compliance

HR Tech • B2B • Compliance

Mirkin Solutions is a boutique professional services firm that offers human resources, people operations, and payroll processing services to growing businesses. As a Certified Women-Owned Business Enterprise (WBE), Mirkin Solutions provides personalized support throughout the entire employee life cycle, allowing businesses to focus on their core operations. Their experienced team designs tailored services and solutions, addressing critical HR and payroll needs, including recruitment, compliance, analytics, and special projects to ensure businesses run smoothly and efficiently.

📋 Description

• Develop and execute a multi-year strategy for WhyHunger’s Global Movements Program aligned with organizational priorities • Identify emerging opportunities, challenges, and trends within global food sovereignty, anti-hunger, agroecology, Indigenous food pathways, climate justice and resilience, economic justice, human rights, and related movement-building spaces • Monitor and evaluate program impact; adapt strategies based on research, learning, and feedback; and report on impact data • Build and maintain trusted relationships with grassroots organizations, social movement leaders, networks, and coalitions advancing food sovereignty • Design innovative programs such as leadership cohorts, agroecology school networks, peer-learning exchanges, and movement convenings • Develop and manage a portfolio of strategic grants • Lead due diligence, proposal review, funding recommendations, grant monitoring, and partner stewardship processes • Identify and cultivate new partnerships with movement leaders, grassroots organizations, and global networks • Identify, cultivate, secure, and steward institutional and major individual funding opportunities • Represent WhyHunger in meetings with funders, philanthropic partners, donor prospects, and site visits • Contribute to grant proposals, donor reports, concept notes, and funding strategies • Develop and advance WhyHunger’s international advocacy agenda • Convene and facilitate exchanges, gatherings, learning communities, and collaborative initiatives among partners and allies • Serve as an internal expert sharing insights to inform advocacy and narrative change strategies • Partner with Communications on strategic storytelling, partner communications, organizational messaging, content creation, thought leadership, public education campaigns, and opinion pieces • Serve as a public spokesperson through media interviews, speaking engagements, and multimedia content • Supervise and support the Global Movements Program Manager • Manage consultants and contractors as needed • Develop, manage, and monitor the global programs budget • Ensure planning, reporting, compliance, and cross-functional coordination of global programs projects • Contribute to organizational initiatives and leadership discussions as a member of the Program Leadership Team

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive experience in food sovereignty, food systems, international development, philanthropy, social movement building, human rights, or related fields • Deep understanding of global food systems, food sovereignty frameworks, agroecology, climate justice and/or Indigenous food pathways, including the structural drivers of hunger • Established credibility and existing relationships within food sovereignty or adjacent movements • Significant experience developing and managing strategic partnerships with social movements, community organizers, grassroots organizations or community-based networks in the Global South • Experience developing program strategies with clear outcomes and aligned activities that have demonstrated measurable impact • Experience developing and managing grantmaking portfolios • Demonstrated success designing and leading complex projects and multi-stakeholder initiatives, with the ability to create effective deliverables and outcomes on time and within budget • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including public speaking • Comfort engaging with diverse audiences • Experience managing diverse staff and consultants • Ability to work and represent WhyHunger at evening or weekend events, and travel domestically and internationally as needed • Fluency or professional proficiency in Spanish, Portuguese, or French preferred • Experience cultivating and stewarding relationships with institutional funders, major donors, and other philanthropic partners preferred • Experience representing an organization within global coalitions and advocacy spaces preferred • Experience serving as a spokesperson and speaking with press preferred • Experience designing and executing innovative organizational capacity-building programs preferred • Experience engaging in multilateral policy processes (UN, FAO, WFP, or similar) and/or advocacy with U.S. policymakers on international food and agriculture issues preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance coverage for the employee and family • 30 days of paid vacation • Office closure for a week in the summer • Office closure for a week at the end of the year • 5-hour Fridays • 403(b) retirement plan with discretionary employer contribution