Director, Global Movements Program

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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $105k - $115k / year

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📋 Program Manager

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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 • Identify emerging opportunities, challenges, and trends in global food sovereignty, anti-hunger, agroecology, Indigenous food pathways, climate justice and resilience, economic justice, human rights, and movement-building spaces • Monitor and evaluate program impact, adapt strategies, and report on impact data • Build and maintain relationships with grassroots organizations, social movement leaders, networks, and coalitions • Design innovative programs such as leadership cohorts, agroecology school networks, peer-learning exchanges, and movement convenings • Develop and manage a portfolio of strategic grants, including due diligence, proposal review, funding recommendations, grant monitoring, and partner stewardship • Identify and cultivate new partnerships with movement leaders, grassroots organizations, and global networks • Develop and advance WhyHunger’s international advocacy agenda • Convene and facilitate exchanges, gatherings, learning communities, and collaborative initiatives • Serve as an internal expert informing advocacy and narrative change strategies • Partner with the development team on institutional and major individual funding opportunities • Represent WhyHunger in funder, philanthropic partner, donor prospect, and site-visit meetings • Contribute to grant proposals, donor reports, concept notes, and funding strategies • Create strategic storytelling and amplify partner communications and calls to action • Contribute to 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 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 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 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 • Ability to travel domestically and internationally as needed • Spanish, Portuguese, or French fluency or professional proficiency preferred • Experience cultivating and stewarding institutional funders, major donors, and 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 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