Program Manager

Global Greengrants Fund Inc; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Greengrants Fund Inc. seeks a Program Manager with deep expertise in climate justice, philanthropy, grantmaking, and movement accompaniment.

The role centers on guiding program strategy and coordination across regional and global networks to strengthen environmental and social justice initiatives. The position focuses on developing systems to operationalize work plans, managing annual budgets aligned with strategic priorities, and ensuring accountability to the organisation's feminist

Responsibilities

• GGF's program strategy
• Coordinate annual workplans and budgets
• Develop and operationalize program budgets
• Manage program function workflows
• Contribute to research, design and dissemination
• Advance donor compliance and budget management across teams

Job description

Program Manager

The Program Manager has a deep understanding of climate justice and a grounded political analysis of global systems and the role of movements in transforming them, and a deep understanding of philanthropy, grantmaking, and movement accompaniment. They have a commitment to climate, environmental, and social justice and feminist grassroots movements and an understanding of their importance in shifting social, political, and economic systems from ones that are vulnerable, unsustainable, and unjust, to ones that are resilient, sustainable, and equitable.

Main Responsibilities

GGFs program strategy

• Facilitate the work of the Advisory Networks, and support implementation of the Program Team and wider organisation’s systems to ensure they are enabling the team and organization to deliver on its work and meet its accountabilities while staying true to its principles and values.
• Lead in the development of systems and procedures to operationalize the team and organizational work plans in alignment with the overall organizational strategic vision and priorities and the needs of the regional and global network.
• Lead in the development of systems to develop, track, and operationalize the program team’s annual budgets in alignment with the overall organisational strategic vision and priorities and the needs of the regional and global network.
• Manage all aspects of the program function workflows to ensure that GGF’s programmatic work substantively and effectively advances strategic goals, is highly relevant and responsive to the context of environmental and social justice movements - with a focus on the impact areas, and is aligned with organisational priorities and values.
• Contribute to the analysis and sensemaking of regional and global political context and philanthropic trends, surfacing implications for resourcing and accompanying movements and informing strategy implementation.
• Facilitate the operationalisation of work under GGF’s Impact Areas to ensure achievement of organisational outcomes.
• Contribute to program strategy evolution, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and learning for GGF’s program work.
• Contribute to relevant research, design, implementation, and dissemination (including in partnerships with relevant research organisations) to advance programmatic strategic objectives.
• Contribute in designing and deploying various organisational learning and development programmes, tools, and change processes that facilitate improved organisational performance and strengthen GGF’s practices as an intersectional grantmaking organisation.
• Contribute to an organisational culture of high accountability and continuous improvement that values learning.

Programme Coordination, Information and Communications

• Coordinate the development of annual workplans and budgets for the program function, and guide course corrections from mid-year and year-end team reflections.
• Coordinate the development of the annual organisational budgeting process and ensure strong alignment with annual planning and GGF’s defined strategic goals; specifically, contribute to developing organisational grant and non-grantmaking budgets and analysis of the absorption capacity of the Advisory Boards and partners.
• Manage strategy and support in the planning and coordination of programmematic activities under Impact Areas, ensuring that GGF is tracking and responding to thematic trends and addressing the priorities and needs of the Network.
• Design and implement systematic and operational improvements to ensure high standards of donor compliance and budget and funding management across GGF, in partnership with the global Operations, Grants Management, Finance and Philanthropic Partnerships teams and GGF UK.
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IMPORTANT - the posted salary range is specific to the US only - unless otherwise indicated. Shortlisted candidates who are invited to interviews that are not based in the US will be provided applicable salary ranges.