Program Manager, Global Programs

Who We Are

At Thousand Currents , we believe the people most affected by injustice are the ones already building the solutions. Around the world, peasant farmers, Indigenous communities, women's collectives, and grassroots movements are organizing across borders to transform food, energy, and the commons as well as the underlying economic systems. Our role is to back them with flexible funding, with the relationships and platforms that amplify their leadership, and with the long-term solidarity that movement-building requires.

Thousand Currents funds, connects, and supports visionary grassroots groups and movements leading solutions in food, climate, and the economy.

We support our movement partners in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Asia and the Pacific with core, flexible, long-term grants and value-added services. In the past 40 years we’ve invested over $60 million in more than 650 grassroots groups and movements across 85 countries.
Our Values

At Thousand Currents , we envision a world in which self-determined and connected peoples share and uphold the abundance of life. To realize this vision, we embrace and practice a clear set of values:

- Courage - We confront injustice and inequality with love, strength, conviction, and integrity.

- Humility - We are part of a greater whole. We are one among many currents. We recognize our place among many forces for good and change that exist in the world.

- Experimentation - In order to take principled actions together, we prioritize learning, commit to self-reflection, embrace trial and error, and honor multiple ways of knowing.

- Creative collaboration - We share power, practices, and resources to reimagine new ways of living.

- Interdependence - With our futures intertwined, we respect all beings and build authentic relationships to move forward together.

Key Details: Compensation, Location, Travel, & Benefits
Title: Global Programs Manager

Transnational Movement Organizing
Position: Full time, Exempt
Team: Global Programs

Location: Remote, Anywhere in the United States, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, or Latin America and Caribbean
Travel: Up to 40%

Position Reports to: Vice President, Global Programs
Compensation: $97,000 USD annually
Benefits:

- Health, Dental, and Vision cost reimbursement or stipend for employee + dependents, and 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, and 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

What You’ll Do

As the Global Program Manager you build and steward a portfolio of transnational movement partners working across agroecology, stewardship of the commons, and energy democracy. You support transnational movement building, movement narrative power, convergence and global influencing to shift the global rules that shape what's possible at the grassroots.

This is a deeply collaborative role, working 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. In addition the role works collaboratively with the Center for Transforming Philanthropy, Philanthropic Partnerships Team as well as Communications.

A member of the Global Programs Team, the role reports to the Vice President of Global Programs.
Resource and Support Movements (50%)

This work is the foundation of the role: building and stewarding long-term partnerships with transnati