Senior Director of Learning & Impact

Senior Director of Learning & Impact

Position: Full Time
Team: Learning Global Programs Team
Location: Remote, Global

Salary: $152,000 USD
Reports to: Vice President of Global Probrams
Supervises: Data and Knowledge Manager
Travel: Up to 10% annually

Application Deadline: Applications will be accepted through August 31, 2026, and reviewed on a rolling basis as they are received. Candidates are encouraged to apply early, as the position may close before the deadline if a strong candidate pool emerges.
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.
OUR VALUES

We envision a future where community-led movements have transformed the way we grow food, generate energy, and build economies, creating a world where people and planet thrive together. 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.

POSITION OVERVIEW

In late 2025, following extensive consultation with our partners, Thousand Currents embarked on a new strategy. In turn, the organization has been revamping its Learning Framework to guide strategy implementation and adaptation over the coming years.

The Senior Director of Learning & Impact partners with the Executive Team to lead the ongoing work of building the systems, culture, and practices to foster learning across the organization and demonstrate our impact.

As the steward of the Organizational Learning framework, this role provides teams with technical support, and advises on refinements to Learning systems, tools, and processes. While the role has an organization-wide scope, it is positioned in the Global Programs Team, reporting to the VP of Global Programs and with a dotted line to the VP of Operations.
Key Responsibilities:
Functional Leadership & Strategy (30%)

- Serve as internal (and external) champion of Thousand Currents ’ values aligned approach to learning, ensuring its clear articulation and supporting embeddedness in practice

- Oversee implementation and on-going refinement of Thousand Currents ’ organizational learning framework and related systems in service of the organizational strategy

- Closely collaborate with the Executive Team to ensure shared ownership and accountability for learning across the organization and continuous improvement in organizational learning practices and systems

- Leverage “birds eye view” on organizational learning data and practices to lift up significant cross-team patterns and themes for Executive Team discussion

- Build and regularly refresh staff understanding of the learning