Program Manager, Food and Agriculture

Job Description

ClimateWorks Foundation is a global organization committed to our mission: to end the climate crisis by amplifying the power of philanthropy. Since our founding in 2008, we have awarded over $1 billion in grants to more than 500 organizations advancing climate solutions around the world. We helped grow the field of climate philanthropy to where it stands today, establishing infrastructure, global networks, and momentum for continued growth. Through our Global Programs and Services we equip philanthropy with global knowledge, networks, and solutions to drive climate progress.

• Scaling solutions: Our collaborative Global Programs — focused on solution areas including carbon dioxide removal, cooling, industry, transportation, and more — produce results that are bending the greenhouse gas emissions curve. From the U.S. to Europe, China, Brazil, and beyond, we collaborate with a diverse community of funders, NGOs, and climate leaders to accelerate just and equitable climate solutions.
• Guiding and supporting funders: Our Global Services provide funders with comprehensive resources to assess, build, evolve, and execute high-impact climate-giving strategies. Our Global Intelligence service equips funders and the climate community with climate insights to pinpoint opportunities for impact and philanthropic insights to help identify investment priorities. We facilitate Global Collaborations that enable funders to increase individual and collective impact. Our Global Grantmaking services enable funders to invest in climate solutions around the world.
• Fostering collaboration, exploration, and growth: Our collaborative approach and commitment to learning ensures that we continuously explore innovative ideas and emerging opportunities — all with the aim of scaling philanthropy-supported initiatives to help end the climate crisis.

As experts in climate science, public policy, economic and social analysis, and strategic philanthropy, ClimateWorks’ staff understands the multi-faceted challenges and opportunities of climate change. We are researchers, strategists, collaborators, and grantmakers who care passionately about our mission. For more information, please visit www.climateworks.org.

Through its Food and Agriculture Program, ClimateWorks Foundation hosts a pooled fund with the objective of supporting the Healthy Food, Healthy Planet Initiative (HFHP). A collaborative initiative of civil society organizations (CSOs) and funders, HFHP is united in its efforts to demand that businesses and governments work to align food systems with the climate targets of the Paris Agreement and other United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by transforming animal-source foods; starting with Europe. European CSOs and funders started the initiative in 2020. The group co-created a strategic framework, laying out priority levers on which to campaign and developed a workplan for 2022.

The Initiative aims to achieve its goals by cultivating trust, collaboration, shared narratives, and shared infrastructure and by funding and otherwise supporting new collaborations in the food environment space. It will:

• Bring together and build trust between groups advocating for food system reform from the perspective of public health, climate change, biodiversity, animal welfare, labor rights, consumer rights, and transitional justice
• Empower grassroots leaders and bottom-up initiatives
• Ensure that those most affected by the food system’s shortcomings, including farmers, animal agriculture and animal processing workers, and low-income communities, are at the forefront of our work
• Commit to an ethos of evidence-based work, including by learning by doing and via familiarization with evidence of past successes and failures
• Our efforts take inspiration from the seven principles of the Global Alliance for the Future of Food.

Please find more information about the Healthy Food, Healthy Planet Initiative here.

The Healthy Food, Healthy Planet Initiative is seeking an experienced Program Manager to lead the pooled fund for the Healthy Food, Healthy Planet Initiative. This position will be based in Europe. The Program Manager will provide strategic direction and leadership to the fund, liaise with funders, track aligned funding, manage grants and subcontracts, provide budget management and administrative support to the fund, and ensure close alignment between the pooled fund and the HFHP Initiative’s vision and goals.

The Program Manager will provide support services to the Healthy Food, Healthy Planet pooled fund, including:

• Developing a strategic plan for the pooled fund
• Managing funder relationships and contributing to fundraising efforts
• Leading the aligned funding work for the HFHP in partnership with ClimateWorks, including tracking aligned funding, soliciting requests for participation from funders, and encouraging aligned grantmaking, where appropriate
• Managing contracts and grants with recipients of funding from the pooled fund, including maintaining regular communications with funding recipients, developing and tracking agreements, and ensuring reporting requirements are met
• Leading monitoring, evaluation, and learning efforts against HFHP pooled fund grants and contracts
• Providing budget management and administrative support, including developing a detailed budget for the pooled fund tracking spending against that budget
• Planning for the future of the pooled fund, including developing a proposed budget with available and expected funds for the next phase of work, in close consultation with the HFHP Director

Requirements

We will consider the following qualifications in evaluating viable candidates to interview for this role:

• Experience in the campaigning, advocacy, and non-profit sector
• Experience leading European networks or campaigns
• Experience working on more than one issue relevant to the Healthy Food, Healthy Planet Initiative, including climate, biodiversity, food systems, animal welfare, food justice, labor justice, and health
• Demonstrated experience managing and administering funding
• Experience working closely with funders and fundraising
• Excellent organization and project management skills
• Excellent communication skills - both written and oral
• Fluency in English, and another European language is a benefit
• Experience managing or working with joint funding models from multiple donors
• Excellent organization and project management skills
• Excellent communication skills – both written and oral
• Ability to cope with pressure and deliver to deadlines
• Able to work well and collaboratively as part of a team
• Willingness to be flexible and assist with other functions as part of a small team
• Ability to work effectively and efficiently (both virtually and in-person) with minimal supervision
• A commitment to a diverse, inclusive and equitable work environment

The Program Manager is a contract position. The contract will be with ClimateWorks Foundation, the host of the pooled fund. The initial contract will extend for twelve months, beginning in at the time of hire. The contract will have the opportunity for renewal in late 2022, dependent on ongoing funding and performance.

This position will be based in Europe and will work remotely

At ClimateWorks Foundation, we are driven by our vision of creating a thriving planet for all living beings for generations to come. We aim to foster an inclusive workplace that values diverse lived experiences and emphasizes the voices of marginalized people — especially Black, Indigenous, and People of Color — who are most vulnerable to climate impacts, and whose voices, ideas, and leadership are crucial to winning the climate fight.

To ensure that we are making meaningful progress, we have made a set of diversity, equity, and inclusion commitments across all dimensions of our work to further our mission and realize our vision. For more information, please visit: Fostering Racial and Social Justice in Pursuit of our Mission

ClimateWorks Foundation is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes a diverse candidate pool. The Foundation recognizes diversity as an asset essential to accomplishing its work and views diversity as encompassing differences in race and gender/gender identity, as well as age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, job skills, education, and geographic location. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

The Food and Agriculture program is hiring for three positions simultaneously: Associate Director (based in San Francisco), Program Manager (based in Europe) and Program Associate (based in San Francisco). If you are interested in being considered for the other positions, please apply for those positions directly.

To be considered for this position, interested candidates must follow the link below to submit a resume and cover letter. This position will remain open until filled.