Global Trainings Interim Manager

350.org is looking for someone to coach trainers and implement trainings for our global work.

About 350.org 

350.org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. Our online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organizers in over 188 countries. 350.org works hard to organize in a new way—everywhere at once, using online tools to facilitate strategic offline action. We want to be a laboratory for the best ways to strengthen the climate movement and catalyze transformation around the world. The values that guide and drive our work are listed here. 

350.org is an equal opportunity employer. 350.org strives to be an inclusive and collaborative group of people who bring a variety of approaches to the work we do. We’re committed to the principles of justice, and we try to build a safe workplace where everyone is treated fairly and enjoys working together. We value new perspectives, ideas of all sorts, and different ways of working. Diverse perspectives and experiences improve the way 350.org carries out our work – including what we decide to work on and how creatively/effectively we do that. We do our best to make staff positions accessible to all potential team members, regardless of race, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, assigned gender, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or identity, religion or creed, veteran status, marital or parental status, and genetic information. We also strive to include team members in communities most impacted by climate change or impacted by other kinds of environmental, social, and economic injustice. 

About the Global Trainings Interim Manager

The Global Trainings Interim Manager is a temporary position of the Global Trainings Team, within the Global Movement Support Directorate. This is a backfilled position.

This role focuses on supporting the delivery and quality of one of 350.org’s key tactics in our theory of change, our belief in the power of growing the climate movement through training local groups and offering open-source trainings for the movement. We centre equity in our approach to this work by supporting efforts of growing leadership, building power and taking action with the communities hit hardest by climate and other, connected crises.

Success in the role would look like: Conceiving high quality campaign/organising training events, curriculums and resources linked to our strategy; coaching trainers through the 350 network; and supporting the Global Training project and other projects across the organisation and with key external partners; effective coaching and training of trainers for campaigners and organisers.

In addition to support local and regional teams with requests they have, this role would include support in three major training projects:

• Our Own Power (ourownpower.org) — a toolkit and network to support people developing community-led renewable energy projects;
• Global Mass Trainings — a mass training (250+ people) to both support the Our Own Power toolkit rollout and also feed into another project called the Road to Brazil, where we are gearing up for a movement-wide approach to COP30 in Brasil.

The role will collaborate closely across the organisation to achieve these successes, particularly with regional campaigners and organisers.

Duties and Responsibilities 

• Contribute to Training Team development of strategic training programme for 350 embedded into our priority campaigning and organising strategies and projects, ensuring high quality.
• Contribute to the Trainings Team development of an annual plan.
• Conceiving and delivering from inception to completion high quality campaigns and organising training events, curriculums and resources linked to our strategy.
• Effective coaching and training of trainers for campaigners and organisers
• Supports the healthy functioning of the global Organising “Community of Practice”, made up of organising staff across the organisation.
• Contributes to the development of the joint Movement Support Directorate’s strategy.
• Develop and maintain a network of external contacts around climate and social justice training best practice, spotting emerging opportunities and trends. 

Required Qualifications 

• At least 4 years experience developing training strategies for building communities, movements, and people powered actions, as part of global and regional social justice campaigns, whether as part of an NGO or grassroots network.
• Experience with coaching or developing groups to build renewable energy projects (or other familiarity with the practical steps of installing/maintaining RE systems).
• Strong facilitation and coaching skills and success in supporting non-trainers to grow their training skills.
• Deep understanding and interest in effective practices and history of movement building, organizing, campaigning, mobilization, and direct action, and ability to express, share and coach that knowledge with other coworkers.
• Strong experience building safe and accessible trainings, for participants from diverse geographic (preferably global south), racial, ethnic, class, age, gender, and sexual orientation backgrounds. 
• Experience working collaboratively across cultures and timezones, and a demonstrated understanding of and commitment to justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI), anti-racism or anti-oppression work.
• Strong working written and spoken English. 
• Respond positively to changing circumstances  and readily engages and adapts behavior to maintain effective performance. 
• Acts reliably and honestly even under pressure.

Desired (but not required) skills and experiences 

• Experience developing training designs and resources offline in at least 2 different continents - and experience designing participatory and transformative training experiences online.
• Competence in any of other languages in 350 (Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Swahili…)
• A global network of training contacts.

We are looking for someone who is comfortable working independently on complex tasks, demonstrated ability to identify good opportunities, innovation, improved ways of working, and creatively and proactively problem-solving. 

Position Type: Full-time

Application Deadline: Although we hope to begin interviews during the week of APRIL 15, this job is open until filled, or the hiring manager determines that they can no longer accept applications. 

Start Date: May 1, 2024 (flexible) 

Compensation: SG 3.1 Click here to view salary

Location: Remote within the Countries 350.org currently operates. Current countries are: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Fiji, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Netherlands, Philippines, Poland, Senegal, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom 

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