North America Regional Director

350.org seeks a North America Director to lead the US and Canada team in advancing our global strategy to end fossil fuels and scale up just energy solutions

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 North America Regional Director

This is a critical moment in the history of the global climate movement: the need for our advocacy has never been clearer, as the much-needed transition away from fossil fuels encounters powerful opposition, and hard-won historic victories are being overturned, all in the middle of this decisive decade.

350.org is ready to meet this moment with broad-based people power from all across the globe, and we are clear-sighted about the role to be played by North America. Given the scope and scale of the opportunity, as well as in acknowledgement of the continent’s role as a historic polluter that continues to wield disproportionate power over global climate policy, we need a passionate and visionary North America Director to lead the next phase of 350.org’s work in this politically-volatile/sensitive geography.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic leadership for the US and Canada Program staff in the implementation of our global strategy of ending fossil fuels and scaling up just energy solutions
• Line-manage senior staff in the US and Canada program teams and ensure a healthy and high-functioning team culture that enables high-functioning regional performance and is able to respond to real-time opportunities and challenges. Responsible for development of benchmarks of progress for function, culture and capacity.
• Represent 350 in partner and movement spaces with humility and strategy vision
• Support facilitation and coordination of the US and Canada Teams to build and strengthen a multiracial team responsible for organizing and mobilizing people across the United States and Canada
• Provide support and resources to improve operational security, efficiency and effectiveness and address regional needs.
• Lead the development and implementation of NA regional policies, practices, tools, systems and guidelines(e.g. performance evaluations, onboarding training and tools and work plans) that ensure a highly effective, goal-oriented, equitable organization designed to support 350.org in achieving its mission and strategic steer.
• Represent 350.org US management in Union negotiations
• Ensure that each country team is empowered within 350.org, aligned, integrated and working toward the mission, a shared vision of success and related goals.
• As a member of the Global Strategy Council, collaborate with the other members to set and communicate 350.org’s overall strategic and operational direction and ensure alignment across the organization. Translate 350.org’s strategic goals and Theory of Change into North America team goals with clear and measurable key performance indicators.
• Participate in building strategic alignment with regional team leaders on regional, national and local campaigns, organizing, mobilization and movement support, and ensuring cohesion and alignment with 350.org’s overall strategy, theory or change, and periodic goals.
• Along with the other members of the North America leadership teams, lead the development and implementation of US and Canada team culture and program vision that embodies accountability and centers impact for grassroots climate justice organizations, allies, partners, and coalitions to enhance collective power and to achieve shared goals.
• Lead and ensure the operationalization of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion into program planning and benchmarks.
• Partner with regional leadership to establish performance measures, monitor results and evaluate the effectiveness of the organization’s regional programs.
• Oversee the creation and management of the North America annual budgets.
• Actively support Fundraising efforts in Canada and the US.

Minimum Requirements:

• At least 10 years of experience in development work, climate justice, social justice, human rights or related work
• At least 5 years of experience in senior management or leadership roles with experience
• A highly collaborative and facilitative approach to leadership.
• A strong commitment to justice issues – both regionally and globally – and commitment to ending the era of fossil fuels and scale up of energy solutions.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to cultivate and establish partnerships and trust with colleagues, movement partners and donors.
• Experience in security management and risk assessments.
• A demonstrated understanding of and commitment to justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI), anti-racism or anti-oppression work. Ability to collaborate across differences and work effectively with people from diverse cultural, racial, ethnic, class, age, gender, and sexual orientation backgrounds.
• Strong ability to think strategically and translate overarching strategies into team goals.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to translate complex data into clear and simple messages for a wide range of audiences.
• Ability to manage complex projects and work across departments.
• Ability to prioritize and focus effectively across a wide range of responsibilities.
• Comfort and ease working in a fast-paced environment

Position Type: Full-time

Application Deadline: Closes on 27th April 2025. We hope to begin interviews early May. Applications are viewed on a rolling basis and closed once the role is filled

Compensation: This position falls under 350.org's Salary Grade 4.2, with compensation equivalent to USD 119,000 in the US and CAD 142,657 in Canada.

Location: This is a remote position open to candidates based in the United States and Canada.

In the US, we can only hire in the following states: CA, CO, CT, D.C., GA, MA, MD, ME, MT, NC, NJ, NY, PA, VA, VT, WA, or WI

Applicants must have the legal authorization to work for any employer in their country of residence. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

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