Thousand Currents

Program Manager

• Build and steward a portfolio of transnational movement partners working across agroecology, stewardship of the commons, and energy democracy.
• Support transnational movement building, movement narrative power, convergence and global influencing to shift the global rules that shape what's possible at the grassroots.
• Work collaboratively 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.
• Identify politically and values-aligned movements through networks, relationship-building, desk research, gatherings, and ecosystem mapping.
• Build and steward a portfolio of movement partners that serve as the backbone of transnational movement organizing.
• Develop respectful, ongoing partnerships through regular communication, check-ins, and engagement with partner work.
• Lead a cohort of partners working collaboratively to advance movement solutions globally.
• Steward financial, intellectual, and relational resources to strengthen movement resilience using various strategies, including accompaniment, responsive support, movement capacity and movement ecosystems support, and connecting partners.
• Coordinate and collaborate across global movements to support movements to come together, build narrative power, and engage in the global spaces where global policies are set and resources are contested.
• Develop clear analysis of global context and power analysis related to the strategic focus areas to inform partnership and movement convergence.
• Participate in and support movement convergence.
• Leverage insights on collective agendas and action to advance movement priorities.
• Identify and support the infrastructure that strengthens the movement ecosystem with a focus on narrative power, political education, and strategic analysis.
• Coordinate movement partners and Thousand Currents' participation in strategic platforms, preparing briefs, schedules, and identifying opportunities to amplify movement voices.
• Serve as a bridge between movements and funder coalitions; plan partner convenings, peer learning, and funder connections.
• Synthesize learning from movements into knowledge that shapes strategy and strengthens partnerships.
• Represent Thousand Currents in meetings, gatherings, and global fora, sharing analysis, amplifying partner stories and impact, and identifying opportunities to build strategic alliances.

Program Manager, Global Programs