Associate Director, Strategy and Learning

Associate Director Of Strategy And Learning

ClimateWorks Foundation seeks an Associate Director of Strategy and Learning who is a nimble, cutting-edge, and yet practical strategist to help build the organization's systems-based approach for its program strategy development cycles and to help align program strategies with organization-wide strategy. Working closely with the Director of SIL, this position will support a thoughtful, balanced, and long-term view of strategy, monitoring, impact, learning, and evaluation for CWF. A veritable thought partner and relationship builder, the new Associate Director will work collaboratively across the organization to help frame and guide decision-making around strategic choices coupled with deploying a system of impact measurement and ongoing organizational learning.

While this role will work across the strategic learning cycle, the primary remit will be focused on program strategy development. Program strategies articulate how the program is addressing decarbonization, and / or emissions reduction, and / or adaptation and resilience. The strategy must convey the program's theory of change, the tactics and levers, the impact, and most importantly, why this is an important and effective use of philanthropic resources. This position provides strategy expertise to the programs, facilitates a strategy development process that includes all of the program's stakeholders, helps to identify and gather relevant data, ensures that programmatic strategy is linked to overall organizational strategy, and supports materials that communicate the program strategy to different audiences, including the ClimateWorks Board of Directors, funders, and grantee partners.

Provide assistance to up to 10 program and service teams in developing strategies along with tools and methods to track their progress.

• Support teams to develop progress tracking tools and report on progress (e.g., results reporting, dashboards).
• Facilitate collaborative design of inputs to proposal and reporting processes (e.g., theories of change, KPIs, outcomes, indicators and other metrics, etc.).
• Support the development of program-level strategies and solutions, including designing the processes and timelines to support strategy development.
• Collaborate with program leads, programs leadership, and philanthropic partnerships to determine a cycle of program strategy development.
• Provide input on survey design and other data collection tools.
• Support reporting on grants.

Engage with the climate philanthropic ecosystem on strategy, monitoring, evaluation, and learning-related activities

Incorporate data and evidence into programmatic strategies and organizational priorities

Facilitate and communicate learning

Support work on equity and justice

Required Qualifications

Approach

ClimateWorks offers an excellent benefits package and a competitive salary that is commensurate with experience (geographic differential applied based on location).

Salary Range (Bay Area / NYC) : $135,000 - $140,000 annually

Salary Range (Other US) : $125,000 - $135,000 annually

ClimateWorks Foundation is based in the San Francisco Financial District. This position is classified as US Flexible. If US Flexible : Exceptional candidates can work from the SF office or from other locations, geographic differential applied to compensation based on local cost of labor.

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

Equal employment opportunity and having a diverse staff are fundamental principles at ClimateWorks Foundation and as such we are committed to creating a diverse and multi-cultural work environment. We strongly encourage and seek applications from women, people of color, and bilingual and bicultural individuals, as well as members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race (including traits historically associated with race), ethnicity, religion, color, sex (including childbirth, breast feeding, and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, uniform service member and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, age, protected medical condition, genetic information, disability, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws.

This policy extends to all aspects of our employment practices including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, discipline, termination, promotions, transfers, compensation, benefits, training, leaves of absence, and other terms and conditions of employment.

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