Program Manager

Team: The Program Manager is a member of the Programs team. In the present accountability structures, they are line-managed by the Vice President of Programs while building and working in more collaborative ways across Programs and the wider organisation.

Global Greengrants Fund (GGF) is a public charity registered in Boulder, Colorado, and London, UK, that supports grassroots activists and civil society organizations around the world working to address environmental and social justice in over 160 countries. GGF applies a participatory and decentralized model in making grants to grassroots groups through regional and thematic boards of advisors, global partner networks, and partner funds, to support grassroots environmental and social justice action.

Global Greengrants Fund believes solutions to environmental harm and social injustice come from people whose lives are most impacted. Every day, our global network of people on the front lines and donors comes together to support communities to protect their ways of life and our planet. Because when local people have a say in the health of their food, water, and resources, they are forces for change.

In 2026, Global Greengrants Fund is on a strategic journey in which we collectively center our values, including diversity, equity and inclusion, and organizational care in our work, and to rediscover our identity and potential after 30 years of work. We have experienced growth over the past several years for our annual grantmaking, our philanthropic advocacy, and our global partnerships and collaborations.

This includes creating a globally networked learning organization and transforming our organizational culture to be more collaborative and self-steering – we call this our transformative journey. The Program Manager needs to understand the challenges and opportunities that come with these transformations and be able to remain flexible, steady, and adaptable.

Across GGF’s three Impact Areas:
Energy, Earth, Equity, we hold central that community-led innovations centering local leadership for just energy, land and food sovereignty and for protecting and restoring the earth are essential to achieve a feminist just transition from extractive to regenerative and equitable systems. Equity and justice underpin all GGF grantmaking, program activity and field building.

GGF employs a decentralised decision-making approach to our work, which is focused under our three impact areas. Our approach is led by a global network of regional and thematic Advisory Boards, Independent Funds and Global Recommending partners comprising individual activists and expert advisers located in the countries we serve. Each Advisory Board sets its own strategy for grantmaking and manages its grantmaking budget.

The Program Manager has a deep understanding of climate justice and a grounded political analysis of global systems and the role of movements in transforming them, and a deep understanding of philanthropy, grantmaking, and movement accompaniment. They have a commitment to climate, environmental, and social justice and feminist grassroots movements and an understanding of their importance in shifting social, political, and economic systems from ones that are vulnerable, unsustainable, and unjust, to ones that are resilient, sustainable, and equitable.

• Facilitate the work of the Advisory Networks, and support implementation of the Program Team and wider organisation’s systems to ensure they are enabling the team and organization to deliver on its work and meet its accountabilities while staying true to its principles and values.
• Lead in the development of systems and…